Nov 19 Watch 3:06 Kate DiCamillo on the magic of reading aloud We tend to reserve reading aloud for kids or others who can't read on their own. But beloved children's book author Kate DiCamillo thinks the practice offers a special opportunity for people to connect. She offers her humble opinion on… Continue watching
Nov 19 4 lessons from Michelle Obama on being true to yourself By Yamiche Alcindor Becoming your best self means taking care of yourself, and other things Michelle Obama shared during her book tour stop in Washington, D.C. Continue reading
Nov 18 Watch 6:11 It's a Hollywood set, it's just taped in Hungary By Christopher Livesay, Joan Martelli The Martian, A Good Day to Die Hard, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Terminator 6 all have one unusual thing in common -- they were all filmed in Hungary. The Central European country has emerged as a top staging destination… Continue watching
Nov 17 Watch 8:06 Drugs, anxiety and sobriety define Jeff Tweedy as much as his music By Christopher Booker, Mori Rothman After losing their record label in 2002, Wilco released “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” online, which ended up on a list of Rolling Stone’s top 500 albums of all time. But singer-songwriter Jeff Tweedy wrote in a new memoir “Let’s Go (So… Continue watching
Nov 17 WATCH: Jeffrey Brown interviews authors at the Miami Book Fair By artsdesk This Saturday and Sunday, watch live interviews with author John Grisham, young adult novelist Kwame Alexander, novelist Sandra Cisneros, historian Michael Beschloss, commentator Rebecca Traister and more. Continue reading
Nov 16 Watch 5:56 Why 'Widows' isn't just another heist movie By Jeffrey Brown The new fall film “Widows” looks like a heist movie, featuring plenty of star power, thrilling plot twists and explosions, as the widows of four armed robbers band together to finish the job their late husbands’ began. But director Steve… Continue watching
Nov 16 William Goldman, screenwriter of 'Butch Cassidy,' dies at age 87 By Jake Coyle, Associated Press Goldman won Academy Awards for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "All the President's Men."… Continue reading
Nov 14 Katie Kitamura annotates a page from her book 'A Separation' By Elizabeth Flock Kitamura explains how her fascinations with masculinity and privacy in a marriage became major themes in the book. Continue reading
Nov 13 Watch 7:07 Why a library fire feels like an 'attack on humanity' By Jeffrey Brown In April 1986, fire raged through the Central Library in downtown Los Angeles, damaging or destroying more than a million books. Journalist and author Susan Orlean resurrects this nearly forgotten story in “The Library Book,” which also explores the emotional… Continue watching
Nov 12 Watch 5:40 New film 'Boy Erased' explores the 'self-hatred' dealt by gay conversion programs By Jeffrey Brown “Boy Erased,” a new film based on a memoir by Garrard Conley, tells the story of a young man who is forced by his parents to attend a gay conversion therapy program. Jeffrey Brown speaks to Conley about how his… Continue watching