Read Learn Live Podcast

Read Learn Live Podcast

Read Learn Live is your book club discussion - times ten. Join host Jon Menaster as he takes a deep dive with an author and a book they've written to learn about their writing process, the how and the why of the book itself, and tries to learn some lessons about life along the way. Learn about your world from a new perspective. Find new books to read. Or just listen and laugh.

Episodes

March 30, 2022 46 mins
Learning America traces the story of how Mufleh grew a group of kids into a soccer team and then into a nationally acclaimed network of schools for refugee children. The journey is inspiring and hard-won: Fugees schools accept only those most in need; no student passes a grade without earning it; the failure of any student is the responsibility of all. Soccer as a part of every school day is a powerful catalyst to heal trauma, cre...
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When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls "an animal rights organization". Tom's team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on.

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January 23, 2022 54 mins

Roughly thirty percent of the population is estimated to be living with insomnia, while many more suffer from other sleep disorders. ABC anchor/correspondent Diane Macedo—a former insomniac herself—understands the struggle. Now, in The Sleep Fix, Macedo presents perspective-shifting research and easy-to-implement solutions to help millions of people finally get the shut-eye they need.

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July 6, 2021 54 mins
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May 18, 2021 45 mins
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Host Jon Menaster interviews author Michelle Nijhuis about the birth and history of the modern conservation movement across the world, and its ongoing efforts to save endangered (and not so endangered) animals from extinction.

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The Redshirt challenges tenacious stereotypes, shedding new light on the hypermasculine world of American football. Over the course of their first year playing for a Division One college football program that is willing to win at all costs, roommates Miles Furling and Reshawn McCoy are forced to choose between their true selves and the selves that have been imposed on them by the game.

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Drawn from her experiences of growing up as a young woman in the 'world's largest prison'-Gaza-Nayrouz Qarmout's stories stitch together a stirring patchwork of perspectives exploring what it means to be a Palestinian today.

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Pulitzer-Prize winning photojournalist Ted Jackson is interviewed by Jon Menaster about his unlikely friendship with a homeless NFL player.

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