Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director :
Reading: The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley. A fun read, very light but imbued with a love of language, and moving in obvious directions. It’s not a matter of if, just when and how.
Listening: Enjoying the quiet days, afternoon thunderstorms, and the sounds of frogs and crickets at night.
Watching: Young Sheldon, Madame Blanc, and my computer screen as I work on wrapping up our preparations for NVNR.

Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: Mostly box labels and moving company contracts. But I am still rediscovering lots of hidden gems in the library as I take things off the shelf to pack them up. Most recently, a pamphlet of a play about the French Resistance by Gertrude Stein called In Savoy or Yes Is for a Very Young Man which was performed in the Cherry Lane Theatre in 1949 and featured Bea Arthur.
Listening: Still listening to Olivia Manning's The Balkan Trilogy while I pack. But also, everyone should stop what they are doing to listen to David Neeman talk to Robert McFarlane about his new book Is a River Alive. It is an amazing conversation.
Watching: Still zilch, zip, and nada.

SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: After letting other books cut in line, I have returned to Mary Gabriel's Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art. This has resonated with me: "The avant-garde artists in New York wanted no part of the 'canned culture' championed by official circles, which was meant to entertain and encourage but not to enlighten."
Listening: My song of the week is "Why" from the great Lonnie Mack, from his bone-chillingly good 1963 album The Wham of That Memphis Man! It's not that deep; sometimes you just need to hear someone yowl "Whyyyyyy????" from his whole chest for four minutes and thirty-two seconds or so.
Watching: Summertime (1955), directed by David Lean and starring Venice, Katharine Hepburn, and Rossano Brazzi--pretty much in that order. A perfectly cast Hepburn (in my very favorite film of hers) is a flinty, funny, but fragile secretary from Akron on a solo trip to Venice, where she meets a married Ventian antiques dealer and discovers the grand passion she's been yearning for all her life. No one is better than Lean at finding the human in the epic, but in Summertime, he finds the epic in the human.

Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: I am still reeling from Last Chance Live by Helena Haywoode Henry. It's heartbreaking and so, so good.
Listening: I've spent ten hours of store inventory time this week listening to Amy Pohler's Good Hang podcast. It's such a serotonin boost!
Watching: Love Island, The Ultimatum Queer Love, and now Bachelor in Paradise is about to start. I love summer TV.