Tell Me What You’re Reading

By Howard Altarescu

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Episodes: 58

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Talking about books on the streets of New York, in the mountains of the Catskills and on the road. I find that when I ask people about what they’re reading, they tend to start talking about books generally and then start talking to others about books. Encouraging the discussion of books cannot be a bad thing! “Books are a sort of cultural DNA, the code for who, as a society, we are, and what we know. All the wonders and failures, all the champions and villains, all the legends and ideas and revelations of a culture last forever in its books.” @susanorlean, The Library Book

Episode Date
Writers of the Catskills: In Conversation with Rebecca Rego Barry (TMWYR Ep. #60)
Feb 22, 2026
WW II Veteran Albert Lerman at 100 years old (TMWYR Ep. #58)
Nov 09, 2025
Writers of the Catskills: In Conversation with Martha Frankel (TMWYR Ep. #57)
Nov 08, 2025
Writers of the Catskills: In Conversation with Elizabeth Lesser (TMWYR Ep. #56)
Oct 17, 2025
Ep. # 54: Susan Brown: The Secrets of the Great Writers/ Hit Lit/ Ulysses
Sep 26, 2025
No. 55: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Sep 25, 2025
Tell Me What You're Reading #53: Jenni Knight discusses Autoportrait by Edouard Leve
Nov 18, 2024
Ep. #52 Jeffrey Gurock - Marty Glickman -The Life of an American Sports Legend
Jan 07, 2024
Ep. #51 Elizabeth Lesser: Broken Open/ Marrow/ Our Town / Tom Lake/ Omega Institute
Dec 01, 2023
Ep. #50 Amy Shearn and Hannah Oberman-Breindel - To the Lighthouse
Nov 07, 2023
Ep. # 49 Carol Graham: Passion! In Park Slope, a “cozy” murder mystery
Oct 26, 2023
Ep. #48 David Gordon commemorates Cormac McCarthy and The Road
Oct 07, 2023
Ep. #47 An Ecotopia Conversation with Artist Kelly M O’Brien
Sep 26, 2023
Ep. #46 Steph Kent: Hamnet - A Novel of the Plague + The Call Me Ishmael Project
Aug 13, 2023
Ep. #45 Tony Wolf: “Tales From The Wolf”
Jun 17, 2023
Ep. #44: Erica Obey - The Brooklyn North Murder
Apr 02, 2023
Ep. #43: Tom Vartanian: The Unhackable Internet: How Rebuilding Cyberspace Can Build Real Security and Prevent Financial Collapse
Mar 16, 2023
Ep. #42: Katharine L. McKenna - The Paleontologist's Daughter
Feb 08, 2023
Ep. #41: Alison Gaylin/ Wendy Corsi Staub - domestic psychological thrillers, etc.
Oct 26, 2022
Ep. #40: Todd Spire of Esopus Creel
Sep 30, 2022
Ep. #39: Jen Maxfield - More After the Break: A Reporter Returns to Ten Unforgettable News Stories
Aug 07, 2022
Ep. #38: A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Discussion with the Woodstock Shakespeare Festival directors
Jul 21, 2022
Ep. #37: L. Mark Weeks - Bottled Lightning; Moby Dick; the writing process; etc.
May 22, 2022
Ep. #36: Trinh Q. Truong - The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Jan 20, 2022
Ep. #35: Tom Vartanian - 200 Years of American Financial Panics - Crashes, Recessions, Depressions, and the Technology That Will Change It All.
Nov 12, 2021
Ep . #16 Kate McGloughlin - Requiem for Ashokan - The Story Told in Landscape
Aug 19, 2021
Ep. #34: Brian E. Denton - War and Peace (Tolstoy)
Aug 07, 2021
Ep. # 33: Jim Finnegan (Again): Shuggie Bain, by Douglas Stuart; etc.
Apr 17, 2021
Evelyn Lerman - A Tribute. Discussing “A Dressmaker's Threads: The Life and The Legacy of My Russian Immigrant Mother"; and discussing the life and legacy of Evelyn as well
Mar 31, 2021
No. 31: Charlotte Cross - Reading to write, and novels about "marginalized characters" (The Brides of Dracula, etc.)
Feb 21, 2021
Ep. #29: Andrew Wilcox - Richard Ravitz and Paul Volcker memoirs, Lewis’ The Fifth Risk, JFK, Nixon, and Lepore’s masterpiece, These Truths, A History of the United States
Nov 14, 2020
Ep #28: Andrew Rice - Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx is Burning 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
Oct 02, 2020
Ep #27: Rob Chesnut - Intentional Integrity - How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution— and Why That’s Good for All of Us
Jul 27, 2020
Ep. #26 Allen Guy Wilcox – A Gentleman in Moscow
Mar 03, 2020
Ep. #25: Camilla Calhoun - The White Moth
Feb 22, 2020
Ep. # 24: 2020 Book Club - Kendra Dodson Breitsprecher, owner/editor of Dayton Leader newspaper in Iowa, discusses bios written by Dem Pres. caucus candidates.
Jan 24, 2020
Ep. #23 Uli Beutter Cohen: Mona Eltahawy, Alexander Chee, Ocean Vuong, Erin Williams, Lauren Duca
Jan 15, 2020
Ep. #22 Subway Book Review: Uli Beutter Cohen
Dec 26, 2019
Ep. #21 Tracy Sidesinger - What My Mother and I Dont Talk About
Nov 30, 2019
Ep. # 20 The Call Me Ishmael Project; Steph Kent and Logan Smalley
Nov 10, 2019
Ep. #19 Visiting Days, by Gretchen Primack
Jul 26, 2019
Ep. #18 Pride Month/ Stonewall 50: The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Jun 24, 2019
Ep. #17 Josh Raff discusses four sets of "paired" books, and more.
Jun 20, 2019
Ep. #15 Sophie McManus: The Art of Time in Fiction
May 30, 2019
Ep. #14 Nick Lyons: Fly fishing and other lit.; flys, tiers; joy, intensity and solitude of fishing.
May 09, 2019
Ep. #13 Keith Grossman: Bad Blood, American Kingpin and Red Notice - “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up!”
Apr 17, 2019
Ep. #12 Alexis Coe on history, research and writing and the tale of Alice + Freda Forever
Apr 05, 2019
Ep. #11 Dylan Marron: Educated, by Tara Westover + Dylan’s “softness as strength”, etc.
Mar 29, 2019
Ep. #10 Joe Polizzotto - Strout, Barry, etc.
Dec 23, 2018
Ep. #9: Children’s Books . . . Follow-up to Youngna Park discussion
Nov 30, 2018
Ep. #8: Youngna Park on children’s books
Oct 30, 2018
Ep. #7: Payton Turner - Women’s anger and, sometimes, rage
Oct 22, 2018
Ep. #6: Catskills Potpourri - Marty’s Mercantile
Oct 14, 2018
Ep. #5: Maya Prohovnik - Stephen King!, Detectives & Sci-fi
Oct 04, 2018
Ep. #4: Reading for the words, with Emma Holland
Sep 26, 2018
Ep. #3: An impressive tour of 30 + books in about 35 minutes
Sep 20, 2018
Ep.#2: Understanding the Nation & Finding Common Ground with Dr. Hardin Coleman
Sep 13, 2018
Ep. #1: History of Comic Books with Dr. Frank Burbrink
Sep 05, 2018