|
WCHE The Avid Reader Show |
| |
|
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
|
| |
|
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.
|
| |
|
|
| |
For The Avid Reader Archives Page Click Here |
