Strong Sense of Place | Travel Through Books

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September 08, 2023LoLT: Award-Nominated Nonfiction and Two New Books
In this episode, we’re excited about two new books: the cookbook ‘Portico’ by Leah Koenig and ‘The Square of Sevens’ by Laura Shepherd-Robinson. Then Dave shares highlights from the nominees for a renowned nonfiction prize.
Links
Portico: Cooking and Feasting in Rome’s Jewish Kitchen by Leah Koenig
Website for cookbook author Lean Koenig
Leah Koenig’s cookbooks
The Food of Rome’s Longstanding Jewish Community Gets Its Due
The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance by Jeremy Eichler
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn’t Food_ by Chris Van Tulleken
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11 min
September 01, 2023LoLT: The Great Philly Cheesesteak Debate and Two New Books
In this episode, we’re excited about two new books: ‘Where There Was Fire’ by John Manuel Arias and ‘The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store’ by James McBride. Then Mel serves up the delicious story of the Philadelphia cheesesteak.
Links
Where There Was Fire by John Manuel Arias
Podcast episode — Costa Rica: Cloud Forests, Coffee, and Capuchin Monkeys.
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
Pat’s King of Steaks
Geno’s Steaks
Pat’s vs. Geno’s Philly’s Cheesesteak Debate
Everything You Knew About the Pat’s-Geno’s Rivalry Is a Lie
Video: Pat’s vs. Geno’s: Philly Cheesesteak War!
Video: Dr. Phil - Cheesesteak Wars
Serious Eats: The Best Cheesesteaks in Philadelphia
Jim’s South Street
Tony Luke’s
McNally’s Tavern Chestnut Hill
Paesano’s Philly Style
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14 min
August 25, 2023LoLT: Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Two New Books
In this episode, we’re excited about two new books: ‘The Continental Affair’ by Christine Mangan and ‘The Quickening’ by Elizabeth Rush. Then Dave explains why you should put the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on your must-visit list.
Links
The Continental Affair by Christine Mangan
The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth by Elizabeth Rush
Our review of Christine Mangan’s Tangerine
A refreshing Moroccan orange salad inspired by the book
Palace of the Drowned by Christine Mangan]
The Lady Vanishes by Ethel Lina White
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush
Visit the website for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Wikipedia: Edinburgh Fringe Festival
The Guardian editorial on the Fringe
Chriskirkpatrickmas: A Boy Band Christmas Musical Review
Edinburgh Fringe Musicals: A Bedside View of Marriage, Covid Diaries, and Shamilton!
Edinburgh Fringe 2023 Week One Roundup: Capote, Wilde and a Lovesick Angler
Georgie Grier Offered Support After One Person Attends Her Edinburgh Show
Transcript of this episode
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11 min
August 11, 2023LoLT: The Long Now Foundation and Two New Books
In this episode, we’re excited about two new books — ‘The Bookbinder’ by Pip Williams and ‘Tabula Rasa, Vol 1’ by John McPhee — then Dave tells us about the fascinating work of the Long Now Foundation.
Links
The Bookbinder by Pip Williams
Tabula Rasa, Vol 1 by John McPhee
Pip Williams on the Invisible History of Female Bookbinders.
A New Novel That Captures the ‘Poetic Materiality’ of Books.
Our review of The Crofter and the Laird by John McPhee.
Hear Dave talk about ‘The Crofter and the Laird’ in our podcast episode Scotland: Wraiths, Rebels, and Royalty.
The Long Now Foundation website.
The Long Now Foundation YouTube channel.
Radical Sharing event — 23 August
Our podcast episode Amusement Parks: Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!.
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8 min
August 04, 2023LoLT: Remembering the Concorde and Two New Books
In this episode, we’re excited about two books — ‘Ms. Demeanor’ by Elinor Lipman Moreno-Garcia and ‘Speech Team: A Novel’ By Tim Murphy — then Mel gets nostalgic about Concorde and those zippy flights across the Atlantic.
Links
Ms. Demeanor by Elinor Lipman
Speech Team: A Novel by Tim Murphy
Visit Elinor Lipman’s website.
Elinor Lipman is the new EM Forster. Fight me.
Review of The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman.
Review of The Way Men Act by Elinor Lipman.
Review of Isabel’s Bed by Elinor Lipman.
My Ride on the Concorde.
What It Was Like to Fly Concorde in the ’70s.
Concorde Stories: Remembering the ‘Pocket Rocket’.
What Food & Drink Were Passengers Served On Concorde?
Vintage Champagne on the Edge of Space: The Supersonic World of a Concorde Stewardess by Sally Armstrong
Supersonic: The Design and Lifestyle of Concorde by Lawrence Azerrad
Transcript of this episode.
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11 min
July 28, 2023Bonus Episode With Tasha Sounart, Creative Director of Theme Parks at Pixar
If you’ve ever wanted to go behind the scenes of the best theme parks in the world — Hello, Disney! — you’re going to love today’s bonus episode.
We were thrilled to talk to friend-of-the-podcast Tasha Sounart about her job as Creative Director in the Theme Parks group of Pixar.
In this delightful conversation, we talked to Tasha about what a day at Pixar is like, what inspires her creativity, and which Pixar world she’d like to visit.
For more on Tasha, plus the other cool stuff we talk about, visit our show notes.
Find Tasha on Mastodon: @[email protected]
Tasha recommended the book Dying Fall by Elly Griffiths.
Lauren Passell’s excellent podcast recommendation newsletter Podcast the Newsletter.
Easy Homemade Caramel Popcorn.
SSoP — Amusement Parks: Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!

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23 min
July 21, 2023LoLT: Phantom Islands and Two New Books
In this episode, we’re excited about two new books — ‘Silver Nitrate’ by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and ‘The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale’ by Jon Klassen — then Dave shares a fascinating art project about phantom islands.
Links
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Visit Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s website, Twitter, and Instagram.
Gods of Jade and Shadow by by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale by Jon Klassen
Follow Jon Klassen on Instagram.
Jon Klassen’s Hat Box by Jon Klassen (the trilogy)
I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
We Found a Hat by Jon Klassen
This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen
The scoop on phantom islands from Wikipedia, Atlas Obscura, and Explorers Web.
Andrew Peckler’s Phantom Islands — A Sonic Atlas.
The album Sounds from Phantom Islands. (The vinyl is sold out, but mp3s are available.)
Andrew Peckler’s new musical release Cue.
Transcript of this episode.
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9 min
July 17, 2023Amusement Parks: Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!
The gates of an amusement park are a portal to a magical realm of thrill rides and fantasy worlds, larger-than-life characters, and the best portable foods on the planet. (We’re looking at you, corn dogs and kettle corn!)
And it’s been that way since the beginning. The first quasi-amusement park entertained revelers in 1133 with merry-go-rounds, extravagant stage shows, gingerbread, sausages, and dancing in the streets. All that merriment made it easy to forget it was all meant to honor St. Bartholomew.
Eventually, the rides got bigger (and faster and more hair-raising), the shows more over-the-top, and the spectacle more spectacular. Roller coasters! Carousels! Tilt-a-Whirls! Mickey and Donald and Cinderella! Legos! Quidditch! Funnel cakes! Turkey legs! And fireworks!
In this episode, we take a fast romp through the history of amusement parks, revel in an essay by Russian writer Maxim Gorky, and celebrate the magical world of Walt Disney. Then we recommend five books that took us to amusement parks on the page, including a comedy-thriller set in Helsinki, a nonfiction exploration of delight, a dystopian disaster tale, and historical mysteries set in 1915 Chicago and 1911 Coney Island.
Here are the books about amusement parks we recommend on the show:
The Rabbit Factor by Antti Tuomainen, David Hackston (translator)
Curious Toys by Elizabeth Hand
Dreamland by Nancy Bilyeau
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
Fantasticland by Mike Bockoven

For more on the books we recommend, plus the other cool stuff we talk about, visit our show notes.
Transcript of Amusement Parks: Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!.
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1 hr 3 min
July 14, 2023 LoLT: Beautiful Street Art by NeSpoon & Two Great Books
This is a replay of an episode featuring books from beloved authors that are excellent summer reads: 'Killers of a Certain Age' by Deanna Raybourn and 'Fairy Tale' by Stephen King. Then Mel takes us around Europe with the Polish street artist Nespoon.

BOOKS

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
https://bit.ly/3RBg1dW

Fairy Tale by Stephen King
https://bit.ly/3AVh01I

DISTRACTION OF THE WEEK

The Library of Lost Time
https://bit.ly/3PIqMd8

NeSpoon on Instagram
https://bit.ly/3ql5GHj

NeSpoon on YouTube
https://bit.ly/3BeS6M8

NeSpoon website
https://nespoon.art

Video of the mural at the Museum of Lace and Fashion
https://youtu.be/XeFNYiYC0VE

More about the square in Belorado, Spain
https://bit.ly/3RmCL1s

German video (with some English) featuring NeSpoon's various works
https://youtu.be/ehh5A0AW-p4

Colossal magazine
https://bit.ly/3etn6PC

Five questions with NeSpoon
https://bit.ly/3euaeZD

Transcript of this episode
https://bit.ly/3cNqmoy

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11 min
July 07, 2023LoLT: A Sneaky Socialite and Two New Books
In this episode, we get excited about two new books — ‘The Only One Left’ by Riley Sager and ‘The Art Thief’ by Michael Finkel — then Dave shares the amazing story of the gilded age socialite Ida Wood.
LINKS
The Only One Left by Riley Sager.
Visit Riley Sager’s website and Instagram.
Riley talked about his book in this video from The Poisoned Pen bookshop.
Smithsonian magazine: Why 19th-Century Axe Murderer Lizzie Borden Was Found Not Guilty.
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel.
Our podcast episode Maine: Lighthouses, Lobster Rolls, and the King of Horror.
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel.
Smithsonian magazine on Ida Wood: Everything Was Fake but Her Wealth.
Wikipedia entires for Ida Wood and her husband Benjamin Wood.
A personal essay: My Crazy Aunt Ida.
Transcript of this episode.
The Library of Lost Time is a Strong Sense of Place Production! https://strongsenseofplace.com
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13 min

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