The Weekly Reader

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, our book critic Marion Winik reviews two new novels that might take you away from your everyday troubles, but also remind you to appreciate the good things in your life, too. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review two new memoirs that remind us how important a sense of humor can be to surviving both trauma and drama. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, our book critic Marion Winik reviews Helen Fremont's acclaimed 1999 memoir "After Long Silence' and her newly released follow-up, "The Escape Artist." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader we preview Douglas Stuart's debut novel Shuggie Bain, a profoundly affecting story about growing up amidst the poverty, violence, and alcoholism in a crumbling Glasgow housing scheme in the 1980s. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Want to get away? On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review two new novels that take us to exotic locales, replete with intriguing characters and plenty of plot twists. Our book critic Marion Winik shares her thoughts on Isabel Allende's A Long Petal of the Sea and Christopher Bollen's A Beautiful Crime. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review two new books that explore important topics that will appeal to inquisitive readers. Marion Winik shares her thoughts on Peggy Orenstein's Boys and Sex, and Susannah Cahalan's The Great Pretender. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review Kiley Reid's debut novel Such a Fun Age. The book is a clever, thoughtful examination of race and racism in America, and, it's our selection for the next meeting of The Weekly Reader Book Club. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review two new novels that might just make you appreciate your own family relationships a little bit more: Jami Attenberg's All This Could be Yours and Jacqueline Woodson's Red at the Bone. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader our book critic Marion Winik reviews the winners of this year's Booker Prize for Fiction, Bernadine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other, and Margaret Atwood's The Testaments. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review two new collections of short stories that run the gamut from funny to sad, and everything in between. New work from Etgar Keret and Zadie Smith. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review two new memoirs about growing up in extraordinary circumstances. Marion Winik shares her thoughts on Adrienne Brodeur's Wild Game and Anthony Siegel's Criminals. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Who doesn't want to live in a mansion? On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review Ann Patchett's latest novel The Dutch House, and we remember Bill Roorbach's Life Among Giants, which came out in 2012. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we feature two new novels that explore the often complicated terrain of motherhood. Our book critic Marion Winik on The Need by Helen Phillips and Strike the Heart by Amelie Nothomb. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we are excited to re-introduce you to Rebecca Makkai's beautiful book, ----The Great Believers.---- It is our pick for the next meeting of WYPR's Weekly Reader Book Club on September 12th at 7pm at Bird in Hand. We also look back at book critic Marion Winik's ----First Comes Love,---- her memoir of love and loss during the early years of the AIDS crisis. See o...

On this episode of The Weekly Reader, our book critic Marion Winik reviews Campusland, a satirical debut novel by Scott Johnston, and a new one from an old favorite, Chances Are by Richard Russo. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s fun to imagine the real lives of “coming-of-age---- book authors – how much do they draw from their own experiences? Ttoday on The Weekly Reader, book critic Marion Winik shares two new novels about family, faith, and growing up. We review Jennifer Weiner's Mrs. Everything and Elin Hilderbrand's Summer of '69. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review two new novels about men with complicated lives. Book critic Marion Winik shares her thoughts on Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Fleishman is in Trouble and James Lasdun's The Afternoon of a Faun. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, our book critic Marion Winik reviews Angie Kim's fiction debut, Miracle Creek. The new novel is our selection for the July meeting of the Weekly Reader Book Club. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, our book critic Marion Winik reviews a pair of novels that explore aspects of the American past that you may have missed: Lisa Gornick's The Peacock Feast and Roxana Robinson's Dawson's Fall. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, our book critic Marion Winik offers her take on Sarah Blake's ----The Guest Book,---- a gripping tale of family values, mores, and traditions, and the way they evolve over the course of multiple generations. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we preview two new novels that are set in high school. Marion Winik shares her thoughts on Susan Choi's Trust Exercise and Ann Beattie's A Wonderful Stroke of Luck. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, book critic Marion Winik shares two novels about coming of age in the multicultural milieu of the United States. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we feature three winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards. ----Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous,---- by Christopher Bonanos, ----Feel Free,---- by Zadie Smith, and ----The Crossing,---- by Ada Limon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we do a little time traveling through history to meet a trio of extraordinary women for the ages. Book critic Marion Winik gives us her take on Carrie Callaghan's ----A Light of Her Own,---- Ariel Lawhon's ----I Was Anastasia,---- and Marie Benedict's ----The Only Woman in the Room.---- See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review Elizabeth McCracken's new novel ----Bowlaway.---- Yes, it's about bowling, but, according to our book critic Marion Winik, it's got a lot more going for it than spares and strikes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.