Dialogue: World Read Aloud Day and Literacy in East Tennessee

By Chrissy Keuper

Published February 1, 2023 at 5:00 AM EST

WUOT's Chrissy Keuper celebrated World Read Aloud Day with Teresa Brittain and Kristin Yarnell of Friends of Literacy and writers Michael Knight and Linda Parsons, both members of the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame.

Information about the Friends of Literacy's 2023 East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame Awards Gala can be found here.
(Congratulations to WUOT's Todd Steed and all other inductees!)

Books we read from on the show:

A Child's Garden of Verses - Robert Louis Stevenson
Merciful Days - Jesse Graves
Basin Ghosts - Jesse Graves
Lights Years - James Salter
Just a Little Bit - Ann Tompert
Tennessee: A History - Wilma Dykeman
How to Wrestle a Girl - Venita Blackburn
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

Dialogue

Chrissy Keuper

Chrissy served as WUOT's News Director and host of monthly public affairs talk show Dialogue from late 2021 to early 2023. Her first job with the station was as weekend student announcer while earning her bachelor's in Anthropology from the University of Tennessee. She had previously been the station's local host for NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered news programs; occasionally filled in as host for WUOT's Morning and Afternoon Concerts; and won multiple awards for her interviews, feature stories, and Dialogue.

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