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430 - Family Life: "Intermezzo" by Sally Rooney and "The Wildes" by Louis Bayard.

----What should I read next?---- Book critic and longtime NPR commentator Marion Winik answers this question in four opinionated, book-loving minutes. With reviews of new releases and older titles you may have missed, it’s like having a new best friend with very good taste to guide you in your literary adventures. The Weekly Reader is produced by WYPR and hosted by Lisa Morgan.

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430 - Family Life: "Intermezzo" by Sally Rooney and "The Wildes" by Louis Bayard.

Wed, 20 Nov 2024
429 - Road Trips: "Goyhood" by Reuven Fenton, and "How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?" by Anna Montague

Fri, 15 Nov 2024
428 - Celebrity Memoirs Part Two: Chung, Tucci, Bourdain, Pacino

Tue, 12 Nov 2024
427 - Celebrity Memoirs Part One: "From Here to the Great Unknown" by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough and "All I Ever Wanted" by Kathy Valentine

Fri, 01 Nov 2024
426 - Medicine Women: "The Waters" by Bonnie Jo Campbell and "The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern" by Lynda Cohen Loigman

Thu, 24 Oct 2024
425 - Transitions

Thu, 17 Oct 2024
424 - Small Towns, Big Stories

Mon, 14 Oct 2024
423 - For Mature Audiences: "We Were the Universe" by Kimberly King Parsons and "Olive Days" by Jessica Elisheva Emerson

Wed, 02 Oct 2024
422 - Reality Adjacent: "Colored Television" by Danzy Senna and "Small Rain" by Garth Greenwell

Fri, 27 Sep 2024
421 - Friends and Stories: "Mina's Matchbox" by Yoko Ogawa and "Tell Me Everything" by Elizabeth Strout

Fri, 20 Sep 2024
420 - Podcasters and Ghostwriters: "Listen for the Lie" by Amy Tintera and "I Want You More" by Swan Huntley

Mon, 16 Sep 2024
419 - Women, Politics, and Power: "One Way Back" by Christine Blasey Ford and "True Gretch" by Gretchen Whitmer

Fri, 06 Sep 2024
418 - Great Memoirs: "The Friday Afternoon Club" by Griffin Dunne and "Do Something" by Guy Trebay

Wed, 04 Sep 2024
417 - New England Vacations: "Sandwich" by Catherine Newman and "The Wedding People" by Alison Espach

Tue, 27 Aug 2024
416 - Talk to the Animals: "Bear" by Julia Phillips and "The Horse" by Willie Vlautin

Tue, 13 Aug 2024
415 - Take Me to the Beach: "The Same Bright Stars" by Ethan Joella and "Swan Song" by Elin Hilderbrand

Wed, 31 Jul 2024
414 - Women of Sports: "Headshot" by Rita Bullwinkel, and "Coming Home" by Brittney Griner

Fri, 26 Jul 2024
413 - Poor Dear Planet: "Pearce Oysters" by Joselyn Takacs and "Beep" by Bill Roorbach

Thu, 18 Jul 2024
412 - Great American Novels: "Long Island Compromise" by Taffy Brodesser-Akner and "Familiaris" by David Wrobliewski

Thu, 11 Jul 2024
411 - Epic India: "The Covenant of Water" by Abraham Verghese and "Victory City" by Salman Rushdie

Mon, 08 Jul 2024
410 - Women Warriors: "Daughters of Shandong" by Eve Chung and "The Women" by Kristin Hannah

Wed, 26 Jun 2024
409 - Hot Summer Reads: "Come and Get It" by Kiley Reid and "Margo Has Money Troubles" by Rufi Thorpe

Tue, 25 Jun 2024
408 - Stranger Things: "Real Life and Other Fictions" by Susan Coll and "The Husbands" by Holly Gramazio.

Wed, 12 Jun 2024
407 - A Trio of Thrillers: "One of Our Kind" by Nicola Yoon, "Death in the Air" by Ram Murali, and "The God of the Woods" by Liz Moore

Wed, 05 Jun 2024
406 - New Gay Comic Novels from Stephen Rowley and Stephen McCauley

Thu, 30 May 2024
405 - New Memoirs from Salmon Rushdie and Daniel Handler

Tue, 21 May 2024
404 - Eat the Rich: Wives Like Us, by Plum Sykes, and Lies and Weddings, by Kevin Kwan

Wed, 15 May 2024
403 - Midlife Adventures: "The Lady Waiting" by Magdalena Zyzak, and "All Fours" Miranda July

Wed, 08 May 2024
402 - Loss: "Fi, A Memoir of My Son" by Alexandra Fuller and "My Beloved Monster" by Caleb Carr

Wed, 01 May 2024
401 - Real Characters: "Candy Darling" by Cynthia Carr, and "To Anyone Who Ever Asks" by Howard Fishman

Wed, 24 Apr 2024
400 - Sloane Crosley Special: "Grief is for People," "The Clasp," and "I Was Told There Would Be Cake"

Thu, 18 Apr 2024
399 - The World of Work: "Help Wanted" by Adelle Waldman and "Burn Book: A Tech Love Story" by Kara Swisher

Wed, 10 Apr 2024
398 - Funny Women: "Worry" by Alexandra Tanner and "Sylvia's Second Act" by Hillary Yablon

Wed, 03 Apr 2024
397 - Black American Fiction: "James" by Percival Everett and "Neighbors and Other Stories" by Diane Oliver

Thu, 28 Mar 2024
396 - On Immigration: "The Prince of Los Cocuyos" by Richard Blanco, "Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here" by Jonathan Blitzer and "A Map of Future Ruins" by Lauren Markham

Fri, 22 Mar 2024
395 - Fabulous Fables: "The Bullet Swallower" by Elizabeth Gonzalez James and "The Fox Wife" by Yangsee Choo

Wed, 13 Mar 2024
394 - Mental Illness: "The Best Minds" by Jonathan Rosen and :"While You Were Out" by Meg Kissinger

Thu, 07 Mar 2024
393 - The Art World: "Get the Picture" by Bianca Bosker and "The Art Thief" by Michael Finkel

Thu, 29 Feb 2024
392 - People With Causes: "Martyr" by Kaveh Akbar and "Birnam Wood" by Eleanor Catton

Wed, 21 Feb 2024
391 - My Moody Valentine: Roxana Robinson's "Leaving" and Emily Austin's "Interesting Facts About Space"

Wed, 14 Feb 2024
390 - Life During COVID: "Joan is Okay" by Weike Wang, and "Fourteen Days" edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston

Thu, 08 Feb 2024
389 - The Mothers: "Flores and Miss Paula" by Melissa Rivero and "The Underburn" by Bill Gaythwaite

Tue, 06 Feb 2024
388 - Family Life: "Mercury" by Amy Jo Burns" and "Welcome Home, Stranger" by Kate Christensen

Thu, 01 Feb 2024
387 - Breaking Taboos: "The Fetishist" by Katherine Min and "Alice Sadie Celine" by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

Thu, 11 Jan 2024
386 - Christmas in Nantucket with Elin Hilderbrand

Wed, 03 Jan 2024
385 - Adventure Time: "Orbital" by Samantha Harvey and "Airplane Mode" Shahnaz Habib

Thu, 28 Dec 2023
384 - Historical Fiction from Ariel Lawhon and Paulette Jiles

Tue, 12 Dec 2023
383 - Texas Size: "The Madstone" by Elizabeth Crook and "Mr. Texas" by Lawrence Wright

Mon, 11 Dec 2023
382 - Great Reporting: "The Times" by Adam Nagourney, and "Gator Country" by Rebecca Renner

Wed, 06 Dec 2023
381 - "My Name is Barbra"

Wed, 29 Nov 2023

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