Turning Pages | Reading the Classics, with Kelly Hardesty

In this episode I am talking with Kelly Hardesty about her blog, sky-t-tray.us, in which she writes about reading the books we tend to categorize as classics. What is the definition of a literary classic? Why – and how – might a reader explore these works written decades or centuries ago?

The books we talked about specifically are

Little Women by Lousia May Alcott (1868)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (1943)
Anne of Green Gables series by L M Montgomery (1908)
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (1985)
Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather (1915)
I Wonder as I Wander by Langston Hughes (1956)
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark (1981)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (1927)
Martin Eden by Jack London (1909)
Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck (1954)
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë (1848)
Persuasion by Jane Austen (1818)

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Creators and Guests

Host

Toni Wheeler

Toni Wheeler, the host of Turning Pages, grew up in New York and raised her kids in South Florida, where she lived for 25 years before relocating to Mendocino County She is a bookseller at Mendocino Book Company in downtown Ukiah, where she has enjoyed talking about books with readers since 2014. And as a frequent guest on the Summer Reads show on Jefferson Public Radio, out of Southern Oregon University, Toni discovered that she also enjoys talking about books on the radio.

What is Turning Pages ?

Turning Pages is a monthly half-hour show for book lovers. Each month, Toni will share book reviews, author interviews and news from the book world, with a focus on California authors, and invites comments, questions and book recommendations from listeners via email at [e-mail]

Listen to Turning Pages every first Wednesday at 3:30 pm