What's Yr Read

SHOW NOTES

Summerwork by Carrie Mesrobian

Butter Tarts

Nanaimo Bars

Canadian Black Squirrels

Toronto International Film Festival

Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel by Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry

The Greatest of Marlys by Lynda Barry

September 11: An Oral History by Dean Murphy

BOOKSTORE HIGHLIGHT

Acorn Bookshop

Red in Tooth and Claw by Lish McBride

Dead Beat by Leigh Bardugo

SHOW NOTES

Summerwork by Carrie Mesrobian

End Zone by Don DeLillo

White Noise by Don DeLillo

Essay on Names Featuring Don DeLillo's End Zone

Stephen King's nonfiction essay: "Head Down"

Jon Bois

Good Bug, Bad Bug: Who's Who, What They Do, and How to Manage Them Organically by Jessica Walliser

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE HIGHLIGHT

Inkwell Booksellers Company

Inkwell Booksellers on Bookshop.org

All Kinds of Time by Fountains of Wayne

FIND US ONLINE

Instagram: @whatsyrreadpod

Bluesky: @whatsyrread.bsky.social

SHOW NOTES

Andrew Karre, Senior Executive Editor, Dutton Books

Carrie + Andrew's Books

Sex & Violence

Perfectly Good White Boy

The Whitsun Daughters

Summerwork

Authors Andrew Works With

A.S. King | Malinda Lo | Ashley Hope Perez | Ibi Zoboi

E.K. Johnston | Candace Eloh | Laura Zimmerman | Shannon Gibney

The Oral History Podcast

Debut Sex / The Concept of Virginity

Jersey Angel by Beth Ann Bauman

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Erica Jong's Zipless Fuck

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Maus by Art Spiegelman

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Elana K. Arnold | What Girls Are Made Of

This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki

Where Is My Sister? by Shannon Gibney

What God Is Honored Here? Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color edited by Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang

INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE SPOTLIGHT

Red Emma's

A Most Perilous World: The True Story of the Young Abolitionists and Their Crusade Against Slavery by Kristina R. Gaddy

FIND US ONLINE

Instagram | Bluesky

SHOW NOTES

Summerwork by Carrie Mesrobian

Ghosts of Fourth Street: My Family, A Death, and the Hills of Duluth by Laurie Hertzel

The Loft Literary Center of Minneapolis

The Summer of Ordinary Ways by Nicole Lea Helget

Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick

A Country Year: Living the Questions by Sue Hubbell

BOOKSTORE HIGHLIGHT

Prairie Lights Books

Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant

Here, Bullet by Brian Turner

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson

Roz Chast Is The Shit

Moonstruck & Parenthood

I've Tried Being Nice by Ann Leary

The Ref

How to Survive a Bear Attack by Claire Cameron

SHOW NOTESBilly Collins Wet Dog Poem: "To A Stranger Born In Some Distant Country Hundreds Of Years From Now"

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Victor Jara

Missing

Augusto Pinochet

Lo Real Maravilloso/Magical RealismBOOKSTORE HIGHLIGHT

Cellar Bird Books

Cellar Bird Books on Bookshop.org

The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal by Yossi Yovel

FIND US ONLINE

Buy Carrie's Book: Summerwork by Carrie Mesrobian

Instagram

Bluesky

SHOW NOTES

Better Off Dead dinner scene

The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham

A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

"Thinking Like a Mountain" essay by Aldo Leopold

Roots , TV miniseries (1977)

How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan

Radio Man/Don Radio by Arthur Dorros

BOOKSTORE HIGHLIGHT

Milkweed Editions, Publisher

Milkweed Editions on Bookshop.org

Open Book

⁠Milkweed Editions Bookstore⁠

Minnesota Center for Book Arts

The Loft Literary Center

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

FIND US ONLINE

Instagram

Bluesky

SHOW NOTES

Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain by Roger Deakin

Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees by Roger Deakin

"The Swimmer" by John Cheever

Tarns: a definition

POOL: A Social History of Segregation

The Deepest Breath documentary

BOOKSTORE HIGHLIGHT

The Press Bookstore & Coffee Shop (website)

The Press Bookstore & Coffee Shop (Bookshop.org link)

A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhurst

Bear by Julia Phillips

Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

Floating Bear video

What's Yr Read podcast on Instagram

SHOW NOTES

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King & Bilquis Evely

Kimseii

Supergirl 2026 movie trailer

Hoopla app

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Rob Liefeld of Image Comics

Saga Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples

Locke & Key, Volume 1 by Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez

BOOKSTORE HIGHLIGHT

Pulp Comics & Games

GUEST STAR INFO

Matilda!

Personal Instagram

Dog Instagram

Show Notes

Coyote: Seeking the Hunter in Our Midst by Catherine Reid

Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Tooth & Claw: Coyote Attack podcast episode

Open Throat by Henry Hoke

Independent Bookstore Highlight

Magers & Quinn

Magers & Quinn on Bookshop.org

Show Notes

What Is A Dog? by Raymond and Lorna Coppinger

Anatolian Shepherd

Aggressive Dog

David Mech

The Dunbar Dog Bite Scale

Meet Your Dog by Kim Brophey

BHARCS & Sindoor Pangal

Fishing Dogs by Raymond Coppinger

GIVEAWAY BOOKS

How Dogs Work by Raymond Coppinger and Mark Feinstein

Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior, and Evolution by Raymond and Lorna Coppinger

Independent Bookstore Highlight

Tropes & Triples

Haven Watch Supply Drive Event, Feb 15

Haven Watch

Authors for Minnesota Day, Feb 28

Publishers Weekly article: Minnesota Authors Team with Bookstores to Support Immigrants

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