The Roundup 3.19.24

Welcome to the Roundup, a periodical collection of reflections, reviews, and recommendations from your friends at Perishable Goods. For this edition of the Roundup, Lara, Steven, & Jared take to the podcast to discuss their latest reads. Hint: it’s all about mortality.

Mentioned in the podcast:

• Jennifer Patterson, “Growing Old As a Calling,” World Opinions

• Lyn Slater, “Stranger in the Mirror,” from

  How To Be Old

• K.C. Ellis, “My Grandfather Died with Dignity,” Mere Orthodoxy

• Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

• Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Honorable mentions:

• Laura Kelly Fanucci’s

  The Holy Labor
  :

  • “A slow Epiphany”

  • “The road back is long”