#amwriting With Jess & Kj

This week, Jess and KJ talk to journalist, author, and lifelong knitter Peggy Orenstein about research, nonfiction writing, expertise, and examining the unexamined in ordinary life. Peggy’s newest book is , Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World’s Ugliest Sweater. Peggy’s TED Talk: What Young Women Believe About Their Own Sexual Pleasure Why Fish Don’t Exist, by Lulu Miller Etymology of the term “woolgathering” Etymology of the term “spinster”  The Revolutionary Power of a Skein of Yarn, Unraveling excerpt in the New York Times.  Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind and Omnivore’s Dilemma #AmReading Peggy: KJ’s Playing the Witch Card, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens and Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Jess: Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz and The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo KJ: Geneology of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night by Lisa Belkin Also mentioned: The Puzzler by A.J. Jacobs If you