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FEATURED NON-FICTION:"From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the LusitaniaOn May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around […]
FEATURED GREAT LITERATURE:"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic book is generally regarded as the finest novel ever written on american politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power. New Foreword by Joseph Blotner for this fiftieth anniversary edition." (via Amazon)WRBH's Great Literature program airs Monday through Friday at 8PM. Your reader for this book is Elizabeth McKinley […]
What's new this week on WRBH's original programming? Check it out!PUBLIC AFFAIRS: Airs on Wednesday at 4PM and again on Sunday at 7:30AM. Lyn Koppel sits down with Editor Steve Beatty from our partners, The Lens, to talk about upcoming events and stories the publication is working on. Find out more about The Lens here.NOLA BY MOUTH: Airs on Wednesday at 4:30PM and Saturday at 9:30PM. Host Amy Sins shows us […]
New edition of Audio Portraits on WRBH's Soundcloud page! Lydia Pelot-Hobbs of European Dissent-New Orleans and Breonne DeDecker of Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative stopped by to talk about their organizations and short term rentals in New Orleans. Listen to the interview on the player below:
Best Selling Fiction - THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT by Alexander Chee and read by Jillian Richman and, starting Tuesday, EUPHORIA by Lily King and read by Jillian Richman (M-F 11AM-12PM; 9:30PM-10:30PM)Best Seller Non- Fiction - H IS FOR HAWK by Helen MacDonald and read by Ellen Hazard (M-F 9AM-10AM; 7PM-8PM)Book Off The Shelf - IN THE WAKE OF THE FLAGSHIP by Fredrick Barton and read by Cameron Gamble (M-F 2:30PM-3PM; […]
FEATURED NON-FICTION:"One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1 Nonfiction Book), NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine (10 Favorite Books), Vogue (Top 10), Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle (Top 10), Miami Herald, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top 10), Library Journal (Top 10), […]
FEATURED BOOK OFF THE SHELF:"Continuing the story started in The El Cholo Feeling Passes, Barton's newest novel finds college basketball coach Richard Janus in an unlikely position: he has recently become the interim rector of Urban University, the woefully underfunded public college of Choctaw, Alkansea.When Choctaw is devastated by a major hurricane, Janus must battle with the unscrupulous heads of flagship ASU to keep Urban, the school he loves, from […]
FEATURED GREAT LITERATURE:"Before The Hunger Games there was Lord of the FliesLord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who compared it to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher […]
Best Selling Fiction - THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT by Alexander Chee and read by Jillian Richman (M-F 11AM-12PM; 9:30PM-10:30PM)Best Seller Non- Fiction (NEW!) - THE SIXTH EXTINCTION: AN UNNATURAL HISTORY by Elizabeth Kolbert and read by Allison Freeman and, starting Wednesday, H IS FOR HAWK by Helen MacDonald and read by Ellen Hazard (M-F 9AM-10AM; 7PM-8PM)Book Off The Shelf (NEW!) - BLUE NIGHTS by Joan Didion and read by Natalia Gonzalez […]
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