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The Weekly Reader
Hosted by WYPR Baltimore · EN
----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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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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Remember The Seventies: "Lake Effect" by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney and "Judy Blume: A Life" by Mark Oppenheimer
Mar 1800:03:54Tap to summarizeDispatches from a tumultuous decade in American history.
Transcribe →Moving Memoirs: "The Flower Bearers" by Rachel Eliza Griffiths and "Fly, Wild Swans" by Jung Chang
Mar 1600:03:54Tap to summarizeA pair of revealing memoirs from women whose lives have been shaped by politics, literature, and love.
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Friend Groups: "So Old, So Young" by Grant Ginder and "Bad Asians" by Lillian Li
Mar 500:03:53Tap to summarizeFriendships are like works in progress; you need to work on them from time to time.
Transcribe →Celebrating Black Women: "Kin" by Tayari Jones, "Firstborn Girls" by Bernice McFadden, and "Finding Me" by Viola Davis
Feb 2500:03:50Tap to summarizeStories about Black women surviving, and thriving, in the latter half of the 20th century.
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