Read Learn Live Podcast

Read Learn Live Podcast


Latest Episodes

How To Get things DONE – Ep 76 with Ellen Goodwin
June 14, 2020

DONE: How To Work When No One is Watching is a hands-on guidebook that teaches, through stories, examples, and activities how working with (and around) your brain, can make all the difference in what can be accomplished every day; the importance of be...

Baseball’s Swing Kings – Ep 75 with Jared Diamond
May 25, 2020

From the Wall Street Journal’s national baseball writer, the captivating story of the home run boom, following a group of players who rose from obscurity to stardom and the rogue swing coaches who helped them usher the game into a new age.

Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space – Ep 74 with Amanda Leduc
May 07, 2020

If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and behaviour and linking th...

Jimmy and the Kid – Ep 73 with Lee Silber
April 22, 2020

When a twelve year-old girl wants to play baseball with the boys, she’s lucky to have the help of Jimmy Parks, a former Major Leaguer and someone with the power to change her life forever. Escaping to the empty baseball fields across the street fro...

The Amateurs – Ep 72 with Liz Harmer
March 14, 2020

“The Amateurs” is a speculative novel of rapture and romance in the vein of Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood and Tom Perotta’s The Leftovers. In the near future, the world’s largest tech company unveils the “Port”,

A Flag of No Nation – Ep 71 with Tom Haviv
February 27, 2020

A meditation on world invention and collapse, A Flag of No Nation traces the stories of Turkish Jews in the 20th century, blind colonists in a white ocean, and performers enacting new rituals around a nationless flag.

The Lost Book of Adana Moreau – Ep 70 with Michael Zapata
February 13, 2020

The Lost Book of Adana Moreau is the mesmerizing story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript unites decades later in post-Katrina New Orleans. In 1929 in New Orleans,

Even That Wildest Hope – Ep 69 with Seyward Goodhand
January 08, 2020

Even That Wildest Hope bursts with vibrant, otherworldly characters—wax girls and gods-among-men, artists on opposite sides of a war, aimless plutocrats and anarchist urchins—who are sometimes wondrous, often grotesque,

Always Blue – Ep 68 with John Dermot Woods
December 18, 2019

Always Blue is a work of literary science fiction that explores how our day-to-day struggles and inconveniences—irritating colleagues, entitled students, aloof administrators, uninspired lunch choices—can make it impossible to see the real threats to o...

The Friar’s Lantern – Ep 67 with Greg Hickey
December 05, 2019

You may win $1,000,000. You will judge a man of murder.An eccentric scientist tells you he can read your mind and offers to prove it in a high-stakes wager. A respected college professor exacts impassioned,