613 - Murder Most Foul: "The Pinnacle" by Abir Mukherjee and "Blunt Instrument" by Amy Bloom
----What should I read next?---- Book critic and longtime NPR commentator Marion Winik answers this question in four opinionated, book-loving minutes. With reviews of new releases and older titles you may have missed, it’s like having a new best friend with very good taste to guide you in your literary adventures. The Weekly Reader is produced by WYPR and hosted by Lisa Morgan.
613 - Murder Most Foul: "The Pinnacle" by Abir Mukherjee and "Blunt Instrument" by Amy Bloom
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----What should I read next?---- Book critic and longtime NPR commentator Marion Winik answers this question in four opinionated, book-loving minutes. With reviews of new releases and older titles you may have missed, it’s like having a new best friend with very good taste to guide you in your literary adventures. The Weekly Reader is produced by WYPR and hosted by Lisa Morgan.
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Published25 Jun 2026
Duration03:54
Episodes
613-
Murder Most Foul: "The Pinnacle" by Abir Mukherjee and "Blunt Instrument" by Amy Bloom
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25 Jun 2026
612-
Arch Thrillers: "The Author Weekend" by Laura Zigman and "The Ending Writes Itself" by Evelyn Clarke
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03 Jun 2026
611-
Famous and Funny: "The Land and Its People" by David Sedaris and "Famesick" by Lena Dunham
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27 May 2026
610-
Family Memoirs: A Room in Bombay, by Manil Suri, and Keeper of My Kin, by Ada Ferrer
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21 May 2026
609-
Cults and Their Discontents
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14 May 2026
608-
Memoir Roundup: "Small Town Girls" by Jayne Anne Phillips, "Labor" by Mary Afsari, and "She's Under Here" by Karen Palmer
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28 Apr 2026
607-
Monica Lewinsky Special: "Dear Monica Lewinsky" by Julia Langbein, "Young Jane Young" by Gabrielle Zevin, and "Everything is Perfect" by Kate Nason
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22 Apr 2026
606-
Love Among the Stars: "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid and "American Fantasy" by Emma Straub
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15 Apr 2026
605-
Citylit Festival Preview
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08 Apr 2026
604-
Internet Famous: "What A Time To Be Alive" by Jade Chang and "I Could Be Famous" by Sydney Rende
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01 Apr 2026
603-
Uncommon Women: "Big Nobody" by Alex Kadis and "The Beheading Game" by Rebecca Lehmann.
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26 Mar 2026
602-
Remember The Seventies: "Lake Effect" by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney and "Judy Blume: A Life" by Mark Oppenheimer
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18 Mar 2026
601-
Moving Memoirs: "The Flower Bearers" by Rachel Eliza Griffiths and "Fly, Wild Swans" by Jung Chang
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16 Mar 2026
600-
Friend Groups: "So Old, So Young" by Grant Ginder and "Bad Asians" by Lillian Li
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05 Mar 2026
599-
Celebrating Black Women: "Kin" by Tayari Jones, "Firstborn Girls" by Bernice McFadden, and "Finding Me" by Viola Davis
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25 Feb 2026
598-
Road Trips: "The Rest of Our Lives" by Benjamin Markovits and "Solito" by Javier Zamora
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19 Feb 2026
597-
Jane Gardam Trilogy: Old Filth, The Man in the Wooden Hat, and Last Friends
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11 Feb 2026
596-
Invisible Threads: are The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans, Palaver, by Bryan Washington and Deeper than the Ocean, by Mirta Ojita
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05 Feb 2026
595-
Great New Memoirs from Iconic Entertainers
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21 Jan 2026
594-
New Thrillers: "Best Offer Wins" by Marisa Kashino and "The Gallagher Place" by Julie Doar
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13 Jan 2026
593-
Memorable Memoirs of 2025
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07 Jan 2026
592-
Memorable Memoirs of 2025
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07 Jan 2026
591-
Top Ten Fiction Titles of the Year 2025
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30 Dec 2025
590-
Non-fiction Gift Books 2025
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15 Dec 2025
589-
European Voices: "The Lack of Light" by Nino Haratischwili and "Serge" by Yasmina Reza
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02 Dec 2025
588-
Happy 250th, Jane Austen!
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25 Nov 2025
587-
Writers' Memoirs: "Joyride" by Susan Orlean and "Book of Lives" by Margaret Atwood
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19 Nov 2025
586-
Just For Fun: "Henry and Grace's Holiday Movie Marathon" by Matt Norman and "The Literati" by Susan Coll
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17 Nov 2025
585-
Lives and Loves: Heart the Lover, by Lily King, and Dream Count, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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05 Nov 2025
584-
Sappho In Space: "To the Moon and Back" by Eliana Ramage and "Atmosphere" by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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30 Oct 2025
583-
Sappho in Space: are "To the Moon and Back" by Eliana Ramage and "Atmosphere" by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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30 Oct 2025
582-
Super Stories: "Fools for Love" by Helen Schulman and "Mercy" by Joan Silber
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21 Oct 2025
581-
Meet the Parents: "The Boy from the North Country" by Sam Sussman and "No Ordinary Bird" by Artis Henderson
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14 Oct 2025
580-
Mommie Dearest: "Bad Bad Girl" by Gish Jen and "Mother Mary Comes to Me" by Arundhati Roy
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06 Oct 2025
579-
Passage to India: "The Lonelinesss of Sonia and Sunny" by Kiran Desai and "A Guardian and A Thief" by Megha Majumdar
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30 Sep 2025
578-
Passage to India: "The Lonelinesss of Sonia and Sunny" by Kiran Desai and "A Guardian and A Thief" by Megha Majumdar
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30 Sep 2025
577-
New Romance: "August Lane" Regina Black, "Sweet Heat" by Bobu Babalola, and "Jamaica Road" by Lisa Smith
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16 Sep 2025
576-
Gifted Children: "The Sunflower Boys" by Sam Wachman and "Life, Death and Giants" by Ron Rindo
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09 Sep 2025
575-
Goin' Out West, plus Paperback Releases For Bookclubs
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25 Aug 2025
574-
Trouble in Eastern Europe: "A Dog in Georgia" by Lauren Grodstein and "Endling" by Maria Reva
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07 Aug 2025
573-
Comic Novels: "Vera, or Faith" by Gary Shteyngart and "Run for the Hills" by Kevin Wilson
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29 Jul 2025
572-
Adventures in Travel: "Culpability" by Bruce Holsinger and "Sky Daddy" by Kate Folk
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23 Jul 2025
571-
Magnificent Memoirs: "Flowers and Locusts" by Martha Reid Paradis and "Not My Type" by E. Jean Carroll
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16 Jul 2025
570-
Magnificent Memoirs: "Flowers and Locusts" by Martha Reid Paradis and "Not My Type" by E. Jean Carroll
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16 Jul 2025
569-
Seaside Reads: "Next to Heaven" by James Frey and "The Listeners" by Maggie Stiefvater
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09 Jul 2025
568-
Must-Read Memoirs from Molly Jong-Fast and Sarah Wynn-Williams
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02 Jul 2025
567-
The TV made me do it: "Small Game" and "Carrie Soto is Back"
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08 Dec 2022
566-
Back of the House: New adventures in the kitchen
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16 Nov 2022
565-
Future Shock: Dystopian days ahead from Julia Glass and Bruce Holsinger
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09 Nov 2022
564-
Coming of Age in a Rough World: New work from Barbara Kingsolver and Jonathan Escoffery
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02 Nov 2022
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