The Avid Reader Show

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Arlie R. Hochschild, author most recently of Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger And Mourning On The American Right, published in September by the new press and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her previous works include The Outsourced Self, The Unexpected Community, So How’s The Family and Other Essays, The Managed Heart and many others. Each of these and her other work focuses in good part on emotions and how the control of those emotions or the direction of each, helps to create the everyday world we live in and drives the stressors and motivation and motivates each of us as we live our workaday lives. Strangers In Their Own Land is about as timely a book as you could imagine. It rides the swell of alt-right anger and mourning and comes close to an expression of the phenomenon that we find ourselves immersed in today as we speak. And dependent on whether you are one of those strangers, or an alt-left like me, you are either ebullient and feel that you are ready for the zombie apocalypse. With that Arlie, welcome and thanks so much for joining us today.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Arlie R. Hochschild, author most recently of Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger And Mourning On The American Right, published in September by the new press and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her previous works include The Outsourced Self, The Unexpected Community, So How’s The Family and Other Essays, The Managed Heart and many others. Each of these and her other work focuses in good part on emotions and how the control of those emotions or the direction of each, helps to create the everyday world we live in and drives the stressors and motivation and motivates each of us as we live our workaday lives. Strangers In Their Own Land is about as timely a book as you could imagine. It rides the swell of alt-right anger and mourning and comes close to an expression of the phenomenon that we find ourselves immersed in today as we speak. And dependent on whether you are one of those strangers, or an alt-left like me, you are either ebullient and feel that you are ready for the zombie apocalypse. With that Arlie, welcome and thanks so much for joining us today.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Arlie R. Hochschild, author most recently of Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger And Mourning On The American Right, published in September by the new press and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her previous works include The Outsourced Self, The Unexpected Community, So How’s The Family and Other Essays, The Managed Heart and many others. Each of these and her other work focuses in good part on emotions and how the control of those emotions or the direction of each, helps to create the everyday world we live in and drives the stressors and motivation and motivates each of us as we live our workaday lives. Strangers In Their Own Land is about as timely a book as you could imagine. It rides the swell of alt-right anger and mourning and comes close to an expression of the phenomenon that we find ourselves immersed in today as we speak. And dependent on whether you are one of those strangers, or an alt-left like me, you are either ebullient and feel that you are ready for the zombie apocalypse. With that Arlie, welcome and thanks so much for joining us today.

Every year Sam and Donna of Wellington Square Bookshop post their best books of 2016 in this lively and insult laden episode of the Avid Reader

Every year Sam and Donna of Wellington Square Bookshop post their best books of 2016 in this lively and insult laden episode of the Avid Reader

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is James Gleick, author of Time Travel, a history. Published in September by Pantheon. Suppose it could have easily been Time Travel a future but then this interview would have been done some time ago. James was born in NYC graduated from Harvard and worked for years as an editor and reporter for the NYT. He recently wrote The Information, a history, a theory, a flood. Before that was Chaos a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist. He also wrote Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (my hero) and Isaac Newton both shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize. As well as so many others. Without Time (both the book and the concept), there would be very little to do. Here or anywhere. We would have all the space in the universe and no place to go. Time gives us a chance to be born to play baseball, to fall in love, to marry have children, watch them grow, grow old ourselves die as we remember chunks of what was a life either well lived or not. And wouldn’t it be nice if we could go back through time and lazily revisit those moments that we hold so dear or perhaps better yet scurry back to those moments where we went terribly wrong and perhaps took the road more travelled and perhaps carefully and with plenty of time untangle what would otherwise be Gordian knots but with the advantage of slowing things down and letting the gears slip backward are now just slipknots. But...James says we can’t do it. But he has provided us with a framework within which we structure our universe and our consciousness’ highway and James has given us a bit of a roadmap to that highway and whether or not it is a one way street or a thoroughfare which can be traversed both ways.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is James Gleick, author of Time Travel, a history. Published in September by Pantheon. Suppose it could have easily been Time Travel a future but then this interview would have been done some time ago. James was born in NYC graduated from Harvard and worked for years as an editor and reporter for the NYT. He recently wrote The Information, a history, a theory, a flood. Before that was Chaos a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist. He also wrote Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (my hero) and Isaac Newton both shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize. As well as so many others. Without Time (both the book and the concept), there would be very little to do. Here or anywhere. We would have all the space in the universe and no place to go. Time gives us a chance to be born to play baseball, to fall in love, to marry have children, watch them grow, grow old ourselves die as we remember chunks of what was a life either well lived or not. And wouldn’t it be nice if we could go back through time and lazily revisit those moments that we hold so dear or perhaps better yet scurry back to those moments where we went terribly wrong and perhaps took the road more travelled and perhaps carefully and with plenty of time untangle what would otherwise be Gordian knots but with the advantage of slowing things down and letting the gears slip backward are now just slipknots. But...James says we can’t do it. But he has provided us with a framework within which we structure our universe and our consciousness’ highway and James has given us a bit of a roadmap to that highway and whether or not it is a one way street or a thoroughfare which can be traversed both ways.

The Fix Jonathan Tepperman

The Fix Jonathan Tepperman

1Q1A Jonathan Tepperman The Fix

1Q1A Jonathan Tepperman The Fix

By Gaslight Steven

By Gaslight Steven

By Gaslight Steven Price

By Gaslight Steven Price