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 being a soldier. It is not stream of consciousness nor is it a dialogue on war. It’s more a reliving o...
Apr 25, 2018•45 min
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 the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the A...
Apr 23, 2018•34 min
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 the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the A...
Apr 23, 2018•1 min
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 book to describe. Our protagonist is Sammy “two-toes” Tiffin a bartender with a past and then a future ...
Apr 12, 2018•47 min
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 book to describe. Our protagonist is Sammy “two-toes” Tiffin a bartender with a past and then a future ...
Apr 12, 2018•47 sec
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 vast majority of us. Because most of us are procrastinators. I know Andrew is one because he tells us ...
Apr 11, 2018•25 min
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 vast majority of us. Because most of us are procrastinators. I know Andrew is one because he tells us ...
Apr 11, 2018•1 min
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 kind of wasteland city in a freezing climate, sharing a culture that interweaves Russians and Chine...
Apr 09, 2018•23 min
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, Bringing Tuscany Home, The Tuscan Sun cookbook, and others NOT dealing with Tuscany. Her books have been ...
Apr 09, 2018•33 sec
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 also wrote a great Kindle single, while set in a seemingly modern world, once again invokes the past ...
Apr 09, 2018•44 min
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 also wrote a great Kindle single, while set in a seemingly modern world, once again invokes the past ...
Apr 09, 2018•54 sec
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 new releases reality with mortality and the afterlife. The concepts fascinates us and this book draw...
Mar 02, 2018•1 hr 15 min
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 new releases reality with mortality and the afterlife. The concepts fascinates us and this book draw...
Mar 02, 2018•48 sec
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 University of North Carolina. She grew up in Waterbury Connecticut, where Brass is set. She lives in At...
Feb 23, 2018•31 min
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 University of North Carolina. She grew up in Waterbury Connecticut, where Brass is set. She lives in At...
Feb 23, 2018•55 sec
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 Benedict Cumberbatch has signed on to star and produce the film version of this book. How to Stay Al...
Feb 23, 2018•16 min
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 series and all unputdownable. She also authored The White Rabbit Chronicles and the Original Heartbreaker...
Feb 08, 2018•20 min
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 series and all unputdownable. She also authored The White Rabbit Chronicles and the Original Heartbreaker...
Feb 08, 2018•30 sec
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 Benedict Cumberbatch has signed on to star and produce the film version of this book. How to Stay Al...
Feb 08, 2018•16 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. When last we spoke with Jojo, dear listener, it was more than five years ago and Me Before You had just come out. No thronging crowds at book signings, no billion-dollar movies with Deanery’s and Gayle, no After Me and of course no Still Me her latest and last featuring Louisa Clark. Now of course she has had three novels on the NYT best sellers list and is translated into hundreds of languages. I am amazed that she’ll st...
Feb 02, 2018•12 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Robin MacArthur author of Heart Spring Mountain published in January by Eco. Robin lives in Marlboro Vermont not far from where she was born and where the novel takes place. Her debut collection of short stories, Half Wild won the 2017 PEN New England award for fiction. She is also one half of the musical duo Red Heart the Ticker, alongside her husband, Tyler Gibbons. And I suggest you check out their m...
Feb 02, 2018•27 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Robin MacArthur author of Heart Spring Mountain published in January by Eco. Robin lives in Marlboro Vermont not far from where she was born and where the novel takes place. Her debut collection of short stories, Half Wild won the 2017 PEN New England award for fiction. She is also one half of the musical duo Red Heart the Ticker, alongside her husband, Tyler Gibbons. And I suggest you check out their m...
Feb 02, 2018•1 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Chandler Kling Smith author of The Sky is Yours, published this January by Hogarth. Chandler is a graduate of Bennington and the creative writing MFA program at Columbia. She has worked in book publishing and currently lives, teaches and tutors in New York City. The Sky is Yours is Chandler’s first novel but will not be her last. We are in the future. We are in Empire Island, a lot like New York. It is ...
Feb 02, 2018•36 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Chandler Kling Smith author of The Sky is Yours, published this January by Hogarth. Chandler is a graduate of Bennington and the creative writing MFA program at Columbia. She has worked in book publishing and currently lives, teaches and tutors in New York City. The Sky is Yours is Chandler’s first novel but will not be her last. We are in the future. We are in Empire Island, a lot like New York. It is ...
Feb 02, 2018•29 sec
Good Afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is John Bacon author of The Great Halifax explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism, published in November by William Morrow. Mr. Bacon has worked for the past two decades as a writer, public speaker and a college instructor. He has written for NYT and Time magazine. His previous works, primarily dealing in sports, include: Three and Out Fourth and Long End zone The gr...
Jan 29, 2018•46 sec
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Andy Weir, author of The Martian and most recently Artemis published by Crown just a month or so ago. Artemis is a story of the moon. Once again, as in The Martian Andy couples both hard science and a character driven plot, but this time it is coupled with a story of intrigue, murder and mystery. As many of you know, Andy’s success story stems from his self published The Martian, picked up by Crown in 2...
Dec 22, 2017•46 sec
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Andy Weir, author of The Martian and most recently Artemis published by Crown just a month or so ago. Artemis is a story of the moon. Once again, as in The Martian Andy couples both hard science and a character driven plot, but this time it is coupled with a story of intrigue, murder and mystery. As many of you know, Andy’s success story stems from his self published The Martian, picked up by Crown in 2...
Dec 22, 2017•32 min
Good Afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is John Bacon author of The Great Halifax explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism, published in November by William Morrow. Mr. Bacon has worked for the past two decades as a writer, public speaker and a college instructor. He has written for NYT and Time magazine. His previous works, primarily dealing in sports, include: Three and Out Fourth and Long End zone The gr...
Dec 18, 2017•53 sec
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Elizabeth Berg, author of The Story of Arthur Truluv, published in November by Random House. Elizabeth was a registered nurse for over ten years before publishing her first novel, Durable Goods. She has since written maybe 25 books (neither of us can probably remember the exact count!) She’s been translated into almost 30 languages, has long been on Bestseller lists. She has won numerous awards and has ...
Dec 18, 2017•26 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Elizabeth Berg, author of The Story of Arthur Truluv, published in November by Random House. Elizabeth was a registered nurse for over ten years before publishing her first novel, Durable Goods. She has since written maybe 25 books (neither of us can probably remember the exact count!) She’s been translated into almost 30 languages, has long been on Bestseller lists. She has won numerous awards and has ...
Dec 18, 2017•33 sec
