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Fall Pandemic Book Club: Connecticut Reads!

Connecticut Public Radio | By Lucy Nalpathanchil,

Tess Terrible

Published September 22, 2020 at 8:00 AM EDT

This hour, it’s our FallPandemic Book Club - Connecticut Only Edition! The Connecticut Center for the Book joins us to discuss this year’s Connecticut Book Awards Finalists, and some of those finalists join us for the hour.

Coming up, our guests will tell us what they are reading, and what inspired their work.

And we want to hear from you, too! Tell us what you’re reading while we are still all in quarantine. Are you reading an old favorite? What was your favorite book that you’ve read this year?

You can find the full list of Connecticut Book Award Finalists here.

GUESTS:

Lisa Comstock - Director at the Connecticut Center for the Book
Anne Perkins - author of Yale Needs Women
Keith Scribner - author of Old Newgate Road
Elissa Altman - food writer and author of Motherland

Fall Pandemic Book Club: Connecticut Reads!

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