A Summer Reading Challenge for 2024
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Laird show on WNYc. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:05.0 | It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome back, everybody. |
| 0:13.9 | I'm Bridget Bergen, filling in for Brian today. |
| 0:16.5 | Now, I want to tell you about something happening |
| 0:18.8 | over at all of it with Allison Stewart. |
| 0:21.4 | It's a summer reading challenge for 2024. I love anything that says |
| 0:25.9 | challenge in the title. Here's the gist of it. Eight weeks, four books. There are just |
| 0:31.0 | over eight weeks between now and Labor Day. |
| 0:33.6 | Can you read one book in any of four categories |
| 0:37.9 | our friends at all of it have put together? |
| 0:40.1 | Two categories by way of example. |
| 0:42.4 | A classic you've been meaning to get to and |
| 0:45.0 | read a book about about or set in New York. |
| 0:48.5 | Here to tell us about the summer reading challenge is Jordan Lough, producer for all of it and of the Get Lit |
| 0:55.6 | with All of it Book Club. Hey Jordan, glad to have you with us. |
| 0:58.6 | Hey Bridget, so glad to be here, thanks for having me. And so, Jordan, I'll ask you to list all the applicable categories |
| 1:06.5 | and then we're going to open up the phones |
| 1:08.3 | to take some book recommendations. |
| 1:10.2 | But first, do you want to say anything more |
| 1:12.1 | about what you're challenging listeners to participate in? |
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