Jul 26 Watch Inside Garrison Keillor's fabled world of 'A Prairie Home Companion' By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 26 How well do you know 'A Prairie Home Companion'? Take our quiz By Megan Thompson, Frank Bi Are you strong, good-looking and/or above-average? Could you make it in Lake Wobegon? Take NewsHour Weekend’s “A Prairie Home Companion” quiz in honor of the show’s 40th anniversary. Continue reading
Jul 25 Watch Letter by letter, turning Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' into a work of art By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 25 Watch Connecting strength and vulnerability of the creative brain By PBS News Hour Why have so many creative minds suffered from mental illness? Nancy Andreasen, Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa, has devoted decades of study to the physical differences in the brains of writers and other highly… Continue watching
Jul 25 Garrison Keillor on loving poetry 'as clear statement' By Victoria Fleischer In college, Garrison Keillor, the host of American Public media’s “A Prairie Home Companion” and “The Writer’s Almanac,” majored in poetry. After he wrote his papers and received his degree, he didn’t look at it again until decades later, when… Continue reading
Jul 25 I sing the book old-fashioned: Printing Whitman's masterpiece by hand By Cat Wise The Arion Press in San Francisco is one of the country’s last fine book printers creating limited edition, handmade books using centuries-old letterpress printing equipment. Continue reading
Jul 25 'Giants' take to the streets of Liverpool, England By Justin Scuiletti The French street theater company Royal de Luxe are marking 100 years since the start of World War I in a larger than life way. Continue reading
Jul 25 Watch How Garrison Keillor's relationship to poetry changed over time By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 24 Blues musician John Németh gets 'greasy' in Memphis By Frank Carlson The first gigs that blues musician John Németh played were not in darkened, smoke-filled dives near the muddy banks of the Mississippi River, but at bright luncheons in Boise, Idaho for the religious group Catholic Daughters of America. Continue reading