By WKTV Staff
ken@wktv.org

In honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday, March has been designated as Reading Month. To celebrate and encourage reading, we are asking local officials, residents and WKTV staff and volunteers to tell us about a book that they enjoy. Happy Reading!

Today’s selecting comes from WKTV Managing Editor K.D. Norris. Norris is also a creative writer with several short stories and essays published. He is not what one might call an avid reader but when he sinks his teeth into something, he devours it.

Book: Albert and the Whale: Albercht Dürer and How Art Imagines Our World
Author: Philip Hoare
Genre: Biography/Autobiography

Hoare’s book is filled wonderful and wondering musings on Dürer — who in the 1500s was the most celebrated artist in Northern Europe, and still notably famous for his prints of creatures real and imagined. The reader is able to explore not only the artists’s life and work, but the people around him, famous and obscure. As his publisher’s description puts it “his art captured more than the physical world, he also captured states of mind.”