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Episode 12 - Establishing Empathy with Mike Finucane
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On this episode, Mike Finucane, a campus minister at a high-school in St. Louis, and I discuss how books can help develop empathy. He also gives a great tip from his dad about how to tackle a large non-fiction text. We also confirm that collecting books shouldn’t be considered a bad habit if you love it. We talk about a lot of really intense books but I hope that our discussion will inspire readers to do a deep dive into some of the topics.
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
The Nix by Nathan Hill
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Books Highlighted by Mike:
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Stories of Your LIfe and Others by Ted Chiang
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz
Just Mercy by Brian Stevenson
The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden World Around Us by Ed Yong
Other Books Mentioned in the Episode:
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
God Knows by Joseph Heller
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Your Duck is My Duck: Stories by Deborah Eisenberg
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
There are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
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