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Sure, we may still see some frosty nights, but the days have lengthened and the end of the school season is within sight. When I was growing up–regardless of where I spent the summer months–reading was a big part of my vacation. I...
We know the cliches: “Home is where the heart is;” “Home is where when you knock at the door, they have to let you in;” “Home is a haven in a heartless world;” and so on. These platitudes might express a deep truth for some of us, but,...
One of the hottest books in America right now is F. Scott Fizgerald’s The Great Gatsby, which at its heart is the tale of a self-made man’s obsession with a larger-than-life woman, Daisy Buchanan. It’s a fantastic book, with all...
An unscheduled press conference with President Obama pre-empted broadcast of our Readers & Writers conversation with Terry Tempest Williams. Online audio of the conversation in now available. Terry Tempest Williams will be our guest Tuesday,...
Tuesday, April 23, 4-5 pm, a first for the NCPR book club: a live broadcast from the library at Fort Drum with Siobhan Fallon, the author of the short story collection, “You Know When the Men Are Gone.” Audio archive of our conversation...
Books and Authors
May 24, 2013 — In 2003, Richard Rubin set out to talk to every American veteran of World War I he could find. With help from the French, he tracked down dozens of centenarian vets and recorded their stories in a new book called The Last of the Doughboys.
May 24, 2013 — Alan Cheuse reviews a collection of short stories called Love is Power, Or Something Like That by A. Igoni Barrett
May 24, 2013 — The lists are compiled from weekly surveys of close to 500 independent bookstores nationwide.
Special Features
No Bigger Than a Piano Box: a North Country Schoolhouse in 1893
By historian Betsy Kepes. Based on the 1893 diary of a North Country schoolteacher. A Women's History Month special. Teacher's guide and CD available.
A Franklin Manor Christmas
Paul Willcott of Saranac Lake reads his original Adirondack holiday story set in a down-at-heels former cure cottage and monastery occupied by a lonesome ex-professor.
Readers & Writers on the Air: Alan Cheuse
Mar 06, 2003 — In this edition of our call-in on contemporary literature, the guest is Alan Cheuse. In addition to being NPR's book reviewer, heard regularly on All Things Considered, Cheuse is a poet, essayist and fiction writer whose work includes The Grandmother's Club: A Novel, Listening to the Page (adventures in reading & writing), and The Light Possessed. Go to full article
Vermont Bookseller Nervous About Threat of 'Patriot Act' Searches
Feb 19, 2003 — Afraid of 'Patriot Act' searches, a Vermont bookseller is deleting the names of books on its reader's club list. Go to full article
Readers & Writers on the Air Call-in on Contemporary Literature: Ihsan Abdul-Rahiim
Feb 06, 2003 — Hosts Chris Robinson, Margaret Bass and listeners talk with Ihsan Abdul-Rahiim, a poet, fiction writer and playwright. He is the author of ibo landing, an offering of short stories, and has been content editor for the online magazine Voice of the Ghetto. Abdul-Rahiim was a featured writer in the 2003 St. Lawrence University Festival of the Arts. Go to full article
Book Review: Women On High
Feb 05, 2003 — A new book brings new attention to pioneering women mountaineers, who faced more than the usual obstacles as they explored the world's high peaks. Betsy Kepes has our review. Go to full article
Readers & Writers on the Air: Winter Reading Call-in
Jan 09, 2003 — NCPR callers join hosts Ellen Rocco and Chris Robinson in compiling a fireside must-read list of authors and writing for 2003. Go to full article
Books: Hannah's Gift
Dec 06, 2002 — Martha Foley talks with Maria Housden, author of Hannah's Gift. Go to full article
Readers & Writers: Poet Afua Cooper
Dec 05, 2002 — Tonight's guest is Afro-Caribbean poet Afua Cooper, author of Utterances and Incantations: 12 Female Dub Poets From the Black Diaspora, and numerous other works of... Go to full article
Preview: Adk Center for Writing's Holiday Block Party this Sunday
Dec 05, 2002 — The Adirondack Center for Writing is hosting a party and silent auction this Sunday at 2 pm at the Hotel Saranac in Saranac Lake. ACW Executive Director Nathalie Thill tells... Go to full article
Guns Across the River: The Story of the Forgotten "Alamo of the North"
Nov 22, 2002 — In November of 1838, there was a little known attack on Prescott, Ontario. A group of mostly New Yorkers, known as the Hunter Patriots, landed at Windmill Point, across from... Go to full article
Commentary: Book Endings
Nov 13, 2002 — Commentator Paul Willcott offers his thoughts on one of life's painful but little recognized experiences, coming to the end of an absorbing novel, the kind called a... Go to full article
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