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Ep 83 - Tomatoes, Movies and Craft Books with Don Coscarelli

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4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Brea and Mallory talk about craft books with filmmaker and author Don Coscarelli! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch     Sponsor - Squarespace squarespace.com Promo Code - GLASSES Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group   Amazon Wish List   Don Coscarelli True Indie by Don Coscarelli     Books Mentioned - Sourdough by Robin Sloan The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald The Library Book by Susan Orlean Magic For Liars by Sarah Gailey Chloe Flavor by Chloe Coscarelli Herzog on Herzog by Paul Cronin The Power of the Actor by Ivana Chubbuck Make Your Own Damn Movie by Lloyd Kaufman with Adam Jahnke and Trent Haaga Damn Fine Story by Chuck Wendig The Kickass Writer by Chuck Wendig Lynch on Lynch by Chris Rodley H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald Hammer Head by Nina Maclaughlin The Actor and the Target by Declan Donnellan Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty Penpal by Dathan Auerbach Time and Again by Jack Finney A Kim Jong-il Production by Paul Fischer A Corpse in the Koryo by James Church Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker Ink and Paint by Mindy Johnson

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0:00.0

You're listening to reading glasses a show about book culture and literary life

0:06.7

designed to help you read better. I'm writer, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory

0:10.6

O'Mara, and I'm Brea Grant, filmmaker, and E-reader.

0:13.4

This episode we're talking about craft books with author and filmmaker Don Costco

0:16.8

Relli.

0:17.8

But first, what are you reading, Brew?

0:19.2

I read a book that you've already talked around in the show, but I read it and I loved it so much

0:23.5

that I'm gonna give it a re-shout. The library book by Susan Orlene.

0:27.5

Ugh! It's on a lot of great best books of the year. If you are a library fan, you have got to read this book.

0:34.0

Which you should be. I'm a library fan, but even if you aren't, it's interesting. I'm just

0:39.2

going to throw out a fact that I really enjoyed. So I always wonder about, so I order books from the library and have them shipped to my local library.

0:46.0

That's what I do with my research books. Right. Which is something you can do. I do a lot of e-books but I do that often something you can do in the LA Public Library System.

0:54.1

And the hub for those books shipping is the central library.

0:59.2

And one chapter is about that aspect of the library system and yeah I love that chapter it's so

1:04.6

fascinating yeah within the LA Public Library central library an entire

1:09.9

library's worth of books passes every day it It's like 70,000 books. It's

1:14.3

amazing.

1:15.3

Crazy. Maybe that's way more than it does. I don't remember the number. But it's some

1:18.5

crazy number like that and that just like was so fascinating and these are

1:22.1

like our public dollars going to use which I think is really fantastic.

1:25.8

Mallory already talked about it, but it's essentially a history of

1:29.6

LA public libraries. One of my favorite parts is they had a very early female

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