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Earl “DMX” Simmons kept it real whether he was testifying about his angels or his demons. While it’s common for grief, depression, anxiety, and faith to come up in popular music today, Simmons rose to fame at a time when hip-hop songs about flashy cars, jewelry, and expensive clothes ruled the charts. The rapper best known by his stage name DMX shot videos in his childhood neighborhood wearing workman’s jumpsuits and few gold chains. Simmons—who died last week at age 50—is the first...

© Alice Neale. Courtesy of Ned Beauman London-born Ned Beauman is the author of four novels, each of them published to critical acclaim. Released in 2010, Boxer, Beetle, its protagonist a hapless Londoner with an unfortunate medical condition that lends him the smell of rotten fish, won The Guardian First Book Award, and its successor, The Teleportation Accident, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2012. Glow, published in 2014, updates the thriller for a new generation, its charact...

Using words to build bridges: Whately writers join national series of live-streamed presentations George Howe Colt at his home in Whately. Gazette file photo Whately nonfiction writers George Howe Colt and Anne Fadiman are participating in next week’s “Write America” discussion. via Wikipedia Published: 3/16/2021 2:16:59 PM Can books play a role in helping to bridge the deep cultural and political divisions in our nation? There’s no easy answer to the question, but a national series of ...

4:00 Understanding complicated instructions regarding medications and dosages is only one of the challenges faced by the Lees in our book. Credit Credit: NIAID, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Hi, I’m Valerie a radio reader from Topeka and I’m in the middle of reading The Spirit Catches you and you Fall Down: a Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman. This book is part of HPPRs Radio Readers Book Club this go round with the theme Cultures in a ...

Anne Lamott: I wrote Dusk, Night, Dawn specifically for people who were feeling hopeless in the aftermath of the UN papers on climate change, the fire in Australia, (remember those?), and then Covid. I wanted to remind my readers that turning these things around is hard, but that we are GOOD at hard. We stopped fascism, cured smallpox, created antiretrovirals, and some of us have actually managed to survive self-destructive teenage children, hideous breakups and custody battles, unsurvivable l...

3:43 Imagine the cultural perspective of a car full of Texas teens traveling together engaging in an exploration of cultures other than their own. Credit Xavier Romero-Frias, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Hi, I’m Marcy McKay from Amarillo, author of Amazon’s #1 Hot New Release, When Life Feels Like a House Fire: Transforming Your Stress. I’m excited to be a Radio Reader for High Plains Public Radio’s Book Club. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman is thought-p...

4:00 Since the late 19th Century through the present day, medical and cultural practices have been influenced by shamanism in many cultures. Depicted here is an Athapascan Hupa female shaman from northwest California. Credit Edward R. Curtis, 1868 – 1952 from Library of Congress You are listening to the High Plains Public Radio Reader’s Book Club. My name is Freddy Gipp, I am an enrolled member of the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, and my Indian name is T’san T’hoop Ah’n, meaning “Lead...

Geographical Magazine Writers Reads: Rana Foroohar, author of Dont Be Evil – The Case Against Big Tech Writers Reads: Rana Foroohar, author of Dont Be Evil – The Case Against Big Tech Written by  Geographical 2021 Rana Foroohar is the author of Makers and Takers (2016) and Dont Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech (2019). She is a business columnist, an associate editor at the Financial Times, and CNNs global economic analyst. Here,...

This is Nicole English coming to you from the Sociology Department at Fort Hays State University for HPPR's Book-Bytes.... This is a discussion of the book

MercyMe - Almost There - Audio CD - LIKE NEW disc - ships fast Only 1 available Condition: Used Case teeth hold disc like they should, case has shelf wear but works like it should, and looks good, cover art is very nice, disc has a very clear mirror side, the disc looks great. In todays worship-crazed phase of Christian pop, Mercy Me fits right in with smooth melodies, passionate lyrics, and a vertical focus. Yet the transition from worship band to major-label act demands more. Almost There pro...