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Coffee Break: International Literacy Day

September 08, 2016

What songs do you want to hear for today's Coffee Break?
What songs do you want to hear for today's Coffee Break?STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images 2007

September 8 is International Literacy Day, a day for schools, communities and organizations to unite around the world to raise awareness in the hope that it will enable increased accessibility to education in developing nations.

So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that reference reading and writing?

Songs played

Paperback Writer - The Beatles
Right On feat. Joanna Newsom - The Roots
The Book of Love - The Magnetic Fields
The Book I Read - Talking Heads
I'm Writing A Novel - Father John Misty
Poetry - Boogie Down Productions
Write About Love - Belle and Sebastian

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