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The 2012 Fox Cities Reads is underway! Pick up a copy of Make the Impossible Possible by Bill Strickland at your local library and join in community-wide discussions about the book. The author will visit the Fox Cities April 16-18 during the Fox Cities Book Festival.
Author Biography
Host Jean Feraca is a 27-year veteran of public talk radio in the United States. She brings to her work the unique sensibility of a poet/humanist/journalist, combined with a lively personal style and a sense of adventure, discovery, and delight perfectly suited to creating global on-air community.
Jean Feraca is Wisconsin Public Radio's Distinguished Senior Broadcaster and has been host and co-producer of the Ideas Network's award-winning call-in news and cultural affairs program, Conversations with Jean Feraca, from 1990 to 2003. In 2003 she started her new daily program Here On Earth.
Jean's new book, "I Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love, Death, and the Radio," came out in September 2007. It has been selected as the winner of this year's Kingery/Derleth Booklength Nonfiction Award, sponsored by the Council for Wisconsin Writers. It was also named an Outstanding Book by the American Association of School Librarians, and one of the year's Best Books for General Audiences by the Public Library Association.
Jean originally joined WPR in l983 as Humanities Producer after leaving NPR affiliate WGUC-FM to become a free-lance arts, humanities, and general assignment reporter for National Public Radio's Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
Additional Information
PLEASE ARRIVE BY 2:45PM FOR THIS PROGRAM.
Here on Earth live broadcast radio show with Jean Feraca and Luis Alberto Urrea
University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley Student Union
Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders from Wisconsin Public Radio will come to the Fox Cities Book Festival on Wednesday April 13th to talk with acclaimed writer Luis Alberto Urrea.
Here on Earth is a live radio talk program with a focus on breakthrough stories, global cultural affairs, and the future. Our host Jean Feraca offers conversations that entertain, inspire, and provide insight to people who are genuinely fascinated by the breadth, difference, and complexity in the world. At the Fox Cities Book Festival, Jean will talk to acclaimed writer Luis Alberto Urrea.
Throughout his life and work, Luis Alberto Urrea has been influenced by the Mexican-American border. The son of an American mother and a Mexican father, he is truly bicultural. He was born in Tijuana but grew up moving back and forth between Tijuana and San Diego. He calls the border his home. He’ll talk with Jean Feraca about the richness of crossing borders in life and literature.
The show will be broadcast with a live audience. Along with the listeners calling in, the audience will be able to ask questions as well. People wanting to attend the live broadcast should be at the location and seated by 2:45pm at the latest.
Jean Feraca and Luis Alberto Urrea will stay on for a book signing after the event.
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