Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: I'm rereading The Art Thieves by Andrea L. Rogers for my book club. We timed this read for Native American Heritage Month, as the writer is Cherokee and the book is an example of Cherokee Futurism. It’s a YA near-future apocalyptic time-travel love story with a lot of heart, thrills, and wisdom. Love it.
Listening: It’s finally raining after weeks of drought in WNC. The sound of gentle rain is heavenly.
Watching: After seeing the mysterious and very dapper gentleman among the French police after the Louvre jewel heist, we decided to watch Poirot again. We’re mixing it up with Young Sheldon, which we haven’t finished yet.

Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: Driftwood: The Life of Harlan Hubbard, by Jessica K. Whitehead. It was given to my mom by my uncle, but both Mom and I are enamored of Hubbard's own book, Shantyboat. This biography has its flaws, but Hubbard's paintings are beautifully reproduced, and remind me a lot of Charles Burchfield. For fiction, I have The Salvage by Anbara Salam, from Tin House. Marine archaeology, Victorian shipwrecks, the wild and rocky Scottish coastline. I can't tell you how often I wanted to just stop work early to read.
Listening: She Speaks! by Harriet Walter. Yes, I have the book. But who in the world would deprive themselves of a Harriet Walter performance?
Watching: The new Maigret. It's filmed like those scenes you look at through an old fashioned Viewmaster. Dreamy. A hint of sepia. Filled with light.

SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: I'm still reading The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris and more convinced than ever that I'm living in the wrong time.
Listening: Still listening to Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America and finding it chillingly fascinating.
Watching: The recent death of Prunella Scales (probably best known as Sybil in Fawlty Towers) led me to rewatching her in her actual greatest role, Elizabeth Mapp in Mapp and Lucia. If you know, you know.

Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: I took a quick break in my Halloween books to read Nobody's Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre and it was an altogether different type of horror. It's heartbreaking to read but it was so important to her that she got her story out.
Listening: No updates on that front since last week.
Watching: We went to a silent movie at an outdoor amphitheater last night and it was so cool! We watched The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with a Latin band playing along. The 125-year-old movie was amazing (the sets!) and it was such a cool Halloween-y experience.