READ TO ME with Becky Karush
On Read to Me, we practice listening — the invisible skill that fuels great work. We listen for what we love in an excerpt of exceptional writing, and then we put words to why it's so, so good. Great writers don't just know how to write. They know how to listen for what they love.Podcasts
River House by Diana Whitney
Published: Aug. 24, 2023, 3:52 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 47 seconds
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Read to Me from... Unfollow Your Passion by Terri Trespicio
Published: Dec. 20, 2021, 7:08 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 27 seconds
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Read to Me from... The Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address (2019)
Published: Nov. 24, 2021, 5:01 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 32 seconds
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Read to Me from... Water I Won't Touch by Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Published: Nov. 12, 2021, 5:01 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 18 seconds
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Read to Me from... The Days of Afrekete by Asali Solomon
Published: Oct. 28, 2021, 4:01 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 42 seconds
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Read to Me from... Beneficence by Meredith Hall
Published: Oct. 13, 2021, 4:01 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 33 seconds
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Read To Me from...The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
Published: Sept. 30, 2021, 4 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 39 seconds
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Read to Me from... Farm Girl by Megan Baxter
Published: Sept. 10, 2021, 4:01 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 23 seconds
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READ TO ME from... The Wit and Wisdom of Ann Richards by Molly Ivins [REPLAY]
Published: Aug. 26, 2021, 4:01 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 6 seconds
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READ TO ME talks to... Mauricio Novoa
Published: Aug. 20, 2021, 4:01 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 12 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Memorias of the Beltway by Mauricio Novoa
Published: Aug. 18, 2021, 4:01 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 51 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Madness, Rack, and Honey by Mary Ruefle [REPLAY]
Published: Aug. 11, 2021, 4:02 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 55 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Hadestown by Anais Mitchell [REPLAY]
Published: July 21, 2021, 4:01 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 10 seconds
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READ TO ME talks to... Emily Bass
Published: July 14, 2021, 4:01 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 36 seconds
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READ TO ME from... To End a Plague by Emily Bass
Published: July 12, 2021, 4:01 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes
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READ TO ME talks to... Barbara Newman
Published: June 30, 2021, 4:01 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 53 seconds
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READ TO ME from... The Dreamcatcher Codes by Barbara Newman
Published: June 23, 2021, 4:01 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 3 seconds
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READ TO ME talks to... Sari Rosenblatt
Published: June 16, 2021, 1:32 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 14 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Father Guards the Sheep by Sari Rosenblatt
Published: June 10, 2021, 3:59 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 36 seconds
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READ TO ME talks to...Ann Braden
Published: June 2, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 6 seconds
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READ TO ME from...Flight of a Puffin by Ann Braden
Published: May 27, 2021, 1:30 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 36 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Why Solange Matters by Stephanie Phillips
Published: May 8, 2021, 4:01 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 38 seconds
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READ TO ME talks to... Jocelyn Mackenzie
Published: May 3, 2021, 6:30 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 27 seconds
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READ TO ME from...Mango Leather by Jocelyn Mackenzie
Published: April 28, 2021, 4:01 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds
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READ TO ME talks to...James Crews
Published: April 19, 2021, 7 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 8 seconds
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READ TO ME from...How To Love The World by James Crews
Published: April 15, 2021, 4:01 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 8 seconds
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READ TO ME talks to...Diana Whitney
Published: April 2, 2021, 4:05 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes
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READ TO ME from...You Don't Have to Be Everything by Diana Whitney
Published: March 31, 2021, 4:05 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 5 seconds
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READ TO ME Spree Week...with Jen Goldman
Published: March 26, 2021, 4:05 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 48 seconds
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READ TO ME Spree Week...with Abigail Braitwaite
Published: March 25, 2021, 4:05 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 17 seconds
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READ TO ME SPREE WEEK...with Mary Lou Bagley
Published: March 24, 2021, 4:05 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 20 seconds
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READ TO ME SPREE WEEK...with Patricia Smith
Published: March 23, 2021, 4:05 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 49 seconds
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READ TO ME SPREE WEEK... with Karen Coulters
Published: March 22, 2021, 4:05 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 37 seconds
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READ TO ME talks to...Jo Ann Beard
Published: March 14, 2021, 8:43 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 21 seconds
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READ TO ME from...Festival Days by Jo Ann Beard
Published: March 11, 2021, 5:01 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 41 seconds
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READ TO ME talks to...Samantha Kolber
Published: March 2, 2021, 5 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 2 seconds
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READ TO ME from...Birth of a Daughter by Samantha Kolber
Published: Feb. 26, 2021, 5:01 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 29 seconds
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READ TO ME talks to.... Aliza Eliazarov
Published: Feb. 12, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 50 seconds
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READ TO ME from... On the Farm by Aliza Eliazarov
Published: Feb. 10, 2021, 5:01 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 38 seconds
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READ TO ME talks to... Katina Makris
Published: Jan. 29, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 33 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Interview with Katina Makris [Mini Episode]
Published: Jan. 29, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 33 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Loving Yourself Enough to Thrive by Katina Makris
Published: Jan. 27, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 30 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Katina Makris (How to Thrive)
Published: Jan. 27, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 30 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Interview with Robert Jones, Jr. [Mini Episode]
Published: Jan. 23, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 8 seconds
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READ TO ME talks to... Robert Jones, Jr.
Published: Jan. 23, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 8 seconds
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READ TO ME from... The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
Published: Jan. 21, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 46 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Interview with Katherine May [Mini Episode]
Published: Jan. 6, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 37 seconds
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READ TO ME talks to... Katherine May
Published: Jan. 6, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 37 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Wintering by Katherine May
Published: Dec. 23, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 42 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Dolly Parton and Barack Obama
Published: Dec. 16, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 22 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Interview with Julia Phillips [Mini Episode]
Published: Dec. 9, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 18 seconds
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READ TO ME talks to... Julia Phillips
Published: Dec. 9, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 18 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
Published: Dec. 2, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 36 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Interview with Kirun Kapur [Mini Episode]
Published: Nov. 27, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 51 seconds
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READ TO ME talks to... Kirun Kapur
Published: Nov. 27, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 51 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Women in the Waiting Room by Kirun Kapur
Published: Nov. 18, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 43 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Kirun Kapur
Published: Nov. 18, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 43 seconds
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READ TO ME talks to... Makenna Goodman
Published: Oct. 30, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 55 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Interview with Makenna Goodman [Mini Episode]
Published: Oct. 30, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 55 seconds
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READ TO ME from... The Shame by Makenna Goodman
Published: Oct. 23, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 50 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Gentle Soldier of My Soul
Published: Oct. 7, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 40 seconds
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READ TO ME from... John Lewis/Alexander Vindman
Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 46 seconds
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READ TO ME from... HORSES IN THE SKY by Kris Delmhorst
Published: Aug. 5, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 42 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Evie Shockley
Published: July 29, 2020, 3:14 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 39 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Kristy's Great Idea
Published: July 22, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 25 seconds
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READ TO ME from... The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me
Published: July 15, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 16 seconds
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READ TO ME from... The Space Between
Published: July 8, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 37 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Farming While Black
Published: July 1, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 30 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Burial by Ross Gay
Published: June 24, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 1 second
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READ TO ME FROM... Elizabeth Alina
Published: June 17, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 31 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Soul of an Octopus
Published: June 10, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 46 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Rubeena Ianigro
Published: May 27, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 19 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Toni Morrison Was the Greatest American Writer
Published: May 20, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 42 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Food Can Hurt
Published: May 13, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 5 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Published: May 6, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 45 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Beneth Sauer
Published: April 29, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 26 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Jane Eyre [Replay]
Published: April 22, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 23 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Untamed
Published: April 15, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 53 seconds
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READ TO ME FROM... The Mammals
Published: April 8, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 45 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Mary Gauthier and Tennessee Williams
Published: April 1, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes
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READ TO ME from... The Raven King
Published: March 25, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 19 seconds
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READ TO ME from... American Spy
Published: March 18, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 51 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Friendship
Published: March 11, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 21 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Notes from a Yarmulke Wearer's Wife
Published: March 4, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 9 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Bleachers
Published: Feb. 26, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 35 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Alma
Published: Feb. 18, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 28 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Holiest Day and Psalm 77
Published: Feb. 12, 2020, noonDuration: 27 minutes 56 seconds
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READ TO ME from... She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
Published: Feb. 5, 2020, noonDuration: 21 minutes 41 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Presque Tres Bien
Published: Jan. 29, 2020, noonDuration: 28 minutes 9 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address
Published: Jan. 22, 2020, 1 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 32 seconds
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READ TO ME from ... Double Fudge by Judy Blume
Published: Dec. 24, 2019, 3:47 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 57 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Superfudge by Judy Blume
Published: Dec. 24, 2019, 3:39 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 43 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Fudge-a-Mania by Judy Blume
Published: Dec. 5, 2019, 6:35 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 36 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Published: Nov. 21, 2019, 3:44 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 8 seconds
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READ TO ME from... The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Published: Nov. 13, 2019, 3:33 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 26 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Taylor Swift & Cass McCrory
Published: Nov. 6, 2019, 3:40 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 18 seconds
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READ TO ME from... They Could Live with Themselves by Jodi Paloni
Published: Oct. 31, 2019, 4:15 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 46 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Wading Right In by Catherine Owen Koning and Sharon M. Ashworth'
Published: Oct. 23, 2019, 2:45 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 51 seconds
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READ TO ME from... How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Published: Oct. 14, 2019, 7:39 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 56 seconds
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READ TO ME from... Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Published: Oct. 9, 2019, 5:31 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 10 seconds
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READ TO ME from... ROSH HASHANAH: 5780 by Verandah Porche
Published: Oct. 3, 2019, 3:58 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 1 second
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19: READ TO ME from... The Wit and Wisdom of Ann Richards by Molly Ivins
Published: Sept. 17, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 6 seconds
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18: READ TO ME from... Listful Living by Paula Rizzo
Published: Sept. 10, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 15 seconds
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17: READ TO ME from... Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Published: Sept. 3, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 23 seconds
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16: READ TO ME from... Madness, Rack, and Honey by Mary Ruefle
Published: Aug. 27, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 55 seconds
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15: READ TO ME from... Demeter in Winter by Diana Whitney
Published: Aug. 20, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 23 seconds
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14: READ TO ME from... Toni Morrison and Vicki Vertiz
Published: Aug. 13, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 1 second
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13: READ TO ME from... The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me by Suzanne Kingsbury
Published: Aug. 7, 2019, 1:10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 36 seconds
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12: READ TO ME from ... Strange Diary Days by Blake Edwards
Published: July 30, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 29 seconds
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11: READ TO ME from ... An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Published: July 22, 2019, 2:04 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 53 seconds
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10: READ TO ME from... An Email by Laura Belgray
Published: June 26, 2019, 1:05 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 33 seconds
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9: READ TO ME from... The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
Published: June 19, 2019, 1:48 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 37 seconds
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8: READ TO ME from... Somewhere In A Town You Never Knew Existed Somewhere by Nina Heart
Published: June 12, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 34 seconds
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7: READ TO ME from... A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora by Jenna Le
Published: June 5, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes
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6: READ TO ME from... To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
Published: May 29, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 58 seconds
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5: READ TO ME from... Wedding Song from Hadestown by Anais Mitchell
Published: May 22, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 10 seconds
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4: READ TO ME from... Sonny's Blues but James Baldwin
Published: May 15, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 42 seconds
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3: READ TO ME from... Death of a Pig by E.B. White
Published: May 8, 2019, 2:09 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 2 seconds
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2: READ TO ME from... Figuring by Maria Popova
Published: May 8, 2019, 2:03 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 42 seconds
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1: READ TO ME from... The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
Published: April 30, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 55 seconds
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