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Book Picks - Merritt Bookstore

Book covers for the books listed below on this page

This week's Book Picks come from Kira Wizner of Merritt Bookstore in Millbrook, New York.

List:
"Making a Life: Working by Hand and Discovering the Life You Are Meant to Live" by Melanie Falick
"Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool" by Clara Parkes
How to Be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi
Cinderella Liberator” by Rebecca Solnit, illustrated by Arthur Rackham
"Passing: A Memoir of Love and Death" by Michael Korda – event on November 30
"The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia: From Abraham to Zabar's and Everything in Between" by Stephanie Butnick, Liel Leibovitz, and Mark Oppenheimer
This Is What Democracy Looks Like
"Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss" by Margaret Renkl

Sarah has been a public radio producer for over fifteen years. She grew up in Saranac Lake, New York where she worked part-time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from UAlbany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the Senior Contributing Producer of The Roundtable and Producer of The Book Show. During the main thrust of the Covid-19 pandemic shut-down, Sarah hosted a live Instagram interview program "A Face for Radio Video Series." On it, Sarah spoke with actors, musicians, comedians, and artists about the creative activities they were accomplishing and/or missing.
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