The Avid Reader Show

1Q1A Dan Chaon Ill Will

22 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Dan Chain SHAWN, author of Ill Will, published in March...

Running Cara Hoffman

22 Mar 2017

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Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Cara Hoffman, author of Running, published in February ...

1Q1A Cara Hoffman Running

22 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Cara Hoffman, author of Running, published in February ...

The Stress Test Ian Robertson

07 Mar 2017

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Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Ian Robertson, author of The Stress Test: How Pressure ...

1Q1A The Stress Test Ian Robertson

07 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Ian Robertson, author of The Stress Test: How Pressure ...

Jami Attenberg All Grown Up

07 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Jami Attenberg, author of All Grown Up, published just...

1Q1A Jami Attenberg All Grown Up

07 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Jami Attenberg, author of All Grown Up, published just...

Steve Ericsson Shadowbahn

10 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Steve Erickson author of Shadowbahn, just published las...

1Q1A Steve Erickson Shadowbahn

10 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Steve Erickson author of Shadowbahn, just published las...

1Q1a Elan Mastai All Our Wrong Todays

07 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Élan Mastai, author of All Our Wrong Todays, his first...

The River at Night Erica Ferencik

02 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Erica Ferencik, author of The River at Night published ...

1Q1A Erica Ferencik The River at Night

02 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Erica Ferencik, author of The River at Night published ...

Josh Barkan Mexico

02 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Josh Barkan author of Mexico:Stories, published by Hoga...

Maxine Clarke Foreign Soil

26 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Our guest today is Maxine Beneba Clarke, author of Foreign Soil, published...

1Q1A Maxine Clark Foreign Soil

26 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Our guest today is Maxine Beneba Clarke, author of Foreign Soil, published...

Shanthi Sekaran Lucky Boy

24 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Shanthi Sekaran, author of Lucky Boy, published earlier...

1Q1A Shanthi Sekaran Lucky Boy

24 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Shanthi Sekaran, author of Lucky Boy, published earlier...

1Q1A Josh Barkan Mexico

24 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Josh Barkan author of Mexico:Stories, published by Hoga...

History of Wolves Emily Fridlund

23 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

There's a reason that some readers view contemporary coming-of-age novels with suspicion. Too many play out the same way: An odd but winsome young per...

1Q1A History of Wolves Emily Fridlund

23 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

There's a reason that some readers view contemporary coming-of-age novels with suspicion. Too many play out the same way: An odd but winsome young per...

The Unbanking of America Lisa Servon

13 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Lisa Servon, author of the book The Unbanking of Americ...

1Q1A Unbanking of America Lisa Servon

13 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Lisa Servon, author of the book The Unbanking of Americ...

Dava Sobel-The Glass Universe

12 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today we are happy to have as our guest Dava Sobel, author of The Glass Un...

Dava Sobel 1Q1A The Glass Universe

12 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today we are happy to have as our guest Dava Sobel, author of The Glass Un...

Strangers In Their Own Land-Arlie Hochschild

12 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Arlie R. Hochschild, author most recently of Strangers ...

Arlie Hochschild-Strangers In Their Own Land

12 Dec 2016

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Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Arlie R. Hochschild, author most recently of Strangers ...

Annual Best Books by Sam and Donna

12 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Every year Sam and Donna of Wellington Square Bookshop post their best books of 2016 in this lively and insult laden episode of the Avid Reader

James Gleick Time Travel

10 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is James Gleick, author of Time Travel, a history. Publis...

The Fix Jonathan Tepperman

10 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

1Q1A Jonathan Tepperman The Fix

10 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

By Gaslight Steven

04 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

By Gaslight Steven Price

04 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The German Girl Armando Lucas Correa

03 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Armando Lucas Correa, author of The German Girl publish...

1Q1A The German Girl

03 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Armando Lucas Correa, author of The German Girl publish...

1Q1A Liz Moore-The Unseen World

19 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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 sec...

Madeleine Thien-Do Not Say We Have Nothing

19 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Good Afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader.Today our guest is Madeleine Thien, Author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing, he...

1Q1A Madeleine Thien-Do Not Say We Have Nothing

19 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Good Afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader.Today our guest is Madeleine Thien, Author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing, he...

Alice Hoffman-Faithful

19 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Alice Hoffman.Alice has published 23 novels, three book...

1Q1A Alice Hoffman-Faithful

19 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Alice Hoffman.Alice has published 23 novels, three book...

1Q1A Butter-Elaine Khosrova

19 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader.Today our guest is Elaine Khosrova, author of Butter-A Rich History, publish...

Elaine Khosrova-

19 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader.Today our guest is Elaine Khosrova, author of Butter-A Rich History, publish...

1Q1A Jodi Picoult-Small Great Things-quick answer

19 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader.Today our guest is Jodi Picault (pee-ko, pico). Wellington Square Bookshop ...

Lynne Cox on Swimming in the Sink

03 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Lynne Cox, author of Swimming in the Sink published Sep...

Lynne Cox on Swimming in the Sink

03 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Lynne Cox, author of Swimming in the Sink published Sep...

Jodi Picoult on Small Great Things

03 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Today our guest is Jodi Picault (pee-ko, pico). Wellington Square Bookshop is thrilled to host Jodi Picoult at the Hilton Garden Inn, Exton on Tuesda...

Patrick Phillips on Blood at The Root

03 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today’s guest is Patrick Phillips, author of Blood at the Root: A Racial...

Patrick Phillips on Blood at the Root

03 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today’s guest is Patrick Phillips, author of Blood at the Root: A Racial...

Jade Chang on The Wangs vs. The World

03 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Jade Change on The Wangs vs. The World

03 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Liz Moore on The Unseen World

03 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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 sec...

A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles

19 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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, w...

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

19 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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...

The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach

12 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Scott give a terse and pithy answer in our 1Q1A feature!

The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach

12 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Michael Honig The Senility of Vladimir P.

08 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Michael Honig

08 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Nathan Hill The Nix

08 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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 30...

Nathan Hill The Nix

08 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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 30...

Liz Moore The Unseen World

20 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Liz talks about Alan Turing

Lesley Blume author of Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises

05 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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 worldI...

Arturo Perez author of What We Become

05 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

#1 bestselling author and Dagger Award winner Arturo Pérez-Reverte delivers an epic historical tale following the dangerous and passionate love affai...

Bob Proehl author of A Hundred Thousand Worlds

05 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Delia Ephron author of Siracusa

05 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

An electrifying novel about marriage and deceit from bestselling author Delia Ephron that follows two couples on vacation in Siracusa, a town on the c...

Patrick Flanery author of I Am No One

05 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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 re...

Sebastian Junger author of Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

05 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians-but Indians almos...

Yaa Gyasi author of Homegoing

11 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

“Homegoing is an inspiration.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and ...

Mary Roach author of Grunt

11 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Best-selling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme...

Mary Norris author of Between You and Me

11 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The most irreverent and helpful book on language since the #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves.Mary Norris has spent more than thre...

Callan Wink author of Dog Run Moon

13 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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 ha...

Chris Cleave author of Everyone Brave is Forgiven

11 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The “insightful, stark, and heartbreaking” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) novel about three lives entangled during World War II from the #1 N...

Peter Ross Range author of 1924: The Year That Made Hitler

06 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The dark story of Adolf Hitler's life in 1924--the year that made a monsterBefore Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, there was 1924. This was th...

Kate Dicamillo author of Raymie Nightingale

04 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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 Centra...

Helen McDonald author of Shaler’s Fish and H is for Hawk

29 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Before Helen Macdonald rose to international acclaim with her "beautiful and nearly feral" (New York Times) bestselling memoir H Is for Hawk, she wrot...

Karan Mahajan author of The Association of Small Bombs

27 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

"Brilliant, troubling...superbly suspenseful...Mr. Mahajan’s writing is acrid and bracing, tightly packed with dissonant imagery...The sharpest pass...

Fergus Bordewich author of The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government

27 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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 mos...

Idra Novey author of Ways to Disappear

04 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

"An elegant page-turner....Charges forward with the momentum of a bullet." --New York Times Book ReviewFor fans of Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hou...

Boris Fishman author of Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo

04 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The author of the critically admired, award-winning A Replacement Life turns to a different kind of story—an evocative, nuanced portrait of marriage...

Lawrence Hill author of The Illegal

04 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Internationally best-selling author Lawrence Hill returns with an extraordinary, resonant novel about a man on the run.Lawrence Hill spellbound reader...

Lauren Groff author of Fates and Furies

21 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

AMAZON'S 2015 BEST BOOK OF THE YEARNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA FINALIST FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDNPR MORNING EDITION BOOK CLUB PICKNAMED A BEST ...

Stephen Harrigan author of A Friend of Mr. Lincoln

12 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The author of the best-selling The Gates of the Alamo now gives us a galvanizing portrait of Abraham Lincoln during a crucially revealing period of hi...

Taylor Brown author of Fallen Land

30 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

An Indie Next pick and an Okra 2016 Winter Selection!Fallen Land is Taylor Brown's debut novel set in the final year of the Civil War, as a young coup...

Tessa Hadley author of The Past

29 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In her most accessible, commercial novel yet, the “supremely perceptive writer of formidable skill and intelligence (New York Times Book Review) tur...

Janice Y.K. Lee author of The Expatriates

27 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Janice Y. K. Lee’s New York Times bestselling debut, The Piano Teacher, was called “immensely satisfying” by People, “intensely readable” by...

Elizabeth Strout author of My Name is Lucy Barton

27 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is cause for celebration. Her bestselling novels, including Oliv...

1Q1A - Giles Milton on Ordinary Extraordinary People

17 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

One Question, One Answer is a mini-interview series with leading authors sponsored and produced by Wellington Square Bookshop in conjunction with The ...

1Q1A - Sophie McManus on Wealth

16 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

One Question, One Answer is a mini-interview series with leading authors sponsored and produced by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. i...

1Q1A - Julia Pierpont on Time and Life

14 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

1Q1A is a mini-interview series with leading authors sponsored and produced by Wellington Square Bookshop. Please visit our website at www.wellingtons...

Geraldine Brooks author of The Secret Chord

14 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

“A page turner. . .Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive. . .in her skillful hands the issues of the past echo our own deepest concerns: lo...

Giles Milton author of When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain

13 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The first installment in Giles Milton's outrageously entertaining series, History's Unknown Chapters: colorful and accessible, intelligent and illumin...

Zachary Thomas Dodson author of Bats of the Republic

13 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In 1843, fragile naturalist Zadock Thomas must leave his beloved in Chicago to deliver a secret letter to an infamous general on the front lines of t...

Sunil Yapa author of Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist

11 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

“Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist is a stunningly orchestrated, symphonic work of narrative power. This novel marshals all the vital forces...

B. A. Shapiro author of The Muralist

11 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Art Forger comes a thrilling new novel of art, history, love, and politics that traces the life a...

Charles Belfoure author of House of Thieves

14 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

“Belfoure’s sly, roguish writing opens a window to those living both gilded and tarnished lives... a most memorable, evocative read.”— Publish...

Best Books of 2015 Chosen by the Staff of Wellington Square Bookshop

24 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

The Staff of Wellington Square Bookshop talk about the best books of 2015 and why they rank among the top books of the year. The Avid Reader Show is s...

1Q1A Anthony Marra -on Time and Space Creating Magic

22 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

One Question, One Answer is a mini series with leading authors. It is sponsored and produced by Wellington Square Bookshop and available on PodOmatic,...

Anthony Marra author of The Tsar of Love and Techno

21 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena—dazzling, poignant, and lyrical interwoven stories about family, sa...

1Q1A - Isabel Allende - The Connection Between Time and Love

18 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

One Question, One Answer is a mini series with leading authors produced and sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. Please visi...

Isabel Allende author of The Japanese Lover

17 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco’s parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their...

1Q1A Lauren Groff - What Do You Think About Marriage?

08 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

One Question, One Answer is a mini interview series with leading authors sponsored and produced by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. P...

1Q1A - Avid Reader with Annie Jacobsen The Pentagon's Brain

01 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

One Question, One Answer is a mini interview with leading authors sponsored and produced by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA.