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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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Down South: "The Calamity Club" by Kathryn Stockett and "The Great Wherever" by Shannon Sanders
2w ago00:03:52Tap to summarizeWhat is it about the American south that makes it such fertile and enduring ground for tantalizing literature?
Transcribe →Life-changing Friendships: "Contrapposto" by Dave Eggers, "Honoria" by Janice Shapiro, and "We Should Not Be Friends" by Will Schwalbe
3w ago00:03:50Tap to summarizeA novel, a graphic novel, and a memoir about a timeless theme.
Transcribe →There Goes The Neighborhood: Alan Opts Out" by Courtney Maum and "Coyoteland" by Vanessa Hua"
3w ago00:03:54Tap to summarizeWhere you live, and how you live, can say a lot about you.
Transcribe →Giants of Fiction: "What We Can Know" by Ian McEwan and "John of John" by Douglas Stuart.
4w ago00:03:54Tap to summarizeTwo new novels from masters of the craft.
Transcribe →Murder Most Foul: "The Pinnacle" by Abir Mukherjee and "Blunt Instrument" by Amy Bloom
Jun 2500:03:54Tap to summarizeDrama, mayhem and...glamour. The makings of a great murder mystery.
Transcribe →Arch Thrillers: "The Author Weekend" by Laura Zigman and "The Ending Writes Itself" by Evelyn Clarke
Jun 300:03:54Tap 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
May 2700:03:54Tap 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
May 2100:03:54Tap to summarizeTwo new memoirs about the transcendent power of love and family.
Transcribe →Cults and Their Discontents
May 1400:03:54Tap 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?
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