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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-provoking and insightful. Even though it was written in 1997, it’s still standard reading for some ...

4:00 Hey, you all! It’s 2021—finally!! And HPPR’s Radio Readers is back with a spring read for all of us!  What with all the lessons offered by 2020 (may it rest in peace), we’ve opted for a series of books to help us explore Cultures in a Common Land, as a way to talk about how to live alongside others whose beliefs and ways of being seem not to align with our own.  Know what I mean? To frame our conversations, we’ve chosen a trio of titles – classic titles from the 1990’s culled from archived book lists from Radio Readers throughout our region—and…our choices are -- cou...