Tell Me What You're Reading

Howard Altarescu•www,bookwormsinthewild.com

Our Podcast is intended to stimulate a dialogue about the issues and ideas we find in books, and also what we learn about ourselves and the world around us as a result of diving into literature . . . of all kinds. “Books are a sort of cultural DNA, the code for who, as a society, we are, and what we know. All the wonders and failures, all the champions and villains, all the legends and ideas and revelations of a culture last forever in its books.” The Library Book, by Susan Orlean

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The Merry Wives of Windsor presented by Bird-On_A_Cliff Theatre Company

I had a delightful podcast discussion with Hank Neimark, one of the Directors and Eric Hefler, who plays Falstaff, in The Bird-On-A-Ciff’s Woodstock Shakespeare Festival production of “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, Shakespeare’s light heartened, and raucous, comedy, truly a farce, which focuses on middle class domestic issues and the agency of its female characters. The Merry Wives of Windsor is Shakespeare’s only contemporaneous play, and features two very clever and able women who turn the tabl...

Jul 20, 2025•24 min•Ep. 55

Ep. 54 Susan Brown: The Secrets of the Great Writers/ Hit Lit, by James W. Hall/ Ulysses

Susan Brown is a professional editor, writing coach, and book doctor. She’s had forty years of teaching college creative writing and book editing, and has guided dozens of books into print as an editor, and as a writing coach. My friend Jeff Moran in Woodstock had previously mentioned Susan to me, and so I was intrigued when I heard that Susan was going to run a five week online writing workshop called “ The Secrets of the Great Writers”. Jeff had told me that Susan was a James Joyce scholar. Th...

May 05, 2025•52 min•Ep. 54

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