Chapter a Day^® is heard daily at 12:30pm and 11:00pm
on the Ideas Network stations of Wisconsin Public Radio

The five most recent chapters are available for RealAudio
on-demand listening on the Chapter a Day^® Webcasting page.

Monday November 9 through Wednesday December 9, 2009

Exiles in the Garden by Ward Just read by Karl Schmidt (Harcourt ISBN-13: 9780547195582)

The new novel by America’s great Washington writer takes on individual responsibility in the public world.

Theme: Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 in d minor, Op 31 No. 2 - 2nd mvt; Helene Grimaud, piano (Deutsche Grammophon)

Thursday December 10, 2009 through Friday January 1, 2010

Christmas Books by Charles Dickens read by Jim Fleming

including The Cricket on the Hearth (12/10-12/17), The Holly Tree (12/21-12/23), and The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang An Old Year Out and a New Year In (12/24-1/1)

”Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day” & “Greensleeves” from “A Midnight Clear: A Celtic Christmas” with Robin Bullock (Dorian DOR 93250)

Friday December 18, 2009

Sweet and Sour Pie: A Wisconsin Boyhood by Dave Crehore read by Jim Fleming (Terrace Books; ISBN13: 9780299230609)

A Christmas story from his Wisconsin memoir.

Theme: Rube Bloom: Spring Fever, Duke Ellington: Solitude; Alan Feinberg, piano from the disc "Fascinatin' Rhythm" (Argo 444 457-2)

Monday January 4 through Friday January 22, 2010

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert read by Susan Sweeney (Penguin ISBN-13: 978-0143038412)

A travelogue of soul-searching and self-discovery.

TBA

***** SINCE THE BEGINNING OF 2009 *****

Wednesday January 8 through Friday January 30, 2009 (There will be no 12:30 p.m. broadcast on 1/19 & 1/20)

The Forever War by Dexter Filkins read by Karl Schmidt (Knopf; ISBN-13: 978-0307266392)

The New York Times correspondent takes us to the front lines of the wars in the Middle East.

excerpt from Saint-Saens Symphony #1; Vienna SO - Georges Pretre (Erato MusiFrance 2292-45695-2)

Monday January 19 and Tuesday January 20, 2009 - 11 PM ONLY

The Case of Laker Absconded by Arthur Morrison read by Ken Ohst (from the Chapter a Day Archives)

A This is a classic tale from the Chapter a Day archives. Inspector Martin Hewitt was the creation of Arthur Morrison and featured in many tales. Ken Ohst was for many years the voice of Chapter a Day.

Theme: tba

Monday February 2 through Friday February 20, 2009

Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan read by Jim Fleming (Harper Collins; ISBN: 0060817089)

When you bring home a Labrador Retriever you expect the kind of dog famous for its calm and helpfulness. Not Marley. One Hundred Pounds of pure exuberance, there is nothing and no one he can't bowl over. There are lessons here, but are they the ones you want to learn?

Theme: Bernstein: Jet Song from "West Side Story"; Gershwin: Promenade "Walking the Dog"; Katia & marielle Labeque, pianos from their album "Encore!" (Sony SK 48381)

Monday February 23 through Friday March 13, 2009

Mayhem in B-flat by Eliot Paul read by Jim Fleming (Dover; ISBN: 0-486-25621-9)

Elliot Paul's Homer Evans mysteries are classics of the form. In Mayhem in B-flat Paul tells the story of Evans and his stylish, pistol-packing companion Miriam Leonard as they tackle on a series of strange events. Against a richly evoked background of Paris in the 1930's, Evans and Leonard mix detection and comedy to find a murderer, rescue a notorious violin, and encourage romance.

Theme: Fritz Kreisler: Liebesfreud & Liebeslied; Gil Shaham, violin; Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (DG 449 923-2)

Monday March 16 through Friday April 3, 2009

The Guernsey Literary and Potato-Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows read by Susan Sweeney and Jim Fleming (Dial Press; ISBN-13: 9780385340991)

A work of fiction in the form of letters about the power of books to nourish people living in hard times. The letters tell the story of the Isle of Guernsey during WWII.

Theme: Eric Coates: Summer Days Suite; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - John Wilson, conductor (Avie AV 2070)

Monday April 6 through Friday May 1, 2009

The Eleventh Man by Ivan Doig read by Jim Fleming (Harcourt; ISBN-13: 978-0151012435)

A greatest generation story of the members of a Montana football team who go to war. One is selected by the army propaganda arm to tell their stories.

Theme: Cole Porter: Anything Goes; Stephan Grappelli & Yo-Yo Ma (CBS MK 45574)

Monday May 4 through Friday June 5, 2009

Driftless by David Rhodes read by Karl Schmidt (Milkweed; ISBN 978-57131-059-0)

A story from the “driftless” area of Wisconsin, about a town apparently left out of time. It’s an unforgettable slice of life in rural America

Theme: Haydn: The Seven Last Words - introduction; Emerson Quartet (DG B0002053-02)

Monday June 8 through Friday July 3, 2009

How Far is the Ocean From Here by Amy Shearn read by Susan Sweeney (Random House; ISBN-13: 9780307405340)

An unmarried surrogate mother flees her Chicago home and heads for the Southwest. This novel explores how people care for each other, whoever and wherever they are.

Theme: First Impressions from Appalachia Waltz by Mark O'Connor; Yo-Yo Ma; Edgar Meyer; Mark O'Connor (Sony SK 68460)

Monday July 6 through Friday July 17, 2009

Sweet and Sour Pie: A Wisconsin Boyhood by Dave Crehore read by Jim Fleming (Terrace Books; ISBN13: 9780299230609)

In 1950 the Crehores, 7-year-old Dave and his parents, moved from Ohio to Manitowoc, WI. His memoir is filled with the satisfying life and adventures of a Wisconsin in the middle of the 20th Century.

Theme: Rube Bloom: Spring Fever, Duke Ellington: Solitude; Alan Feinberg, piano from the disc "Fascinatin' Rhythm" (Argo 444 457-2)

Monday July 20 through Friday August 14, 2009

The Other by David Guterson read by Karl Schmidt (Knopf; ISBN13: 9780307263155 )

A novel about youth and idealism, adulthood and its compromises, and two powerfully different visions of what it means to live a good life.

Theme: Nico Muhly speaks volumes (HVALUR 1)

Monday August 17 through Friday September 11, 2009

Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey by William Least Heat-Moon read by Jim Fleming (Little, Brown ; ISBN: 978-0-316-11025-9))

The author of Blue Highways returns to the back roads of America in search of “quoz” - things strange, incongruous, or peculiar.

Theme: Chuck Suchy; Blue Missouri Hills #1 from the album Different Line of Time

Monday September 14 through Friday October 2, 2009

Without a Map by Meredith Hall read by Susan Sweeney (Beacon Press; ISBN13: 9780807072738)

Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned , kicked out of her mother’s house and banished by her father, she gives up her baby up for adoption. Finally she returns to New England and stitches together a life that encircles her silenced and invisible grief.

Theme: Lars Erik Larson, Adagio from "Adagio: Music for Silent Moments" (Arte Nova Classics 74321 378702)

Monday October 5 through Friday October 16, 2009

Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders by William R. Drennan read by Jim Fleming (Wisconsin; ISBN: 0-299-22210-1)

The brutal murders at Frank Lloyd Wright's Spring Green prairie cottage helped shape the rest of the famous architect's life. Now available as a 4-CD audiobook. To order, call 1-800-747-7444.

Theme: Beethoven: String Quartet Nr 11 - allegretto ma non troppo; Quartetto Italiano (Philips 420 104-2)

Monday October 19 through Friday November 6, 2009

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: a novel by Jamie Ford read by Jim Fleming (Ballantine ISBN-13: 978-0345505347)

Henry Lee came of age in WWII era Seattle, and vividly remembers when the Japanese were interned. Now as he recovers from the cancer death of his wife, those days are brought back to life by the discovery of artifacts in an old hotel.

Theme: I Got it Bad, and That Ain't Good - Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington

If you have a comment or a question, send a message to Jim Fleming.