Season 12, Episode 257 A Forty Year Kiss with guest Nickolas Butler
Amy discovered Nickolas Butler earlier this year when she attended the author event for his newest novel A Forty Year Kiss at Carmichael’s Bookstore. Nick has six novels and a collection of short stories under his belt, but A Forty Year Kiss may be his first love story. His mind was set to wondering after he overheard a passionate conversation in his favorite local bar between two older people, a conversation that made him blush just a little. He began playing with the idea of what this couple’s back story was. Nick’s book asks readers to consider the difference between first love and love between mature adults, how life’s baggage affects personal relationships, and whether people can really change.
Nick also talks to us about his rural Wisconsin roots, why he read Babysitter Club books in his childhood, and the debate on whether he should wear a cape.
For our book recommendation section of this episode, we decided to find some of our favorite books we’ve read as a result of being in a book club together for two decades. For the most part, our book club chooses novels, but there is one memoir in the lot, as well as contemporary fiction, historical fiction, sci-fi, and a classic.
Books Discussed in this Episode:
1- A Forty Year Kiss by Nickolas Butler
2- Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler
3- A Paris Year by Janice MacLeod
4- Godspeed by Nickolas Butler
5- Love, Hope & Carnage by Nick Cave and Sean O'Hagan
6- The Fertile Earth and the Ordered Cosmos edited by M. Elizabeth Weiser
7- Marlena by Julie Buntin
8- A Lesser Light by Peter Geye
9- Down & Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain by Charles Leerhsen
10- Floreana by Midge Raymond
11- Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
12- Super Zelda: The Graphic Life of Zelda Fitzgerald by Tiziana Lo Porto
13- A Five Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Cindy B. - Strange Pictures by Uketsu, translated by Jim Rion
14- The Velvet Hours by Alyson Richman
15- The Girl With All the Gifts by MR Carey
16- Molokai by Alan Brennert
17- Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
18- Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexa Fuller
19- This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel
20- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Media mentioned—
1- http://www.astoriedstyle.com/a-look-into-the-past-an-untouched-1942-paris-apartment/
2- Ancient mounds in OH - www.hopeweklearthworks.org