What We're Reading, Listening to, and Watching This Week (2/15/2026)
Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: Just beginning A Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor for my book club. An antiquarian bookseller in a picturesque English town turns her life upside down when she falls in love first with her lover’s wife, and then with his mother. Sounds fabulous!
Listening: To increasing levels of birdsong as the great thaw begins.
Watching: Added The Big C into our rotation of mysteries set in British Commonweath countries. It’s really powerful and at times darkly funny.
Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: My brain isn't handling reading well lately, so I'm still in the same place as last week (and will probably be again next week).
Listening: To the sounds of Spring beginning to emerge, and I'm so here for it.
Watching: Started The Burbs, and I'm really enjoying it so far! A funny, modern remake of the 1980s movie.
Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: The owner's manual for my new laptop. But, since that is woefully thin and remarkably unhelpful, also Lauren Groff's Brawler and Transversal by Maria Popova.
Listening: To the new Jeanette Winterson book, One Aladdin, Two Lamps.
Watching: Oh, it was a really great week for watching things. Not only was my occasional movie night with SP this time devoted to Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind — gorgeous, slow, sad, not with a bang but with a whimper — but this past weekend I went to my very first immersive Yayoi Kusama exhibit. Yes, the polka dot artist who does all the mirrored rooms. I took a ton of pictures, all of which were failures in capturing the experience.
SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: Jen Beagin's novel, Big Swiss, which is hilarious and weird and exactly what I was looking for.
Listening: I just missed the chance to see Margo Price this past weekend, so I've been making up for it.
Watching: The Mastermind, the director Kelly Reichardt's 2025 harvest gold and avocado green tinted take on a heist film wrapped around an examination of art and personal action vs. activism. Set in 1970 while protest against the Vietnam War raged, the movie seems disconnected to the turmoil until all of a sudden it isn't.
Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: I am in a bit of a slump! I can't seem to concentrate enough to get into anything I've picked up lately. It's not them, it's me.
Listening: Snoring cats
Watching: The Burbs on Peacock was so fun! It's a cozy, hilarious update on the classic movie. Also Reality Check: Inside American's Next Top Model, the documentary on Netlflix, so please feel free to discuss that with me!