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Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads
Ira Glass in Radio Stories and Other Stories
Saturday, March 24, 2007 @ 7:30 p.m.
Pease Auditorium (at the corner of Cross Street and College Place) on the campus of Eastern Michigan University
The Ypsilanti District Library is very pleased to present Ira Glass in Radio Stories and Other Stories in celebration of Community Reads 2007.
As host and producer of the documentary public radio program This American Life, Ira Glass focuses on the details of life that often go unobserved. This American Life had its premiere on Chicago’s public radio station WBEZ in late 1995 and is now heard on more than 500 public radio stations each week by over 1.7 million listeners. Sidestepping sensationalism, Glass and his staff serve up narrative epics that pinpoint, in the tradition of Studs Terkel, the unusual and poetic in the everyday. This American Life can be heard locally on WEMU 89.1 on Saturday mornings at 10 a.m.
Under Glass’s editorial direction, This American Life has won the highest honors for broadcasting and journalistic excellence, including the Peabody and DuPont-Columbia awards, as well as the Robert F. Kennedy Award. Ira Glass has made appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In 2001, Time magazine named Glass “Best Radio Host in America.”
Join us in celebrating this year’s Community Reads theme of the many people that we are, the diverse communities we have created, and the challenges we face in fostering a continuing sense of belonging and civic engagement in a changing world in this unique and rare program.
General admission tickets for this event are $10 and can be obtained at the EMU Convocation Ticket Office, online at www.emich.edu/convocation, or by phone 487-2282 beginning January 8th.
The event is made possible through the generous support of Bank of Ann Arbor – Ypsilanti Office, Eastern Michigan University Library, Friends of the Eastern Michigan University Library, and Friends of the Ypsilanti District Library.
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