Ep. 63: Jonathan Santlofer & Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

TK with James Scott: A Writing, Reading, & Books Podcast

The grief over the sudden death of his wife Joy compelled novelist Jonathan Santlofer to begin writing, and those scribbled thoughts and memories became his beautiful memoir, THE WIDOWER'S NOTEBOOK. He and James discuss losing the first person you want to share stories with, not letting yourself off the hook, falling in love with a cat, relying on process, and, ultimately, refusing to live in the shadows. Plus, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich on the response to their book, THE FACT OF A BODY.

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Jonathan Santlofer: http://jonathansantlofer.com/

Jonathan and James discuss:

SALON

PEOPLE

Yaddo

FOOD CITY: FOUR CENTURIES OF FOOD-MAKING IN NEW YORK by Joy Santlofer and Marion Nestle

Norton

New York University Faculty Club

Tom's Bakery

Brooklyn Brine

Malaprop's Bookstore

RIDING IN CARS WITH BOYS by Beverly Donofrio

Lee Child

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Fyodor Dostoevsky

LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser

THE ICEBERG by Marion Coutts

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

IN A DARK WOOD by Joseph Luzzi

"Experience" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING by Joan Didion

H IS FOR HAWK by Helen Macdonald

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Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich: http://alexandria-marzano-lesnevich.com/

Alexandria and James Discuss:

"On the Necessity of Turning Oneself into a Character" by Philip Lopate

Jonathan Santlofer

Lauren Groff

"By the Book" from THE NEW YORK TIMES

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