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Speaking Volumes was a weekly conversation hosted by Josh Raulerson on books and reading with interesting people from all walks of life here in Pittsburgh.Speaking Volumes as a regular feature ended in December, 2013 but occasional specials may pop up.

Speaking Volumes: Paige McKenzie

Paige McKenzie, from Penn Hills, is a fan of travel writing and memoirs.

 
Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Author Strayed traces the personal crisis she endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.
-NPR
 
Gideon Lewis-Kraus, A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful
Traces the author's wayward participation in three pilgrimages as part of a personal quest to resolve differences between his disciplinary skills and desires, an effort that illuminated a family mystery and gave him a greater sense of purpose.
-NPR
 
James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
Considered an 'audacious' second novel, GIOVANNI'S ROOM is set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence. This now-classic story of a fated love triangle explores, with uncompromising clarity, the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity.
-Penguin

Josh Raulerson is the local host for Morning Edition weekdays from 5-9 a.m. on 90.5 WESA.