What We're Reading, Listening to, and Watching This Week (2/1/2026)
Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. Darkly funny conversations between characters stuck in a kind of purgatory balance deeply moving depictions of Lincoln’s grief and love for his dead son. It’s a “can’t put down” kind of read, and I’m so glad I finally got to it now.
Listening: To birds waking up to single digit temps, calling out to each other as they gather seeds and peanuts we’ve strewn across the snow.
Watching: All Creatures Great and Small, Brokenwood, My Life is Murder, and soon, Secret Mall Apartment, which is supposed to be really fun.
Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: Still on A Power Unbound by Freya Marske.
Listening: To the ambient sounds of the space heaters and humidifiers around the house.
Watching: So many things (up to 15 "currently watching" shows on my app), but I'm really excited that Shrinking and School Spirits are both back!
Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: Julia Ioffe's Motherland has become my "big read" of the year. And yes, the year has only just begun, but it is hard to image finding something else that will have as big of an impact on me. It is by turns agonizing, awful, and sometimes makes me want to scream. But the most lasting thing is the sense of admiration I feel at the strength of all these women, their sheer determination and resilience. It is something I keep in my thoughts when the news gets to be too much.
Listening:. Yesterday, I took my phone with me on my walk through the snowy woods and, when I got to a nice isolated spot, turned it on and recorded all the woodpeckers rapping away at the bare trees.
Watching: Not the Super Bowl. But I do have the Winter Olympics app downloaded so I never miss any of the alpine skiing.
SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: Still slowly reading Jeanette Winterson's Two Aladdins One Lamp.
Listening: Some times are made for Dylan, and this is one of them.
Watching: I'm about to start the fourth season of Industry, and it is a scathingly fun, twisty, pulpy, highly jaded take on investment banking. I'd say it was a satire, but I'm not sure it's possible to satirize something as inherently ludicrous as late stage capitalism.
Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: I read SO MANY books over the past week since I couldn't leave the house much. My current read is Dearly Departed by Chip Pons. It's a grumpy/sunshine romance with Hades as an MC and it's darling.
Listening: My cats can't stop ack-acking at the birds outside.
Watching: All of the Catherine O'Hara movies I can get. May she RIP.