The Avid Reader Show

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Our guest today is Maxine Beneba Clarke, author of Foreign Soil, published by 37 INK/Atria on January 3rd. Maxine is a novelist, poet and editor living in Melbourne Australia. She was the Hazel Rowley Fellowship winner for Biography and also won the 2013 Victorian Premier Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. Foreign Soil is...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Shanthi Sekaran, author of Lucky Boy, published earlier this month by Putnam. Shanthi teaches creative writing at California College of the Arts. And her work has appeared in best New American Voices and Canteen as well as online at Zyzzyva and Mutha Magazine and recently The New York Times. Her first nov...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Shanthi Sekaran, author of Lucky Boy, published earlier this month by Putnam. Shanthi teaches creative writing at California College of the Arts. And her work has appeared in best New American Voices and Canteen as well as online at Zyzzyva and Mutha Magazine and recently The New York Times. Her first nov...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Josh Barkan author of Mexico:Stories, published by Hogarth just last week. Josh teaches at NYU and is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Hollings University. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. His first published work was Before Hiroshima and his next work was the novel Blin...

There's a reason that some readers view contemporary coming-of-age novels with suspicion. Too many play out the same way: An odd but winsome young person goes on some kind of journey of discovery, either literal or figurative, and learns something about himself or herself in the process. Often, there's an awkward romance. And the ending, whether happy or otherwise, can usually be described as bitt...

There's a reason that some readers view contemporary coming-of-age novels with suspicion. Too many play out the same way: An odd but winsome young person goes on some kind of journey of discovery, either literal or figurative, and learns something about himself or herself in the process. Often, there's an awkward romance. And the ending, whether happy or otherwise, can usually be described as bitt...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Lisa Servon, author of the book The Unbanking of America: How The New Middle Class Survives, just published last week by Houghton Mifflin. Lisa has been Professor of Management and Urban Policy at The New School. She holds degrees from Bryn Mawr, Penn, right down the road and a PhD from UC Berkley in Urba...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Lisa Servon, author of the book The Unbanking of America: How The New Middle Class Survives, just published last week by Houghton Mifflin. Lisa has been Professor of Management and Urban Policy at The New School. She holds degrees from Bryn Mawr, Penn, right down the road and a PhD from UC Berkley in Urba...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today we are happy to have as our guest Dava Sobel, author of The Glass Universe: How The Ladies Of The Harvard Observatory Took The Measure Of The Stars, published just last week by Viking. Ms. Sobel is a prolific author whose books I have enjoyed immensely over the years including Galileo’s Daughter, Longitude, The Planet...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today we are happy to have as our guest Dava Sobel, author of The Glass Universe: How The Ladies Of The Harvard Observatory Took The Measure Of The Stars, published just last week by Viking. Ms. Sobel is a prolific author whose books I have enjoyed immensely over the years including Galileo’s Daughter, Longitude, The Planet...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Arlie R. Hochschild, author most recently of Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger And Mourning On The American Right, published in September by the new press and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her previous works include The Outsourced Self, The Unexpected Community, So How’s The Family and Other Es...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Arlie R. Hochschild, author most recently of Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger And Mourning On The American Right, published in September by the new press and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her previous works include The Outsourced Self, The Unexpected Community, So How’s The Family and Other Es...

Every year Sam and Donna of Wellington Square Bookshop post their best books of 2016 in this lively and insult laden episode of the Avid Reader

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is James Gleick, author of Time Travel, a history. Published in September by Pantheon. Suppose it could have easily been Time Travel a future but then this interview would have been done some time ago. James was born in NYC graduated from Harvard and worked for years as an editor and reporter for the NYT. He...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Armando Lucas Correa, author of The German Girl published just last month by Atria. Armando is an award winning author and journalist with 20 years of experience in Hispanic media and is the Editor-in-Chief of People in Espanol. The German Girl is his first novel. In 1939, Jews were already being treated...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Armando Lucas Correa, author of The German Girl published just last month by Atria. Armando is an award winning author and journalist with 20 years of experience in Hispanic media and is the Editor-in-Chief of People in Espanol. The German Girl is his first novel. In 1939, Jews were already being treated...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Liz Moore. Liz has been here before to discuss her second book, Heft after which she did a reading and signing at our store, Wellington Square Bookshop, and she’ll be appearing again to read and sign from her latest work and the one we will be discussing today, The Unseen World, published in July by Norto...

Good Afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Madeleine Thien, Author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing, her third novel published this month by Norton and currently shortlisted for the Man Booker Award. Madeline was born in Vancouver. Her story collection is Simple Recipes, and she has also written Certainty and Dogs at the Perimeter. Since 2010 she has...

Good Afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Madeleine Thien, Author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing, her third novel published this month by Norton and currently shortlisted for the Man Booker Award. Madeline was born in Vancouver. Her story collection is Simple Recipes, and she has also written Certainty and Dogs at the Perimeter. Since 2010 she has...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Alice Hoffman. Alice has published 23 novels, three books of short fiction and eight children and young adult works. Some of her familiar works are Here on Earth, Practical Magic, At Risk, The Dovekeepers, The Museum of Ordinary Things and The Marriage of Opposites. Her latest book is Faithful published b...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Alice Hoffman. Alice has published 23 novels, three books of short fiction and eight children and young adult works. Some of her familiar works are Here on Earth, Practical Magic, At Risk, The Dovekeepers, The Museum of Ordinary Things and The Marriage of Opposites. Her latest book is Faithful published b...