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The Avid Reader
with Sam Hankin
MONDAYS 5-5:45pm



The Avid Reader on WCHE

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
      – Christopher Morley (1890-1957)

Join independent bookseller Sam Hankin every Monday from 5:00-5:45 to hear all about the next book you’ll fall in love with. You’ll stay up to date on the latest releases and the biggest book phenomenons from Harry Potter to Steig Larsson. Special attention is paid to current book club favorites, book-related happenings in the area, and the fascinating world of rare and antiquarian books. Plus, listen for interviews with some of your favorite local and national authors.

Check out our Podcasts: http://avidreader.podomatic.com/

Visit us: www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com

 
     WCHE The Avid Reader Show
 
2013
Scheduled Guests and Discussions:
 
June 3
Broadcast with Lauren Groff, Arcadia
 
May 27
REBROADCAST with Chris Cleave, Gold
 
May 20
Broadcast with Nathaniel Rich, Odds Against Tomorrow
 
May 13
Broadcast with Jeff Noon, Vurt
 
May 6
Broadcast with Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers
 
April 29
REBROADCAST with Peter Heller, The Dog Stars
 
April 22
REBROADCAST with Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son
which just won the Pulitzer prize for fiction.
 
April 15
Broadcast with Mary Roach, Gulp. Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
 
April 8
Broadcast with Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
 
April 1
Broadcast with Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
 
March 25
REBROADCAST with Jess Walters, Beautiful Ruins
 
March 18
Broadcast with Hugh Howey, Wool
 
March 11
Broadcast with Claire Vaye Watkins, Battleborn
 
March 4
REBROADCAST Susan Cain, Quiet
 
February 25
Broadcast with George Saunders, Tenth of December: Stories
 
February 18
Broadcast with Lawrence Krauss, A Universe From Nothing
 
February 11
Broadcast with B.A. Shapiro, The Art Forger
 
February 4
LIVE BROADCAST WITH SAM!
 
January 28
REBROADCAST Alex Gilvarry, From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant
 
January 21
Broadcast with Shalom Auslander, Hope, A Tragedy
 
January 14
Broadcast with David Finch, Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome and One Man’s Quest to Be a Better Husband
 
January 7
Broadcast with Carol Anshaw, Carry The One
 
2012
Scheduled Guests and Discussions:
 
December 17
Broadcast with Rudy Rucker, Turing and Burroughs
 
December 10
Broadcast with Naomi Benaron, Running the Rift
 
December 3
Broadcast with A M Homes, May We Be Forgiven
 
November 26
REBROADCAST Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet
 
November 19
Broadcast with Jon Ronson, Lost At Sea
 
November 12
Broadcast with David Abrams, Fobbit
 
November 5
Live Broadcast with Sam Hankin
 
October 29
Broadcast with Craig Brown, Hello, Goodbye, Hello
 
October 22
Broadcast with Rich Horton, The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2012
 
October 15
Broadcast with Sadie Stein, The Paris Review: Object Lessons
 
October 8
Broadcast with Justin Torres, We The Animals
 
October 1
Broadcast with Vaddey Ratner, In The Shadow of the Banyan
 
September 24
Broadcast with Don Lee, The Collective
 
September 17
Broadcast with Peter Heller, The Dog Stars
 
September 10
Broadcast with Sam Kean, The Violinist Thumb
 
September 3
Rebroadcast with Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master’s Son
 
August 27
Broadcast with Charles Yu , Sorry Please Thank You
 
August 20
Broadcast with Christopher McDougal, Born To Run
 
August 13
Broadcast with Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
 
August 6
Broadcast with Chris Cleave, Gold
 
July 30
Broadcast with April Bernard, Miss Fuller
 
July 23
Broadcast with Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins
 
July 16
Broadcast with Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
 
July 9
Broadcast with Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
 
July 2
Rebroadcast with Lisa Genova, Left Neglected and Still Alice
 
June 25
Broadcast with Alice LaPlante, Turn of Mind
 
June 18
Broadcast with Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve
 
June 11
Broadcast with Susan Cain, Quiet
 
June 4
Broadcast with Tom Standage, An Edible History of Humanity
 
May 28
Rebroadcast with Liz Moore, Heft
 
May 21
Broadcast with Jennifer Egan, A Visit From The Goon Squad
 
May 14
Broadcast with Lionel Shriver, The New Republic
 
May 7
Broadcast with Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein
 
April 30
Broadcast with Samuel Park, This Burns My Heart
 
April 23
Broadcast with Stewart O’Nan, The Odds & Emily, Alone
 
April 16
Broadcast with Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia
 
April 9
Broadcast with Audrey Schulman, 3 Weeks In December
 
April 2
Broadcast with Liz Moore, Heft
 
March 26
Broadcast with Adam Wilson, Flatscreen
 
March 19
Broadcast with Margot Livesey, The Flight of Gemma Hardy
 
March 12
Broadcast with Eleanor Brown, The Weird Sisters
 
March 5
Broadcast with Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet
 
February 27
Broadcast with Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son
 
February 20
Broadcast with Alex Gilvarry, From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant
 
February 13
Broadcast with Phillip Freeman, Oh My Gods
 
February 6
Broadcast with Ryan Boudinot, Blueprints of the Afterlife
 
January 30
Broadcast with Alexis Smith, Glaciers
 
January 23
Broadcast with Ayad Akhtar, American Dervish
 
January 16
Live Broadcast with Jill McDevitt, Fighting The Crusade Against Sex
 
January 2
Replay: Jerry Blavat, author of You Only Rock Once
 
2011
Scheduled Guests and Discussions:
 
December 26
Replay: Amor Towles, author of Rules Of Civility
 
December 19
To be announced
 
December 12
Sam welcomes Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum, authors of I Want My MTV, a social and cultural history of the golden age of music videos that details the reasons for MTV’s complete transformation away from them, complete with more than 400 interviews with the performers and players involved in its demise.
 
December 5
Sam speaks with Nathaniel Philbrick, author of Why Read Moby Dick?  Philbrick, a frequent contributor to Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and other publications of merit, believes Moby Dick is the greatest American novel ever published, with relevance and wisdom that can be applied to explain every event in history and current affairs.
 
November 28
Sam speaks with Drew Magary, author of The Post Mortal, a fast paced novel set in the future when a cure for aging – not dying – has been discovered that enables people to be forever young and vital until death in the form of disease, an accident, suicide, or murder finds them, in perhaps a thousand years or so.
 
November 21
Sam welcomes Sharon Kay Penman, prodigious author of historical fiction whose recent bestseller, Lionheart, is a lengthy and carefully researched tome about the medieval Crusader King, Richard the Lionheart and his legendary rival, Saladin.
 
November 14
Sam is joined by Josh Cody, author of [sic], who was a brilliant composer about to receive his PhD from Columbia University when he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer.  This is his carefully charted struggle to manage his illness and survive it.
 
November 7
Sam speaks with Julia Scheeres, author of A Thousand Lives; The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown. Drawing from thousands of recently declassified FBI documents, audiotapes, and photographs, Scheeres pieces together an unprecedented and compelling account of pseudo-preacher Jim Jones and his doomed followers in Guyana.
     
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