E-mail a friendMarch 19, 2009
Brown University Africana studies professor Tricia Rose explains why hip-hop is ostracized, yet rises to the level of being studied. London-born novelist Zoë Heller comments on adapting novels to film and talks about her newest project, The Believers.
Tricia Rose
Tricia Rose
Brown University professor talks about hip-hop and President Obama. (3:15)
Full interview. (13:14)
Tricia Rose is a Brown University Africana Studies professor, whose specialties include 20th- and 21st-century African American culture and politics and gender issues. A pioneering expert in the study of hip-hop, she's written two books on the subject: the classic Black Noise, and The Hip Hop Wars. She also authored the path-breaking Longing to Tell, about women and sexuality. A native New Yorker, Rose completed her Ph.D. in American Studies at Brown and has taught at NYU and the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Zoe Heller
Zoe Heller
Novelist criticizes authors who take Hollywood's paycheck but can't deal with their reconceived work. (1:02)
Full interview. (11:57)
Zoë Heller is credited with being one of the first female "confessional" writers. The London-born journalist is the author of Everything You Know, Notes on a Scandal, which was adapted into a feature film, and, her latest, The Believers, about a family's struggles with its dilemmas and doubts. Heller was educated at Oxford and New York's Columbia University. She wrote book reviews for various newspapers and was a feature writer for The Independent before making the transition to literary fiction.