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Denver Book Club Monthly Meeting

Thursday, March 25 2010, 7:00pm - 10:00pm

The Denver Book Club will hold its monthly meetup event. The cost is just $3.00. Info: http://www.meetup.com/denverbookclub/calendar/12481354/

Our March nonfiction book selection is "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," by Robert Persig.

From Amazon.com Review -- Robert Pirsig brings us a literary chautauqua, a novel that is meant to both entertain and edify. It scores high on both counts.
Phaedrus, our narrator, takes a present-tense cross-country motorcycle trip with his son during which the maintenance of the motorcycle becomes an illustration of how we can unify the cold, rational realm of technology with the warm, imaginative realm of artistry. As in Zen, the trick is to become one with the activity, to engage in it fully, to see and appreciate all details--be it hiking in the woods, penning an essay, or tightening the chain on a motorcycle.

In his autobiographical first novel, Pirsig wrestles both with the ghost of his past and with the most important philosophical questions of the 20th century--why has technology alienated us from our world? What are the limits of rational analysis? if we can't define the good, how can we live it? ... Brian Bruya

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Hall of Fame

The Denver Press Club will induct five greats of Denver and Colorado journalism into the club’s Hall of Fame at its 14th annual banquet on
Friday, October 2.

Dick Kreck, Marilyn Robinson and Paula Woodward will be honored for outstanding journalism careers, and posthumous awards also will be given to Red Fenwick and Harry Rhoads.

Tickets are $65 and can be purchased by logging on to blacktie-colorado.com, then on Denver under the Event Calendar, and then clicking on October 2. The deadline for ticket purchases is Wednesday, Sept. 30.

The social hour will begin at 6 p.m., followed by the dinner and the awards ceremony at 7 p.m.