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Chapter A Day

Started in 1931, “Chapter a Day” is WPR’s longest-running program. Jim Fleming, Norman Gilliland, Michele Good, Melvin Hinton, Baron Kelly and Susan Sweeney read a chapter from a book for a half hour each weekday. Genres are predominately contemporary and range from works of fiction, history and biography.

Schedule

WPR Music, 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., WPR News, 9:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

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Star Lake Saloon And Housekeeping Cottages by Sara Rath

Monday, July 07 through Friday, July 25 2025

Read by Jim Fleming


Hannah Swann leads a quiet life in Madison, but when she inherits her uncle’s rundown resort in the Northwoods, she finds herself proprietor of his environmental legacy as well. It’s a chance to discover her family, herself, and what is most important to her future.

THEME: excerpts from “Fretwork” with Chris Newman

(Terrace Books; ISBN-10: 0299215245)


Readings are archived for one week following the broadcast day of the last chapter due to publisher 
copyright restrictions.


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View information about every book we’ve read in the past 30 years!

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Book cover for Truck: A Love Story by Michael Perry, featuring a red vintage pickup truck on a rural landscape with a barn and blue sky in the background.
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Truck: A Love Story by Michael Perry

monday, july 28 through friday, August 15 2025
Read by Jim Fleming


The account of a year in which the New Auburn, WI writer “struggles to grow his own food…live peaceably with his neighbors…and sort out his love life.” It sounds simple, but it’s who he meets and the words he finds for what they do that matter.

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