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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.

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     WCHE The Avid Reader Show
 
2012
Scheduled Guests and Discussions:
 
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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