Good Afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Jade Chang, whose debut novel The Wangs Against The World was released just this month by Houghton Mifflin. Jade has worked with the BBC, Glamour and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. She has been the recipient of a Sundance Arts fellowship and currently lives in Los Angeles. ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– The Wangs Against the World is a book about the American dream, the losing of that drea...
Oct 03, 2016•59 min
Good Afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Jade Chang, whose debut novel The Wangs Against The World was released just this month by Houghton Mifflin. Jade has worked with the BBC, Glamour and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. She has been the recipient of a Sundance Arts fellowship and currently lives in Los Angeles. ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– The Wangs Against the World is a book about the American dream, the losing of that drea...
Oct 03, 2016•1 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Liz Moore. Liz has been here before to discuss her second book, Heft after which she did a reading and signing at our store, Wellington Square Bookshop, and she’ll be appearing again to read and sign from her latest work and the one we will be discussing today, The Unseen World, published in July by Norton. (She will be here on Friday October 28th at 7 o’clock) Liz’ first novel was The Words of Every So...
Oct 03, 2016•39 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Amor Towles (Toles), author of The Rules of Civility, which has been selling in hardback and paperback in my bookstore for seemingly the last decade or so! Now with his new novel A Gentleman in Moscow (Mosco)I am afraid that he will be taking up too much space in our crowded shop. Suffice it to say that The Rules of Civility was a lovely book, which remains one of our best sellers, in part because we al...
Sep 19, 2016•50 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Amor Towles, author of The Rules of Civility, which has been selling in hardback and paperback in my bookstore for seemingly the last decade or so! Now with his new novel A Gentleman in Moscow (Mosco)I am afraid that he will be taking up too much space in our crowded shop. Suffice it to say that The Rules of Civility was a lovely book, which remains one of our best sellers, in part because we all tell e...
Sep 19, 2016•49 sec
Scott give a terse and pithy answer in our 1Q1A feature!
Sep 12, 2016•40 sec
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Scott Stambach author of, his debut novel The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko (Is ay enko). Scott received his bachelor’s degree in Physics and Philosophy from SUNY and his Masters in Physics from UC San Diego. He teaches physics and Astronomy at Grossmont and Mesa Colleges [or San Diego City College and High Tech High]. He also collaborates with Science for Monks. Which is really cool. He has published ...
Sep 12, 2016•43 min
Good Afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Michael Honig (Michael Hanig) author of The Senility of Vladimir P. Released last month by Pegasus. This thinly veiled, very thinly veiled look at the life, post today, of a despotic and thug-like ruler of modern day Russia reminds us that a country trodden on over centuries, oft-times seemingly points itself in the right direction and then is thoroughly trodden on again. Told through the eyes of Nikola...
Sep 08, 2016•51 min
Good Afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Michael Honig (Michael Hanig) author of The Senility of Vladimir P. Released last month by Pegasus. This thinly veiled, very thinly veiled look at the life, post today, of a despotic and thug-like ruler of modern day Russia reminds us that a country trodden on over centuries, oft-times seemingly points itself in the right direction and then is thoroughly trodden on again. Told through the eyes of Nikola...
Sep 08, 2016•39 sec
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Nathan Hill, author of The Nix just published on the 30th by Knopf. It has so much prepublication publicity that the press kit I received took me an hour to read. And before it was even released, it has been translated into German, Dutch, French, Spanish/Catalan, Danish, Swedish Norwegian (important), Italian, Finnish Hebrew, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, and Chinese. I mean what the hell is up with that? ...
Sep 08, 2016•1 hr 4 min
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Nathan Hill, author of The Nix just published on the 30th by Knopf. It has so much prepublication publicity that the press kit I received took me an hour to read. And before it was even released, it has been translated into German, Dutch, French, Spanish/Catalan, Danish, Swedish Norwegian (important), Italian, Finnish Hebrew, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, and Chinese. I mean what the hell is up with that? ...
Sep 08, 2016•42 sec
Liz talks about Alan Turing
Jul 20, 2016•55 sec
The making of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, the outsize personalities who inspired it, and the vast changes it wrought on the literary world In the summer of 1925, Ernest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the town’s infamous running of the bulls. Then, over the next six weeks, he channeled that trip’s maelstrom of drunken brawls, sexual rivalry, midnight betrayals, and midday hangovers into his groundbreaking novel The Sun Also Rises. This rev...
Jul 05, 2016•48 min
#1 bestselling author and Dagger Award winner Arturo Pérez-Reverte delivers an epic historical tale following the dangerous and passionate love affair between a beautiful high society woman and an elegant thief. A story of romance, adventure, and espionage, this novel solidifies Pérez-Reverte as an international literary giant. - Amazon The Avid Reader Show is sponsored and produced by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs on Mondays at 5PM on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit...
Jul 05, 2016•36 min
Valerie Torrey took her son, Alex, and fled Los Angeles six years ago—leaving both her role on a cult sci-fi TV show and her costar husband after a tragedy blew their small family apart. Now Val must reunite nine-year-old Alex with his estranged father, so they set out on a road trip from New York, Val making appearances at comic book conventions along the way. -Amazon The Avid Reader Show is sponsored and produced by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs Mondays at 5PM...
Jul 05, 2016•59 min
An electrifying novel about marriage and deceit from bestselling author Delia Ephron that follows two couples on vacation in Siracusa, a town on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have hidden from one another are exposed and relationships are unraveled. -Amazon The Avid Reader Show is sponsored and produced by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs on Mondays at 5PM on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit our website at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com
Jul 05, 2016•40 min
A mesmerizing novel about memory, privacy, fear, and what happens when our past catches up with us. After a decade living in England, Jeremy O'Keefe returns to New York, where he has been hired as a professor of German history at New York University. Though comfortable in his new life, and happy to be near his daughter once again, Jeremy continues to feel the quiet pangs of loneliness. Walking through the city at night, it's as though he could disappear and no one would even notice. But soon, Je...
Jul 05, 2016•52 min
Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians-but Indians almost never did the same. Tribal society has been exerting an almost gravitational pull on Westerners for hundreds of years, and the reason lies deep in our evolutionary past as a communal species. The most recent example of that attraction is combat veterans who come home to find themselves missing the incredibly intimate bonds of platoon life. The lo...
Jul 05, 2016•9 min
“Homegoing is an inspiration.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.
Jun 11, 2016•35 min
Best-selling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. - Amazon The Avid Reader Show is sponsored and produced by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs Monday's at 5PM on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit our website at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com
Jun 11, 2016•35 min
The most irreverent and helpful book on language since the #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice. - Amazon The Avid Reader Show is sponsored and produced by Wellington Square Booksh...
Jun 11, 2016•56 min
In the tradition of Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, and Kent Haruf comes a dazzling debut story collection by a young writer from the American West who has been published in The New Yorker, Granta, and The Best American Short Stories. A construction worker on the run from the shady local businessman whose dog he has stolen; a Custer’s Last Stand reenactor engaged in a long-running affair with the Native American woman who slays him on the battlefield every year; a middle-aged high school janitor cau...
Apr 13, 2016•41 min
The “insightful, stark, and heartbreaking” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) novel about three lives entangled during World War II from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Little Bee. - Amazon The Avid Reader Show is sponsored and produced by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs Mondays at 5PM EST on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit our website at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com
Apr 11, 2016•43 min
The dark story of Adolf Hitler's life in 1924--the year that made a monster Before Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, there was 1924. This was the year of Hitler's final transformation into the self-proclaimed savior and infallible leader who would interpret and distort Germany's historical traditions to support his vision for the Third Reich. -Amazon The Avid Reader Show is sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs Mondays at 5PM EST on WCHE AM 1520. Ple...
Apr 06, 2016•46 min
Raymie Clarke has come to realize that everything, absolutely everything, depends on her. And she has a plan. If Raymie can win the Little Miss Central Florida Tire competition, then her father, who left town two days ago with a dental hygienist, will see Raymie's picture in the paper and (maybe) come home. The Avid Reader Show is sponsored and produced by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs Mondays at 5PM EST on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit our website at www.wellingto...
Apr 04, 2016•1 hr 6 min
Before Helen Macdonald rose to international acclaim with her "beautiful and nearly feral" (New York Times) bestselling memoir H Is for Hawk, she wrote a collection of poetry, Shaler's Fish. In robust, lyrical verse, Shaler's Fish roams both the outer and inner landscapes of the poet's universe, seamlessly fusing reflections on language, science, and literature, with the loamy environments of the natural worlds around her. H is for Hawk - One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of ...
Mar 29, 2016•43 min
"Brilliant, troubling...superbly suspenseful...Mr. Mahajan’s writing is acrid and bracing, tightly packed with dissonant imagery...The sharpest passages examine the terrorist mind-set and the demented rationales for mass murder with such acid-etched clarity that it’s possible to feel the deadly magnetism of the arguments...The finest [novel] I’ve read at capturing the seduction and force of the murderous, annihilating illogic that increasingly consumes the globe." —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Jou...
Mar 27, 2016•52 min
The little known story of perhaps the most productive Congress in US history, the First Federal Congress of 1789–1791. The First Congress was the most important in US history, says prizewinning author and historian Fergus Bordewich, because it established how our government would actually function. Had it failed—as many at the time feared it would—it’s possible that the United States as we know it would not exist today. - Amazon The Avid Reader Show is sponsored and produced by Wellington Square...
Mar 27, 2016•57 min
"An elegant page-turner....Charges forward with the momentum of a bullet." --New York Times Book Review For fans of Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette, an inventive, brilliant debut novel about the disappearance of a famous Brazilian novelist and the young translator who turns her life upside down to follow her author's trail. The Avid Reader Show is sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs on Mondays a...
Mar 04, 2016•45 min
The author of the critically admired, award-winning A Replacement Life turns to a different kind of story—an evocative, nuanced portrait of marriage and family, a woman reckoning with what she’s given up to make both work, and the universal question of how we reconcile who we are and whom the world wants us to be. - Amazon Review The Avid Reader Show is sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs Mondays at 5PM on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit our website at www.wel...
Mar 04, 2016•55 min
