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A Roaring Reception for One Book

KWIT | By Mark Munger

Published February 17, 2016 at 10:47 AM CST

One Book One Siouxland will kick off the 2016 season at the Orpheum Theatre this Thursday. Built in 1927, the venue couldn't be more perfect for a party which will send everybody off reading One Summer, America 1927. The novel, written by Iowa native Bill Bryson, rebuilds vivid events from history, taking the reader into the time when Babe Ruth clobbered 60 homers in a season and Charles Lindbergh proved the Atlantic Ocean surmountable.

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Mark Munger

Mark Munger first began listening to public radio as a child in the back of his Mom's VW Vanagon, falling in love with the stories on Morning Edition and Prairie Home Companion and the laughter of Click and Clack on Car Talk. Through KWIT, he was introduced to the great orchestras and jazz artists, the sounds of folk and blues, and the eclectic expressions of humanity. This American Life and Radiolab arrived in his formative college years and made him want nothing more than to be a part of the public radio world.

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