The Weekly Reader

By WYPR Baltimore

----What should I read next?---- Book critic and longtime NPR commentator Marion Winik answers this question in four opinionated, book-loving minutes. With reviews of new releases and older titles you... more

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The Weekly Reader episodes:

April 09, 2025 Listen to This: New Audio Memoirs
Never trust the teller, trust the tale? Not when the "teller" is as compelling as the "tale!"
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4min
March 27, 2025 Weekly Reader Live at CityLit Festival 2025
The Weekly Reader's Marion Winik will be in conversation with four local writers who have been receiving raves for their new work in fiction and poetry.
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4min
March 19, 2025 Europe in Wartime: "33 Place Brugmann" by Alice Austen and "Maya and Natasha" by Elyse Durham
World War II and its aftermath left an indelible mark on the world and inspired countless artists to try to make sense of such a calamity.
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4min
March 12, 2025 Listening to Joan Didion
Joan Didion died in 2021, but interest in her life and work has only increased since then.
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March 05, 2025 Inheritance: "The Magnificent Ruins" by Nayantara Roy and "Like Mother, Like Mother" by Susan Rieger
We can inherit so many things from our ancestors: physical traits, like hair and eye color, a quick temper, musical talent, a bunch of money, maybe even a big old house.
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4min
February 27, 2025 I Dream of Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell gets the biographical treatment in a pair of books as unconventional as the artist herself.
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February 24, 2025 Short Stories: New Books From Curtis Sittenfeld, Erika Krouse, and by Amor Towles
We love Short Stories, and we're going to make you love them, too.
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February 17, 2025 Career Opportunities: "Mona Acts Out" by Mischa Berlinski and "How to Sleep at Night" by Elizabeth Harris
Who hasn’t dreamed of running away, leaving it all behind, totally reinventing yourself?
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4min
February 10, 2025 When Bad Things Happen to Good Writers
Great art is often created in the wake of terrible tragedy – think Guernica, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, The Vietnam Memorial.
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February 10, 2025 When Bad Things happen to Good Writers
Great art is often created in the wake of terrible tragedy – think Guernica, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, The Vietnam Memorial.
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4min

FAQs about The Weekly Reader:

How many episodes does The Weekly Reader have?

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