Big Read
KMUW, in partnership with Big Read Wichita 2016, wants to know: If you were Fahrenheit451'd, what book would you save?
A bit of back story: Readers in and around Wichita are participating in the City's annual literary tradition, Big Read Wichita from Oct. 1-Nov. 15. The book selected for our community to read and discuss is the classic novel, Fahrenheit 451by acclaimed Science Fiction author Ray Bradbury.
The story follows Guy Montag, a fireman. Montag lives in a world where television has replaced literature. Books are illegal, and firemen are responsible for destroying them along with the houses that hold them. After Montag secretly takes a book from a house his team burns down, he begins to question everything he has been told.
Now back to that question. What book would you save? We asked a few of our KMUW listeners, and here are their responses:
Wichita Public LibraryThe kickoff for Big Read: Wichita, the community-wide reading event, is scheduled for Sept. 28 at the Advanced Learning Library.The opening event, which…
Big Read Wichita“Station Eleven,” a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Emily St. John Mandel, is the Big Read Wichita book for 2018.Mayor Jeff Longwell, one of the…
I am Patricia McDonnell and I am director of the Wichita Art Museum.I chose the one book that I could pull out of the fire of books: Wallace Stegner's…
My name is Sara Dixon and I am the general reference librarian at the Wichita Public Library. I have gone ahead and chosen Leaves of Grass by Walt…
My name is Suzanne Tobias and I am an education reporter for The Wichita Eagle.First of all the opportunity to save one book is just an unbelievable…
My name's Teresa Nguyen. I chose my favorite book, Brave New World. I based it on 1) I've read it more than any other book, and 2) I really like dystopian…
This is a Will and I would save Tarzan of the Apes By Edgar Rice Burroughs.Well, if we're at a point where society is just burning books because books are…
I'm Clare Vanderpool, and I'm a mom and I'm a writer. I have chosen Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry because I think if we're talking about a culture in…
Racine Zackula and I work at the Wichita Public Library. I am the fiction selection librarian of the library, so I order all the fiction for adults. I…
