The Avid Reader Show

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today’s guest is Patrick Phillips, author of Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America. Published in September by Norton. This is Patrick’s first work of non-fiction. His poetry is, I guess, his first love, and his Elegy for a Broken Machine was named a finalist for The National Book Award in Poetry. His other works...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today’s guest is Patrick Phillips, author of Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America. Published in September by Norton. This is Patrick’s first work of non-fiction. His poetry is, I guess, his first love, and his Elegy for a Broken Machine was named a finalist for The National Book Award in Poetry. His other works...

Good Afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Jade Chang, whose debut novel The Wangs Against The World was released just this month by Houghton Mifflin. Jade has worked with the BBC, Glamour and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. She has been the recipient of a Sundance Arts fellowship and currently lives in Los Angeles. ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬––––––––––––––––––––––––...

Good Afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Jade Chang, whose debut novel The Wangs Against The World was released just this month by Houghton Mifflin. Jade has worked with the BBC, Glamour and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. She has been the recipient of a Sundance Arts fellowship and currently lives in Los Angeles. ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬––––––––––––––––––––––––...

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 Amor Towles (Toles), author of The Rules of Civility, which has been selling in hardback and paperback in my bookstore for seemingly the last decade or so! Now with his new novel A Gentleman in Moscow (Mosco)I am afraid that he will be taking up too much space in our crowded shop. Suffice it to say that T...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Amor Towles, author of The Rules of Civility, which has been selling in hardback and paperback in my bookstore for seemingly the last decade or so! Now with his new novel A Gentleman in Moscow (Mosco)I am afraid that he will be taking up too much space in our crowded shop. Suffice it to say that The Rules...

Scott give a terse and pithy answer in our 1Q1A feature!

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Scott Stambach author of, his debut novel The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko (Is ay enko). Scott received his bachelor’s degree in Physics and Philosophy from SUNY and his Masters in Physics from UC San Diego. He teaches physics and Astronomy at Grossmont and Mesa Colleges [or San Diego City College and H...

Good Afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Michael Honig (Michael Hanig) author of The Senility of Vladimir P. Released last month by Pegasus. This thinly veiled, very thinly veiled look at the life, post today, of a despotic and thug-like ruler of modern day Russia reminds us that a country trodden on over centuries, oft-times seemingly points it...

Good Afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Michael Honig (Michael Hanig) author of The Senility of Vladimir P. Released last month by Pegasus. This thinly veiled, very thinly veiled look at the life, post today, of a despotic and thug-like ruler of modern day Russia reminds us that a country trodden on over centuries, oft-times seemingly points it...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Nathan Hill, author of The Nix just published on the 30th by Knopf. It has so much prepublication publicity that the press kit I received took me an hour to read. And before it was even released, it has been translated into German, Dutch, French, Spanish/Catalan, Danish, Swedish Norwegian (important), Ita...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Nathan Hill, author of The Nix just published on the 30th by Knopf. It has so much prepublication publicity that the press kit I received took me an hour to read. And before it was even released, it has been translated into German, Dutch, French, Spanish/Catalan, Danish, Swedish Norwegian (important), Ita...

Liz talks about Alan Turing

The making of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, the outsize personalities who inspired it, and the vast changes it wrought on the literary world In the summer of 1925, Ernest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the town’s infamous running of the bulls. Then, over the next six weeks, he channeled that trip’s maelstrom of drunken brawls, sexual rivalry,...

#1 bestselling author and Dagger Award winner Arturo Pérez-Reverte delivers an epic historical tale following the dangerous and passionate love affair between a beautiful high society woman and an elegant thief. A story of romance, adventure, and espionage, this novel solidifies Pérez-Reverte as an international literary giant. - Amazon The Avid Reader Show is sponsored and produced by Wellington...

Valerie Torrey took her son, Alex, and fled Los Angeles six years ago—leaving both her role on a cult sci-fi TV show and her costar husband after a tragedy blew their small family apart. Now Val must reunite nine-year-old Alex with his estranged father, so they set out on a road trip from New York, Val making appearances at comic book conventions along the way. -Amazon The Avid Reader Show is spon...

An electrifying novel about marriage and deceit from bestselling author Delia Ephron that follows two couples on vacation in Siracusa, a town on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have hidden from one another are exposed and relationships are unraveled. -Amazon The Avid Reader Show is sponsored and produced by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs on Mondays at 5...

A mesmerizing novel about memory, privacy, fear, and what happens when our past catches up with us. After a decade living in England, Jeremy O'Keefe returns to New York, where he has been hired as a professor of German history at New York University. Though comfortable in his new life, and happy to be near his daughter once again, Jeremy continues to feel the quiet pangs of loneliness. Walking thr...

Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians-but Indians almost never did the same. Tribal society has been exerting an almost gravitational pull on Westerners for hundreds of years, and the reason lies deep in our evolutionary past as a communal species. The most recent example of that attraction is combat vet...

“Homegoing is an inspiration.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a...

Best-selling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. - Amazon The Avid Reader Show is sponsored and produced by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs Monday's at 5PM on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit our website at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com

The most irreverent and helpful book on language since the #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of p...

In the tradition of Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, and Kent Haruf comes a dazzling debut story collection by a young writer from the American West who has been published in The New Yorker, Granta, and The Best American Short Stories. A construction worker on the run from the shady local businessman whose dog he has stolen; a Custer’s Last Stand reenactor engaged in a long-running affair with the Nati...

The “insightful, stark, and heartbreaking” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) novel about three lives entangled during World War II from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Little Bee. - Amazon The Avid Reader Show is sponsored and produced by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs Mondays at 5PM EST on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit our website at www.wellingtonsquar...