I recently read somewhere that a large percentage of male readers avoid reading books by female authors…your loss, dummies!

I was listening to NPR’s Science Friday broadcast a few days ago and heard a really interesting interview with Daniel H Wilson, the author of a new sci-fi book about “first contact” with aliens from an indigenous perspective (Wilson is a member of the Cherokee Nation). The book is called Hole in the Sky. The interview linked above was great and I highly recommend it if you’re interested—this guy has a pretty interesting history and path to being a sci-fi author. Here is an excerpt from the book, also on NPR:

Anyway, I started reading it last night and I’m already hooked in. I guess there is already a Netflix adaptation in the works!

Chris is reading Nine Stories by JD Salinger, but both he and I were a bit dismayed (though I can’t say surprised) in the last week (after reading Catcher in the Rye) to find out he was kind of a creep. And a nice segue out of that statement is to mention that our pal Alice wrote back last week and recommended a book she’d read recently: The Bird Hotel by Joyce Maynard. It’s a nice segue because Joyce Maynard is the person who Salinger was a creep to, when she was only 18 years old, and thankfully she pushed past the pig-pile of hate and dismissal she received upon deciding to talk about their relationship to become a formidable author herself.

Tell us what you’re reading/interested in reading, babies—we’ll mention it here!