Maureen Hart

E-reader: Young, captive listeners get their chance to talk

May 9, 2019 at 11:07 p.m.

Book Club for Kids, hosted by Kitty Felde, www.bookclubforkids.org, also on iTunes, free NPR journalist Kitty Felde realized back in 2000 that quite a few kids (especially in Los Angeles,...

Jules Siegel's 1967 essay about Brian Wilson's trials is more than just a story of a tortured genius; it's a look at what "hip" meant in the late 1960s and how The Beach Boys and The Beatles competed. Wilson is seen here in 2008.

E-reader: Heroes and villains in Brian Wilson’s head

May 9, 2019 at 11:05 p.m.

Goodbye Surfing, Hello God! by Jules Siegel, The Atavist Magazine, free "I'm writing a teenage symphony to God," Brian Wilson says in Jules Siegel's 1967 story about his attempt to...

Articles from the Esquire archives about Bruce Springsteen, left, Johnny Carson and John Lennon are featured in this week's E-reader.

E-reader: Esquire Classic takes you back

May 9, 2019 at 11:05 p.m.

For anyone who's ever gotten lost in historical records and photos, here's another temptation. Esquire Classic is "the living archive of every issue, article, photograph, and advertisement that Esquire has...

"How to Perform a Heart Transplant" by Matt Goodman follows a heart transplant from the anonymous donor to the surgical suites of Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas.

E-reader: Transformation of a transplant program

May 9, 2019 at 11:04 p.m.

How to Perform a Heart Transplant by Matt Goodman, dmagazine.com, 20-minute read, free D magazine writer Matt Goodman follows a heart transplant — from the anonymous donor to the surgical...

Famed baseball player LeRoy "Satchel" Paige at Wrigley Field in 1968. Paige's season in the Dominican Republic in 1937 is explored in "Satchel Paige and the Championship for the Reelection of the General" by Jonathan Blitzer.

E-reader: How Jim Crow baseball benefited a Latin American strongman

May 9, 2019 at 11:03 p.m.

Satchel Paige and the Championship for the Reelection of the General by Jonathan Blitzer, Atavist, 40-minute read, free As opening day approaches for Major League Baseball, it's a good time...

E-reader: When you know why and how, but not who’s to blame

May 9, 2019 at 11:02 p.m.

The Real Story of Germanwings Flight 9525 by Joshua Hammer, www.gq.com, 20-minute read, free On March 24, 2015, Germanwings Flight 9525 crashed into the French Alps on its route from...

Aaron Lansky, seen here in 1998, is the founder of the National Yiddish Book Center.

E-reader: A good time to take up Yiddish

May 9, 2019 at 11:01 p.m.

Keeping a language alive, www.yiddishbookcenter.org The Yiddish Book Center, the brainchild of then-24-year-old grad student Aaron Lansky in 1980, has grown from an effort to rescue the estimated 70,000 Yiddish...

How two young men advanced the cause of gay rights in 1972 Georgia and two other e-reads.

E-reader: When is a dance not just a dance?

May 9, 2019 at 11:00 p.m.

Dance Revolution '72 by C.J. Bartunek, The Big Roundtable, 60-minute read, donations welcome The University of Georgia in 1972 seems an unlikely battleground for gay liberation (post-Stonewall New York was...

E-reader: Winona Ryder frozen in time

May 9, 2019 at 10:59 p.m.

Winona, Forever by Soraya Roberts, Hazlitt, 30-minute read, free The premise of Soraya Roberts' essay is that Winona Ryder hasn't advanced from the late '80s/early '90s in the public mind...

This April 2014 FBI handout image shows the wanted poster for William Bradford Bishop Jr., who is wanted for the murders of his wife, mother, and three sons in Maryland nearly four decades ago, and has been named to the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.

E-reader: There are good fathers, and not-so-good fathers

May 9, 2019 at 10:59 p.m.

Hidden Damages by M.R. O'Connor, The Atavist, 45-minute read, free M.R. O'Connor charts a father's battle against the governments of Iran and the United States to get some kind of...

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