Honest Dog Pod

Bookstore Owner Julie Buckles and Will Potter talked via Zoom in early November about Potter's latest book, Little Red Barns: From Farm to Fable, breaking down the mythology--one that is everywhere in our daily lives--and what it means and the ways it has been used to push forward not only Big Ag but fascism.

Bridget Crocker's debut memoir, The River's Daughter, releases today so what a way to celebrate by releasing her interview we did for the Dog Pod!As a young girl, Bridget sought refuge in the river from a tough childhood. During a near-drowning experience, the river spoke to Bridget, telling her to SWIM! and she survived. Bridget felt the river chose her and her life has been intertwined with rivers all over the world ever since. Tune in and make sure to get your copy of her book, The River's Daughter, today!

Times are tough right now. Turn on the news for a millisecond and it is one anxiety-inducing breaking news alert after the next. Whether it's learning something new, laughing, getting inspired, or just relieving your brain from the now for a few chapters, books are a balm to the soul, especially for these times. In our second BookTalk round table, Julie, Erin and Maggie talk us through the books that are helping them get through.Books Mentioned:Everything is Tuberculosis by John GreenNight Vision by Mariana AlessandriHalf an Inch of Water by Percival EverettFiguring by Maria PopovaA Book of Bees by Sue HubbellA Woman Among Wolves by Diane BoydThe Pendragon Legend by Antal SzerbCounterattacks at Thirty by Won-pyung SohnVenCo by Cherie DimalineEmpire of Wild by Cherie DimalineWant to support the continuation of the Honest Dog Pod? Buy books from us! Shop in person, online, or over the phone (https://honestdogbooks.com/). For audiobook lovers, purchase our picks on Libro.fm (https://libro.fm/honestdogbooks) and if you're all about the e-books, support us on Bookshop.org (https://bookshop.org/shop/honestdogbooks)And don’t forget to subscribe, rate our episodes, and share with your people!Thanks for listening and keep on reading!

BONUS EPISODE!The last Saturday in April is known among bookworms nationwide as Indie Bookstore Day. It can be the second biggest weekend for independent booksellers just behind the winter holiday time. At Honest Dog Books, we had a store full of book talks, music, and lively conversations with customers. Kara set up the Dog Pod in the main shop to talk to some HDB staff about their picks from the day, let customers hop on the pod for a chat, and even got some lovely poetry and music from Joel Glickman. It was a fantastic day and we at HDB can't thank you all enough for your continued support.Books Mentioned:There's Always This Year by Hanif AbdurraqibThe Cheesemaker's Daughter by Kristin VukovicThe Cautious Traveller's Guide to Wastelands by Sarah BrooksThe Sirens by Emilia HartThe Bright Sword by Lev GrossmanBefore the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu KawaguchiSister Snake by Amanda Lee KoeWe Refuse by Kellie Carter JacksonHands of Time by Rebecca StruthersWant to support the continuation of the Honest Dog Pod? Buy books from us! Shop in person, online, or over the phone (https://honestdogbooks.com/). For audiobook lovers, purchase our picks on Libro.fm (https://libro.fm/honestdogbooks) and if you're all about the e-books, support us on Bookshop.org (https://bookshop.org/shop/honestdogbooks)And don’t forget to subscribe, rate our episodes, and share with your people!Thanks for listening and keep on reading!

After their One Tough Broad book club meeting, Julie knew she needed to talk to author and wolf biologist Diane Boyd more. So she asked Diane to do a Zoom interview for our Dog Pod and we are so glad she agreed. Originally from Minnesota, Diane has been living and working out west studying wolves for four decades. When she started, she was the only female biologist in the United States studying wild wolves. She shares some incredible stories: like freeing a wolf from a trap on New Year's Eve to risking her own skin to prevent a wolf from dying of hypothermia. Diane is one tough broad, one badass woman, and we hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did speaking with her.SHOW NOTESA Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery by Diane BoydWant to support the continuation of the Honest Dog Pod? Buy books from us! Shop in person, online, or over the phone (https://honestdogbooks.com/). For audiobook lovers, purchase our picks on Libro.fm (https://libro.fm/honestdogbooks) and if you're all about the e-books, support us on Bookshop.org (https://bookshop.org/shop/honestdogbooks)And don’t forget to subscribe, rate our episodes, and share with your people!Thanks for listening and keep on reading!

Our first round table Dog Pod BookTalk!In this episode, Julie, Erin, Maggie, and Claire have a round table discussion about North Woods and Martyr! as well as what they're currently reading. Oh, and a very important (and overdue) Shop Dog update.Books Mentioned in the Episode:North Woods by Daniel MasonMartyr! by Kaveh AkbarCrush by Ada CalhounYou'll Do by Marcia A ZugDisfigured by Amanda LeducThe Sirens by Emilia HartDysphoria Mundi by Paul B PreciadoUgliness by Moshtari HilalO Sinners! by Nicole CuffyWinter Pasture by Li JuanThe Day Leap Soared by Blair BravermanWant to support the continuation of the Honest Dog Pod? Buy books from us! Shop in person, online, or over the phone (https://honestdogbooks.com/). For audiobook lovers, purchase our picks on Libro.fm (https://libro.fm/honestdogbooks) And don’t forget to subscribe, rate our episodes, and share with your people!Thanks for listening! Keep on reading.

We're continuing our theme of badass women for March. Last December, we hosted an author talk over Zoom with Rebecca Donner about her latest book, All The Frequent Troubles of Our Days, and we were thankfully able to record it to share with more of you here!Rebecca is the great-grand-niece of Mildred Harnack, someone you sadly likely haven't heard about. From Rebecca's website: "Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. As early as 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment—a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin...Historians identify Mildred Harnack as the only American in the leadership of the German resistance, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown until now."Rebecca talks us through some of the in-depth research she had to do for the book, how she learned about her great-grand-aunt, and awes us with the perseverance of Mildred during such horrifying times (that eerily parallel our times now).SHOW NOTES:Tech note: This is a recording of a zoom conversation where we had some minor technical issues. Rebecca's audio unfortunately does dip in and out and times, but thankfully most of her audio came out just fine. We apologise for any listening hindrance this may cause at times.Rebecca's website: https://www.rebeccadonner.com/all-the-frequent-troubles-of-our-daysWant to support the continuation of the Honest Dog Pod? Buy books from us! Shop in person, online, or over the phone (https://honestdogbooks.com/). For audiobook lovers, purchase our picks on Libro.fm (https://libro.fm/honestdogbooks) And don’t forget to subscribe, rate our episodes, and share with your people!Thanks for listening!

We were so fortunate to not only have one badass author in our presence recently, but two. Pam Houston and Deborah Jackson Taffa came to town for a live author talk event in February and we got them to talk to the Honest Dog Pod the morning before. Thanks to both Pam and Deborah for taking the time to sit down with us and for the powerful conversation.Pam Houston is making her fourth appearance at Honest Dog Books. She is an instructor at the American Indian Institute of the Arts and UC Davis. She teaches writing workshops all over, including at Bayfield's own Wild Rice Retreat. She is the author of the memoir Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country, as well as two novels, Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound, two collections of short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, and a collection of essays, A Little More About Me. Her most recent book, Without Exception: Reclaiming Abortion, Personhood and Freedom, is her call to action. Deborah Jackson Taffa is the director of the MFA program in creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts and a hometown treasure in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her memoir Whiskey Tender, about growing up as a mixed-tribe Native American torn by the pressures of assimilation, was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award, as well as longlisted for a Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Nonfiction. The memoir was named a Top Ten Book of 2024 by The Atlantic and Time Magazine. It also made top book lists at Esquire, NPR, Elle, Audible, Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, and of course, Honest Dog Books and other outlets. The Washington Post praised Whiskey Tender for its “mesmerizing dive into tumultuous childhood stories and its excavation of a particular place and time”—that being New Mexico’s Navajo territory in the 1970s and ’80s. SHOW NOTESWithout Exception: Reclaiming Abortion, Personhood and Freedom by Pam HoustonWhiskey Tender: A Memoir by Deborah Jackson TaffaWant to support the continuation of the Honest Dog Pod? Buy books from us! Shop in person, online, or over the phone (https://honestdogbooks.com/). For audiobook lovers, purchase our picks on Libro.fm (https://libro.fm/honestdogbooks) And don’t forget to subscribe, rate our episodes, and share with your people!Thanks for listening!

Back in January, Julie's daughter Caroline was home from college so we took this opportunity for a mother/daughter book talk. In this episode Caroline talks about how not-so-great her reading year was, compared to Julie's best reading year yet (helps when you're a bookseller and not a college student). They also talk about how being pressured to read a book makes them want to read it less, how stating a book wasn't liked by Julie helps it sell in the bookstore, and so much more.SHOW NOTESBooks Mentioned:How I Became A Nun by César AiraI Cheerfully Refuse by Leif EngerMilk Fed by Melissa BroderA Gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesCirce by Madeline MillerSula by Toni MorrisonBrave the Wild River by Melissa L SevignyThe Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo VillavicencioAll The Beauty In The World by Patrick BringleyThe Postcard by Anne BerestCowboys Are My Weakness by Pam HoustonA Small Corner of Hell by Anna PolitkovkayaAll The Frequent Troubles of Our Days by Rebecca DonnerThe Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly BlackLocked Tomb series by Tamsyn MuirHow To Read a Book by Monica WoodThanks for listening!Want to support the continuation of the Honest Dog Pod? Buy books from us! Shop in person, online, or over the phone (https://honestdogbooks.com/). For audiobook lovers, purchase our picks on Libro.fm (https://libro.fm/honestdogbooks)

A romance enthusiast and romance skeptic walk into a bookstore...Kara and Erin - a romance enthusiast and romance skeptic, respectfully - sit down to talk through the divisive genre. They talk a bit about the history of romance writings, try to recall their first time…reading a romance book, and sift through some of the pros and cons of romance books. Whether or not you read romance (or smut, or romantasy, or erotica, or all of the above, etc. etc.), it’s here to stay. It is a layered and complex subject with a centuries’ long history. It is buzzing in sales right now thanks to the BookTok phenomenon, but it is certainly more than a hot trend. Let’s just say, romance books really shouldn’t be judged by their covers. Grab some chocolates and press play!Show NotesBooks Mentioned:The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M AuelThe Present by Johanna LindseyCrush by Ada CalhounA Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J MaasThrone of Glass by Sarah J MaasWant by anonymous, collected by Gillian AndersonHaunting Adeline by H D CarltonIcebreaker by Hannah GracePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTwisted Games by Ana HuangOutlander by Diana GabaldonHogbook and Lazer Eyes by Maria BamfordLeg by Greg MarshallMaking Love with the Land by Joshua WhiteheadThe Tragedy of Heterosexuality by Jane WardThe Notebook by Nicholas SparksFifty Shades of Grey by E L JamesJuice by Jessica Haerdle Anonymous Sex by anonymous, edited by Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien TanA Curious History of Sex by Kate ListerLady Chatterly's Love by D H LawrenceQueer Werewolves Destroy Capitalism by MJ LyonsErin and Kara Romance Book List at Honest Dog BooksSupport us on Libro.fm! Want to support the continuation of the Honest Dog Pod? Support Honest Dog Books! Shop in store, online, on Libro.fm, or order over the phone! https://honestdogbooks.com/Thanks for listening!