The Avid Reader Show
Episodes
Episode 685: Russell Wild - Bond Investing for Dummies
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Everything on bonds, bond funds, and more Updated for the new economyWhether you're looking for income, diversification, or protection from stock mark...
Episode 684: Dr. Jay Baruch - Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stories from the ER: a doctor shows how empathy, creativity, and imagination are the cornerstones of clinical care.To be an emergency room doctor is t...
Episode 684: Kieran Setiya - Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A philosophical guide to facing life’s inevitable hardships.There is no cure for the human condition: life is hard. But Kieran Setiya believes philo...
Episode 683: A.M. Homes - The Unfolding
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In her first novel since the Women’s Prize award-winning May We Be Forgiven, A.M. Homes delivers us back to ourselves in this stunning alternative h...
Episode 682: Louise Willder - Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of Literary Persuasion
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A dazzling dictionary of book blurbs, filled with writing tips, literary folklore and publishing secrets.This is the outside story of books.From blurb...
Episode 681: Peter Ward - The Price of Immortality: The Race to Live Forever
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the tradition of Jon Ronson and Tim Wu, an absorbing and revelatory journey into the American Way of Defying Death . . .As longevity medicine r...
Episode 680: Steve Stern - The Village Idiot
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A wild, effervescent, absinthe-soaked novel that tells of the life of the extraordinary artist Chaim SoutineSteve Stern’s astonishing new novel The ...
Episode 679: Greg Steinmetz - American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The gripping biography of Jay Gould, the greatest 19th-century robber barons, whose brilliance, greed, and bare-knuckled tactics made him richer than ...
Episode 678: Alec NevalaLee - nventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century. As the architectural designer and futuris...
Episode 677: Andrew Nagorski - Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A dramatic true story about Sigmund Freud’s last-minute escape to London following the German annexation of Austria and the group of friends who mad...
Episode 676: Alice Feiring - To Fall in Love, Drink This: A Wine Writer's Memoir
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From veteran wine writer and James Beard Award winner Alice Feiring, an insightful and entertaining memoir of wine, love, heartbreak, and the never-en...
Episode 675: Jessica Nordell - The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The End of Bias is a transformative, groundbreaking exploration into how we can eradicate unintentional bias and discrimination, the great challenge o...
Episode 674: Victor Manibo - The Sleepless
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Jamie Vega is Sleepless: he can’t sleep, nor does he need to. When his boss dies on the eve of a controversial corporate takeover, Jamie ...
Episode 674: Lars Chittka - The Mind Of A Bee
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees Most of us are aware of the hive mind--the power of bees as an amazing collective. But ...
Episode 673: Lynne Tillman - MOTHERCARE: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the brilliantly original novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman comes MOTHERCARE, an honest and beautifully written account of a sudden, dras...
Episode 672: Jerry Stahl - Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A guided group tour to concentration camps in Poland and Germany allows Stahl to confront personal and historical demons with both deep despair and sa...
Episode 671: F. H. Buckley - Progressive Conservatism: How Republicans Will Become America's Natural Governing Party
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After the Democratic Party divided Americans along gender and racial lines, F.H. Buckley argues that the Republican Party can become the natural gover...
Episode 670: Kimberly Unger - The Extractionist
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest today is Kimberly Unger, author of "The Extractionist" published by Tachyon. Kimberly lives and writes in a Virtual Reality world, as perh...
Episode 669: Victoria Shepherd: A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The extraordinary ways the brain can misfire: Why would someone wake up and claim they’re Napoleon? Or why would they believe they have been turned ...
Episode 668: Paul Thagard: Balance: How It Works and What It Means
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Living is a balancing act. Ordinary activities like walking, running, or riding a bike require the brain to keep the body in balance. A dancer’s poi...
Episode 668: Jess Walter - The Angel of Rome: And Other Stories
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all live like we’re famous now, curating our social media presences, performing our identities, withholding those parts of ourselves we don’t w...
Episode 667: Alexandra Lange - Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they have loomed large as temples of commerce, the agor...
Episode 666: Lydia Hopper - Chimpanzee Memoirs: Stories of Studying and Saving Our Closest Living Relatives
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chimpanzees fascinate people for many reasons. We are struck by the apes’ resemblance to humanity, as seen in their use of tools and their complex s...
Episode 665: Fiona Murphy - The Shape of Sound
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Shape of Sound is a lyrical and profound memoir from the acclaimed deaf poet, Fiona Murphy, about her life spent hiding from deafness and her even...
Episode 664: Roberto J. González - War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A critical look at how the US military is weaponizing technology and data for new kinds of warfare—and why we must resist. War Virtually is the stor...
Episode 663: Daniel Graham - An Internet in Your Head: A New Paradigm for How the Brain Works
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Whether we realize it or not, we think of our brains as computers. In neuroscience, the metaphor of the brain as a computer has defined the field for ...
Episode 662: Anne Skomorowsky - The Carriers: What the Fragile X Gene Reveals About...
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Carriers: What the Fragile X Gene Reveals About Family, Heredity, and Scientific DiscoveryA tiny mutation on the X chromosome can shape a family’...
Episode 661: Edward J. Gillin - Sound Authorities: Scientific and Musical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Britain
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sound Authorities shows how experiences of music and sound played a crucial role in nineteenth-century scientific inquiry in Britain.In Sound Authorit...
Episode 660: Stephanie D. Preston - The Altruistic Urge: Why We're Driven to Help Others
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ordinary people can perform acts of astonishing selflessness, sometimes even putting their lives on the line. A pregnant woman saw a dorsal fin and bl...
Episode 659: Michelle R. Warren - Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragments...
Episode 658: Kenneth D. Frank - Sex in City Plants, Animals, Fungi, and More: A Guide to Reproductive Diversity
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cities pose formidable obstacles to nonhuman life. Vast expanses of asphalt and concrete are inhospitable to plants and animals; traffic noise and art...
Episode 657: The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Dark Ride collects John Kessel’s best short fiction, beginning with 1981’s “Not Responsible! Park and Lock It!” and ending with 2021’s “...
Episode 656: Riley Black - The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks readers through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after ...
Episode 655: Alma Katsu - The Fervor
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The acclaimed author of the celebrated literary horror novels The Hunger and The Deep turns her psychological and supernatural eye on the horrors of t...
Episode 654: Andy Secher - Travels with Trilobites: Adventures in the Paleozoic
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Trilobites were some of the most successful and versatile organisms ever to exist. Among the earliest forms of complex animal life, these hard-shelled...
Episode 653: Luke Munn - Automaton Is A Myth
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For some, automation will usher in a labor-free utopia; for others, it signals a disastrous age-to-come. Yet whether seen as dream or nightmare, autom...
Episode 652: Richard Ambron - The Brain and Pain: Breakthroughs in Neuroscience
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pain is an inevitable part of existence, but severe debilitating or chronic pain is a pathological condition that diminishes the quality of life. The ...
Episode 651: Paul Leonardi & Tsedal Neeley - The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The pressure to "be digital" has never been greater, but you can meet the challenge.The digital revolution is here, changing how work gets done, how i...
Episode 651: Michael Meyer - Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet: The Favorite Founder's Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The incredible story of Benjamin Franklin’s parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia—a deathbed wager that captures the...
Episode 650: Kate Quinn - The Diamond Eye
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s dea...
Episode 648: Andrew DeYoung - The Temps
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
They're underemployed. Underpaid. And trying to survive the end of the world while trapped inside an office complex. Who knew temp work could be this ...
Episode 647: Scott Nations - The Anxious Investor
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A revelatory new guide to building wealth amidst stock market crashes and uncertain economic conditions, drawing upon financial modeling, behavioral p...
Episode 646: Interview with Stewart O'Nan - Ocean State
26 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Set in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, O'Nan's latest is a crushing, beautifully written, and profoundly compelling novel about sister...
Episode 645: Jason Baxter - The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
C. S. Lewis had one of the great minds of the twentieth century. Many readers know Lewis as an author of fiction and fantasy literature, including the...
Episode 644: Louise Candlish - The Heights
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Heights is a tall, slender apartment building among warehouses in London. Its roof terrace is so discreet, you wouldn’t know it existed if you w...
Episode 643: Bill Hayes - Sweat: A History of Exercise
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From Insomniac City author Bill Hayes, "who can tackle just about any subject in book form, and make you glad he did" (SF Chronicle)—a cultural, sci...
Episode 642: Garrett Hongo - The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A poet’s audio obsession, from collecting his earliest vinyl to his quest for the ideal vacuum tubes. A captivating book that “ingeniously mixes p...
Episode 641: Patrick O'Leary - 51
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What really happened in Area 51? Adam Pagnucco is just trying to help out a stranger who's down and out. He has no idea that man is Winston Koop, his ...
Episode 641: David J. Chalmers - Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A leading philosopher takes a mind-bending journey through virtual worlds, illuminating the nature of reality and our place within it.Virtual reality ...
Episode 640: Azar Nafisi - Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers w...
Episode 640: Sequoia Nagamatsu - How Hight We Go In The Dark
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika Crater, where re...
Episode 639: Dr. Mark Vonnegut - The Heart of Caring: A Life In Pediatrics
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Reflections from a life lived in medicine.Pediatrician Mark Vonnegut has spent forty years treating children for coughs, fevers, ear infections, and s...
Episode 638: Kerri Maher - The Paris Bookseller
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the 20th century to the world...
Episode 637: John Koenig - The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don’t have the ...
Episode 636: Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bestselling biographer Laurence Leamer delves into the years following the acclaimed publication of Breakfast at Tiffany’s in 1958 and In Cold Blood...
Episode 635: Jerad Alexander - Volunteers: Growing Up in the Forever War
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As a child, Jerad Alexander lay in bed listening to the fighter jets take off outside his window and was desperate to be airborne. As a teenager at an...
Episode 634: Lily King - Five Tuesdays In Winter
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lily King, one of the most "brilliant" (New York Times Book Review), "wildly talented" (Chicago Tribune), and treasured authors of contemporary fictio...
Episode 634: Bill Schutt - Pump: A Natural History of the Heart
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
n this lively, unexpected look at the hearts of animals—from fish to bats to humans—American Museum of Natural History zoologist Bill Schutt tells...
Episode 633: Andrew Kaufman - The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A revelatory new portrait of the courageous woman who saved Dostoyevsky’s life—and became a pioneer in Russian literary historyIn the fall of 1866...
Episode 632: Heather Clark - Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behi...
Episode 631: Claire Vaye Watkins - I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A darkly funny, soul-rending novel of love in an epoch of collapse—one woman’s furious revisiting of family, marriage, work, sex, and motherhood.S...
Episode 631: Donald Antrim - One Friday In April: A Story of Suicide and Survival
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A searing and brave memoir that offers a new understanding of suicide as a distinct mental illness.As the sun lowered in the sky one Friday afternoon ...
Episode 630: Kimberly Harrington - But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, In Pieces and Bits
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Six weeks after Kimberly and her husband announced their divorce, she began work on a book that she thought would only be about divorce — heavy on t...
Episode 629: Eugene Lim - Search History
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Exit is dead—or is he? While eavesdropping on two women discussing a dog-sitting gig over lunch, a bereft friend comes to a shocking realizati...
Episode 629: Ryka Aoki - Light From Uncommon Stars
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has...
Episode 628: Erica Buist - This Party's Dead: Grief, Joy and Spilled Rum at the World’s Death Festivals
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What if we responded to death... by throwing a party?By the time Erica Buist's father-in-law Chris was discovered, upstairs in his bed, his book resti...
Episode 627: Mary Roach - Fuzz: When Nature Breaks The Law
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the l...
Episode 626: Nick McDonell - The Council of Animals
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From national bestselling author Nick McDonell, The Council of Animals is a captivating fable for humans of all ages—dreamers and cynics alike—who...
Episode 625: Ned Palmer - A Cheesemonger's History of the British Isles
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller. For history nerds and food lovers, the curious and the hungry, an entertaining journey stretching across the Briti...
Episode 624: Rose Eveleth - Flash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (and Not So Possible) Tomorrows
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Flash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (And Not So Possible) Tomorrows takes readers on a journey from speculative fiction to speculative “...
Episode 623: Emeran Mayer - The Gut-Immune Connection
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From one of today’s leading experts on the emerging science of the microbiome comes a ground-breaking book that offers, for the first time, evidence...
Episode 622: Joshua Henkin - Morningside Heights
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Thirty years later, something is wrong with Spence. The Great Man can’t concentrate; he falls asleep reading The New York Review of Books. With thei...
Episode 621: Melissa Scholes Young - The Hive
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Fehler sisters wanted to be more than bug girls but growing up in a fourth- generation family pest control business in rural Missouri, their path ...
Episode 621: Rebecca Schwarzlose - Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain—And How They Guide You
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your brain is a collection of maps: detailed representations, scrawled across your brain’s surfaces, of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold th...
Episode 620: Brandy Schillace - Mr Humble & Dr. Butcher
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the early days of the Cold War, a spirit of desperate scientific rivalry birthed a different kind of space race: not the race to outer space that w...
Episode 620: Lee Durkee - The Last Taxi Driver
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hailed by George Saunders as “a true original—a wise and wildly talented writer,” Lee Durkee takes readers on a high-stakes cab ride through an ...
Episode 619: Kate Lebo - The Book Of Difficult Fruit
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A is for aronia, berry member of the apple family, clothes-stainer, superfruit with reputed healing power. D is for durian, endowed with a dramatic ri...
Episode 619: Sarah Ruden - The Gospels: A New Translation
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For millennia, the first four books of the New Testament have not only supported the central tenets of Christianity but have also proved to be formati...
Episode 618: Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Soon to be a movie!Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish....
Episode 618: 1Q1A with Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.Except that right n...
Episode 617: Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
wise, bighearted, boundlessly joyful novel of love, disaster, and unconventional familyJane falls in love with Duncan easily. He is charming, good-na...
Episode 617: Stephen Leigh - Amid The Crowd Of Stars
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Wherever we go, we carry with us our own souls, morals and seeds of creation or destruction. This book, especially in our time, gives the meaning of c...
Episode 616: Frank Wilczek - Fundamentals: Ten Keys To Reality
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of our greatest scientists reveals ten profound insights that remind and explain to each of us how we experience this physical universe we find ou...
Episode 615: David Arnold - The Electric Kingdom
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When a deadly Fly Flu sweeps the globe, it leaves a shell of the world that once was. Among the survivors are eighteen-year-old Nico and her dog, on a...
Episode 614: Nicole Perlroth - This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Zero day: a software bug that allows a hacker to break into your devices and move around undetected. One of the most coveted tools in a spy's arsenal,...
Episode 613: Blake Bailey - The Biography of Philip Roth
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The renowned biographer’s definitive portrait of a literary titan.Appointed by Philip Roth and granted independence and complete access, Blake Baile...
Episode 613: D. Eric Maikranz - The Reincarnationist Papers
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Discovered as three notebooks in an antique store in Rome at the turn of the millennium, The Reincarnationist Papers offers a tantalizing glimpse into...
Episode 612: Walter Isaacson - The Code Breaker
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put i...
Episode 611: Michael Spitzer - The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today music fills our lives. How we have created, performed and listened to this music throughout history has defined what our species is and how we u...
Episode 611: Rose Szabo - What Big Teeth
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eleanor Zarrin has been estranged from her wild family for years. When she flees boarding school after a horrifying incident, she goes to the only pla...
Episode 610: 1Q1A with Rose Szabo - What Big Teeth
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sam asks Rose about when they first discovered T.S. Eliot in this episode of 1Q1A. If you enjoy this bit then be sure to listen to the full episode w...
Episode 609: Steven Hall - Maxwell's Demon
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today our guest is Steven Hall, author of The Raw Sharks Texts a seminal and amazing book that was released almost 14 years ago and published in prett...
Episode 608: 1Q1A Steven Hall - Maxwell's Demon
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sam asks Steven if he still reads the back of cereal boxes. Listen to what Steven has to say. Check out Sam's full interview with Steven on his late...
Episode 607: Nick Mamatas - The Planetbreaker's Son
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
He walks the stars embedded in the virtual dome of night and, when he tires of a world, throws a small black stone over his shoulder - and entire soci...
Episode 606: 1Q1A Nick Mamatas - The Planetbreaker's Son
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
He walks the stars embedded in the virtual dome of night and, when he tires of a world, throws a small black stone over his shoulder - and entire soci...
Episode 605: Caryl Pagel - Out Of Nowhere Into Nothing
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Out of Nowhere Into Nothing is a collection of sublime meditations on the unbelievable, the coincidental, and the apparitional; the ghosts—literal a...
Episode 604: 1Q1A Caryl Pagel - Out Of Nowhere Into Nothing
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Out of Nowhere Into Nothing is a collection of sublime meditations on the unbelievable, the coincidental, and the apparitional; the ghosts—literal a...
Episode 601: Flowers of Darkness - Tatiana de Rosnay
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From the internationally bestselling author of Sarah's Key comes Tatiana de Rosnay's Flowers of Darkness, a riveting and emotionally intense novel, se...
Episode 600: Land of Big Numbers - Te-Ping Chen
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Land of Big numbers is ten short stories and as you know I love short stories.The characters are from China and their stories may not be happy or nece...
Episode 599: 1Q1A Te-Ping Chen - Land of Big Numbers
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Land of Big numbers is ten short stories and as you know I love short stories.The characters are from China and their stories may not be happy or nece...