Month: July 2015

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A Moveable Feast

FEATURED GREAT LITERATURE"Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works. Since Hemingway’s personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined the changes made to the text before publication. Now, this special restored edition presents the original manuscript […]

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Up On Deck: Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee

                       Today marks the release of Harper Lee's hotly anticipated follow-up to her classic novel, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Here at WRBH, we made sure to have a downloaded copy of GO SET A WATCHMAN ready to roll and  we will begin recording it today. While we'll be debuting the book during our Best Selling Fiction program August 12th, we took some time this morning to ask our volunteer reader, Charlotte […]

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This Week on WRBH: Books (7/13 – 7/19)

             New and still going on WRBH! Up this week is...Best Selling Fiction - NATCHEZ BURNING by Greg Iles (M-F 11AM-12PM; 9:30PM-10:30PM)Best Seller Non- Fiction - PRISCILLA by Nicolas Shakespeare (M-F 9AM-10AM; 7PM-8PM)Book Off The Shelf - ONE FOR THE ROAD: AN OUTBACK ADVENTURE by Tony Horwitz (M-F 2:30PM-3PM; 10:30PM-11PM)Great Literature - FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelly, and starting Tuesday, A MOVEABLE FEAST by Ernest Hemingway (M-F 8PM-9PM)Midday Short Story - ST. […]

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One For The Road: An Outback Adventure

FEATURED NON-FICTION"Swept off to live in Sydney by his Australian bride, American writer Tony Horwitz longs to explore the exotic reaches of his adopted land. So one day, armed only with a backpack and fantasies of the open road, he hitchhikes off into the awesome emptiness of Australia's outback.What follows is a hilarious, hair-raising ride into the hot red center of a continent so desolate that civilization dwindles to a […]

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WRBH Original Programming (7/8 – 7/12): Sushi Fest, Sue Monk Kidd and Raintree

         What's new this week on WRBH's original programming? Check it out!PUBLIC AFFAIRS:  Lyn Koppel interviews Development Director Whitney Armentor of Raintree Children and Family Services in New Orleans. Public Affairs airs on Wednesday at 4PM and again on Sunday at 7:30AM. NOLA BY MOUTH: Host Amy Sins speaks with Chef Dirk of Rock-N-Sake and Cheryl Lemoine of the New Orleans Sushi Festival which will be held this year at the […]

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This Week on WRBH: Books (7/6 – 7/12)

          New and still going on WRBH! Up this week is...Best Selling Fiction - NATCHEZ BURNING by Greg Iles (M-F 11AM-12PM; 9:30PM-10:30PM)Best Seller Non- Fiction - PRISCILLA by Nicolas Shakespeare (M-F 9AM-10AM; 7PM-8PM)Book Off The Shelf - THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by John Green, and starting Thursday, ONE FOR THE ROAD: AN OUTBACK ADVENTURE by Tony Horwitz (M-F 2:30PM-3PM; 10:30PM-11PM)Great Literature - FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelly  (M-F 8PM-9PM)Midday Short Story […]

todayJuly 6, 2015 8

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WRBH Blog: A Saturday Matinee at NOCCA (with Video!)

Brothers from the Bottom Meets The Blind Communitywritten by David Benedetto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf2BoY5fEm8&feature=em-upload_owner  ***This past Saturday, the WRBH staff gathered at a table in the lobby of NOCCA's Lupin Theatre and paced around the echo-prone lobby.  Our eyes were glued to the torrent of rain and wind that had decidedly settled over the city so close to showtime. We waited hoping anxiously the water wouldn't keep anyone from making it. Sure […]

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