Strong Sense of Place | Travel Through Books

In this episode, we get excited about two books: The Girl with Twenty Fingers by Kate Mueser and White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link. Then Mel introduces everyone to the man teaching modern foodies how to cook like Jane Austen.LINKS The Girl with Twenty Fingers by Kate Mueser  White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link Kate Mueser’s website Kate Mueser on YouTube talking about Mozart and Munich. Kelly Link’s website and her bookstore Book Moon Books. The Prague Sonata by Bradford Morrow Magic for Beginners: Stories by Kelly Link. Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link. Stranger Things Happen: Stories by Kelly Link. Regency Cook website and Instagram.  Regency Cook schedule of upcoming classes. Video tour of The Regency Townhouse kitchen. Everything You Wanted to Know About Regency London. Why Are So Many Romances Set in the Regency Period? Transcript of this episode The Library of Lost Time is a Strong Sense of Place Production! https://strongsenseofplace.comDo you enjoy our show? Want access to fun bonus content? Please support our work on Patreon. Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside - https://www.patreon.com/strongsenseofplaceAs always, you can find us at: Our site Instagram Facebook Twitter Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we get excited about two books: The Company by J.M. Varese and Sweet Enough: A Dessert Cookbook by Alison Roman. Then Dave shares stories from a recent trip to the Shetland Islands.LINKS The Company by J.M. Varese Sweet Enough: A Dessert Cookbook by Alison Roman J.M. Varese’s website and Instagram. Arsenic and Old Tastes Made Victorian Wallpaper Deadly. The Dickens Project at UCLA. Interview with Alison Roman, author of Sweet Enough. _Snacking Cakes: Simple Treats for Anytime Cravings by Yossy Arefi Shetland with Laurie, plus her Instagram and Patreon. Transcript of this episode The Library of Lost Time is a Strong Sense of Place Production! https://strongsenseofplace.comDo you enjoy our show? Want access to fun bonus content? Please support our work on Patreon. Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside - https://www.patreon.com/strongsenseofplaceAs always, you can find us at: Our site Instagram Facebook Twitter Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A bookshop is a special (maybe enchanted) place found all over the world and staffed by booksellers who seem to have a preternatural ability to put just the right book in your hands. People have been buying and selling books since about 300 BCE. During the latter part of the Roman empire, when all the best homes included a personal library, the book trade was boomin’. Back then, shops posted a list of titles for sale on their doors. The kind of store we think of when someone says ‘bookshop’ was initially tied closely to printing. The first booksellers were also editors and printers who made the books, then sold them to the reading public. Eventually, those specialties split apart: Publishers worked with authors to create books, and booksellers placed them into the hands of readers. And we’re all better for it.In this episode, we talk about the world’s oldest bookshop and discuss some remarkable bookstores around the world, including a bookshop in paradise and Scotland’s National Book Town. We also learn about a shocking bookstore-related medical phenomenon! Then we recommend great books that took us inside the world of bookshops.Here are the books about bookshops we recommend on the show: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany by Jane Mount Spine Poems by Annette Dauphin Simon Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner Booked to Die by John Dunning The Last Equation of Isaac Severy by Nova Jacobs Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin For more on the books we recommend, plus the other cool stuff we talk about, visit our show notes.Transcript of Bookshops: Mostly Paper and Magic.Do you enjoy our show? Do you want access to awesome bonus content? Please support our work on Patreon! Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we get excited about two books: Speak for the Dead by Amy Tector and I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai. Then Mel shares a story about the Gotham Book Prize that will warm your literature-loving heart. LINKS- Speak for the Dead by Amy Tector- Amy’s Substack- The Newburyport Literary Festival- Bustle interview with Rebbeca Makkai- Amy Tector’s awesome Substack- I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai- The Gotham Book Prize- The 2023 Finalists- Get a $25 gift card when you buy all 11 finalists- The story of P&T Knitwear- Transcript of this episodeThe Library of Lost Time is a Strong Sense of Place Production! https://strongsenseofplace.comDo you enjoy our show? Want access to fun bonus content? Please support our work on Patreon. Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside - https://www.patreon.com/strongsenseofplaceAs always, you can find us at:- Our site- Instagram- Facebook- Twitter- Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The mountains of Jamaica rise up out of the turquoise-blue Caribbean. From those jaggy peaks, rolling hills — covered in lush green rainforests — taper down to soft-sand beaches along the coast.It makes perfect sense that the first Jamaican inhabitants — the Taino from South America — gave the island a name that means ‘Land of Wood and Water.’ It’s all as if paradise is beckoning you to come, sit, relax.Music floats on the air in both the rhythmic lilt of reggae music and Jamaican patois, a creole language that combines elements of English, Spanish, and African languages.Yes, there are pirates in Jamaica’s past, along with Spanish conquistadors, British interlopers, and a history of slavery. But Jamaica is now a cultural superpower, sharing its feel-good music (with a message), colorful cuisine, star athletes, and multicultural gifts with the world. In this episode, we explore the so-literal-they’re-poetic names of some Jamaican towns, sing along to our favorite Bob Marley tunes, dig into the history of jerk chicken, and spy on Ian Fleming’s Jamaican estate. Then we recommend five great books that took us to Jamaica on the page.Here are the books we recommended in the show:Black Cake: A Novel by Charmaine Wilkersonhttps://bit.ly/3XSUjVHIf I Survive You by Jonathan Escofferyhttps://bookshop.org/a/1240/9780374605988Black Heart of Jamaica by Julia Goldinghttps://amzn.to/3Yx6cRKMotherland: A Jamaican Cookbook by Melissa Thompsonhttps://bit.ly/3ZjfUrjWest Winds: Recipes, History and Tales from Jamaica by Riaz Phillipshttps://bit.ly/3YXmkg9The Last Warner Woman by Kei Miller - audiohttps://amzn.to/3Yx6JmIThe Last Warner Woman by Kei Miller - printhttps://bit.ly/41oF4GPFor more on the books we recommend, plus the other cool stuff we talk about, visit show notes at http://strongsenseofplace.com/podcasts/2023–03–06-jamaicaTranscript: http://strongsenseofplace.com/transcriptions/47_jamaica_transcriptDo you enjoy our show and website? Do you love bonus content? Do you enjoy chatting with other book lovers? Please consider supporting our work on Patreon! You’ll get access to bonus goodies, input on which destinations we cover each season, and become part of the Strong Sense of Place community. Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside. Get all the info you need right here.https://www.patreon.com/strongsenseofplaceYou can always find us at:- Our site- Instagram- Facebook- Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we get excited about two books: ‘Weyward’ by Emilia Hart and ‘Psych: The Story of the Human Mind’ by Paul Bloom. Then Dave tells the story a recently solved code that reveals new secrets of a famous Queen.LINKSWeyward by Emilia Harthttps://bit.ly/3KoeYh8Psych: The Story of the Human Mind by Paul Bloomhttps://bit.ly/3Z5zJSYVideo: Emilia Hart shares three books that inspired herhttps://bit.ly/3xFRA79Paul Bloom’s TED talkshttps://bit.ly/3ErSszYNational Geographic on the decoded lettershttps://on.natgeo.com/3KsKpqIFrom Cryptologia: Deciphering Mary Stuart’s Lost Letters from 1578–1584https://bit.ly/3XS76YqTranscript of this episodehttps://bit.ly/3KgOhuOThe Library of Lost Time is a Strong Sense of Place Production! https://strongsenseofplace.comDo you enjoy our show? Want access to fun bonus content? Please support our work on Patreon. Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside - https://www.patreon.com/strongsenseofplaceAs always, you can find us at:- Our site- Instagram- Facebook- Twitter- Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we get excited about two books: My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor and A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawiziak. Then Mel talks about the fantastic Virginia Woolf exhibit at the New York Public Library.LINKSJoseph O’Connor reading from his bookhttps://bit.ly/3ScdKHEExcerpt from A Mystery of Mysterieshttps://bit.ly/3k5NzWFVirginia Woolf: A Modern Mind at the NYPLhttps://on.nypl.org/3EoKqrUAudioguide and images from Virginia Woolf: A Modern Mindhttps://on.nypl.org/3XM7zLI5 Things We Learned From the NYPL’s Virginia Woolf Exhibitionhttps://bit.ly/3EnIPm9Virginia Woolf’s essay about the Brontë Parsonagehttps://bit.ly/3lKhvrHVideo of the Virginia Woolf collection at NYPLhttps://bit.ly/3xEeg82Transcript of this episodehttps://bit.ly/3IMIoEFThe Library of Lost Time is a Strong Sense of Place Production! https://strongsenseofplace.comDo you enjoy our show? Want access to fun bonus content? Please support our work on Patreon. Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside - https://www.patreon.com/strongsenseofplaceAs always, you can find us at:- Our site- Instagram- Facebook- Twitter- Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When you’re ready to let the good times roll, there’s no place like New Orleans to cut loose, indulge in local grub, sip something intoxicating, and soak up the atmosphere while tapping your toes to some of the best music on the planet.New Orleans was born as a port city in 1718. What set New Orleans apart then (and now) is how it created a unique culture from the diverse people who populated the city. New Orleans got its defining characteristics — a sense of hospitality, its food, its music — from enslaved and formerly enslaved people, Native Americans, and immigrants from France, Spain, the Caribbean, and Italy.There’s a lot to see and do, but if we’re being honest, the real draws are food and music — and the annual street party that brings them together: Mardi Gras.In this episode, we dig into a little bit of history and a whole lot of music and food, including the magic of jambalaya and the difference between cajun and creole. We also tell you how to find the best parades during Mardi Gras and get real about a haunted house. Then we recommend great books that took us there on the page:The Axeman’s Jazz by Ray Celestinhttps://bit.ly/3Jt5uAEThe Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jenningshttps://bit.ly/3wJOYVyTurkey and the Wolf: Flavor Trippin’ in New Orleans by Mason Hereford, JJ Goodehttps://bit.ly/3kYvDNsNine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baumhttps://amzn.to/3JpVb0bThe Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapatahttps://bit.ly/3XS5Bu6For more on the books we recommend, plus the other cool stuff we talk about, visit show notes at https://strongsenseofplace.com/podcasts/2023–02–20-new_orleansTranscript: https://strongsenseofplace.com/transcriptions/46_new_orleans_transcriptDo you enjoy our show? Do you want access to awesome bonus content? Please support our work on Patreon! Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside - https://www.patreon.com/strongsenseofplaceYou can always find us at:- Our site- Instagram- Facebook- Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we get excited about two books: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson and All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley. Then Dave tells a (true) tall tale about an extraordinary map of the New World. LINKSEveryone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevensonhttps://bit.ly/3ljcA0OAll the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringleyhttps://bit.ly/3jHKaguQ&A with Benjamin Stevensonhttps://bit.ly/3JScXJWTour the Met with author Patrick Binglehttps://bit.ly/40CAdBAMap of Juan de la Cosa on Wikipediahttps://bit.ly/3ljcFBEMap of Juan de la Cosa on Google Arts & Culturehttps://bit.ly/3Xhi35xMadrid Naval Museumhttps://bit.ly/3x8KDLATranscript of this episodehttps://bit.ly/3kNeLJzThe Library of Lost Time is a Strong Sense of Place Production! https://strongsenseofplace.comDo you enjoy our show? Want access to fun bonus content? Please support our work on Patreon. Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside - https://www.patreon.com/strongsenseofplace Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we get excited about two books: Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo and Mr. Breakfast by Jonathan Carroll. Mel shares the exciting news about the return of an iconic 20th-century train.LINKSMaster Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woohttps://amzn.to/3DNfbGnMr. Breakfast by Jonathan Carrollhttps://bit.ly/3XePHszExcerpt from Master Slave Husband Wifehttps://bit.ly/3X9KhPuCBS Sunday Morning interview with Ilyon Woohttps://cbsn.ws/40FRERFHudson River Rail Excursionshttps://bit.ly/3I7TgMMVideo excursion on the vintage trainhttps://youtu.be/LpwCQX46h7ATranscript of this episode https://bit.ly/40CQCGbThe Library of Lost Time is a Strong Sense of Place Production! https://strongsenseofplace.comDo you enjoy our show? Want access to fun bonus content? Please support our work on Patreon. Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside - https://www.patreon.com/strongsenseofplace Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices