What We're Reading, Listening to, and Watching This Week (4/19/2026)
Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: The Great Remembering by June Cohen. An interesting overview of ancient wisdom systems, as Cohen refers to them, offering useful knowledge and applications for today’s world. Currently reading about saunas and cold plunges and their positive effects on our physical and mental health.
Listening: To the stifled grunts and loud roars of violent sneezing during The Pollening.
Watching: Looking forward to the newest season of Death in Paradise on Acorn. Continuing to enjoy the deeply moving and often funny The Big C.
Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: Slowly making my way through The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs edited by David Hilliard.
Listening: The click of the heater and air conditioning continuously switching, with some days below freezing and others in the 60s.
Watching: This is the first season of Survivor I decided to watch since the first season, and it's so fun!
Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: Autobiography of Cotton by Cristina Rivera Garza. The Company of Owls by Polly Atkin.
Listening: Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes.
Watching: [Insert current Yankees game here]. Actually, tonight I am watching Gather (2020), directed by Sanjay Rawal. It came up on the suggested list for today from the FSNE 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge, which is something I participate in every year.
SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: I just pre-ordered Radiant Star, Ann Leckie's new novel set in the same universe as her Imperial Radch series. I love her vision of a space opera, which is gender-bendy, sharp, and exciting.
Listening: "Venus in the Zinnia," a new song from Aldous Harding, and looking forward to her new album on May 8.
Watching: My standing lunchtime date lately with my TV girlfriend Joanna Lumley as the eternal and ineffably awful Patsy Stone in Absolutely Fabulous.
Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: Since meeting the lovely John Green this past weekend, I've been re-reading his older stuff. It still hits me right in the heart.
Listening: Still deep into Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. It's SO good, and I can't wait to find out what on earth is going on.
Watching: I need new things to watch! All of my current things are over for the season.