Oct 15 Poll: Tell us which National Book Award finalists you have read By News Desk Today, the National Book Award finalist list was cut in half with the announcement of the short lists for awards in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature. The list includes such recognized writers as Pulitzer Prize winner and two-time… Continue reading
Oct 15 Watch Norman Lear of 'All in the Family' on the golden age of television By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 14 Shedding a limiting label to embrace a new identity as artist By KLRU People with developmental disabilities can struggle to find educational opportunities or a professional outlet, but Arc of the Arts believes the bridge they’ve created to the community can help fill that void. Continue reading
Oct 13 Weekly Poem: Saskia Hamilton wants you to 'dream over' her work By Victoria Fleischer “The spirit of the book is a lot about passing through or passing by different lives and landscapes,” says Saskia Hamilton of her new collection, "Corridor."… Continue reading
Oct 12 Watch From stutterer to star: How James Earl Jones found his voice By PBS News Hour James Earl Jones, the 83-year-old acting legend who recently made his return to Broadway in the play "You Can't Take It With You," discusses the highs and lows of his six-decade-long career, from his modest beginnings suffering from a stutter… Continue watching
Oct 10 Watch For one of Sudan's Lost Boys, telling story on film offers healing By PBS News Hour Continue watching
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