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Ideas Matter - MASS Humanities And The Importance Of Reading

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published August 8, 2014 at 10:35 AM EDT

  Ideas Matter: Checking in with the Public Humanities is our chance to check in with the Humanities Councils throughout our 7-State area to discuss important ideas and why they do indeed matter.

This morning we welcome the folks from Mass Humanities to discuss the importance of reading on the occasion of The New Yorker taking its pay wall down.
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