CHAPTER A DAY BOOKLIST
View information about every book we've read in the past thirty years using our Chapter a Day Booklist!
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Selected Essays of Ursula Le Guin
Wednesday, October 19 through Wednesday, October 26, 2022. Read by Susan Sweeney.
Selections from "No Time To Spare" and "The Wave In The Mind".
Best known for her speculative fiction, Ursula K. LeGuin’s writing career spanned over 60 years, gathering along the way numerous Hugo, Nebula and Focus awards. She’s been described as “a major voice in American letters” and been an important influence to such luminaries as Salman Rushdie and Neil Gaiman. But Le Guin is a writer of non-fiction as well and her sparkling essays on aging, beauty and her beloved cats, are not to be missed.
(Permission by the Estate of Ursula Le Guin)
Theme: "My Favorite Things" "Anyone Can Whistle", George Shearing, Favorite Things, Telarc
Klara And The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Thursday, October 27 through Friday, November 25, 2022. Read by Michele Good.
Nobel Prize winning author Kazou Ishiguro offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities who is seeking answers to a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
(Knopf; ISBN-10: 059331817X / ISBN-13: 978-0593318171)
Theme: William Grant Still; Three Visions: No. 2, Summerland; Zina Schiff, Violin; Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Avlana Eisenberg
NPR'S 2021 BOOK CONCIERGE
About Jim
Jim Fleming began his career at WPR as a student announcer in the 1960s. In addition to producing and hosting several award winning radio dramas and programs, Fleming also held a number of management positions. Read more
About Norman
Norman Gilliland is the Wisconsin Public Radio host of "The Midday" and "Old Time Radio Drama." He's also the author of "Sand Mansions," and "Midnight Catch."Read more
About Michele
Michele Gerard Good was born in Chicago and raised in northern Wisconsin. After graduating from Ripon College with a degree in theatre, she spent most of her life pursuing an acting career – studying “the Method” at The Actor’s Studio in London, voice with Marni Nixon in New York and...Read more
About Karl
Karl Schmidt was an Emeritus Professor at UW-Extension, and read for "Chapter a Day" off and on for 75 years. Among his other roles at WPR, Schmidt directed "Earplay," a radio drama that comprised much of NPR's programming of that genre during the 1970s. He died in April 2016.Read more
About Susan
Susan Sweeney is an emeritus theater professor at the University of Wisconsin. She has a long history in theater as well as singing and coaching voice and dialects throughout the United States. She has voiced over 20 books as a reader for Wisconsin Public Radio's long-running program "Chapter a Day."Read more