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Sunday, July 30, 2006
Carolyn Hax's Advice On What To Read
July 30, 2006 This week's Summer Reader segment calls on Carolyn Hax for her advice on what to read this summer. Hax makes a living off her advice, writing The Washington Post's nationally syndicated column "Tell Me About It."
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Sunday, July 16, 2006
John Davis: 'Bully' for Him, Books for You
July 16, 2006 Animated film director John Davis is back in theaters this month with The Ant Bully. His cartoon hero, one Lucas Nickle, is a boy cut down to size by a colony of creepy-crawlies. But before Davis made movies he read books. A short list for the younger set.
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Books to Make the Most of Her Personal Space
July 9, 2006 Gabrielle Giffords is having a busy summer. Here on Earth — specifically, in the state of Arizona — the former state senator is a Democrat in a wild six-way congressional primary campaign. Meanwhile, in space, her boyfriend Mark Kelly is piloting the shuttle Discovery.
Sunday, July 02, 2006
A Collection of Books for After the Boom
July 2, 2006 July 4 fireworks and summer books might not seem to have much in common. But Donna Grucci-Butler, president of Fireworks by Grucci, tells what sort of reading she'll be doing when things quiet down a bit.
Sunday, June 25, 2006
A Standup Guy Who Is Serious About Books
June 25, 2006 Leo Allen, a New York comic, challenged himself to read 100 books in a year's time. He's polished off 51 so far, and he seems to be gaining momentum. From science fiction to self-help, Allen offers a summer reading list that spans nearly a century of literature.
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Poetry
Books That Are Just What the Doctor Ordered
June 18, 2006 As summer officially arrives this week, it's time to think about books to buy, borrow or check out of the library. Dr. Abraham Verghese, director of the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, offers a brief reading list.
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Books for the Young... and the Young at Heart
June 11, 2006 It's a summer tradition at Weekend Edition Sunday: each week, we learn what notable readers are pulling off the shelves. Elizabeth Bird, senior librarian at The New York Public Library's Donnell Library Center, focuses on books for young people.
Sunday, September 11, 2005
2005 Summer Reading: The Listeners Choose
September 11, 2005 After a summer of weekly book picks from a variety of notable readers, Weekend Edition Sunday asked for input from the listeners.
Sunday, August 28, 2005
Jacob McMurray, a SciFi Kind of Guy
August 28, 2005 Jacob McMurray is senior curator at the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle... and at the Experience Music Project, a music museum. His reading list is heavy on sci-fi, with a bit of rock history, too.
Sunday, August 21, 2005
Joey Carson, Really, Really Reading a Lot
August 21, 2005 Joey Carson is the CEO of Bunim/Murray Productions. The company makes TV shows such as The Scholar, which focuses on high school students competing for scholarship money. He says his reading list includes a mix of biography, science fiction and real science.
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Tom Marzolf, Reading More Than Greens
August 14, 2005 Tom Marzolf, president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, keeps two books within easy reach. The Bible is one. Golf Architecture, by course design pioneer Alistair MacKenzie, is another. Marzolf tells Liane Hansen what else he enjoys reading.
Sunday, August 07, 2005
Akbar Ahmed: Books with an International Flavor
August 7, 2005 Akbar Ahmed is a professor of international studies at American University in Washington, D.C. He's also an anthropologist, writer and filmmaker... and a former diplomat, as well. His reading list focuses on the Middle East.
Sunday, July 31, 2005
Barbara Handelin, Isolating Her Literary Gene
July 31, 2005 Geneticist and bioethics expert Barbara Handelin got a pile of books for her birthday. She says her well-wishers understood her personality and her reading tastes.
Sunday, July 24, 2005
Fritz Attaway, Moving from Film to Books
July 24, 2005 Fritz Attaway is executive vice president for government relations and Washington general counsel for the Motion Picture Association of America. For our summer reading feature, he talks about picking books for two locales: Washington and Rhode Island.
