September 8 is Literacy DayThe Big Read
A New Show on XM Radio beginning on September 10th !
Monday-Friday 2:30AM / 10:30AM / 4:30PM ET
The show that celebrates literature and its place in American life! We listen to classic works, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts and read in their entirety.
Here are our first four books: We begin with Ray Bradbury's futuristic tale, Fahrenheit 451, then back to Florida in the 1920s with Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, on to the great plains with Willa Cather's My Antonia, and then to a southern mill town in Carson McCuller's The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Complete List
The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The NEA presents the Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest.
The Big Read provides citizens with the opportunity to read and discuss a single book within their communities. This initiative comprises innovative reading programs in selected communities; expansive outreach and publicity campaigns, including broadcast and print publicity; compelling resources for discussing outstanding literature; and an extensive web site offering comprehensive information on the authors and their works.
Nearly two hundred communities nationwide will participate in the Big Read for 2007. For more information, visit: The Big Read
Audible.Com is proud to support XM and the National Endowment for the Arts' Big Read campaign. As the world's largest online destination for books, magazines, and original programming in audio, Audible makes it easy to experience great literature wherever you go. Listening is a great way to read !
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