First Pages Readings Podcast
Celebrating books as cultural messengers and agents of change as they open our hearts and minds to new worlds. Listen to brief commentary and readings (from fiction, non-fiction, YA, middle grade, and poetry). New episodes released once a month.
Podcasting since 2020 • 88 episodes
First Pages Readings Podcast
Latest Episodes
Episode 88: Fiction (Short Stories by Ha, Wolitzer, Gallant)
In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:Bluebeard's First Wife: Stories by Ha Seong-Nan, translated from the Korean by Janet HongToday a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories ...
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Episode 87: Non-Fiction (Essays by Hustvedt, Solnit, Lopez)
In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:Yonder: Essays by Siri HustvedtThe Faraway Nearby by Rebecca SolnitHorizon by Barry Lopez
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Episode 87
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Episode 86: Fiction (Novels by Llosa, Tsushima, Adiga)
The Feast of the Goat by Peruvian-born Mario Vargas Llosa, translated from the Spanish by Edith GrossmanTerritory of Light by Japanese author Yuko Tsushima, translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt...
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Episode 86
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Episode 85: Non-Fiction (Essay, Nature, Memoir by Lopez, Erdrich, Blanchet)
In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays by Barry LopezBooks and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancesto...
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Episode 85
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Episode 84: Fiction (Short Stories by Bolano, Berlin, Samarakis)
In this episode a few pages of the following books will be read:Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolano, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by ...
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Episode 83
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