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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

December 23, 2019 - 12:30pm

Monday, December 23 through Wednesday, December 25, 2019. Read by Ken Ohst. From the 1979 Chapter a Day archives, Ken Ohst reads Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" which was published in December of 1843. It tells the story of bitter miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation resulting from visits by the...

Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper

December 9, 2019 - 12:30pm

Monday, December 9 through Friday, December 20, 2019. Read by Michele Good. Word by Word brings to life the hallowed halls (and highly idiosyncratic cubicles) of Merriam-Webster, a startlingly rich world inhabited by quirky and erudite individuals who quietly shape the way we communicate. (Pantheon; ISBN-13: 9781101870945 - ISBN-10: 110187094X )

Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl

November 18, 2019 - 12:30pm

Monday, November 18 through Friday, December 6, 2019. Read by Karl Schmidt. At an early age, Ruth Reichl discovered that "food could be a way of making sense of the world. If you watched people as they ate, you could find out who they were." Her deliciously crafted memoir Tender...

NYT Book Review Editor Pamela Paul On The Critical Place Books Hold For Kids As They Get Older

November 15, 2019 - 3:25pm

New York Times Book Review Editor Pamela Paul on why reading — and more importantly, a deep connection to when, why, where and how of what we read — is so important at every age.

The Book Burning That Brought All Of Los Angeles Together

November 15, 2019 - 6:00am

Author Susan Orlean on how the worst library fire in American history brought an entire city together to save 700,000 books.

Graphic Novelist Craig Thompson's 'Ginseng Roots' Start With His Central Wisconsin Childhood

November 9, 2019 - 11:00am

Graphic novelist Craig Thompson's autobiographical book "Blankets" told the story of growing up in rural central Wisconsin. For his new project, "Ginseng Roots," he's returning home — and also doing things he's never done before in his work.

'His Dark Materials' Author Philip Pullman On The Consciousness Of All Things

November 8, 2019 - 3:30pm

Philip Pullman, the celebrated English writer has just written a 630-page sequel brimming with contentious ideas about religious tyranny, the loss of imagination and the nature of consciousness — all in a book that’s marketed to children.

Wisconsin Author Explores Urban-Rural Divide In New Collection

November 6, 2019 - 5:30am

A new collection of short stories — "Add This to the List of Things That You Are" — by Wisconsin author Chris Fink puts readers eye-to-eye with the fault lines of families and the divide between urban and rural cultures.

The Tale Teller by Anne Hillerman

October 28, 2019 - 12:30pm

Monday, October 28 through Friday, November 15, 2019. Read by Norman Gilliland. Joe Leaphorn may have retired from the Tribal Police, but he finds himself knee-deep in a perplexing case involving a priceless artifact—a reminder of a dark time in Navajo history. Joe’s been hired to find a missing biil,...

Things That Oink, Reboot, Whisper Or Stump In The Night

October 25, 2019 - 5:50pm

Why do we tell scary stories? Sometimes to imagine our worst case scenario, or to play out our deepest anxieties within the safe boundaries of fiction. A shudder of fear about ghosts or goblins is often followed by a sigh of relief that it was all a dream.

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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper

Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl

NYT Book Review Editor Pamela Paul On The Critical Place Books Hold For Kids As They Get Older

The Book Burning That Brought All Of Los Angeles Together

Graphic Novelist Craig Thompson's 'Ginseng Roots' Start With His Central Wisconsin Childhood

'His Dark Materials' Author Philip Pullman On The Consciousness Of All Things

Wisconsin Author Explores Urban-Rural Divide In New Collection

The Tale Teller by Anne Hillerman

Things That Oink, Reboot, Whisper Or Stump In The Night

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