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WGBH Summer Reading

A Summer Book List


By WGBH News
What are you reading this summer? Here are the picks from Emily Rooney's panel — and you.
Books

The Food Obsessive's Diet


MORE FOOD NEWS
By Will Roseliep
What to do when you eat for a living — but you need to lose weight? Cookbook author Peter Kaminsky found a foodie path to weight loss, which he documents in his new book.
Books

Game of Thrones: The Cookbook


MORE FOOD NEWS
By Abbie Ruzicka
Feast like Tyrion and Daenerys: two local ladies have concocted a cookbook of recipes mentioned in the popular George R. R. Martin series. To start, you can make their lemoncakes ...
EMILY ROONEY SHOW

How Three Minutes Changed a Father's Life


By The Emily Rooney Show
Author Buzz Bissinger talks about his new memoir, Father's Day, that chronicles a road trip he took with his special-needs son.
Economy

Paul Krugman Talks Solutions on Greater Boston


KRUGMAN ON THE FORUM NETWORK
By Jared Bowen
Forget "recession," forget "downturn." We're in a depression, Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman says — and he thinks he knows how to fix it.
Author Interviews

'Fug You': The Wild Life Of Ed Sanders



MORE ARTS NEWS
By Jon Kalish
Ed Sanders co-founded the legendary avant-rock band The Fugs, and went on to be an important member of the Youth International Party — the Yippies. He's also a classical scholar who's written a new memoir of life on New York's Lower East Side in the 1960s.
CALLIE CROSSLEY SHOW

Rachel Dratch: Life after SNL


Lexington native and Saturday Night Live star Rachel Dratch talks with Callie Crossley about her new book, Girl Walks into a Bar.
INSIDE THE WGBH VAULT

John Updike -- The Cartoonist?


WGBH OPEN VAULT
March 18th would have been the 80th birthday of celebrated American author, John Updike. WGBH Archives shares this interview from the 1978 At Home series. 
Women

There Is Always Room at the Top


By Danielle Dreilinger
On International Women's Day, pioneering ad executive Charlotte Beers talks about her climb to success and how other women can get there too.
Books

Essayist/Comedian Michael Ian Black


LISTEN ON DEMAND
The sardonic comedian has found himself a married suburban dad. How did that happen? He joined WGBH News to talk about cars, his career and being happy.
WGBH Local News

A Kennedy Life 'Interrupted'


By Toni Waterman
In a new book, JFK Jr.'s former personal assistant shares her memories of the Kennedy heir and his life in New York.
Education

Harvard's Vampires 101


MORE CALLIE CROSSLEY
By Will Roseliep
No, not sleepless freshmen. A new Harvard Extension course has attracted hundreds of people thirsting for knowledge about the vampire in literature and film.
WHERE WE LIVE

Where You Live: 'Always Christmas' In Georgetown


WHERE WE LIVE: COMPLETE SERIES
By Terry and Rick Palardy
Despite health challenges, Terry Palardy is living her retirement dream in the North Shore town where she and her husband have made toys and gifts since the '70s.
Author Interviews

Let's Talk About Seduction


By Kyanna Sutton
For the French, seduction isn't simply a question of sex. It's a mindset that transcends sexual conquest, relating to how one approaches one's life as a whole experience. Elaine Sciolino, Paris correspondent and former Paris bureau chief for The New York Times, offers a few tips for joie de vivre in her new book, La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life.
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Summer Reading Recs From Boston's Best


MORE FROM 'THE EMILY ROONEY SHOW'
By WGBH News
The Emily Rooney Show asked some of area’s best writers — like "House of Sand and Fog" author Andre Dubus III — and notable personalities — like Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton — to share book recommendations.
THE CALLIE CROSSLEY SHOW

The Callie Crossley Show's Summer Reading Picks


MORE FROM THE CALLIE CROSSLEY SHOW
By WGBH News
Need something good to read this summer, whether on the beach or just lazing around the house? Arts and culture contributors Yu Jin Ko and Alicia Anstead stopped by "The Callie Crossley Show" to discuss the sanctuary that is summer reading and to offer their own picks for this year.
Kids Media Matters

There Are Good Books, And Then There Are Great Books


A conversation with Great Books Summer Program co-founder Dr. Ilan Stavans.
Books

Patrick Hopes Others Have Reason To Believe


GOV. PATRICK ON GREATER BOSTON
By Ben Taylor
In his new memoir, A Reason To Belive, Gov. Patrick recounts his unlikely rise from a difficult youth on Chicago's South Side, to Pepsi executive, to Massachusetts governor. But in an interview with WGBH's Emily Rooney, Patrick says his story is not -- and should not be -- all that rare.
Masterpiece

The 39 Steps


WATCH
A suspenseful adaptation of John Buchan's thriller "The 39 Steps," about former intelligence officer Richard Hannay (Rupert Penry-Jones), who's pursued by both the police for a murder he didn't commit and German agents in the weeks leading up to WWI.
Best Of 2010

Best Books of 2011

Just in time to add these gems to your holiday shopping list for the bookworm in your life, Bookfinds.com's Jocelyn Kelley and Brookline Booksmith's Evan Perriello share their picks for the best books of 2011.
Author Interviews

Rushdie On Telling Tales Of Adventure


MORE FORUM NETWORK
LISTEN TO SALMAN RUSHDIE ON THE EMILY ROONEY SHOW
WATCH SALMAN RUSHDIE ON GREATER BOSTON
Salman Rushdie talks about his new book, Luka and the Fire of Life. which centers on Luka, Haroun’s younger brother, who must save his father from certain doom.
99.5 Host Notes

"My Nine Lives," Violin$, Alisa Weilerstein, and Who's Afraid of Modern Music?


By Brian McCreath
Leon Fleisher talks with Diane Rehm, Alex Ross sounds off on modern music, and how much would you pay for a violin?
The Emily Rooney Show

Rushdie Explores Video Games In New Novel


THE EMILY ROONEY SHOW
By Jess Bidgood
World-famous author Salman Rushdie discussed parenthood, Harry Potter and his new novel, Luka and the Fire of Life with WGBH's Emily Rooney.
Holidays

WGBH Hosts Pick Their Holiday Favorites


BROWSE HOST PICKS
Need a gift idea for your friends and family? We’ve asked a cross-section of WGBH Radio personalities to suggest a few ideas.
GREATER BOSTON

Customers Worry As Book Fair Goes On Sale


MORE GREATER BOSTON
By Adam Reilly
The New England Mobile Book Fair -- which is neither mobile nor a fair -- is up for sale, and its loyal customers are worried an ownership change could threaten a quirkiness that has taken 50 years to develop.
Books

In Hard Times, The Tenacious 'Pursuit Of Happiness'


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More News from WGBH
By Heller McAlpin
Whimsical and richly illustrated, Maira Kalman's graphic diary is an optimistic yearlong exploration of American history and government. And the Pursuit of Happiness is an unorthodox tribute to the United States -- from musings on The Department of Homeland Security, to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to Ben Franklin.
Author Interviews

The True Love Story Of Lady Antonia And Her Harold


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More News from WGBH
By Susan Stamberg
They were married when they first met, but he kept her from leaving a party when he asked, "Must you go?"  That simple question launched a 33-year relationship and serves as the title of biographer Lady Antonia Fraser's new memoir about her years with playwright Harold Pinter.
Books

Oliver Sacks: A Neurologist Examines 'The Mind's Eye'


FULL ARTICLE
Neurologist Oliver Sacks is famous for his case studies of people with neurological disorders that cause unusual problems with perception. In The Mind's Eye, Sacks turns to himself, explaining how an eye tumor affected his vision and perception of the world.
Books

In 'Amityville,' A True Real Estate Horror Story


FULL ARTICLE
By Josh Kilmer-Purcell
In 1975, the Lutz family moved into their dream home on Long Island -- and barely lasted a year. Jay Anson chronicles their paranormal experiences in a 1977 pulp horror classic. Josh Kilmer-Purcell says Amityville's hyperbole and hackneyed plotlines keep his mind off of his own anxieties.
Books

Book Your Trip: Nancy Pearl Picks Tales For Travel


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All aboard, armchair travelers! In Book Lust to Go, our go-to librarian shares her favorite accounts of intrepid exploration and fiction from faraway lands.
Arts

Center Stage


WATCH
Watch Center Stage with Jared Bowen, and see what other fans of the program are saying.
Local Voices

The Art of Ritual


By Alicia Anstead

The eloquent testimonials last week of several outstanding writers and close family members were what you might expect at a public memorial service for the crime novelist Robert B. Parker who died in January.

Local Voices

AudioBooks


By Carlo Rotella

One of the major technological improvements of this age provides me with the ability to listen to a book on a near-weightless device while lying under a stack of weights.

Foodie Blog

Book review: Cleaving by Julie Powell, sequel to Julie & Julia, has plenty of spice


Julia Child: Lessons with Master Chefs
By Cathy Huyghe

Julie Powell must certainly have considered cooking her way through volume two of Mastering the Art of French Cooking as the follow-up sequel to her wildly successful Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously.

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