Yesterday the National Endowment for the Arts announced the recipients of the latest round of Big Read grants and I am pleased to announce that New Hampshire Reads Fahrenheit 451 was among the funded projects.Over the next few months I will be working with the New Hampshire Humanities Council, the NH Department of Cultural Resources, and over 40 libraries, schools, and bookstores around the state to put together discussions, programs, publications, and events all focusing on Bradbury's novel.
While this will be -- I hope -- a huge celebration of this novel and create a statewide conversation about what literature really means to a society, our project is really only a small part of a much bigger national event. This fall there will be Big Read programs focused on Fahrenheit 451 going on in Colorado, Massachusetts, Virginia, Illinois, Utah, California, Michigan, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, New York, Washington, North Carolina, Arizona, Maryland, and Wisconsin. There will Big Read programs centered on other great books going on as well -- The Northeast Cultural Coop in Amherst, NH will be hosting a Big Read project focused on Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club.
There will be lots of programs and discussions -- some live and some virtual -- going on here in the Granite State in October, I hope you will take the time to read (or re-read!) Fahrenheit 451 and then get out and discuss it with your friends, neighbors, co-workers, family -- anyone you happen to run into.
Great books lead to great conversations and that can only lead to even greater communities throughout our state and our nation.
While this will be -- I hope -- a huge celebration of this novel and create a statewide conversation about what literature really means to a society, our project is really only a small part of a much bigger national event. This fall there will be Big Read programs focused on Fahrenheit 451 going on in Colorado, Massachusetts, Virginia, Illinois, Utah, California, Michigan, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, New York, Washington, North Carolina, Arizona, Maryland, and Wisconsin. There will Big Read programs centered on other great books going on as well -- The Northeast Cultural Coop in Amherst, NH will be hosting a Big Read project focused on Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club.
There will be lots of programs and discussions -- some live and some virtual -- going on here in the Granite State in October, I hope you will take the time to read (or re-read!) Fahrenheit 451 and then get out and discuss it with your friends, neighbors, co-workers, family -- anyone you happen to run into.
Great books lead to great conversations and that can only lead to even greater communities throughout our state and our nation.
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