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Book Public host Yvette Benavides and Peter Orner discuss "The Doll" by Edna O'Brien.

/ TPR welcomed three new podcasts this year, bringing the stations total to six. Our most-listened to episodes include stories about the early days of the pandemic and its economic fallout, as well as stories that explore the history and culture of San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley and highlight new works of literature. More than 400,000 listeners contributed to 780,000+ downloads: our biggest numbers ever. Here are TPRs most popular podcast episodes of 2020: The Shakeout: Oil Is In Troubl...

Peter Orner I’ve read a lot of headlines lately about the slow death of reading during the pandemic. A quick Google search reveals a half-dozen articles asserting those claims in just the last few weeks — even as the book publishing world celebrates gains in sales. But I get it. The pandemic has turned our worlds — and our schedules — upside down. Old routines have been replaced by new ones, and in some of those transitions, time to read has had to be jettisoned from daily lives. Sever...

Juan Rulfo At the center of the story “Remember” by Juan Rulfo is the refrain, "Remember," from the first-person narrator to some listener — a contemporary of his who went to school with him and should be aware of every incident that is recalled, every person named and described, every sad situation unearthed from the moth balls of memory. “Remember,” he says over and again, while himself — as we’ll see — showing evidence that time has blunted the edges of his recall; the vagari...