Ep. 16: Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes & Janet Geddis from Avid Bookshop

Set in Spain in the late 70s, Gabrielle's debut novel, THE SLEEPING WORLD, represents something deeply personal to her. She tells James about writing through grief, how the novel grew from a short story inspired by a song, as well as world building, dirt, and 'the spaghetti mind.' Plus Janet Geddis, the owner of Avid Bookshop in Athens, GA, shares exciting news and she and James geek out over upcoming fall titles.  

James and Gabrielle Discuss: 

Keith Waldrop 

LADY AND THE TRAMP

Jamaica Kincaid 

"Runaway", THE NATIONAL

SOY CUBA dir by Mikhail Kalatozov 

PEPI, LUCI, BOM AND OTHER GIRLS LIKE MOM dir. by Pedro Almodovar 

Alberto Garcia-Alix (photographer)

NADA by Carmen Laforet 

Elena Ferrante 

RAY OF THE STAR by Laird Hunt 

Toni Morrison 

Audre Lorde 

Alice Walker 

WHAT BELONGS TO YOU by Garth Greenwell 

James and Janet Discuss:

Deirdre Sugiuchi

Al Dixon 

WE SHOW WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED by Clare Beams (10/25)*

THE MORTIFICATIONS by Derek Palacio (10/4)#

HOW TO SHAKE THE OTHER MAN by Derek Palacio 

Nouvella Books

COMMONWEALTH by Ann Patchett (9/13)*

LITTLE NOTHING by Marisa Silver (9/13)#

THE REACTIVES by Masande Ntshanga*

MERCURY by Margot Livesey (9/27)#

BOWIE by Simon Critchley (9/13)#

REPUTATIONS by Juan Gabriel Vasquez (9/20)#

THE SOUND OF THINGS FALLING by Juan Gabriel Vasquez

A FAMILY IS A FAMILY IS A FAMILY written by Sara O'Leary, ill. by Qin Leng* 

THE SLEEPING WORLD by Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes*# 

*Janet Recommends 

#James Recommends

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