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Supping with authors
The annual Kappa Kappa Gamma Book and Author Dinner, set for 7 p.m. Sept. 26 at the Denver Marriott Tech Center, will feature four authors reading from their work.
Stephen Hunter, Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic at The Washington Post and author of the Bob Lee Swagger novels, will read from “The 47th Samurai.”
Andrew Nagorski, foreign correspondent and author, will read from his latest work, “The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II.”
Dorothea Benton Frank, best-selling author of “Daughter of the South,” will read from her latest novel, “Land of Mango Sunsets.”
Karen Quinn, author of “The Ivy Chronicles,” will read from her new work, “Wife in the Fast Lane.”
Proceeds from the dinner will benefit Craig Rehabilitation Hospital, the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation and the Iris Foundation Scholarships. Tickets start at $80 a person for reserved seating.
A $135 patron’s ticket includes reserved seating and attendance at the patrons’ party with the authors. For tickets or information, go to the organization’s website, www.denverkappa. com. |The Denver Post
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Joseph Finder, $24.95
If you’ve never killed someone, you really can’t imagine what it’s like. You don’t want to know. It leaves you with something hard and leaden in the pit of your stomach, something that never dissolves.
“Most of us, I’m convinced, just aren’t wired to take a human life. I’m not talking about some stone-cold sniper with a thousand-yard stare, of one of those psychos who come back from the war and tell you that killing guys was like squishing ants. I’m talking about normal people.
“I remember reading once how, during World War II – the Good War, right? – maybe 85 percent of the soldiers never even fired at the enemy. These were heroes, not cowards, yet they couldn’t bring themselves to aim at fellow human beings and pull the trigger.
“I understand that now.
“But what if you don’t have a choice?”
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