https://wmky.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/the-readers-notebook The Reader’s Notebook en-US Copyright Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:50:14 GMT https://wmky.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/the-readers-notebook/2025-08-26/after-11-years-and-1-500-episodes-j-d-reeder-has-announced-his-retirement-of-hosting-the-readers-notebook-on-mspr Since 2014, “The Reader’s Notebook” has been researched, written, and hosted by J. D. Reeder, a retired educator, historian, and writer. Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:50:14 GMT https://wmky.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/the-readers-notebook/2025-08-26/after-11-years-and-1-500-episodes-j-d-reeder-has-announced-his-retirement-of-hosting-the-readers-notebook-on-mspr https://wmky.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/show/the-readers-notebook/2025-03-27/the-readers-notebook-julia-alvarez Julia Alvarez is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies, and Yo!. 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Tue, 25 Mar 2025 14:17:47 GMT https://wmky.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/show/the-readers-notebook/2025-03-25/the-readers-notebook-arturo-toscanini https://wmky.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/show/the-readers-notebook/2025-03-20/the-readers-notebook-carl-reiner Carl Reiner was an American actor, comedian, director, screenwriter, and author with a career spanning seven decades. He won 11 Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. In 1999, he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:29:22 GMT https://wmky.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/show/the-readers-notebook/2025-03-20/the-readers-notebook-carl-reiner https://wmky.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/show/the-readers-notebook/2025-03-20/the-readers-notebook-richard-francis-burton Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton was a British explorer, army officer, orientalist writer and scholar. 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