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Week of Time To Read Episode
11/17/14 — 11/16/14


Episode 184: William Gibson : The Peripheral

11/10/14 — 11/16/14


Episode 183: Azar Nafisi : The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books

11/03/14 — 11/09/14


Episode 182: Dana Cowin : Mastering My Mistakes in the Kitchen: Learning to Cook with 65 Great Chefs and Over 100 Delicious Recipes

10/27/14 — 11/02/14


Episode 181: Paolo Bacigalupi : The Doubt Factory

10/20/14 — 10/26/14


Episode 180: Brian J.Showers : Old Albert: An Epilogue and Dreams of Shadow and Smoke

10/13/14 — 10/19/14


Episode 179: William T. Vollmann : Last Stories and Other Stories

10/13/14 — 10/19/14


Episode 178: Alix Christie : Gutenberg's Apprentice

10/06/14 — 10/12/14


Episode 177: Maureen Corrigan : So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures

09/29/14 — 10/05/14


Episode 176: Lawrence Wright : Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David

09/22/14 — 09/28/14


Episode 175: Rebecca Alexander : Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found

09/15/14 — 09/21/14


Episode 174: Luren Beukes : Broken Monsters

09/15/14 — 09/21/14


Episode 173: Walter Mosley : Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore

09/15/14 — 09/21/14


Episode 172: Lisa See : China Girls

09/08/14 — 09/14/14


Episode 171: Nick Harkaway : Tigerman

07/07/14 — 07/13/14


Episode 170: Roz Chast : Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?

06/23/14 — 06/29/14


Episode 169: Alan Furst : Midnight in Europe

06/23/14 — 06/29/14


Episode 168: Sarah Lotz : The Three

06/16/14 — 06/22/14


Episode 167: Steven Galloway : The Confabulist

06/09/14 — 06/15/14


Episode 166: Geoff Dyer : Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

06/02/14 — 06/08/14


Episode 165: Colson Whitehead : The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death

05/26/14 — 06/02/14


Episode 164: Kaui Hart Hemmings : The Possibilities

05/19/14 — 05/25/14


Episode 163: Kent A. Kiehl, PhD : The Psychopath Whisperer: The Science of Those Without Conscience

05/12/14 — 05/18/14


Episode 162: Justin Go : The Steady Running of the Hour

05/05/14 — 05/11/14


Episode 161: Matt Taibbi : The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

04/28/14 — 05/04/14


Episode 160: Ben Tarnoff : The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature

04/28/14 — 05/04/14


Episode 159: Ayelet Waldman : Love & Treasure

04/21/14 — 04/27/14


Episode 158: Mona Simpson : Casebook

04/14/14 — 04/20/14


Episode 157: Lorrie Moore : Bark

04/14/14 — 04/20/14


Episode 156: Michael Katakis : A Thousand Shards of Glass

03/31/14 — 04/06/14


Episode 155: David Rich : Middle Man

03/24/14 — 03/30/14


Episode 154: Carol Cassella : Gemini

03/17/14 — 03/23/14


Episode 153: Dave Barry : You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About

03/10/14 — 03/16/14


Episode 152 : Ian Rankin : Saints of the Shadow Bible

02/24/14 — 03/02/14


Episode 151 : Michio Kaku : The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance and Empower the Mind

02/17/14 — 02/23/14


Episode 150 : Annie Jacobsen : Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America

02/17/14 — 02/23/14


Episode 149 : Jeff VanderMeer : Annihilation

02/10/14 — 02/16/14


Episode 148 : Jenny Offill : Dept.of Speculation

02/03/14 — 02/09/14


Episode 147 : Kelly Corrigan : Glitter and Glue: A Memoir

01/27/14 — 02/02/14


Episode 146 : Jane Pauley : Your Life Calling: Reimagining the Rest of Your Life

01/20/14 — 01/26/14


Episode 145 : John Rizzo : Company Man: Thirty Years of Crisis and Controversy in the CIA

01/20/14 — 01/26/14


Episode 144 : Riane Eisler : The Chalice & the Blade

01/13/14 — 01/19/14


Episode 143 : Chang-rae Lee : On Such a Full Sea

01/13/14 — 01/19/14


Episode 142 : Nathan Ballingrud : North American Lake Monsters

01/06/14 — 01/12/14


Episode 141 : David Sedaris : Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

12/30/13 — 01/05/14


Episode 140 : Tad Williams : Happy Hour in Hell

12/30/13 — 01/05/14


Episode 139 : Russell Banks : A Permanent Member of the Family

12/23/13 — 12/29/13


Episode 138 : T. C. Boyle : T.C. Boyle Stories II

12/16/13 — 12/22/13


Episode 137 : Bill Sessions : Flannery O'Connor, A Prayer Journal

12/09/13 — 12/15/13


Episode 136 : Frankk Schaetzing : [limit]

11/25/13 — 12/01/13


Episode 135 : Susan Stinson : Spider in a Tree

11/18/13 — 11/24/13


Episode 134 : Christopher Rice : The Heavens Rise

11/18/13 — 11/24/13


Episode 133 : Anne Rice : The Wolves of Midwinter

11/04/13 — 11/10/13


Episode 132 : Dan Simmons : The Abominable

10/28/13 — 11/03/13


Episode 131 : Bill Bryson : One Summer: America, 1927

10/21/13 — 10/27/13


Episode 130 : Margaret Atwood : MaddAddam

10/21/13 — 10/27/13


Episode 129 : Hannah Kent : Burial Rites

10/14/13 — 10/20/13


Episode 128 : Paul Harding : Enon

10/14/13 — 10/20/13


Episode 127 : Nicholson Baker : Traveling Sprinkler

10/07/13 — 10/13/13


Episode 126: Jonathan Lethem : Dissident Gardens

09/30/13 — 10/06/13


Episode 125: Temple Grandin : The Autistic Brain

09/30/13 — 10/06/13


Episode 124: Mark Epstein : The Trauma of Everyday Life

09/23/13 — 09/29/13


Episode 123: Connie Willis : Blackout & All Clear

09/23/13 — 09/29/13


Episode 122: Marisha Pessl : Night Film

09/16/13 — 09/22/13


Episode 121: Jojo Moyes : The Girl You Left Behind

09/16/13 — 09/22/13


Episode 120: Ian Tregillis : The Milkweed Triptych

09/09/13 — 09/15/13


Episode 119: Margot Leitman : Gawky: Tales of an Extra Long Awkward Phase

09/09/13 — 09/15/13


Episode 118: Alfredo Corchado : Midnight In Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness

09/02/13 — 09/08/13


Episode 117: Benjamin Percy : Red Moon

08/19/13 — 08/25/13


Episode 116: Walter Mosley : Little Green

08/12/13 — 08/18/13


Episode 115: Ivy Pochoda : Visitation Street

08/05/13 — 08/11/13


Episode 114: Phillip Meyer : The Son

08/05/13 — 08/11/13


Episode 113: Gabriel Roth : The Unknowns

07/29/13 — 08/04/13


Episode 112: Lisa Lutz : The Last Word

07/29/13 — 08/04/13


Episode 111: Koethi Zan : The Never List

07/22/13 — 07/28/13


Episode 110: Andrew Sean Greer : The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

07/15/13 — 07/21/13


Episode 109: Brendan I. Koerner : The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking

07/15/13 — 07/21/13


Episode 108: Austin Grossman : You

07/08/13 — 07/14/13


Episode 107: Ryan Coonerty : The Rise of the Naked Economy: How to Benefit from the Changing Workplace

07/08/13 — 07/14/13


Episode 107: Ryan Coonerty : The Rise of the Naked Economy: How to Benefit from the Changing Workplace

07/01/13 — 07/07/13


Episode 106: Helene Wecker : The Golem and the Jinni

06/24/13 — 06/30/13


Episode 105: Joe Hill : NOS4A2

06/24/13 — 06/30/13


Episode 104: Nathaniel Rich : Odds Against Tomorrow

06/17/13 — 06/23/13


Episode 103: Annalee Newitz : Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

06/17/13 — 06/23/13


Episode 102: Higher Mysteries : Laurie R. King, Sharan Newman, Julia Spencer-Fleming and Zoe Ferraris

06/10/13 — 06/16/13


Episode 101: Michael Pollan : Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

06/03/13 — 06/09/13


Episode 100: Karen Joy Fowler : We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

05/27/13 — 06/02/13


Episode 99: Kate Atkinson : Life After Life

05/13/13 — 05/19/13


Episode 98: John Langan : The Wide Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

05/06/13 — 05/12/13


Episode 97: Mary Roach : Gulp.

04/29/13 — 05/05/13


Episode 96: Glennon Doyle Melton : Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

04/22/13 — 04/28/13


Episode 95: Ben Katchor : Hand Drying in America

04/15/13 — 04/21/13


Episode 94: Danielle Trussoni : Angelopolis

04/08/13 — 04/14/13


Episode 93: Stephen Kessler : Scratch Pegasus

04/01/13 — 04/07/13


Episode 92: Ruth Ozeki : A Tale for the Time Being

04/01/13 — 04/07/13


Episode 91: Lawrence Wright : Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

03/25/13 — 03/31/13


Episode 90: MacKenzie Bezos : Traps

03/18/13 — 03/24/13


Episode 89: Hugh Howey : Wool

03/04/13 — 03/10/13


Episode 88: Karen Russell : Vampires in the Lemon Grove

02/25/13 — 03/03/13


Episode 87: Robert R. McCammon : I Travel By Night

02/18/13 — 02/24/13


Episode 86: Gregory D. Johnsen : The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America's War in Arabia

02/11/13 — 02/17/13


Episode 86: Dave Barry : Insane City

02/11/13 — 02/17/13


Episode 85: Dave Barry : Insane City

02/04/13 — 02/11/13


Episode 84: Cory Doctorow : Homeland

01/28/13 — 02/03/13


Episode 83: Ian Rankin : Standing in Another Man's Grave

01/21/13 — 01/27/13


Episode 82: Tracy Kidder : Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction

01/14/13 — 01/20/13


Episode 81: Jojo Moyes : Me Before You

01/07/13 — 01/13/13


Episode 80: Laird Barron : The Croning and The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

12/31/12 — 01/06/13


Episode 79: Fariba Nawa : Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan

12/10/12 — 12/16/12


Episode 78: Lee Child : A Wanted Man

12/03/12 — 12/09/12


Episode 77: Susannah Cahalan : Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

11/26/12 — 12/02/12


Episode 76: Justin Cronin : The Twelve

11/19/12 — 11/25/12


Episode 75: Charles Burns and Chris Ware : The Hive and Building Stories

11/19/12 — 11/25/12


Episode 75: Charles Burns and Chris Ware : THe Hive and Building Stories

11/12/12 — 11/18/12


Episode 74: Craig Childs : Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth

11/05/12 — 11/11/12


Episode 73: Louise Erdrich : The Round House

10/29/12 — 11/04/12


Episode 72: Tom Wolfe : Back to Blood

10/22/12 — 10/28/12


Episode 71: Debra Dean : The Mirrored World

10/15/12 — 10/21/12


Episode 70: Jeffrey Toobin : The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court

10/08/12 — 10/14/12


Episode 69: Bishop Gene Robinson : God Believes in Love: Straight Talk about Gay Marriage

10/01/12 — 10/07/12


Episode 68: Robert D. Kaplan : The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate

09/24/12 — 09/30/12


Episode 67: D. T. Max : Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

09/24/12 — 09/30/12


Episode 66: Michael Lewis : The Environmeddlers

09/17/12 — 09/23/12


Episode 65: David Rich : Caravan of Thieves

09/10/12 — 09/16/12


Episode 64: Tad Williams : The Dirty Streets of Heaven

09/03/12 — 09/09/12


Episode 63: Charles Yu : Sorry Please Thank You

08/27/12 — 09/02/12


Episode 62: Laura Lippman : And When She Was Good

08/27/12 — 09/02/12


Episode 61: Karen Kondazian : The Whip

08/20/12 — 08/26/12


Episode 60: Tim Powers : Hide Me Among the Graves

08/13/12 — 08/19/12


Episode 59: Brian Castner : The Long Walk

08/06/12 — 08/12/12


Episode 58: James P. Blaylock : Zeuglodon

07/30/12 — 08/05/12


Episode 57: Alan Cheuse : Paradise, or, Eat Your Face

07/23/12 — 07/29/12


Episode 56: Deborah Harkness : Shadow of Night

07/23/12 — 07/29/12


Episode 55: Carlos Ruiz Zafón : The Prisoner of Heaven

07/09/12 — 07/15/12


Episode 54: Christopher Hayes : Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy

07/02/12 — 07/08/12


Episode 53: Glen Duncan : Talulla Rising

07/02/12 — 07/08/12


Episode 52: Anthony Swofford : Hotels, Hospitals and Jails

07/02/12 — 07/08/12


Episode 51: Daniel H. Wilson : Amped

06/25/12 — 07/01/12


Episode 50: Peter Carey : The Chemistry of Tears

06/18/12 — 06/24/12


Episode 49: Richard Ford : Canada

06/11/12 — 06/17/12


Episode 48: Leonard Mlodinow : Subliminal

06/04/12 — 06/10/12


Episode 47: Walter Mosley : The Gift of Fire

05/28/12 — 06/03/12


Episode 46: John Irving : In One Person

05/21/12 — 05/27/12


Episode 45: Marika Blossfeldt :Essential Nutrition: Recipes from My Estonian Farm

05/14/12 — 05/20/12


Episode 44: David Vann :Dirt

05/07/12 — 05/13/12


Epsiode 43: Christopher Mooore : Sacré Bleu

04/30/12 — 05/06/12


Episode 41: T.M. Luhrman : When God Talks Back

04/23/12 — 04/29/12


Episode 41: Richard Zacks and Gregg Jones : Island of Vice and Honor in the Dust

04/16/12 — 04/22/12


Episode 40: Ben Marcus and Heidi Julavits : The Flame Alphabet and The Vanishers

04/09/12 — 04/15/12


Episode 39 Whitley Strieber : Solving the Communion Enigma: What is to Come

04/01/12 — 04/08/12


Episode 38: Tim Dorsey and C. J. Box : Pineapple Grenade and Force of Nature

03/26/12 — 04/01/12


Episode 37: Matt Ruff and Alex Gilvarry : The Mirage and From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant

03/19/12 — 03/25/12


Episode 36: Kim Harrison : A Perfect Blood

03/12/12 — 03/18/12


Episode 35: William Landay : Defending Jacob

03/05/12 — 03/11/12


Episode 34: Anne Rice : The Wolf Gift

02/27/12 — 03/04/12


Episode 33: Michael Gazzaniga : Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain

02/20/12 — 02/26/12


Episode 32: Thomas Frank : Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right

02/13/12 — 02/19/12


Episode 31: Eric Weiner : Man Seeks God

02/06/12 — 02/12/12


Episode 30: Thrity Umrigar : The World We Found

01/30/12 — 02/05/12


Episode 29: Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel : Lunatics

01/23/12 — 01/29/12


Episode 28: Sara Paretsky : Breakdown

01/16/12 — 01/22/12


Episode 27: John Lescroart : The Hunter

01/09/12 — 01/15/12


Episode 26: Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith : Van Gogh: The Life

01/02/12 — 01/08/12


Episode 25: Jonathan Lethem : The Ecstasy of Influence

12/26/11 — 01/01/12


Episode 24: Robert K. Massie : Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

12/19/11 — 12/25/11


Episode 23: David Vann : Last Day on Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter

12/12/11 — 12/18/11


Episode 22: Sue Grafton : V is for Vengeance

12/05/11 — 12/11/11


Episode 21: Scott Wallace : The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes

11/28/11 — 12/04/11


Episode 20: Charles Frazier : Nightwoods

11/21/11 — 11/27/11


Episode 19: Jeff Herzberg and Zoe Francois : Artisan Pizza and Flatbread in Five Minutes a Day

11/14/11 — 11/20/11


Episode 18: Karl Marlantes : What It Is Like To Go To War

11/07/11 — 11/13/11


Episode 17: Lawrence Lessig : Republic, Lost

10/31/11 — 11/06/11


Episode 16: Michael Reynier : Five Degrees of Latitude

10/24/11 — 10/30/11


Episode 15: Russell Banks : Lost Memory of Skin

10/17/11 — 10/23/11


Episode 14: Lisa Randall : Knocking on Heaven's Door

10/10/11 — 10/16/11


Episode 13: Erin Morgenstern : The Night Circus

10/03/11 — 10/09/11


Episode 12: Neal Stephenson : REAMDE

09/26/11 — 10/02/11


Episode 11: Lev Grossman : The Magician King

09/19/11 — 09/25/11


Episode 10: George Pelecanos : The Cut

09/12/11 — 09/18/11


Episode 9: Laurie R. King : Pirate King

09/05/11 — 09/11/11


Episode 8: Michael Harvey and David Levien : Midwestern Noir: We All Fall Down and 13 Million Dollar Pop

08/29/11 — 09/04/11


Episode 7: Alan Cheuse : Song of Slaves in the Desert

08/15/11 — 08/21/11


Episode 6: Ernest Cline : Ready Player One

08/08/11 — 08/14/11


Episode 5: Simon Rich : Elliot Allagash

08/01/11 — 08/07/11


Episode 4: Mark Seal : The Man in the Rockefeller Suit

07/24/11 — 07/31/11


Episode 3: David Eagleman : Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

07/11/11 — 07/17/11


Episode 2: Erik Larson : In the Garden of Beasts

07/04/11 — 07/10/11


Episode 1: Donald Ray Pollock : The Devil All the Time

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