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The Weekly Reader
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----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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Arch Thrillers: "The Author Weekend" by Laura Zigman and "The Ending Writes Itself" by Evelyn Clarke
2d ago00:03:54Tap to summarizeSometimes, things, and people, are not as the seem.
Transcribe →Famous and Funny: "The Land and Its People" by David Sedaris and "Famesick" by Lena Dunham
1w ago00:03:54Tap to summarizeTwo new revealing essay collections from a pair of familiar, funny, and influential artists.
Transcribe →Family Memoirs: A Room in Bombay, by Manil Suri, and Keeper of My Kin, by Ada Ferrer
2w ago00:03:54Tap to summarizeTwo new memoirs about the transcendent power of love and family.
Transcribe →Cults and Their Discontents
3w ago00:03:54Tap to summarizeWhat makes someone join a cult? And how do they get away?
Transcribe →Memoir Roundup: "Small Town Girls" by Jayne Anne Phillips, "Labor" by Mary Afsari, and "She's Under Here" by Karen Palmer
Apr 2800:03:55Tap to summarizeWhat makes a truly great memoir?
Transcribe →Monica Lewinsky Special: "Dear Monica Lewinsky" by Julia Langbein, "Young Jane Young" by Gabrielle Zevin, and "Everything is Perfect" by Kate Nason
Apr 2200:03:54Tap to summarizeSex. Power. Privilege. And Monica Lewinsky!
Transcribe →Love Among the Stars: "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid and "American Fantasy" by Emma Straub
Apr 1500:03:54Tap to summarizeWhat would you do to be famous, or almost famous?
Transcribe →Citylit Festival Preview
Apr 800:03:53Tap to summarizeThree authors who will be in conversation with Marion Winik at this weekend's 23rd annual Citylit Festival
Transcribe →Internet Famous: "What A Time To Be Alive" by Jade Chang and "I Could Be Famous" by Sydney Rende
Apr 100:03:54Tap to summarizeWhat happens when your only goal is to “go viral” online, and then, somehow, it actually happens?
Transcribe →Uncommon Women: "Big Nobody" by Alex Kadis and "The Beheading Game" by Rebecca Lehmann.
Mar 2600:03:54Tap to summarizeSome people are born to live unusual, extraordinary lives.
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