Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: Hot Desk by Laura Dickerman, a complement to my current binge-watch of Younger. Two editors share a desk on alternate days and vie for the literary estate of a “problematic” literary icon who recently passed with no clear heir. I met the author this week at a lovely Chapel Hill, NC gathering hosted by Simon & Schuster and learned some insidery details, too! Just finished Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott, which earned an almost perfect 5 out of 5 stars rating from my book club. A lost classic that's ideal for book club discussion.
Listening: To the rattle and hum of a very loud a/c unit in my hotel room in Chapel Hill, NC. When not on the road, enjoying the soothing soundtracks from my Calm app, and the summer songs of birds as they charm each other before making families in my hanging baskets.
Watching: Younger, set in the fictional publishing house, Empirical, and filled with so many fun publisher storylines around celebrity authors, ageism, fashion choices, generational differences, and life in NYC. Am biding my time all summer until we get to the next Great British Baking Show season.

Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: Still working on Flashlight by Susan Choi. I finished Theory of Water (that one will stick with me for longer than an Ice Age) and Is a River Alive? As is usual with McFarlane's books, I pick them up because of the subject, but stick with them because of the people he finds to talk to. I find it pretty wonderful that, despite all the terrible things happening in the world today, there is a woman out there known as "the mushroom whisperer."
Listening: Lots of podcasts to get me through lots of house cleaning.
Watching: I finished the most recent season of Dark Winds. I love shows with strong ensemble casts. SP told me to watch Johnny Guitar with Joan Crawford, so naturally, I did. It's an amazingly odd western, and I say that as someone who has seen Johnny Depp in Dead Man. But Johnny Guitar will stay with me because of the woman vs woman gun fight, and because even though I know there were a bunch of men in the movie, they all just sort of faded into the set dressing in the face of Crawford at her most incandescent.

SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: Happy Pride Reading/Listening to/Watching, everyone! I finished A Secret Life, Claire Tomalin's biography of Katherine Mansfield and will be thinking about it for a long time. I woke up thinking about it this morning! I finished Alison Bechdel's new autofiction graphic novel, Spent, which was funny and wistful and ultimately hopeful. I'm halfway through Food Person by Adam Roberts, which is smart and funny and will make you want to buy about 900 cookbooks.
Listening: Since I will listen to Brittany Howard sing the phonebook (google it, youths) the song of the week is Miley Cyrus's "Walk of Fame," featuring Brittany Howard. If you're old like me, you'll instantly hear echoes of Bronski Beat's "Smalltown Boy" and all the other songs you flailed around to on the dance floor in the 1980s.
Watching: One of my all-time favorites, Johnny Guitar, the 1954 genre- and mind-bending Nicholas Ray-directed film starring Joan Crawford (at peak Crawford), Mercedes McCambridge (ditto re: peakness), and a bunch of dudes in cowboy hats waiting to be told what to do. I am a committed Johnny Guitar evangelist, as Nicki can confirm.

Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: I just finished Shauna Robinson's Lauryn Harper Falls Apart, the story of two former BFFs trying to save their small town's apple festival while rediscovering their friendship and it's so sweet!
Listening: Now that Taylor owns all of her music, I can listen to Reputation without guilt!
Watching: I still can't get enough Poker Face. Some folks haven't liked this season as much as the last one but I think Natasha Lyonne can do no wrong.