Ink and Worm 26: Calling Ishmael

The Guests: Logan Smalley and Stephanie Kent, founders of “Call Me Ishmael” (a website? Blog? Entity?) which collects interesting stories about reading. anonymous voicemails from readers about the books they love, transcribed on a real typewriter. Winner of 2015 Innovations in Reading Award CallMeIshmael.com CallMeIshmaelStore.com (site for the Phone) CallingIshmael on instagram CallingIshmael on twitter #callmeishmael on anything The Books: “Guts” by Chuck Palahniuk “My Family and Other Animals” by Gerald Durrell (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h96tRfWNuJA) “Merriam Webster Dictionary” (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq1uGdGUtn8) “The Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist” by Stephen Rogers Peck (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRiPQiUo-Uo) “Thirst” by Mary Oliver (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQONh08AWJ4) “Harry Potter” by J. K. Rowling “Maniac McGee” by Jerry Spinelli “Catcher in the Rye” by J. C. Salinger (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd9phMoYA9U) “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee (Link: https://youtu.be/LsmvFsUmXDc?list=PLpG1Z2dU-nAR2DFlHbc1BV5ny3OR-b_nM) “Pajama Time” by Sandra Boynton (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzJHo0ke7M8) “The Secret Garden” by Francis Hodgson Burnett “Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott “Nancy Drew” by Carolyn Keene “The Boxcar Children” by Gertrude Chandler Warner “Shiloh” by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor “Big Magic” by Elizabeth Gilbert “Waiting for Gudot” by Samuel Beckett

The Music: “Boy With a Coin” by Iron and Wine, “Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17, iii…” by Robert Schumann and performed by Abbey Simon, and “Golden Light” by STRFKR

PODCAST I REFERENCED: BOTNS 356: Megan Mayhew Bergman, Josh Cook, and Cristina Henríquez from Booktopia Vermont from Books on the Nightstand - http://stitcher.com/s?eid=41110416&autoplay=1

Writing: river writing prompt= If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.

For there is many a small betrayal in the mind, a shrug that lets the fragile sequence break sending with shouts the horrible errors of childhood storming out to play through the broken dyke.

And as elephants parade holding each elephant's tail, but if one wanders the circus won't find the park, I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty to know what occurs but not recognize the fact.

And so I appeal to a voice, to something shadowy, a remote important region in all who talk: though we could fool each other, we should consider-- lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the dark.

For it is important that awake people be awake, or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep; the signals we give--yes or no, or maybe-- should be clear: the darkness around us is deep. William Stafford

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