Oct 09 French writer Patrick Modiano wins 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature By Victoria Fleischer French writer Patrick Modiano won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature this morning. The Nobel Academy said they awarded Modiano the award “For the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the… Continue reading
Oct 08 For readers young and old, YA is A-OK By Tracy Wholf Young adult fiction is one of the most successful categories of book sales for the publishing industry today, and authors who've traditionally wrote for an older crowd have begun to dip their pen in YA ink. Continue reading
Oct 08 Photographers sneak into London’s underground world By Victoria Fleischer A dentist, a bus driver and a surgeon pop open a manhole cover and shimmy into the opening, abseiling into the depths of London's sewer system. They're not authorized to do this, mind you, but they're determined. You see, they,… Continue reading
Oct 07 Watch Out of many faces, one American portrait: Artist creates ‘facescape’ on the National Mall By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 07 Walk through a 6-acre portrait combining Washington’s many faces By Anne Azzi Davenport Using dozens of images of young men photographed in Washington, D.C., artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada has created a physical "facescape" from that composite portrait. "Out of Many, One" is on display on the National Mall until the end of October, with… Continue reading
Oct 07 Watch Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada on the ground-level feel of facescape By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 07 Using long-exposure photography, Minnesota artist paints with light By Twin Cities PBS Minnesota artist Brian Hart draws with lights and cameras. He likes to think of the one-inch long LED night fishing lights that he uses as his pen; the camera is his paper. He doesn’t use Photoshop. There is no manipulation… Continue reading
Oct 07 Watch Armed with a camera, one Minnesota artist draws with night fishing lights By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 06 Watch Lev Grossman’s ‘Magicians’ series casts spell on adult readers By PBS News Hour Lev Grossman’s bestselling series “The Magicians” proves that fantasy literature isn’t only for kids, having captured a new generation of readers with new worlds and mature, complicated characters. Grossman joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss his work and why the genre… Continue watching