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In Shelf Awareness, a reviewer of Mattilda Berstein Sycamore's latest book "Sketchstasy" wrote, “If you've heard her read, you know Sycamore's voice is one in a zillion. She’s at her very best in Sketchtasy.” Click Play to (literally) hear for
"I really think that being obsessed with books and reading and other people's stories has had a huge impact on pretty much every aspect of my life," says journalist and host of the Call Your Girlfriend podcast, Ann Friedman. In this episode of
A mixed-race child of an immigrant, Iain Haley Pollock began reading books his father read as a child, a tradition he carries on with his own kids. Two of the most influential books have been poetry collections, where he was able to discover mu
Though a citizen of the United States and Austria, author John Wray currently lives in Mexico City. And that is where I spoke with him, via Skype, to talk about his reading life. As a child, he was read to in German. As an adult, he often prefe
A designer by schooling and trade, Jez Burrows is also a writer who enjoys having fun with words. The books he likes best do, too. In one, letters start disappearing from a plaque on a statue in town, and the residents must do without them, one
Critic, poet, and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib remembers "sneak reading" Thomas Pynchon's novel "Gravity's Rainbow" as a freshman in high school, but he quickly grew out of hiding his passion for books. Later in high school, he read Shakespeare, a
Author Paul Lisicky's interview was recorded in 2016 when The Spine was a radio program on WHUP FM out of Hillsborough, North Carolina. He's the author of five books, including “The Narrow Door,” published by Graywolf Press in 2016. A New York
A recipient of both the NYC Emerging Writer's Fellowship and an Aspen Words scholarship, author Lexi Freiman's reading life didn’t begin until she discovered plays. This makes perfect sense considering her passion for acting. In fact, Lexi work
“I was such a massive reader when I was young, and it’s the books that I read as a child that stuck with me and went on to influence me the most.” Dana Schwartz is a correspondent at Entertainment Weekly, based in Los Angeles. She's written f
Tobias Caroll is the author of the novel "Reel," which was named one of 2016's best books by Nylon, and the collection "Transitory." During the recording of this episode, Tobias was doing a short residency on Governor's Island, and he’s the man
Megan Cummins is the managing editor at A Public Space, a tri-quarterly magazine. I reached out to Megan because I wanted to speak with someone who was working at a magazine that publishes disparate and untraditional pieces. I wondered how she
As a graduate student at Duke University English Department, Ken Ilgunas lived out of a van so that he could (and did!) graduate without incurring debt. You can read about it in "Walden on Wheels," his first book, which just celebrated its fift
It was recently announced that Janice Y.K. Lee's latest book, "The Expatriates," is going to be made into an Amazon Prime TV series by Nicole Kidman. That sounded like a great reason to replay her 2016 interview on The Spine. Reading, for Jan
The award-winning writer Allan Gurganus discovered the library later in life than most writers. “All of the imagination that a lot of people use in reading I used to read the woods." But he made up for lost time quickly, finishing 1,200 books (
Elizabeth Cox is an award-winning author of several collections of poetry, short stories, and four novels. Her most recent is called "A Question of Mercy." Long before she won the Robert Penn Warren Award for fiction for her entire body of work
Krista Bremer is the author of "My Accidental Jihad: A Memoir" and editor at The Sun. She shares with listeners of The Spine how she became a reader (including "the thrill of browsing" she still experiences at the library), how her reading info
Writer and reader Michele Filgate credits her grandmother for generating her love for books; for Michele's 10th birthday, she even paid Michele's $100 library fee. Who does she consider "the patron saint of book worms"? What kind of fan fiction
Her greatest reading achievement? Being the first first-grader to read 100 books and sitting in the birthday chair even though it was not her birthday. But it was the $75 gift certificate to a West LA feminist bookstore that changed poet Lynn M
A poet and the Director of Creative Writing at American University in Washington D.C., Kyle Dargan is the author of four books. His poems and non-fiction have appeared in newspapers such as the Newark Star-Ledger, and journals such as Callaloo,
Host Gail Marie was in Hillsborough for the holiday and was able to record this episode in the WHUP studios! She remembered what all the buttons do and was able, without great incident, to play her conversation with writer and bookseller Kea Wi
Writer, activist, educator, spoken word artist and reader, Walidah Imarisha talks about how the books she read as a young child (and does not remember reading!) strongly shaped her life. Known for coining the term "visionary fiction," Walidah's
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Janice Y.K. Lee came to the U.S. for school, graduated from Harvard, wrote a New York Times bestseller, and recently published a new novel, "The Expatriates." But, of course, on The Spine, we talked about how she b
Literary critic Jonathan Russell Clark starts at the very beginning by talking about a book he carried to school in first grade because he wanted to look smart (it's a big one). In a high school English class, he read E. E. Cummings and everyth
A social activist, educator, musician, artist, and reader, Pierce Freelon talks about how reading has shaped his understanding of his African heritage and influenced how he lives. This compelling conversation includes references to Assata Shaku
You may recognize the name David Ulin — passages from his book “The Lost Art of Reading” have been read on The Spine multiple times. David was the L.A. Times book critic for 10 years, and his latest book. "Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los
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