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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Wichita's Big Read program will take on a classic science fiction novel this year.For its 9th year, Big Read Wichita has chosen Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit…
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As we wrap up our series celebrating the Big Read with stories of how some Wichitans came to the United States, we hear from Wichita State University…
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As we continue our celebration of this year's Big Read by hearing the stories of how some Wichitans came to the United States, Sandra Avendano shows us…
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Luis Alberto Urrea’s 2009 Into The Beautiful North was chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts as the selection for 2015’s The Big Read. Urrea is…
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Today, as we continue celebrating this year's Big Read with stories of how some Wichitans came to live in the United States, we hear from Servando…
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Our first immigration story features Mohamed Yaaqoub, who escaped his home in Darfur when it was attacked in 2004 by the Janjaweed militia and spent…