Patreon<\/a><\/p>\n Episode Summary<\/p>\n In this conversation, Elizabeth Howard engages with Tyler Wetherall, focusing on how she connects with the literary community in New York City through her newsletter, \u201cReading the City.\u201d They discuss the evolution of bookstores, particularly in the wake of the pandemic, highlighting how they have transformed into community hubs that offer a third space. The conversation emphasizes the importance of bookstores in fostering social justice as well as the changing landscape of reading culture and the vibrant landscape of reading venues and group book discussions. In their exchange, they deal with the challenges of promoting books in a crowded market, the importance of community support among authors, and the role of independent bookstores in fostering literary culture.<\/p>\n Episode Notes<\/p>\n Writer, editor, teacher, and author Tyler Wetherall. Photo: Sammy Deigh<\/p>\n SUBCRIBE TO READING THE CITY<\/a><\/p>\n Order Tyler Wetherall\u2019s novel\u00a0Amphibian<\/a><\/p>\n About Reading the City<\/p>\n \u201cReading the City\u201d is a weekly newsletter of bookish events in and around NYC, a weekly diary of upcoming New York literary life on a need-to-know basis. No long blurbs, no reviews, just book events of all stripes. \u201cReading the City\u201d links to the author\u2019s books, website, or social pages when possible. Tyler Wetherall, the founder and editor, is a believer in the power of the literary community to raise each other up, champion one another, and help make the site an inclusive and welcoming space for all writers and readers.<\/p>\n Wetherall is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor, teacher, and the author of No Way Home: A Memoir of Life on the Run<\/a>\u00a0(St. Martin\u2019s Press) and\u00a0Amphibian\u00a0(forthcoming from Virago).\u00a0 She arrived in New York from London in 2014, knowing just three people. She carried with her a manuscript she had written alone in a Victorian outhouse at the end of her mother\u2019s garden in Devon. Her entire experience of the writerly life thus far was solitary \u2014 and pretty cold. She found herself in a very special place called the Oracle Club (RIP) in Long Island City, and there she met real life authors for the first time. After staying up late and talking craft, drinking gin, and playing records, or reading poetry and howling into the night, she had found her community, and through that community the practical and intellectual resources she needed to become an author herself.<\/p>\n The Short Fuse Podcast<\/a> is hosted and produced by Elizabeth Howard. Her articles related to communication and marketing have appeared in European Communications, Investor Relations, Law Firm Marketing & Profit Report, Communication World, the Strategist, and the New York Law Journal, among others. Her books include Queen Anne\u2019s Lace and Wild Blackberry Pie, (Thornwillow Press, 2011), A Day with Bonefish Joe (David Godine, 2015), and Ned O\u2019Gorman: A Glance Back (Easton Studio Press, 2016). She leads reading groups at the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, New York. @elizh24 on Instagram Learn more at Elizabeth Howard.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cArtists are here to disturb the peace.\u201d James Baldwin.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/a1b70c1e-c741-40d6-908a-9ab7cbbe481b_3280x3280.jpg\")
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