Ep. 63: Jonathan Santlofer & Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

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. 

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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