Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Lily King (which is a lovely name) author of Writers & Lovers which will be published tomorrow by Grove Press. Lily’s first novel was The Pleasing Hour, a NYT notable book and winner of the Barnes and Noble Discover award. Her second was The English Teacher, her third was Father Of The Rain, a NYT editor’s choice. Her fourth was Euphoria, this time, deservedly a NYT 10 best books award, Times best 1...
Feb 26, 2020•1 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Lily King (which is a lovely name) author of Writers & Lovers which will be published tomorrow by Grove Press. Lily’s first novel was The Pleasing Hour, a NYT notable book and winner of the Barnes and Noble Discover award. Her second was The English Teacher, her third was Father Of The Rain, a NYT editor’s choice. Her fourth was Euphoria, this time, deservedly a NYT 10 best books award, Times best 1...
Feb 26, 2020•58 sec
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Kate Winkler Dawson author of American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, And The Birth Of American CSI published this month by Putnam. Kate has been in television news for almost a quarter of a century. She’s worked at WCBS, ABC News Radio and Fox. Her first documentary film was “La Candelaria” followed by “Breaking the Barrier," “Grass Ceiling” and “The Long Haul”. She’s also written The Digital Reporter an...
Feb 26, 2020•33 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Kate Winkler Dawson author of American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, And The Birth Of American CSI published this month by Putnam. Kate has been in television news for almost a quarter of a century. She’s worked at WCBS, ABC News Radio and Fox. Her first documentary film was “La Candelaria” followed by “Breaking the Barrier," “Grass Ceiling” and “The Long Haul”. She’s also written The Digital Reporter an...
Feb 26, 2020•54 sec
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Margaret Wilkerson Sexton author of this, her second novel The Revisioners, published in November by Counterpoint. Margaret was born and raised in New Orleans which is also the setting of this book. Her debut novel A Kind Of Freedom, was long listed for the National Book Award. She has written for The NYT Book Review, Oprah, The Massachusetts Review and many other publications. The Revisioners covers th...
Jan 17, 2020•2 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Margaret Wilkerson Sexton author of this, her second novel The Revisioners, published in November by Counterpoint. Margaret was born and raised in New Orleans which is also the setting of this book. Her debut novel A Kind Of Freedom, was long listed for the National Book Award. She has written for The NYT Book Review, Oprah, The Massachusetts Review and many other publications. The Revisioners covers th...
Jan 17, 2020•2 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Paul Soon author of Run Me To Earth, published this month by Simon & Schuster. Paul’s first book was Once The Shore, a NYT Notable Book. His novel Snow Hunters won the 2014 Young Lions Fiction Award and his most recent book, before Run Me To Earth was The Mountain an NPR Best Book of The Year. His stories have appeared in Harper’s and Best American Short Stories. He lectures at Harvard. Run Me To Ea...
Jan 17, 2020•47 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Paul Soon author of Run Me To Earth, published this month by Simon & Schuster. Paul’s first book was Once The Shore, a NYT Notable Book. His novel Snow Hunters won the 2014 Young Lions Fiction Award and his most recent book, before Run Me To Earth was The Mountain an NPR Best Book of The Year. His stories have appeared in Harper’s and Best American Short Stories. He lectures at Harvard. Run Me To Ea...
Jan 17, 2020•36 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Karine Jean-Pierre, author of this her first book, a memoir entitled Moving Forward: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and The Promise OF America, published in November by Hanover Square Press. Karine was born in Martinique raised by working class Haitian immigrant parents in New York. She obtained her master’s degree in public administration from Columbia and was regional director for John Edward’s campaign ...
Jan 03, 2020•49 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Karine Jean-Pierre, author of this her first book, a memoir entitled Moving Forward: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and The Promise OF America, published in November by Hanover Square Press. Karine was born in Martinique raised by working class Haitian immigrant parents in New York. She obtained her master’s degree in public administration from Columbia and was regional director for John Edward’s campaign ...
Jan 03, 2020•2 min
Good afternoon and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Keena Roberts. Her new memoir is Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs, published in November by Grand Central Publishing. Keena is a graduate of Harvard and holds two Masters Degrees from Johns Hopkins in international development as well as global diseases epidemiology (EP I Deem E Ah Logy) and control. She has worked in the area of global health for more than ten years, mostly in ...
Jan 02, 2020•53 min
Good Afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Dexter Palmer, author of Mary Toft or The Rabbit Queen. Published in November by Pantheon. Dexter is also the author of Version Control and The Dream Of Perpetual Motion, two really cool books. Science fiction, fantasy and magical realism. He wrote his dissertation on James Joyce, William Gaddis and Thomas Pynchon, which is enough work for an entire life. And he also held the first academic conference o...
Jan 02, 2020•36 min
Good Afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Dexter Palmer, author of Mary Toft or The Rabbit Queen. Published in November by Pantheon. Dexter is also the author of Version Control and The Dream Of Perpetual Motion, two really cool books. Science fiction, fantasy and magical realism. He wrote his dissertation on James Joyce, William Gaddis and Thomas Pynchon, which is enough work for an entire life. And he also held the first academic conference o...
Jan 02, 2020•1 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Kiley Reid, author of her debut novel Such A Fun Age, just published by Putnam. Kiley graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop as have so many wonderful writers and where she had wonderful teachers like Paul Harding and Jess Walters. And I have been really happy to have interviewed both of them. (Tinkers, Beautiful Ruins) Such a Fun Age is her first novel. This book is an uneasy one. It makes us think r...
Jan 02, 2020•26 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Kiley Reid, author of her debut novel Such A Fun Age, just published by Putnam. Kiley graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop as have so many wonderful writers and where she had wonderful teachers like Paul Harding and Jess Walters. And I have been really happy to have interviewed both of them. (Tinkers, Beautiful Ruins) Such a Fun Age is her first novel. This book is an uneasy one. It makes us think r...
Jan 02, 2020•56 sec
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is our old friend Liz Moore whose fourth novel Long Bright River published by Riverhead is just arriving on our shelves and I should tell you that Liz will be appearing at The Hilton Garden Inn on January 9th at 7PM. The Hilton is right here in Exton, 720 Eagleview Blvd East (although I don’t know why they call it East, just confusing and a typical township move), just fifteen minutes from West Chester and...
Jan 02, 2020•30 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is our old friend Liz Moore whose fourth novel Long Bright River published by Riverhead is just arriving on our shelves and I should tell you that Liz will be appearing at The Hilton Garden Inn on January 9th at 7PM. The Hilton is right here in Exton, 720 Eagleview Blvd East (although I don’t know why they call it East, just confusing and a typical township move), just fifteen minutes from West Chester and...
Jan 02, 2020•3 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Michael Graziano, author of Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory Of Subjective Experience, Published in September by Norton. Michael is professor of psychology and neuroscience at Princeton. He has written four other neuroscience books and his work has appeared in The Atlantic, NYT, Huffington Post and many other periodicals. His lab at Princeton focuses on a theory, a theory labelled The Atten...
Jan 02, 2020•59 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Michael Graziano, author of Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory Of Subjective Experience, Published in September by Norton. Michael is professor of psychology and neuroscience at Princeton. He has written four other neuroscience books and his work has appeared in The Atlantic, NYT, Huffington Post and many other periodicals. His lab at Princeton focuses on a theory, a theory labelled The Atten...
Jan 02, 2020•2 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Kate DiCamillo, author of her latest, Beverly Right Here, published in September by Candlewick. As almost all of you know, Beverly is the recipient of two Newberry Awards, a National Book Award Finalist, has more than 12 NYT best sellers. She has been named the National Ambassador for Young People’s literature. And as most of you already know from Winn Dixie to Despereaux and so many others, Kate has a ...
Nov 16, 2019•30 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Kate DiCamillo, author of her latest, Beverly Right Here, published in September by Candlewick. As almost all of you know, Beverly is the recipient of two Newberry Awards, a National Book Award Finalist, has more than 12 NYT best sellers. She has been named the National Ambassador for Young People’s literature. And as most of you already know from Winn Dixie to Despereaux and so many others, Kate has a ...
Nov 16, 2019•31 sec
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guests are Robin POGrebin and Kate Kelly, authors of The Education Of Brett Kavanaugh, published in September by Portfolio. Robin is a reporter on the Culture Desk of the NYT. She covers art, auction and architecture. She has also covered the Media industry for the Business desk and city news for the Metro desk. Kate has worked for Time and The New York Observer. She has also worked at the WSJ as an investigativ...
Nov 16, 2019•46 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guests are Robin POGrebin and Kate Kelly, authors of The Education Of Brett Kavanaugh, published in September by Portfolio. Robin is a reporter on the Culture Desk of the NYT. She covers art, auction and architecture. She has also covered the Media industry for the Business desk and city news for the Metro desk. Kate has worked for Time and The New York Observer. She has also worked at the WSJ as an investigativ...
Nov 16, 2019•36 sec
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Maurice Isserman author of the book The Winter Army: The World War II Odyssey Of The 10th Mountain Division, America’s Elite Alpine Warriors. publish earlier this month by Houghton (Howton) Mifflin. Dr. Isserman is a prolific author, penning about two scholarly works a year since the early eighties. They all concern fascinating aspects of American History with regard to some of the nooks and crannies of...
Oct 28, 2019•36 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Maurice Isserman author of the book The Winter Army: The World War II Odyssey Of The 10th Mountain Division, America’s Elite Alpine Warriors. publish earlier this month by Houghton (Howton) Mifflin. Dr. Isserman is a prolific author, penning about two scholarly works a year since the early eighties. They all concern fascinating aspects of American History with regard to some of the nooks and crannies of...
Oct 28, 2019•1 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Lucy Ellman, author of Ducks, Newburyport released is September by Biblioasis (Biblio-aas-iz). Lucy’s novels include the autobiographical Sweet Desserts, Varying Degrees of Hopelessness and Man Or Mango. She is a contributor to The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Times Literary Supplement and lots of other prestigious publications. Later in her career she published Dot In The Universe, Doctors and Nurs...
Oct 28, 2019•46 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Lucy Ellman, author of Ducks, Newburyport released is September by Biblioasis (Biblio-aas-iz). Lucy’s novels include the autobiographical Sweet Desserts, Varying Degrees of Hopelessness and Man Or Mango. She is a contributor to The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Times Literary Supplement and lots of other prestigious publications. Later in her career she published Dot In The Universe, Doctors and Nurs...
Oct 28, 2019•58 sec
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Catherine Chung, author of The Tenth Muse, published in June by Ecco. Catherine was honored for her first novel Forgotten Country and has been a National Endowment For The Arts Fellow, a Granta New Voice and worked (enviably) at The Institute For Advanced Studies in Princeton. She has a degree in Mathematics from the University of Chicago (which is very important to this book), worked at a think tank in...
Sep 28, 2019•1 hr
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Catherine Chung, author of The Tenth Muse, published in June by Ecco. Catherine was honored for her first novel Forgotten Country and has been a National Endowment For The Arts Fellow, a Granta New Voice and worked (enviably) at The Institute For Advanced Studies in Princeton. She has a degree in Mathematics from the University of Chicago (which is very important to this book), worked at a think tank in...
Sep 28, 2019•19 sec
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Tim O’Brien, best known over the past decades as the author of The Things They Carried, a book that changed my outlook on a lot of things, just as it did for one of the characters in this memoir, (or pretty modest level memoir.) Tim started off back in the 70s with If I Die In A Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home. He won the National Book Award for Northern Lights and Going After Cacciato. His othe...
Sep 28, 2019•44 min
