Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: Hot Desk by Laura Dickerman. Although marketed as a rom-com, this novel is much deeper and often very poignant. Set in two time periods, one storyline involves two editors competing for the rights to an unpublished manuscript by a literary lion who recently passed. The other storyline takes place forty years earlier, when the lion’s charisma attracted young writers to work for him as interns, and his fame shielded him from accountability for his actions.
Listening: The cicadas have moved into the next stage of their existence and are no longer humming (one neighbor compared their sound to a car alarm that never stops), so it’s very quiet, except for the occasional songbird. Love it.
Watching: Just finished the final episode of Younger, a delightful series that didn’t involve people dying in small English villages or bleak Scottish islands. Will return to Young Sheldon.

Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: Still with Katherine Mansfield's In a German Pension, because I'm on a Mansfield binge. And still waiting on my order of Zhang Yueran's Cocoon. In the meantime, I've been packing up books and in the process discovered -- as one does -- a long forgotten anthology called Secret Weavers: Stories of the Fantastic by Women of Argentina and Chile. I love me some feminist fantastic fiction! As thebook's editor Marjorie Agosin puts it, "These tales were told by mothers and by grandmothers and their beauty resided in their poetic imaginations, where women, under the disguise of the fantastic, dared to enter worlds filled with subversion."
Listening: Still enjoying the audio of Peter Marshall's Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney.
Watching: I finished off the last season of Dark Winds and am now stuck waiting on a new season, whenever that happens.

SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: I finished Taylor Jenkins Reid's Atmosphere a few days ago and it's obviously the book of the summer. Currently in progress (I need to get a grip): My Katherine Mansfield Project by Kirsty Gunn, for book club; Sick and Dirty: Hollywood's Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness by Micheal Koresky; Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel.
Listening: If you watched the show Somebody, Somewhere you loved it (sorry, those are the rules), and if you loved the show you double triple loved Jeff Hiller as Joel. I have a long solo car trip coming up and the audiobook of his new memoir, Actress of Certain Age, will let Jeff/Joel be my travel buddy.
Watching: Sick and Dirty prompted a rewatch of Tea and Sympathy (1956), directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Deborah Kerr and John Kerr (no relation). It's harrowing in ways I don't think were possible in 1956, but also in ways that haven't changed a bit since 1956.

Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: I brought back sooooo many books from Children's Institute that I can't wait to get into but I'm having a little decision paralysis.
Listening: The most recent episode of Handsome really got me in the feels. One of the hosts is going through a lot this year and she was talking about it, and all the support she's getting from all over.
Watching: Still stuck on Lego Masters AU. I can't get enough!