Before we get going with interviews, this introduction will let you get to know our hosts and learn what they're hoping to do here. How and why do we read—and why can't we stop talking about it all?
Want to keep track of the books and authors we mentioned? Check out what comes close to a comprehensive list below!
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay
Gaston Bachelard The Practice of Everyday Life
Don Clifton StrengthsFinder 2.0
Hernan Díaz Trust
Gustav Eckstein The Body Has a Head; also Lives, in which the mentioned story, "Two Lives," is included
Jonathan Franzen How to Be Alone ("Lost in the Mail")
Paolo Freire Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Christopher Gilbert Turning into Dwelling
Pierre Hadot Philosophy as a Way of Life
Liam Heneghan A Primer on Human Impacts on the Environment
John Irving Avenue of Mysteries
Jack Kerouac Atop an Underwood
Barbara Kingsolver Demon Copperhead
Karl Ove Knausgaard My Struggle (vol. 6)
László Krasznahorkai The Melancholy of Resistance
Julia Kristeva New Maladies of the Soul
Alan Lomax The Land Where the Blues Began
Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses
Matthew McConaughey Greenlights
Katja Oskamp Marzahn, mon amour
Orhan Pamuk The Museum of Innocence
James Rebanks The Shepherd's Life
Katy Scrogin "Complex Adaptive Democracy"
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
Wallace Stevens The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
J. R. R. Tolkien The Silmarillion
Walt Whitman Poetry & Prose
RadioArt(r) The Phone Book
Ryan Iverson Werner Herzog Reads
Authors:
Walter Mosley
Sarah Orne Jewett
