The Avid Reader Show

Good afternoon and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Janny Scott, author of The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, And The Story of My Father, published by Riverhead in April. Janny is a journalist and the author of A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother. She was a reporter for the NYT and a member of the Times reporting team that won the Pulitze...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Bryce Andrews author of Down From The Mountain: The Life And Death Of A Grizzly Bear, published tomorrow April 16th by Houghton Mifflin. Bryce is the author of the memoir Badluck Way: A Year On The Ragged Edge Of The West. He has appeared on PBS and his essays and short work have been published in High Co...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Bryce Andrews author of Down From The Mountain: The Life And Death Of A Grizzly Bear, published tomorrow April 16th by Houghton Mifflin. Bryce is the author of the memoir Badluck Way: A Year On The Ragged Edge Of The West. He has appeared on PBS and his essays and short work have been published in High Co...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Lucasta Miller, author of L.E.L.; The Lost Life And Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, The Celebrated “Female Byron”. Lucasta is a British critic, biographer and editor. She is the author of The Bronte Myth. Her articles have appeared in The Guardian, The Economist and The Independent. She was...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Our guest today is Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman author of Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir, published in February by Norton. Jessica has “performed” on PBS, QVC and at concert halls worldwide. Her writing has appeared in the NYTM, McSweeney’s, Brevity and Hippocampus. She teaches creative writing at Northern Kentucky University...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Our guest today is Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman author of Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir, published in February by Norton. Jessica has “performed” on PBS, QVC and at concert halls worldwide. Her writing has appeared in the NYTM, McSweeney’s, Brevity and Hippocampus. She teaches creative writing at Northern Kentucky University...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk To Someone, published in April by Norton. Lori is a psychotherapist who writes the Dear Therapist advise column for The Atlantic. She also writes for the NYTM, and has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, CNN and NPR. Maybe You...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk To Someone, published in April by Norton. Lori is a psychotherapist who writes the Dear Therapist advise column for The Atlantic. She also writes for the NYTM, and has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, CNN and NPR. Maybe You...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Nathan Englander, Author of kaddish.com, published by Knopf, tomorrow the 26th. And also Nathan will be speaking and reading from kaddish.com at the free library on Wednesday, March 27 at 7:30 PM. You can visit the free library website to purchase tickets. Nathan is the author of Dinner At The Center Of T...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Nathan Englander, Author of kaddish.com, published by Knopf, tomorrow the 26th. And also Nathan will be speaking and reading from kaddish.com at the free library on Wednesday, March 27 at 7:30 PM. You can visit the free library website to purchase tickets. Nathan is the author of Dinner At The Center Of T...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader . Today our guest is Mary Norris, author of this her second book Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen, published April 2 by Norton. Her first of course was Between You And Me: Confessions Of A Comma Queen back in 2015, the first time she and I spoke together. Mary began working at the New Yorker in 1978 (although we le...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader . Today our guest is Mary Norris, author of this her second book Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen, published April 2 by Norton. Her first of course was Between You And Me: Confessions Of A Comma Queen back in 2015, the first time she and I spoke together. Mary began working at the New Yorker in 1978 (although we le...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Charlie Jane Anders, author of this, her new novel, The City In The Middle Of The Night. published in February by Tor. She’s the organizer of the Writers with Drinks series and was a founder of i09, a website about sci fi, science and futurism, Her stories have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Ma...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Charlie Jane Anders, author of this, her new novel, The City In The Middle Of The Night. published in February by Tor. She’s the organizer of the Writers with Drinks series and was a founder of i09, a website about sci fi, science and futurism, Her stories have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Ma...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Nathan Englander, Author of kaddish.com, published by Knopf, tomorrow the 26th. And also Nathan will be speaking and reading from kaddish.com at the free library on Wednesday, March 27 at 7:30 PM. You can visit the free library website to purchase tickets. Nathan is the author of Dinner At The Center Of T...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Nathan Englander, Author of kaddish.com, published by Knopf, tomorrow the 26th. And also Nathan will be speaking and reading from kaddish.com at the free library on Wednesday, March 27 at 7:30 PM. You can visit the free library website to purchase tickets. Nathan is the author of Dinner At The Center Of T...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Whitney Scharer, author of her first novel, The Age Of Light, Released in February by Little, Brown and Company. White holds a BA in English Literature form Wesleyan and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous journals. This, The Age Of Ligh...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Whitney Scharer, author of her first novel, The Age Of Light, Released in February by Little, Brown and Company. White holds a BA in English Literature form Wesleyan and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous journals. This, The Age Of Ligh...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Dr. H.W. Brands. Dr. Brands holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr.. Chair in history at The University of Texas. An incredibly prolific author of American history and its most evocative and important periods, Dr. Brand has written 25 books, edited at least five others and has published dozens of articles and score...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Dr. H.W. Brands. Dr. Brands holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr.. Chair in history at The University of Texas. An incredibly prolific author of American history and its most evocative and important periods, Dr. Brand has written 25 books, edited at least five others and has published dozens of articles and score...

Lost Children Archive documents a cross country trip that is goal oriented for both a husband and wife whose marriage is disintegrating. Accompanying them are their two nameless children, one of whom becomes our narrator for a bit. As they travel, they document in many ways, their travel much as each of them have documented for much of their lives. The archive that is carried with them and accumul...

Lost Children Archive documents a cross country trip that is goal oriented for both a husband and wife whose marriage is disintegrating. Accompanying them are their two nameless children, one of whom becomes our narrator for a bit. As they travel, they document in many ways, their travel much as each of them have documented for much of their lives. The archive that is carried with them and accumul...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Chris Cander, author The Weight Of A Piano, published by Knopf in January. Chris is the writer in residence at Houston-based Writers in the Schools, an organization which works with children—in reading and in writing. She has also written the novels Whisper Hollow and 11 Stories. _______________________ I...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Pitchaya (pitch eye a) Sudbanthad (soot banth odd) author of Bangkok Wakes To Rain, published this month by Riverhead. Bangkok Wakes To Rain is Pitchaya’s first novel. He has received Fellowships in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the McDowell Colony and is the fiction editor for The...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Pitchaya (pitch eye a) Sudbanthad (soot banth odd) author of Bangkok Wakes To Rain, published this month by Riverhead. Bangkok Wakes To Rain is Pitchaya’s first novel. He has received Fellowships in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the McDowell Colony and is the fiction editor for The...