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Contact: Doug Tattershall, Lexington Public Library
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(859) 231-5515

September 04, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Library teams up with WUKY-FM for new book club

The Lexington Public Library and WUKY-FM will begin monthly book discussions of books by on-air National Public Radio personalities, starting with a discussion of Geoffrey Nunberg’s “Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Controversial Times.”

The new NPR Book Club will meet to discuss Nunberg’s book at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13, at the Tates Creek Branch. Nunberg is a language commentator for the NPR program, Fresh Air. Going Nucular is described by its publisher as a collection of feisty and humorous essays in which Nunberg “cracks the codes embedded in many familiar terms used in media, business, technology and politics to reveal unexpected insights about America’s fractious society.”

Copies of the book may be picked up prior to the discussion at the Tates Creek Branch. For more information, call (859) 231-5580.

The book club will meet the second Tuesday of each month, rotating library locations. Scheduled book discussions include:

? 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, Beaumont Branch—Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation by Cokie Roberts

? 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 8, Central Library—Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions: Travels with an NPR Correspondent by John Burnett

? 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 12, Tates Creek Branch—When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

? 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, Beaumont Branch—Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba by Tom Gjelten

? 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 9, Central Library—The Years of Talking Dangerously by Geoffrey Nunberg

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