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What Are You Reading? Podcast

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Tom Hall hosts What Are You Reading?, a show where authors and others recommend books that they’re currently enjoying. On the last Friday of the month at 4:44 p.m., during All Things Considered, Tom will find out what’s on bedside tables and loaded onto e-readers across Maryland and beyond. What Are You Reading? is made possible by the Ivy Bookshop.

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WYPR Baltimore

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Arts

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www.wypr.org

Latest episode

Oct 23, 2026

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Episodes

Fern Shen 23.10.2026

On this edition of What Are You Reading?, Host Tom Hall talks with Fern Shen, the Founder, Editor and Publisher of the Baltimore Brew. Fern is recommending: The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America by Daniel Okrent What Are You Reading is made possible in part by Eye Candy Opticianry.

Matthew Gallagher 25.09.2026

On this edition of What Are You Reading?, Host Tom Hall talks with Matthew Gallagher, the President and CEO of the Goldseker Foundation. Matthew is recommending: Too Precious To Lose by Jason G. Green Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber What Are You Reading is made possible in part by Eye Candy Opticianry.

Chelsea Lemon Fetzer 28.08.2026

On this edition of What Are You Reading?, Host Tom Hall talks with Chelsea Lemon Fetzer, the Managing Editor of BMoreArt Magazine. Chelsea is recommending 'Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery’s Frontier,' by Lea VanderVelde.

Krish O’Mara Vignarajah 24.07.2026

Host Tom Hall talks with Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, the President and CEO of Global Refuge Krish is recommending 'Separated: Inside an American Tragedy' by Jacob Soboroff and 'A Daring Enterprise: A US-Egyptian Partnership and the Case for Soft Power' by James Harmon.

D. Watkins 26.06.2026

Tom talks with the author and screenwriter, D. Watkins. Watkins is recommending: Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar What Are You Reading is made possible in part by Eye Candy Opticianry.

Berlinda Recacho 26.05.2026

Tom talks with Baltimore Public Media‘s Grant Writer, Berlinda Recacho.

Heidi Ackerman 01.05.2026

Tom talks with the founder and artistic director of Charm City Sings, and the Music Director of the Fredrick Chorale, Heidi Ackerman.

Izzi Bavis 27.03.2026

Tom talks with Izzie Bavis, WTMD Evening Host and Multi Platform Engagement Specialist at Baltimore Public Media.

Lisa Lawson 27.02.2026

Tom talks with the President and CEO of the Annie E Casey Foundation, Lisa Lawson

Dr. Hahrie Han 30.01.2026

Tom talks with Agora Institute Director, Dr. Hahrie Han Hahrie is recommending: Helen Garner: How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-98

Sam Bermas-Dawes 21.01.2026

Tom talks with Midday producer Sam Bermas-Dawes.

Ebony Marshall 02.12.2025

Tom talks with Ebony Marshall, the Mid-Level Gifts Manager at Baltimore Public Media

Carol Hamer 24.10.2025

Tom talks with Carol Hamer, Executive Operations and Board Liaison at the Baltimore Community Foundation.

Crystal Harden-Lindsey 22.08.2025

Tom talks with Crystal Harden-Lindsey, the Vice President of Community Impact at the Baltimore Community Foundation.

Shanya Mapson 29.07.2025

Tom talks with Shanya Mapson, the Coordinating Producer at WYPR.

Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson 27.06.2025

Tom talks with the author Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, whose latest book is Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free.

Greg Morton 23.05.2025

Tom talks with Baltimore Banner Data Reporter Greg Morton.

Max Weiss 28.04.2025

Tom talks with Max Weiss, the editor in Chief of Baltimore Magazine.

Nicolas Abrams 28.03.2025

Tom talks with Nicolas Abrams, a certified financial planner and the founder of Opulentia, a financial services company in Hunt Valley, MD. Nic is recommending: Beating the Odds: Eddie Brown’s Investing and Life Strategies by Eddie Brown The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

Kellie Carter Jackson 28.02.2025

Tom talks with Kellie Carter Jackson, the author of We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance. Kellie is recommending: A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid James by Percival Everett

Chad Helton 07.02.2025

Tom talks with Chad Helton, the President and CEO of the Enoch Pratt Library Chad is recommending: Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope by Carmello Anthony with D. Watkins

LaVonda Reed 27.12.2024

Tom talks with LaVonda Reed, the Dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law LaVonda is recommending: 12 Notes on Life and Creativity by Quincy Jones Jim Crow’s Pink Slip: The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership by Leslie T. Fenwick A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs by Crystal R. Sanders

Laura Lipman 22.11.2024

Tom talks with Laura Lippman. Her latest book is Prom Queen . Laura is recommending: Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodeser-Ackner The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Debbie Hines 25.10.2024

Tom talks with Debbie Hines, the author of Get Off My Neck: Black Lives, White Justice, and a Former Prosecutor's Quest for Reform. Debbie is recommending: Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Anne Kim 27.09.2024

Tom talks with Anne Kim, the author of Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor .  Anne is recommending: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard Tyranny of the Minority:  Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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