The Avid Reader Show

Interview with Margot Livesey author of "The Flight of Gemma Hardy" 21.03.2012 39:25 ↓

A captivating tale, set in Scotland in the early 1960s, that is both an homage to and a modern variation on the enduring classic Jane Eyre.

Interview with Eleanor Brown author of "The Weird Sisters" 16.03.2012 42:56 ↓

A major new talent tackles the complicated terrain of sisters. A winsome novel that explores sibling rivalry, the power of books, and the places we decide to call home.

Ben Marcus - The Flame Alphabet 06.03.2012 42:55 ↓

Sam interviews Ben Marcus author of "The Flame Alphabet". Listen as Sam and Ben discuss Ben's new novel about how far we will go, and the sorrows we will endure, in order to protect our families.

Adam Johnson - The Orphan Master's Son 29.02.2012 42:51 ↓

Join Sam and Adam as they discuss Adam's book "The Orphan Master's Son". An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master’s Son follows a young man’s journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea.

Interview with Alex Gilvarry author of "From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant" 27.02.2012 42:55 ↓

Listen to Sam's and Alex discuss Alex's new book "From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant: A Novel". Fashionistas and g-men clash in a masterful debut.

Ryan Boudinot author of Blueprints of the Afterlife 11.02.2012 20:03 ↓

Sam talks with the "wickedly talented" (Boston Globe) and "darkly funny" (New York Times Book Review) Ryan Boudinot, on his new book Blueprints of the Afterlife.

Jill McDevitt - Fighting The Crusade Against Sex 02.02.2012 34:45 ↓

Take an attractive young blonde, a sex shop, a political candidate, and add a Catholic Church for good measure, and you have the recipe for a riveting controversy that riddled a wealthy Philadelphia suburb and divided a community. Follow the quandaries of Jill McDevitt, a determined recent college graduate with a degree in sexuality and a love of pushing the envelope.

Alexis Smith author of Glaciers 01.02.2012 44:17 ↓

Isabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier who fixes her computer, and dreams of the perfect vintage dress move over a backdrop of deteriorating urban architecture a...

American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar 26.01.2012 33:02 ↓

What a pleasure to encounter a first novel as self-assured and effortlessly told as Ayad Akhtar’s “American Dervish.” Mr. Akhtar, a first-generation Pakistani-American, has written an immensely entertaining coming-of-age story set during the early 1980s among the Pakistanis in the author’s hometown, Milwaukee.

Lev Grossman, author of The Magician King 25.08.2011 37:15 ↓

Lev Grossman, author of The Magician King

Lily King author of Father of the Rain 28.07.2011 37:37 ↓

Sam talks to Lily King, author of Father of the Rain, a New York Times editor's choice book.

Michael Sims author of E.B. White, The Story of Charlotte's Web 20.07.2011 41:45 ↓

Michael Sims, whose new biography of E.B. White, The Story of Charlotte's Web, has been featured on NPR and in USA Today. Also, join us at Wellington Square Bookshop on Thursday, July 28th from 7:00-9:00PM for a signing by Michael Sims and a Charlotte's Web giveaway!

Kate Christensen author of The Astral 20.07.2011 38:12 ↓

Sam talks to Kate Christensen, author of The Astral (2011) and The Great Man, which won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner award.