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Editor’s note: In case you missed this event, view the HEC-TV / Maryville Talks Books interview with Krista Tippett, along with other featured authors.

Krista Tippett, host of NPR’s On Being radio program, will discuss her new book, Becoming Wise, as part of the Maryville Talks Books series at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 8, at the Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Road. 

Tippett will speak in conversation with Don Marsh, host of St. Louis Public Radio’s program, St. Louis on the Air.

The presentation will be followed by a book signing, courtesy of Left Banks Books.

Purchase tickets here: $31 admits one and comes with one copy of Becoming Wise; $36 admits two and comes with one copy of Becoming Wise + $5 rebatable towards a second copy of Becoming Wise.

Over the 15 years that Krista Tippett has hosted her award-winning and nationally beloved radio program on NPR, first under the title Speaking of Faith and then as On Being, the heart of her work has been to shine a light on the most extraordinary people at work on the big issues and questions of the day, people whose missions kindle in us a sense of wonder. Scientists in a variety of fields; theologians from a number of faiths; poets, activists, and many others have all opened themselves up to Tippett’s compassionate but searching conversation.

In Becoming Wise, Tippett distills the insights she has gleaned from these luminous characters about the meaning of life in its many dimensions into a coherent narrative journey, over time and from mind to mind, that explores what it means to be human. The book is a master class in living, curated by Tippett but presided over by a delightfully ecumenical dream team of a teaching faculty. The art of living can mean many things to many different people. The questions most of us are asking ourselves today are intimate and civilizational all at once—definitions of when life begins and when death happens; the meaning of marriage and family; the human relationship to the natural world; our relationships to technology and through technology: how then shall we live? Tippett’s great gift, in her work and in Becoming Wise, is to avoid reductive simplifications but still find the golden threads that weave people and ideas together into a shimmering braid.