Join David Kern and guest Levi Stahl (marketing director for University of Chicago Press and a wonderful books-based Twitter follow) for a conversation about some great summer reads. They start by chatting about what makes for a good summer read, then dive in to their own lists.
Here are some of the books discussed on this show:
A Month in the Country, by J. L. Carr
Novels and stories by Craig Rice
Dorothy Dunnett's House of Niccolo series, Lymond Chronicles, and King Hereafter
The Canterbury Tales
The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett
David Epstein's Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
A.E. Stallings' “Like”
Eric Ambler's Journey into Fear
P.G. Wodehouse's Carry on Jeeves
Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety
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Graham Greene the Spy, with Christopher Hull
On the Work of the Regional Novelist, with David Joy
Callie Feyen on Teaching Shakespeare
Paul Sahre, One of the World's Foremost Book Cover Designers
Discussing the 2019 Pulitzer Prize Finalists with John Wilson
Christian Kiefer on "Phantoms" and the Writing Life
Dostoevsky's Gambling Problem (featuring Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson)
Eighth Day Book's owner, Warren Farha
The Tragic Story of A Confederacy of Dunces
On Sans Forgetica, a new font to aid memory retention
On the Best Film Adaptations of Books, with Jeffrey Overstreet and Steven Greydanus
Libromania Top 5: The Most Romantic Books
Matthew Zapruder, author of WHY POETRY, on life as a poet
Remembering Mary Oliver (with A.M. Juster and Allison Backous Troy)
Why Do We Love the Smell of Old Books?
S.D. Smith, Jonathan Rogers, & Douglas McKelvey talk process and vocation
Why "To Kill a Mockingbird" is America's most popular novel
The Year in Movies, with Jeffrey Overstreet
John Wilson on his favorite books of 2018
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