We’re in the midst of a summer heat wave and there’s no
better time to head to the beach or find a shady spot, and get lost in a good
book. During our annual Summer Reading
program, we talk with area booksellers about what’s flying off their shelves
and hear your top picks for the season. Our
guests include Claire Benedict, the owner of Bear Pond Books in Montpelier, and Mike DeSanto, the owner of Phoenix Books in Essex. Listen
Also, on July 1st new rules regarding federal
education loans took effect. Those loans
are now only available directly through the government, and that change makes a
big impact on the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation, or VSAC. We talk with VSAC President and CEO Don
Vickers about how his organization is working to raise capital to fund private
loans. Listen
Books and authors mentioned on-air:
Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy
Man from Beijing
and the Wallander books by Henning Mankel
Walking to Gatlinburg, Howard Frank Mosher
Remarkable Creatures, Sean Carroll
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
The Passage, Justin Cronin
The Ask, Sam Lipsyte
Next, James Hynes
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
Midnight Fires: A
Mystery With Mary Wollstonecraft, Nancy Means Wright
Kings of the Earth, John Clinch
What is the Left the Daughter, Howard Norman
Authentic Patriotism, Stephen Kiernan
Hay Fever, Angela Miller
The Tempest’s Tale, Walter Mosley
The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay, by Suzanne
Collins
Backing into Forward by Jules Feiffer
The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen
Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir, Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Losing the Garden, Laura Waterman
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Edith Wharton’s books
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Willie Mays, the Life, the Legend, James Hirsch
Ordinary Magic, Ruth King Porter
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
Faithful Place, Tana French
Blind Descent, James Tabor
Born to Run, Chris McDougal
American Gods, Neil Gaiman
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
The Typewriter is Holy, Bill Morgan
Confections of a Closet Master Baker, Gesine Bullock-Prado
The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
2666, Roberto Bolano
Await Your Reply, Dan Choan
Return to Sender, Julia Alvarez