Kathleen Holt
Coordinator, HPPR Radio Readers Book ClubKathleen Holt has served High Plains Public Radio—in one way or another—since its inception in 1979. Currently “quasi-retired,” she volunteers as Coordinator of the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club. As a former HPPR staff member, Holt worked with a board committee to establish Legacy and Endowed Funds to provide for public radio into the future. Holt’s community development projects have upgraded the signals for many of HPPR’s translators, including KCSE (Prowers County, Colorado) and KONQ established with a partnership with Dodge City Community College to bring full time public radio to the area. “The thing I love best about the book club is re-connecting with many HPPR supporters across the High Plains, while also meeting new public radio friends across the five-state region," Holt says. "It’s not only about friends, but those friends are readers ready to explore the issues we all face living and working in our region.”
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We started with the Puritans, traveled the 1950s, visited the New Yorker and now we’ll explore blogger and web-comic creator Allie Brosh in a graphic novel. Bill Gates, said, “I love her approach—looking, listening, and describing with the observational skills of a scientist, the creativity of an artist, and the wit of a comedian.” -
This memoir written by longtime New Yorker staff cartoonist is sprinkled with David Sipress’ cartoons. This third work of the series carries us into the age of JFK and Sputnik. -
When I first learned that we’d be reading Bryson’s Lost Continent, I was particularly excited having been aware of his popularity yet not having read his work. I’m Kathleen Holt in Cimarron – a small southwest Kansas in which I grew up and from which I took numerous family vacations during the 1950s. -
Some journeys take us across physical landscapes and others, across internal ones. The Lost Continent details author Bill Bryson’s self-proclaimed “journey of discovery.” Following his father’s death, Bryson returns to the United States from England and travels almost 14,000 miles across the country in search of the elements for the quintessential American town. -
Much of the literature we’ve read in past series as part of the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club weighs in as heavy. Some of us love to do serious reading, but this spring, those readers seeking something lighter have the floor! -
Aired twice, this holiday tradition features a two-hour conversation with author Thomas Fox Averill who discusses his book A Carol Dickens Christmas. -
Congratulations to HPPR Radio Reader Miriam Scott of Amarillo, shown here with a 2022 Kansas Association of Broadcasters first place award for her commentary in a Radio Readers BookByte written and produced in the 2022 Spring Read – Graphic Novels: Worth a Thousand Words. -
In case you missed it, the culmination of the Fall Read featured a two-hour live book discussion on Sunday, November 17th with book leaders and community partners discussing the breadth of books from the latest series, "Through the Eyes of a Child." -
My name is Deana Craighead and I am the Curator of Art at Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas. In the spring of 2024, the museum opened Dali’s Wonderland, an exhibition that features a limited-edition copy of Alice in Wonderland from the personal library of local philanthropist Sybil B. Harrington, illustrated by the artist Salvador Dali. -
Like Alice, I grew up feeling like I was too big one day and too small the next. We’re finishing discussion of the classic Alice in Wonderland and I’ve been amazed at those who either haven’t read it or were surprised to find meaning in it today.
