What are your summer reading picks?

On the next Your Call, we'll open the lines to get your summer reading recommendations. According to the National Endowment for the Arts, the average person between the ages of 15 and 24 spends two hours per day watching TV and just seven minutes reading. What can we do to encourage reading? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What are you reading? Do you have an all time favorite? It's Your Call, with Holly Kernan and you.

Guests:
Kevin Hunsanger, owner of Green Apple Books in San Francisco

David Kipen is owner of Libros Schmibros, a used bookstore and free lending library in Boyle Heights in Southern California.

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What's on your summer reading list?

On the next Your Call, we'll get suggestions from a librarian and an independent bookstore owner for great summer books -- new releases and old classics. There's nothing like having the perfect book along on a vacation or just to sit with under a tree. What do you think makes for good summer reading? Are you aiming to learn about a subject? Or get lost in a good story? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Which authors are really exciting you right now? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Laura Lent, librarian with the San Francisco Public Library system
Kevin Hunsanger, an owner of Green Apple Books

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What's the Power of Graphic Journalism?

How can the craft of graphic novelists illuminate politics and history? Join us for conversation with Joe Sacco, author of Footnotes in Gaza and John Hogan of the Graphic Novel Reporter live at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What can we learn from graphic journalism? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy, and you.

Guests:
Joe Sacco, author of Footnotes in Gaza

John Hogan, editor of the Graphic Novel Reporter

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Read a Good Book Lately?

Do you have a great book to recommend? On the next Your Call, we'll ask Green Apple Books's Pete Mulvihill and the Booksmith's Rachel Meier to share their recommendations for the best books of the year. Do have friends or family members who you'd love to get a book for -- if only you had some recommendations? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or tune in live at 11. What's your book gift idea? And what are you reading? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Pete Mulvihill, co-owner, Green Apple Books and Music

Rachel Meier, manger and book buyer at Booksmith in San Francisco

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Your Call 081809 What is on your summer reading list?

What is on your summer reading list? On the next Your Call, we'll open the phone lines and share what we're reading. Investigative reporter John Pilger is out with his summer political reading list. And Bay Area activist Todd Chretien recently compiled a summer list for President Obama. What would you add to that list?

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What are you reading? What non-fiction and fiction books do you suggest? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Pete Mulvihill, co-owner of Green Apple Books

Neal Sofman, founder and owner Bookshop West Portal

Casey Coonerty Protti, owner of Bookshop Santa Cruz

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Your Call 081108 Summer Reading Picks

What are your summer reading picks? On the next Your Call, we will have a conversation about books and why it has become so difficult to get Americans reading more literature. According to National Endowment survey, fewer than half of Americans are reading literature and Americans between the ages 15 to 24 spend almost two hours a day watching TV, and only seven minutes reading. How much time do you spend reading books? And what are you reading now? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Doris Moskowitz, owner of Moe's Books in Berkeley.

Kevin Ryan, owner of Green Apple Books

David Kipen, National Endowment for the Arts' director of Literature, National Reading Initiatives, and program director of The Big Read

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