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Read Learn Live Podcast
by Jon Menaster - Lover of Literature
Read Learn Live is your book club discussion - times ten. Join host Jon Menaster as he takes a deep dive with an author and a book they've written to learn about their writing process, the how and the why of the book itself, and tries to learn some lessons about life along the way. Learn about your world from a new perspective. Find new books to read. Or just listen and laugh.
Episodes
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Learning America - Ep 96 with Luma Mufleh
Learning America traces the story of how Mufleh grew a group of kids into a soccer team and then into a nationally acclaimed network of schools for refugee children. The journey is inspiring and hard-won: Fugees schools accept only those most in need; no student passes a grade without earning it;...
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The Kaiju Preservation Society - Ep 95 with John Scalzi
When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls "an animal rights organization". Tom's team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on…
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The Sleep Fix - Ep 94 with Diane Macedo
Roughly thirty percent of the population is estimated to be living with insomnia, while many more suffer from other sleep disorders. ABC anchor/correspondent Diane Macedo—a former insomniac herself—understands the struggle. Now, in The Sleep Fix, Macedo presents perspective-shifting research and...
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Beloved Beasts - Ep 87 with Michelle Nijhuis
Host Jon Menaster interviews author Michelle Nijhuis about the birth and history of the modern conservation movement across the world, and its ongoing efforts to save endangered (and not so endangered) animals from extinction.
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Don't Judge a College Athlete by Their Cover - Ep 83 with Corey Sobel
The Redshirt challenges tenacious stereotypes, shedding new light on the hypermasculine world of American football. Over the course of their first year playing for a Division One college football program that is willing to win at all costs, roommates Miles Furling and Reshawn McCoy are forced to...
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Stories from a Syrian refugee - Ep 81 with Perween Richards
Drawn from her experiences of growing up as a young woman in the 'world's largest prison'-Gaza-Nayrouz Qarmout's stories stitch together a stirring patchwork of perspectives exploring what it means to be a Palestinian today.
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You Ought To Do A Story About Me - Ep 80 with Ted Jackson
Pulitzer-Prize winning photojournalist Ted Jackson is interviewed by Jon Menaster about his unlikely friendship with a homeless NFL player.
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The Amateurs - Ep 72 with Liz Harmer
"The Amateurs" is a speculative novel of rapture and romance in the vein of Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood and Tom Perotta's The Leftovers. In the near future, the world's largest tech company unveils the "Port", a personal time travel device. It becomes a phenomenon. But soon it is…
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A Flag of No Nation - Ep 71 with Tom Haviv
A meditation on world invention and collapse, A Flag of No Nation traces the stories of Turkish Jews in the 20th century, blind colonists in a white ocean, and performers enacting new rituals around a nationless flag. Through forms of storytelling that range from allegory to oral history, Tom…
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Even That Wildest Hope - Ep 69 with Seyward Goodhand
Even That Wildest Hope bursts with vibrant, otherworldly characters—wax girls and gods-among-men, artists on opposite sides of a war, aimless plutocrats and anarchist urchins—who are sometimes wondrous, often grotesque, and always driven by passions and yearnings common to us all. Each story is…
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Always Blue - Ep 68 with John Dermit Woods
Always Blue is a work of literary science fiction that explores how our day-to-day struggles and inconveniences—irritating colleagues, entitled students, aloof administrators, uninspired lunch choices—can make it impossible to see the real threats to our world. John Dermit Woods writes stories…
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My Penguin Year - Ep 66 with Lindsay McCrae
Host Jon Menaster speaks with Lindsay McCrae about his book My Penguin Year. For 337 days, award-winning wildlife cameraman Lindsay McCrae intimately followed 11,000 emperor penguins amid the singular beauty of Antarctica. This is his masterful chronicle of one penguin colony's astonishing…
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Caregiving and Caretaking - Ep 65 with Germ Lynn
What You Call is a glimpse into the future and part of the Radix Media science fiction chapbook series, Futures. It's the story of a rogue "support unit" that is desperate for a charge and along the way they try to cobble together a sense of purpose in a crumbling world. Germ Lynn is a writer and...
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Landscape Architecture, California Style - Ep 64 with Kelly Comras
Landscape architect Ruth Shellhorn helped define the distinctive mid-century regional aesthetic of Southern California. Most well known for her work with Walt Disney on the original design of Disneyland, she also designed original landscape plans for the Bullock's department stores and Fashion...
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French Youth Resistance in World War II - Ep 63 with Ronald Rosbottom
The author of the acclaimed When Paris Went Dark, longlisted for the National Book Award, returns to World War II once again to tell the incredible story of the youngest members of the French Resistance—many only teenagers—who waged a hidden war against the Nazi occupiers and their collaborators…
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How Hormones Control Just About Everything - Ep 48 with Randi Hutter Epstein
A guided tour through the strange science of hormones and the age-old quest to control them.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Read Learn Live is your book club discussion - times ten. Join host Jon Menaster as he takes a deep dive with an author and a book they've written to learn about their writing process, the how and the why of the book itself, and tries to learn some lessons about life along the way. Learn about your world from a new perspective. Find new books to read. Or just listen and laugh.
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Jon Menaster - Lover of Literature
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Read Learn Live Podcast currently has 69 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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Read Learn Live is your book club discussion - times ten. Join host Jon Menaster as he takes a deep dive with an author and a book they've written to learn about their writing process, the how and the why of the book itself, and tries to learn some lessons about life along the way. Learn about your...
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Read Learn Live Podcast is created and hosted by Jon Menaster - Lover of Literature.
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