The Avid Reader Show is a once-weekly interview show featuring great new books. Tune into the show every Monday at 5:00PM on WCHE 1520AM, or listen any time right here!



March 12th: Eleanor Brown, author of The Weird Sisters

March 19th: Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy

March 26th: Adam Wilson, author of Flatscreen

April 2nd: Liz Moore, author of Heft

April 9th: Audrey Schulman, author of 3 Weeks In December

April16th: Dana Spiotta, author of Stone Arabia

April 23rd: Stewart O'Nan, author of The Odds and Emily, Alone







Enjoy some of our interviews from 2010 and early 2011:



April 4th: David Halperin talks about his coming-of-age novel Journal of a UFO Investigator. It's a story of aliens, alienation and imagination set in the 1960s.



March 28th: Jonathan Evison joins Sam to talk about West of Here, his epic novel of the Pacific Northwest.



March 21: Sam talks to Bradford Morrow, author of the Diviner's Tale and editor of Conjunctions literary magazine.



March 14th: Justin Kramon talks to Sam about his debut novel Finny, a coming-of-age tale set at a Maryland boarding school and featuring a "Dickensian coterie" of secondary characters.



March 7th: An interview with Téa Obreht, whose debut novel The Tiger's Wife has been receiving rave reviews. She's also the youngest member of the New Yorker's list of the 20 best writers under 40!



February 28th: Two regulars from Wellington Square Bookshop's eclectic monthly open mic stop by: Jeff Mastroberti, local poet and Zak Theis, the host of Open Mic and a talented guitarist.



February 21st: Karen Russell talks to Sam about her first novel, Swamplandia!, a family tale set at a shabby tourist attraction in the Everglades.



February 14th: Kim Edwards, the author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter joins Sam on this edition of the Avid Reader to talk about her new book, The Lake of Dreams.



February 7th: Sam Hankin is joined by Michael Sims, the author of Adam's Naval: A Natural And Cultural History Of The Human Form and Apollo's Fire: A Day On Earth. He's the editor of The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime, a new anthology of stories featuring fearless, witty women with a knack for exposing injustice.



January 31st: The Avid Reader talks to Tracy Kidder, prolific author of literary non-fiction, about his books Strength in What Remains and Mountains Beyond Mountains.



January 24th: Charles Yu, author of How To Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, talks to Sam about time travel and sci-fi.



January 17th Sam interviews Chris Cleave, author of Little Bee and Incendiary.



January 3rd: Sam talks to Susan Weidener about memoirs, writing groups, and her book Again in a Heartbeat.



December 20th: Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, talks to Sam about her novel. It's also our book club pick for January!



December 13th: Thrity Umrigar talks about her novels The Weight of Heaven and The Space Between Us.



November 29th: Paul Harding, 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner for Tinkers, chats with Sam about writing, belief, and the father-son relationship at the heart of his novel.



November 22nd: Sam talks with Jen Bryant, Caldecott Award Honoree for River of Words and author of young adult novel The Fortune of Carmen Navarro.



November 15th, 2010: Sam chats with French author Tatiana de Rosnay about her New York Times bestselling book, Sarah's Key, and her new novel, A Secret Kept.