Arts Oct 25 Can’t decide what to be this Halloween? How about a Banksy You will need plenty of face paint and a little patience to pull off these Halloween costumes inspired by Roy Lichtenstein's pop art. Photo by Flickr user Viktor Sekularac The pumpkins are out, the haunted houses are revving up…
Arts Oct 25 Billy Collins reflects on his collection ‘Aimless Love’ and pretending to be serious Humor wasn't always integral to Billy Collins' poetry. The former U.S. poet laureate thought he had to be serious, or at least "pretend to be serious." Collins stopped by the NewsHour recently to speak with chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown…
Economy Oct 24 The wonders and woes of the travel industry in Elizabeth Becker’s ‘Overbooked’ Elizabeth Becker, an award-winning former foreign and war correspondent for the New York Times, explores the best and worst of the tourism industry in her new book, "Overbooked: The Global Business of Travel and Tourism." The United Nations estimates that…
Arts Oct 23 Poet’s Notebook: InsideOut in Detroit Natasha Trethewey and Jeffrey Brown visit with students at InsideOut, a Detroit-based literary arts project that exposes children to poetry. Photo by Mary Jo Brooks. Journeying to Detroit a few weeks ago I felt much as I did the first…
Arts Oct 23 Student Poets in Detroit answer the question ‘Where does poetry live?’ InsideOut brings writers to Detroit public schools to encourage students to express themselves. Writer Peter Markus asked his class at Marcus Garvey Academy, a K-8 school in east Detroit, the same question that U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey and the…
Arts Oct 18 Author Jonathan Lethem looks at American communism in ‘Dissident Gardens’ // Jonathan Lethem’s new novel, “Dissident Gardens,” is a look back at American communism across decades and generations through the eyes of Rose Zimmer and her daughter, Miriam. Lethem sat down with chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown to talk about…
Arts Oct 16 Eleanor Catton wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize The 45th Man Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded Tuesday to Eleanor Catton for "The Luminaries." Set in 1860s New Zealand during the Gold Rush, Catton's second novel is a murder mystery that constructs its own astrological calendar…
Poetry Oct 14 Weekly Poem: Cathy Park Hong Reads ‘Ballad in A’ Ballad in A by Cathy Park Hong A Kansan plays cards, calls marshal a crawdad, that barb lands that rascal a slap; that Kansas jackass scats, camps back at caballada ranch. Hangs kack, ax, and camp hat. Kansan's nag mad…
Arts Oct 14 Weekly Poem: Cathy Park Hong Reads ‘Ballad in A’ Ballad in A by Cathy Park Hong A Kansan plays cards, calls marshal a crawdad, that barb lands that rascal a slap; that Kansas jackass scats, camps back at caballada ranch. Hangs kack, ax, and camp hat. Kansan's nag mad…
Arts Oct 14 Stanley Crouch on ‘Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker’ Listen to Chief Arts Correspondent Jeffrey Brown's interview with Stanley Crouch above "The Jazz story ... it's the American story" or so says Stanley Crouch, jazz scholar and author of the new book, "Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and…