Introduction: Meet the Hosts

Before we get going with interviews, this introduction will let you get to know our hosts and learn what they're hoping to do here. How and why do we read—and why can't we stop talking about it all? Want to keep track of the books and authors we mentioned? Check out what comes close to a comprehensive list below! Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay   Gaston Bachelard      The Practice of Everyday Life Don Clifton                 StrengthsFinder 2.0 Hernan Díaz              Trust Gustav Eckstein        The Body Has a Head; also Lives, in which the mentioned story, "Two Lives," is included  Jonathan Franzen     How to Be Alone ("Lost in the Mail") Paolo Freire               Pedagogy of the Oppressed Christopher Gilbert    Turning into Dwelling Pierre Hadot              Philosophy as a Way of Life Liam Heneghan         A Primer on Human Impacts on the Environment John Irving                 Avenue of Mysteries Jack Kerouac             Atop an Underwood Barbara Kingsolver    Demon Copperhead Karl Ove Knausgaard My Struggle (vol. 6) László Krasznahorkai The Melancholy of Resistance Julia Kristeva              New Maladies of the Soul Alan Lomax                The Land Where the Blues Began Cormac McCarthy      All the Pretty Horses Matthew McConaughey  Greenlights                   Katja Oskamp             Marzahn, mon amour Orhan Pamuk             The Museum of Innocence James Rebanks          The Shepherd's Life Katy Scrogin               "Complex Adaptive Democracy" Bruce Springsteen       Born to Run Wallace Stevens          The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination J. R. R. Tolkien            The Silmarillion Walt Whitman              Poetry & Prose RadioArt(r)                   The Phone Book Ryan Iverson               Werner Herzog Reads   Authors:  Walter Mosley                                       Sarah Orne Jewett