Monday January 4 through Friday January 22, 2010

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert read by Susan Sweeney (Penguin ISBN-13: 978-0143038412)

A travelogue of soul-searching and self-discovery.

theme: Ray Lynch: Over Easy (from "Nothing Above My Shoulders but the Evening" (Windham Hill)

Monday January 25 through Friday February 12, 2010

Coop: a Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting by Michael Perry read by Jim Fleming (Harper; ISBN-13: 9780061240430)

The author of Truck returns to tell the story of his new life in the country.

theme: "The Driving of the Year Nail" from Leo Kottke: Anthology (Rhino)

Monday February 15 through Friday February 26, 2010 Also Available as an Audio Book through the Radio Store 1-800-747-7444

The Land Remembers: The story of a farm and its people by Ben Logan read by Karl Schmidt (Itchy Cat Press; ISBN: 9780976145059)

Ben Logan's classic memoir of farm life and growing up in Wisconsin. With a new Afterword by the author.

Theme: Triptique for String Orchestra-Berceuse & Andante; Akutagawa - Angel S-36577

Monday February 15 through Friday February 26, 2010 Also Available as an Audio Book through the Radio Store 1-800-747-7444

The Land Remembers: The story of a farm and its people by Ben Logan read by Karl Schmidt (Itchy Cat Press; ISBN: 9780976145059)

Ben Logan's classic memoir of farm life and growing up in Wisconsin. With a new Afterword by the author.

Theme: Triptique for String Orchestra-Berceuse & Andante; Akutagawa - Angel S-36577

Monday March 1 through Friday March 5, 2010

Notes from Little Lakes by Mel Ellis read by Jim Fleming (Cabin Bookshelf; ISBN: 0-9653381-0-X)

Excerpts from a book of memories from one of Wisconsin's premier newspaper columnists. The chapters on the web and at night will differ from the chapters heard at 12:30 this week.

Theme: selections from "Beyond Six Strings: A Collection of New Music for Harp Guitar" (HGM-CD-001)

Monday March 8 through Friday March 26, 2010

Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow read by Norman Gilliland (Random House; ISBN-13: 9781400064946)

A perfect little novel about those extraordinary New York hermits, the Collyer brothers.

theme: Schumann: Traumerei - from "Piano Classics: Popular Works for Solo Piano" (Telarc)

Monday March 29 through Friday April 16, 2010

Into the Story: A Writer's Journey Through Life, Politics, Sports and Loss by David Maraniss read by Karl Schmidt (Simon & Schuster ISBN13: 9781439160022)

The Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter for The Washington Post presents a series of essays covering everything from the personal to the public, from politics to sports.

theme: Bill Frisell: Disfarmer Theme (Nonesuch)

Monday April 19 through Friday May 7, 2010

Every Last Cuckoo by Kate Maloy read by Susan Sweeney (Algonquin; ISBN-13: 978-1565126756)

This is a novel about the surprises and changes that come with aging.

theme: Svendsen: Romance in G major, Op 26; Gil Shaham, violin; Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (DG 449 923-2)

Monday May 10 through Friday May 28, 2010

Once a Spy: a novel by Keith Thomson read by Jim Fleming (Doubleday; ISBN 9780385530781)

Drummond Clark was a legendary spy of legendary proportions, now confused by Alzheimer's disease. But the CIA wants to contain him--and so do some other shady characters who send Drummond on a wild chase that gives father and son quality time a whole new meaning.

theme: Ellington: "I'm Just a Lucky So and So" Ramsey Lewis & Billy Taylor (CBS MK 44941)

Monday May 31 through Friday June 18, 2010

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein read by Norman Gilliland (Harper; ISBN 9780061537967)

A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope--a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life . . . as only a dog could tell it

theme: "Dog Asleep" from Schickele: Thurber's Dogs, suite for orchestra; Pro Musica Chamber Orch -- Timothy Russell (D'Note DNF 1010)

Monday June 21 through Friday July 2, 2010

Day Out of Days: Stories and Journals by Sam Shepard read by Karl Schmidt (Knopf; ISBN: 9780307265401)

A selection of stories by one our great playwrights and storytellers, most of them set in the landscape of the American West.

theme: "Focus" & Peter Miller's Discovery" from "Disfarmer" by Bill Frisell

Monday July 5 through Friday July 23

Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett read by Jim Fleming (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday; ISBN: 9780385524476)

A test of wills between a young banker and a retired schoolteacher is at the heart of this debut novel revealing the new gilded age - the first decade of the twenty-first century.

theme: "Just a Gigolo" & "Round Midnight" from: Thelonius Monk: Riffin (Sony A 50998)

Monday July 26 through Friday August 13, 2010

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout read by Susan Sweeney (Random House; ISBN: 9780812971835)

Olive is a retired schoolteacher in Crosby, Maine who observes the characters around her. Some she approves of, others she doesn?t, but in everyone she sees and reports what others might miss.

theme: "Time Remembered" from "Kronos Quartet Music of Bill Evans (www.savoyjazz.com)

Monday August 16 through Friday August 27, 2010

Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan read by Karl Schmidt (Simon & Schuster; ISBN: 9780743244589)

Excerpts from the memoirs of an extraordinary musician.

theme: selections from Bob Dylan: Biograph

Monday August 30 through Friday September 17, 2010

Lucy: a novel by Laurence Gonzales read by Jim Fleming (Knopf; ISBN: 9780307272607)

An exciting novel that pushes the boundaries of what we think defines our humanity. A young girl is raised with apes, forced to flee for her life from a civil war, and forced to defend her right to live in human society.

theme: Bobby McFerrin: Circlesongs (Sony)

Monday September 20 through Friday October 8, 2010

Wolf: The Lives of Jack London by Jack L. Haley read by Norman Gilliland Basic Books; ISBN-13: 978-0465004782)

Jack London was a man of contradictions. The author of best-selling stories like The Sea Wolf and The Call of the Wild and for a time the highest-paid writer in America, he was often broke. This is the story of the forgotten Jack London, author and crusader.

theme: Richard Strauss Horn Concerto 1 - andante; Eric Ruske, horn; IRIS Chamber Orch - Michael Stern, conductor (Albany Troy 782)

Monday October 11 through Friday October 29, 2010

I Thought You Were Dead: A Love Story by Pete Nelson read by Jim Fleming (Algonquin; ISBN: 9781565125971)

A lot of things have gone wrong for Paul, in his writing and in his life, but there?s one advisor who has never let him down - his labrador retriever Stella.

theme: Leo Kotkke - Vaseline Machine Gun & Busted Bicycle from Anthology (Rhino)



Monday November 1 through Friday November 19

War by Sebastian Junger read by Karl Schmidt (Twelve; ISBN13: 9780446556248 )

The author of the gripping bestseller The Perfect Storm turns to the reality of combat. War(/i> follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan.

theme: Ecstasy, from the album Kronos Caravan; Kronos Quartet, Ali Jihad Racy, Souhaill Kaspar (Nonesuch 79490-2)



Monday November 22 through Friday December 3, 2010

The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands by Margaret Regan read by Norman Gilliland (Beacon Press; ISBN13: 9780807042274)

The stories of Latin Americans who get through the wall separating the US from Mexico, the ranchers who oppose them, and the humanitarians caught in between.

theme: Manuel Ponce: Canto a la Malinche, from Instantaneas Mexicanas; Royal Philharmonic - Enrique Batiz, cond (ASV); Austin Barrios Mangore: Julia Florida, Eduardo Fernandez, guitar (ArkivMusic)



Monday December 6, 2010 through Thursday December 16, 2010

Christmas Books by Charles Dickens read by Jim Fleming

including The Cricket on the Hearth (12/6-12/13), & The Holly Tree (12/14-12/16).

?Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day? & ?Greensleeves? from ?A Midnight Clear: A Celtic Christmas? with Robin Bullock (Dorian DOR 93250)

Friday December 17, 2009

Sweet and Sour Pie: A Wisconsin Boyhood by Dave Crehore read by Jim Fleming (Terrace Books; ISBN13: 9780299230609)

A Christmas story from his Wisconsin memoir.

Theme: Rube Bloom: Spring Fever, Duke Ellington: Solitude; Alan Feinberg, piano from the disc "Fascinatin' Rhythm" (Argo 444 457-2)

Monday December 20, 2010 through Wednesday December 22, 2010

Christmas at Thompson Hall by Anthony Trollope read by Karl Schmidt

Playing "Christmas at Thompson Hall" is a Christmas tradition. .

Thursday December 23, 2010 through Friday December 31, 2010

Christmas Books by Charles Dickens read by Jim Fleming

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang An Old Year Out and a New Year In .

"Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day" & "Greensleeves" from ?A Midnight Clear: A Celtic Christmas? with Robin Bullock (Dorian DOR 93250)

Chapter a Day is heard daily at 12:30pm and 11:00pm
on the Ideas Network of Wisconsin Public Radio

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