Ep. 114 Both, And with Emma Copley Eisenberg

Today we welcome debut author and co-founder of Blue Stoop in Philadelphia, Emma Copley Eisenberg. Emma’s book The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia, is an investigation of the murder of two young women–showing how a violent crime casts a shadow over an entire community. We talk about True Crime as a genre, and how the phrase “both, and” became to motto of Emma’s work. We also talk books, of course.

The Stacks Book Club selection for June is Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe, we will discuss the book with Emma Copley Eisenberg on June 24th.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.

Books

• The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg
• People’s Books & Culture (Philadelphia, PA)
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
• Long Bright River by Liz Moore
• Harriet’s Bookshop (Philadelphia, PA)
• Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee and Books (Philadelphia, PA)
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Ann Rule
• American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
• The Reckonings by Lacy M. Johnson
• The Other Side by Lacy M. Johnson
• Things We Didn’t Talk About When I was a Girl by Jeannie Vanasco
• Maggie Nelson
• Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
• The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
• The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant by Mavis Gallant
• Flâneuse by Lauren Elkin
• Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
• Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
• Dance Dance Revolution by Cathy Park Hong
• Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
• Lakewood by Megan Giddings
• Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
• Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth
• Let Me Explain You by Annie Liontas
• Save Me The Plums by Ruth Reichl
• My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
• Dead Girls by Alice Bolin
• Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
• Severance by Ling Ma
• Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison
• Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
• Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
• The Lover by Marguerite Duras
• Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
• When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron

Everything Else

• Audiobookbingo
• Blue Stoop
• Law & Order (NBC)
• The Loft
• Grub Street
• “Women Writers Are Driving Philadelphia’s Literary Renaissance” (Claire Sasko, Philadelphia Magazine)
• Goodreads
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The WB)
• “Rolling Stone and UVA: The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Report” (Sheila Coronel, Steve Coll, & Derek Kravitz, Rolling Stone)
• “The Short Stacks 8: Lacy M. Johnson//The Reckonings” (The Stacks)
• When They See Us (Ava Duvernay, 2019)
• Bob Marley
• You’re Wrong About (Michael Hobbes & Sarah Marshall)
• “Emma Copley Eisenberg | The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia” (Free Library of Philadelphia: Authors Events)
• Tin House
• “Ep. 113 The Giver by Lois Lowry — The Stacks Book Club (Sue Thomas)” (The Stacks)

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