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Literary Feasts

Imagine an eclectic mix of intelligent, inquisitive people – like you - coming together for stimulating conversation about a recently published book – selected with Wichita Public Radio listeners in mind.  KMUW presents Literary Feasts…where guests enjoy a buffet of delicious seasonal food, savor a glass of wine chosen to compliment the repast and then settle in for an hour of lively book discussion. 

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The venue is Watermark Books and Café, located in Lincoln Heights Center at Douglas and Oliver.  KMUW’s Literary Feasts gatherings are the second Friday of each month from 7 to 9 pm.  Tickets are $25 and may be purchased at Watermark, along with your book for a 20% discount. Call Watermark at 682-1181. It has become the tastiest ticket in town and there is a limit of only 30 tickets, so don’t wait!

imageMarch 12th—“Generosity: An Enhancement” by Richard Powers
When Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amzwar’s blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell. How can this refugee from perpetual terror be so happy? Won’t someone so open and alive come to serious harm? Wondering how to protect her, Russell researches her war-torn country and skims through popular happiness manuals. Might her condition be hyperthymia? Hypomania? Russell’s amateur inquiries lead him to college counselor Candace Weld, who also falls under Thassa’s spell. Dubbed Miss Generosity by her classmates, Thassa’s joyful personality comes to the attention of the notorious geneticist and advocate for genomic enhancement, Thomas Kurton, whose research leads him to announce the genotype for happiness.—Amazon.com

 

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