What Are You Reading? Podcast

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Tom talks with Midday producer Sam Bermas-Dawes.

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

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

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

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

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

Tom talks with Baltimore Banner Data Reporter Greg Morton.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Tom talks with Tia Hamilton, the owner of Urban Reads Bookstore on Greenmount Avenue in Baltimore. Tia is recommending: State Vs. Us Magazine   Born on the Water from the 1619 Project by Nikole-Hannah Jones and Reneé Watson See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tom talks with Sonia Alcántara-Antoine, the CEO of the Baltimore Public Library.  Sonia is recommending: That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America by Amanda Jones Yellowface by R. F. Kuang See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tom talks with Chris Mfume, the Managing Partner and Founder of The Civic Group. Chris is recommending: Zeckendorf: The autobiograpy of the man who played a real-life game of Monopoly and won the largest real estate empire in history by William Zeckendorf   Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect by Will Guidara See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

Tom talks with Chrissy Thornton, the President and CEO of Associated Black Charities. Chrissy is recommending: The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz Larger Than Yourself: Reimagine Industries, Lead with Purpose & Grow Ideas into Movements  by Thibault Manekin See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.