WYPR Reads

New releases from Jess Walter and Michelle Huneven from Out West.

Leave your everyday cares behind and enjoy a good laugh with us this week.

Travel makes you big!

Author and historian Kellie Carter Jackson explores how Black women fought against white supremacy, showcasing both their loud and quiet forms of resistance.

What are you reading this summer? Midday has suggestions for books you should grab on your way to the beach.

Life is complicated. Good stories can help!

Have you ever found yourself in a sticky situation, wishing you could you snap your fingers or click your heels and disappear?

In Japan they call it iyashakei – a term that can be applied to anything that is comforting and uplifting: a person, a meal, a walk in the park. These books fit the bill!

Never trust the teller, trust the tale? Not when the "teller" is as compelling as the "tale!"

The Weekly Reader's Marion Winik will be in conversation with four local writers who have been receiving raves for their new work in fiction and poetry.