Mike Strong
HPPR Radio Readers Book LeaderMike Strong is a photographer, videographer, software programmer, tech writer, and web programmer. He is a former astronomic and geodetic surveyor/computer, massage therapist, baker and—of course, bartender and waiter (“proudly so!”). He also worked as a newspaper and radio reporter in Nebraska and upstate New York. He holds a degree in Journalism from the University of Kansas. Known in the Kansas City dance communities for his dance photography and videography, as well as for his online publication, www.KCDance.com, Mike has focused on dance since 1994 and continues to do so.
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This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR. The book is “Running with Sherman” by Christopher McDougall.Chris McDougall was an almost accidental war correspondent, wandering after college, eventually landing in Madrid, Spain, teaching English for a bit, when he applied for a job with the Associated Press. -
This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR. The book is “Running With Sherman” by Christopher McDougall.Sherman is a delight from page one, or page 40 or page anything, anywhere you land, whether you read from start to end or in spurts or you skim. If you love animals at all, Christopher McDougall’s always slightly bemused prose will endear you to the smart, funny, cantankerous Sherman. -
This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR. The book is “Bewilderment” by Richard Powers.This is a book of overlapping metaphors and colliding worlds as order and science slide toward the dark hole of authoritarian chaos. -
This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR. The book is “Bewilderment” by Richard Powers.The first text in Richard Powers’ “Bewilderment” is a quote from Rachel Carson. It took me back a few years. When Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” was published in September 1962 my parents purchased a copy for my 15th birthday two months later. -
This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR. The book is “Bewilderment” by Richard Powers. When we come into our narrator's story, he is a widower with his autistic, talented, brilliant, highly active, nine-year old son. They are on a trip to find a dark sky to look at the stars through their telescope. -
In "Braiding Sweetgrass" we are embraced with the democracy in coexisting with nature. The regard for all other creatures, animal and plant as equal members of the tribe of earth dwellers, the grateful occupants of Turtle Island, our world. -
There are a lot of books whose writing draws me in but few whose writing grabs me into the flowing poetry of its prose from the first syllable. For that matter, few prose books are so poetic that you can't really separate the emotional pull of poetry from the expository nature of prose. -
This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR. The book is “Words for War,” an anthology of Ukrainian poets edited by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky. -
This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR. The book is “Words for War,” an anthology of Ukrainian poets edited by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky. -
This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR. The book is “Made in China” by Amelia Pang. The churches in China are the state. The state is in all the churches.
