Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi. Just reread this for my book club and enjoyed it even more the second time. Rich, sexy, and often very moving as a Nigerian-American artist and widow moves through her grief to explore the possibility of loving again.
Listening: To neighbors greeting each other as they walk by, and to birds and squirrels scrabbling beneath my office window, searching for food among the leaves.
Watching: Viewed the final episode of this year's Great British Baking Show and am now in a bit of a holding pattern until their holiday special (coming soon!). Continuing to watch LOTR extended versions weekly, and looking for Hallmark holiday movies that are not “horrible.”

Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: Still working on finishing up Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan and Mutual Aid by Dean Spade.
Listening: To my 90s throwback playlist.
Watching: So far, I've watched A 90s Christmas, Dear Santa, and Our Little Secret. Next up: Hot Frosty. Give me all the holiday media!

Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: Still on Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante, and will be for the foreseeable future.
Listening: Finished the audio of The Serviceberry. It was more of an affirmation than a revelation for me, but Kimmerer's writing always has a lodestone effect. I can't help but let myself be pulled in. Now I have Middlemarch, read by Juliet Stevenson, queued up. Yes, it is over thirty-five hours long.
Watching: Most on my mind is a mesmerizing little documentary called The Nettle Dress. It was described by my mom's weaving friends as being about a fiber artist interested in sustainable living, who wanted to see how nettles could be used to make cloth. But it also about grief. The artist lost first his father and then his wife to cancer, and what had started as a kind of exploration turned into something like an elegy. What really held me was the way he poured his grief into the materials in his hands, and how both went through this kind of parallel transformation.

SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: Miss May Does Not Exist, the new biography of Elaine May by Carrie Courogen. May was one of the most sought-after and influential screenwriters of the last century, half of the iconic duo of Nichols and May (with husband Mike Nichols), and because of her role as Hollywood's best script doctor, a hidden genius.
Listening: During a mind (and other parts)-numbingly long road trip, I listened to the entire audiobook of Rough Pages, Lev AC Rosen's third installment of his hardboiled yet heartfelt Evander Mills detective series. Set in an early 1950s, VERY pre-Stonewall era San Francisco, it's full of moody atmospherics, murky motivations, unknown queer history, and complicated characters. You can practically hear the foghorns blowing in every scene.
Watching: Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary, HBO's hugely entertaining new documentary on...Yacht Rock. What can I say? I graduated from high school in 1980, and even as the preppy little B-52s-obsessed weirdo I was back then every song is still so instantly recognizable I can sing along with every single one. Admit it. You're channeling Michael McDonald right now.

Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: I'm about to give my brother The Name of This Band is R.E.M. by Peter Ames Carlin so I'm getting through my own copy first - gotta make sure it's a good gift!
Listening: Early 2000's emo/pop punk, which I guess is my default? I'm really just waiting for Reputation (TV).
Watching: All the holiday movies! I'm jumping in earlier than usual this year and am looking forward to all of my favorite classics (ask me about my Grinch drinking game).