BlogWGR’s Summer Book List
Here’s the full list of book recommendations from our summer reading episode. If you pick one of them up, let us know what you think!
BlogReading List: Kiki Petrosino
“[It’s overwhelming] to be brought into people’s most intimate moments — their deaths — without knowing them, without any practical means to help.”
EpisodePulitzer100: Natasha Trethewey on Native Guard
This program is funded in part by the Pulitzer Prize Centennial Campfires Initiative, which seeks to focus on journalism and the humanities, to imagine their future and to inspire new …
EpisodeWhat Would You Do?
In this hour, we look at the process and importance of ethical decision making. Then we look at the smallest creatures from the depths of the sea to our own backyard …
EpisodeWild Blessings: The Poetry of Lucille Clifton
This hour we honor the work and legacy of the late poet Lucille Clifton and hear from poets whose work explores economic hardship, transition, and place. We’ll talk a little …
EpisodeTelling American Stories
Image via Wikipedia What are the biggest challenges facing American society today? And how can we solve them? Bro Adams, the new chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, …
EpisodeFurious Flower Honors Rita Dove
The most celebrated African American poets in America pay homage to the life’s work of former Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove (University of Virginia). The occasion was …
EpisodeAw Shucks…Oysters!
Image courtesy flickr user Margaret Pizer/VASG From the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, oysters have influenced our history, our culture and, of course, our eating habits. When Captain …
EpisodeA Burnable Book
Murder, mystery, and poetry come together in medieval scholar Bruce Holsinger’s (University of Virginia) new novel set in Chaucer’s London. Plus, Faulkner Fox (Virginia Foundation for the Humanities) has a …
