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Premiering this Thursday, June 25th on The Writer's Forum: David Benedetto sits down with Candice Huber, owner of Tubby & Coo's Mid-City Book Shop. Tune in to learn what it's like to pick books for a store, upcoming events at the shop and just where exactly the name "Tubby & Coo's" comes from!WRBH's Writer's Forum program airs every Thursday at 4:30PM, Saturday at 8:30AM and again Sunday at 1PM. All […]
New and still going on WRBH! Up this week is...Best Selling Fiction - LILA by Marilynne Robinson; starting Wednesday, NATCHEZ BURNING by Greg Iles (M-F 11AM-12PM; 9:30PM-10:30PM)Best Seller Non- Fiction - THE INNOVATORS by Walter Isaacson (M-F 9AM-10AM; 7PM-8PM)Book Off The Shelf - THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by John Green (M-F 2:30PM-3PM; 10:30PM-11PM)Great Literature - IN COLD BLOOD by Truman Capote (M-F 8PM-9PM)Midday Short Story - NEW STORIES FROM THE SOUTH […]
FEATURED BOOK OFF THE SHELF"Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning-author John Green’s most ambitious and […]
Starting with this post, we'll be announcing our books for the coming week every Monday morning. Feel free to leave comments and let us know your thoughts! Best Selling Fiction - LILA by Marilynne Robinson (M-F 11AM-12PM; 9:30PM-10:30PM)Best Seller Non- Fiction - THE INNOVATORS by Walter Isaacson (M-F 9AM-10AM; 7PM-8PM)Book Off The Shelf - TELL THE WOLVES I'M HOME by Carol Rifka Brunt and starting Thursday, THE FAULT IN OUR […]
In case you missed it, here's an interview with actor Wendell Pierce and #WRBH's Shaun Johnson, highlighting Mr. Pierce's upcoming play, BROTHERS FROM THE BOTTOM, and the special matinee performance for the blind in partnership with us on Saturday, June 27.For your ticket to the WRBH day performance, call us at 504-899-1144 or email listen@wrbh.org !
FEATURED FICTIONA new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead and Housekeeping. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award Finalist"Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder.Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside […]
FEATURED TALES OF TERROR"Patrick McCabe is the acclaimed author of The Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto--both of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made into films by Neil Jordan--and Winterwood, which was awarded the 2007 Hughes & Hughes/Irish Independent Irish Novel of the Year award. Hello Mr. Bones and Goodbye Mr. Rat, two dark tales from two deceased narrators--bottled-lightning treats that will make you gasp, shiver and squirm. […]
FEATURED GREAT LITERATURE"Truman Capote’s masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the “new journalism.”Perry Smith […]
Wendell Pierce invites local blind community to his upcoming play with free tickets Actor Wendell Pierce is inviting the local blind community to enjoy his upcoming play Brothers from the Bottom with free tickets to the June 27th matinee performance. Pierce generously donated 100 tickets to WRBH 88.3 FM Reading Radio, a New Orleans-based non-profit and national resource for the visually impaired for which he has become a prominent supporter. Brothers from the Bottom, which is […]
Explore insightful non-fiction books that have topped the charts, offering a blend of recent and historical best-sellers throughout the week.
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