Howard Altarescu

Tell Me What You’re Reading

Society EN ↓ 59 episodes

Talking about books on the streets of New York, in the mountains of the Catskills and on the road. I find that when I ask people about what they’re reading, they tend to start talking about books generally and then start talking to others about books. Encouraging the discussion of books cannot be a bad thing!“Books are a sort of cultural DNA, the code for who, as a society, we are, and what we know. All the wonders and failures, all the champions and villains, all the legends and ideas and revelations of a culture last forever in its books.” @susanorlean, The Library Book

Author

Howard Altarescu

Episodes

Ep. #9: Children’s Books . . . Follow-up to Youngna Park discussion 30.11.2018 38:08

Parents of young children tell me what they are reading and, no surprise, it’s books they read to and with their children.

Ep. #8: Youngna Park on children’s books 30.10.2018 37:17

Conversation with Youngna Park, Executive Director of Parenting at The New York Times - Children’s Books; what to read to your kids!

Ep. #7: Payton Turner - Women’s anger and, sometimes, rage 22.10.2018 26:22

Payton discusses The Blazing World and Now My Heart is Full, and also her own experiences as an art student, and the meaningfully ways she has responded to anger and rage.

Ep. #6: Catskills Potpourri - Marty’s Mercantile 14.10.2018 23:17

Conversations at Marty’s Mercantile in West Shokan - our geological beginnings, Of Mice and Men and Moby Dick, dystopian tales and sobering memories of war.

Ep. #5: Maya Prohovnik - Stephen King!, Detectives & Sci-fi 04.10.2018 22:39

Maya Prohovnik - a Stephen King “Superfan”! + Detective tales and Maya’s “favorite book of all time”, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s sci-fi adventure tale, Children of Time.

Ep. #4: Reading for the words, with Emma Holland 26.09.2018 27:25

Emma Holland discusses what she is reading as well as how she reads, highlights and rereads, her love for words, and also her favorite book in the last decade, Too Much and Not the Mood by Durga Chew-Bose.

Ep. #3: An impressive tour of 30 + books in about 35 minutes 20.09.2018 1:13:56

Tell Me What You’re Reading #3: Jim Finnegan on a literary tour de force, from Haruki Murakami to Joe Ide, Jennifer Egan, Stephen King and many others

Ep.#2: Understanding the Nation & Finding Common Ground with Dr. Hardin Coleman 13.09.2018 41:55

Dr. Hardin Coleman discusses the 11 distinct regions of the country and their particular political, social and emotional traits, President Grant’s pardon of the Confederate generals after the Civil War in order to preserve national unity and the need to find the right balance between acting locally and globally in order to have an impact on the issues we face in the nation today.

Ep. #1: History of Comic Books with Dr. Frank Burbrink 05.09.2018 15:47

In the inaugural episode of Tell Me What You’re Reading, Dr. Frank Burbrink discusses the history of comic books, which were, for many of us, the very first books we read.