The Avid Reader Show

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Tommy Orange author of There There published just last week by Knopf. Tommy is a recent graduate of the MFA program at The Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 Macdowell Colony Fellow and a 2016 writing by writers fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma....

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Tommy Orange author of There There published just last week by Knopf. Tommy is a recent graduate of the MFA program at The Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 Macdowell Colony Fellow and a 2016 writing by writers fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma....

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Will Mackin, author of Bring Out The Dog. His first novel published by Random House in March. Will is a 23 year veteran of the U.S. Navy and served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, NYT Magazine and Tin House and has been anthologized in The Best Short Stories o...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Will Mackin, author of Bring Out The Dog. His first novel published by Random House in March. Will is a 23 year veteran of the U.S. Navy and served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, NYT Magazine and Tin House and has been anthologized in The Best Short Stories o...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Read. Today our guys it Curtis Sittenfeld, author of You Think It, I’ll Say It: Stories published in April by Random House. Curtis is the bestselling author of five novels. Those books have been selected by the NYT, Time, EW and People for many Ten Best lists, optioned for TV and film and translated into 30 languages. Her short sto...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Fran Leadon, author of Broadway: A History of New York City in 13 Miles published in April by Norton. Mr. Leadon is an Associate Professor at City College and worked with Norval White and Eliott Willensky in publishing the AIA Guide to New York City, Fifth Edition (Oxford University Press, 2010) And he is...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Fran Leadon, author of Broadway: A History of New York City in 13 Miles published in April by Norton. Mr. Leadon is an Associate Professor at City College and worked with Norval White and Eliott Willensky in publishing the AIA Guide to New York City, Fifth Edition (Oxford University Press, 2010) And he is...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Matt Young, author of Eat The Apple, published in February by Bloomsbury. I have interviewed so many people from the Clegg agency and have interviewed Bill himself. He is an amazing agent. [insert books?] Eat The Apple is not a novel and it is not a diary and it is not a standard narrative of war or of be...

Good afternoon and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Our guest today is Gregory Pardlo, author of Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America just published on April 10th by Knopf. Gregory, before his incarnation as an author and memoir-ist wrote, and still writes, poetry. In 2015 Gregory won the Pulitzer Prize for his collection Digest. He has also held fellowships with...

Good afternoon and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Our guest today is Gregory Pardlo, author of Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America just published on April 10th by Knopf. Gregory, before his incarnation as an author and memoir-ist wrote, and still writes, poetry. In 2015 Gregory won the Pulitzer Prize for his collection Digest. He has also held fellowships with...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Christopher Moore, Author of Noir published just last week by William Morrow. Christopher is the author of over fifteen novels including Lamb, A Dirty Job and You Suck. He has been called “A very sick man, in the best sense of the word” and “The greatest satirist since Jonathan Swift”. Noir is a tough boo...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Christopher Moore, Author of Noir published just last week by William Morrow. Christopher is the author of over fifteen novels including Lamb, A Dirty Job and You Suck. He has been called “A very sick man, in the best sense of the word” and “The greatest satirist since Jonathan Swift”. Noir is a tough boo...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Andrew Santella, author of Soon: An Overdue History of Procrastination, from Leonardo and Darwin to You and Me, published by Del Rey books just last month. Andrew has written for GQ, the NYT Book Review, Slate and Atlantic. He probably could have written more. Soon is a book that will resonate with the va...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Andrew Santella, author of Soon: An Overdue History of Procrastination, from Leonardo and Darwin to You and Me, published by Del Rey books just last month. Andrew has written for GQ, the NYT Book Review, Slate and Atlantic. He probably could have written more. Soon is a book that will resonate with the va...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Jody Fields, author of The Winter Station published in January by Little Brown. Jody has Also written The Crimson Portrait and the very popular The Fig Eater. She is also a screenwriter and has edited for NYT Magazine and American Vogue. So, The Winter Station is set in Kharbin in about 1910. Kharbin is a...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Frances Mayes, author of Women in Sunlight, published just last week by Crown. Most of you already know Francis from her book Under the Tuscan Sun, on the NYT bestseller list for 142 weeks! And was a great movie, but she has written so many more, from Every Day in Tuscany, Bella Tuscany, In Tuscany, Bring...

Good Afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Madeline Miller, author of Circe, published just last week by Lee Boudreaux Book, an imprint of Little Brown. Madeline previous work is The Song of Achilles was awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her essays have appeared in many periodicals, including The Guardian, WSJ, Laphams Quarterly and NPR. She a...

Good Afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Madeline Miller, author of Circe, published just last week by Lee Boudreaux Book, an imprint of Little Brown. Madeline previous work is The Song of Achilles was awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her essays have appeared in many periodicals, including The Guardian, WSJ, Laphams Quarterly and NPR. She a...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Thomas Pierce. His first novel The Afterlives was published in January by Riverhead. Thomas is also the author of a short story collection Hall of Small Animals and his stories have appeared in The New Yorker and The Atlantic. He has reported for NPR and National Geographic. The Afterlives is one of many...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Thomas Pierce. His first novel The Afterlives was published in January by Riverhead. Thomas is also the author of a short story collection Hall of Small Animals and his stories have appeared in The New Yorker and The Atlantic. He has reported for NPR and National Geographic. The Afterlives is one of many...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Xhenet Aliu author of Brass, just published in January by Random House. Xhenet’s debut was Domesticated Wild Things, which won the Prairie Schooner prize, And her fiction and non-fiction has been published in NYT, Glimmer Train, American short fictions and other publications. She holds an MFA from the Uni...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Xhenet Aliu author of Brass, just published in January by Random House. Xhenet’s debut was Domesticated Wild Things, which won the Prairie Schooner prize, And her fiction and non-fiction has been published in NYT, Glimmer Train, American short fictions and other publications. She holds an MFA from the Uni...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today we are lucky to have with us Matt Haig author of, his latest novel, How To Stop Time, published in February by Viking. Matt is the author of the bestselling memoir Reasons to Stay Alive, along with novels including The Humans and The Radleys as well as several award winning children’s books. Matt is lucky enough that...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Our guest today is Gena Showalter, author of, her new novel, Everlife published in February by Harlequin Teen. Everlife completes her trilogy, which commenced with First Life and then Lifeblood. Gena is a NYT and USA TODAY bestselling author of Lords of the Underworld, Otherworld Assassins, and Angels of the Dark, all serie...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Our guest today is Gena Showalter, author of, her new novel, Everlife published in February by Harlequin Teen. Everlife completes her trilogy, which commenced with First Life and then Lifeblood. Gena is a NYT and USA TODAY bestselling author of Lords of the Underworld, Otherworld Assassins, and Angels of the Dark, all serie...