Starting this evening at 9 p.m, actor and author levarburton will host a thrice-weekly Twitter Livestream show, where he will read various short stories by abebrown716
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Rhino Who Swallowed A Storm" at a signing at Barnes & Noble Booksellers on December 20, 2014 in Burbank, California. LeVar Burton is about to do something that he does quite well. He’s going to tell a story. “When I was in third grade,” he begins, “Mrs. Twigg would give me a book, stand me up in the front of the class and go make a cup tea. When she came back, she knew that the class would be in their seats, and they’d be quiet because I was reading a story.”
“I was the best reader in the class,” explains Burton, 63, whose voice has lost not a drop of its honeyed smoothness in the 14 years since he last hosted PBS’“So all of that to say is, I love reading aloud,” he says, underscoring a point that, really, needs no emphasizing. “It is one of my favorite modalities of storytelling—taking a writer’s words and interpreting them through the actor part of me.
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