Reading President

Audible and Higher Ground LLC are sponsoring the podcast series A Great Book With Barack Obama. Our former President will discuss books which have been important to him, and by extension he believes to us all. The line up for the six podcasts is: Episode 1: Tom Hanks (Uncommon Type) on Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Episode 2: Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me) on The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin Episode 3: Jill Lepore (These Truths: A History of the United States) on All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren Episode 4: Ben Rhodes (The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House) on Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré Episode 5: Percival Everett (James) on Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Episode 6: Lauren Groff (Florida) on All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy The series begins on Audible on September 24th, and will be available on YouTube later on too. As Variety tells, Higher Ground is the production company founded by Michelle and Barack Obama. Their…