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Why Is GiveNOLA Day Important for WRBH? Written by Sarah Holtz, May 4th 2015 I arrived at WRBH just over two months ago, and the first thing that struck me was the incredible degree to which the people at this small community radio station enjoy being here. Of our more than 175 volunteer readers, I’ve heard several unique […]
FEATURED NON-FICTION"The story of the generation of hidden child survivors told through the true experiences of three Jewish girls—from Poland, Holland, and France—who transcended their traumatic childhoods to lead remarkable lives in America.Only one in ten Jewish children in Europe survived the Holocaust, many in hiding. In Such Good Girls, R. D. Rosen tells the story of these survivors through the true experiences of three girls.Sophie Turner-Zaretsky, who spent the […]
In da' Quarters: On Location At The 2015 Tennessee Williams Literary Festival Written by David Benedetto Earlier this month, the 29th annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival was held at various locations in the French Quarter and this year WRBH was invited to attend as members of the press. Three of the staff (Sarah Holtz, James Thomas and myself) took turns […]
FEATURED FICTION "It was the summer everything changed.… My Sunshine Away unfolds in a Baton Rouge neighborhood best known for cookouts on sweltering summer afternoons, cauldrons of spicy crawfish, and passionate football fandom. But in the summer of 1989, when fifteen-year-old Lindy Simpson—free spirit, track star, and belle of the block—experiences a horrible crime late one evening near her home, it becomes apparent that this idyllic stretch of Southern suburbia […]
FEATURED GREAT LITERATURE "Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are […]
FEATURED NON-FICTION "Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools—or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mütter began his trailblazing career as a plastic surgeon in Philadelphia during the middle of the nineteenth century. Although he died at just forty-eight, Mütter was an audacious medical innovator who pioneered the use of ether as anesthesia, the sterilization […]
FEATURED SPECIALTY BOOK "It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades--all before his suicide at age forty-one. This New York Times–bestselling biography of the founder of computer science, with a new preface by the author that addresses Turing’s royal pardon in 2013, is the definitive […]
Written by Sarah Holtz For our new podcast segment, “WRBH Volunteer of the Month,” I sat down with Geoff Worden, to talk with him about his experiences as a beloved on-air reader, proud father, and wine wayfarer. How long have you been reading for WRBH?I have been volunteering at WRBH for about two years. I know I’ve gone through two seasons of doing the promos for Tulane Women’s Basketball and the […]
FEATURED FICTION "The bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain presents a long-awaited new novel in which a boy trying to save his parents’ marriage uncovers a vast legacy of family secrets.In the summer of 1990, fourteen-year-old Trevor Riddell gets his first glimpse of Riddell House. Built from the spoils of a massive timber fortune, the legendary family mansion is constructed of giant whole trees and is […]
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