What We're Reading, Listening to, and Watching This Week (2/22/2026)
Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: 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. Mavor’s writing is dense, lush, and literary. Beautiful but also sleep-inducing, as I read mostly at bedtime.
Listening: From my cave-like dwelling in the Drury Hotel in Pittsburgh, I’ve heard the train go by during the night, and the constant swoosh of car traffic on the streets below.
Watching: The conference schedule has not included any TV-watching, but time in the city has offered lots of opportunities for people-watching and taking in the architecture, art exhibits, and fashion in Pittsburgh.
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: Brawler by Lauren Groff, and Transversal by Maria Popova.
Listening: Jeanette Winterson's One Aladdin, Two Lamps. For music, Joan Baez.
Watching: Sewing techniques from Alabama Channing via Tatter.
SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking by Caroline Chambers, since I do quite often feel like eating and one can only take so many PB&Js for dinner.
Listening: Compilation albums released by the Red Hot Organization in support of HIV/AIDS relief and awareness around the world, particularly Red Hot + Blue, the 1990 tribute to Cole Porter, and 2009's Dark Was the Night with indie folk and blues covers.
Watching: When the world gets heavy, Ball of Fire (1941) is the respite you need. Starring Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper and a dream cast of legendary character actors, the movie is a sweet, funny, sharp retelling of Snow White if she was a wisecracking nightclub singer named Sugarpuss O'Shea who somehow lands in the midst of seven professors eternally writing and revising the encyclopedia of all human knowledge.
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 America's Next Top Model, the Netflix documentary, so please feel free to discuss that with me!