On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we are excited to re-introduce you to Rebecca Makkai's beautiful book, ----The Great Believers.---- It is our pick for the next meeting of WYPR's Weekly Reader Book Club on September 12th at 7pm at Bird in Hand. We also look back at book critic Marion Winik's ----First Comes Love,---- her memoir of love and loss during the early years of the AIDS crisis.

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