Sep 13 Watch 7:39 Novelist Ann Patchett on how independent bookstores build community By PBS News Hour If you shop at the East Nashville Farmers’ Market you can buy fruits and vegetables; but you can also meet a famous author with a stop by the traveling bookmobile. Ann Patchett is a co-owner of the Parnassus Books, founded… Continue watching
Dec 30 Watch 8:24 Bestselling authors share their favorite books of 2014 By PBS News Hour What did our favorite authors read this year? Jeffrey Brown asks novelist Ann Patchett and business writer Daniel Pink for their top recommendations of 2014, including a young adult novel written in verse and a book about humanity’s place in… Continue watching
Dec 30 Authors Ann Patchett and Daniel Pink talk what makes a great book By PBS News Hour Ann Patchett, author of “This is the Story of a Happy Marriage” and Daniel Pink, author of “To Sell is Human,” sat down with Jeffrey Brown in Washington’s Politics and Prose bookstore to talk about the factors that make a… Continue reading
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Dec 13 Watch Friday, December 13, 2013 We examine a shooting at a Colorado high school, a gunman shot two then killed himself. Continue watching
Dec 13 Watch Ann Patchett lets readers into her personal life in new collection of essays By PBS News Hour Ann Patchett lets readers into her personal life in new collection of essays… Continue watching
Dec 13 Ann Patchett gets personal in her new collection of essays, ‘This is the Story of a Happy Marriage’ By Arts Desk // Ann Patchett reflects on fiction version nonfiction and the state of books today in a conversation with chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown. "Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard." That's according to Ann Patchett, author of "Bel Canto" and… Continue reading
Nov 15 Ann Patchett gets personal in her new collection of essays, ‘This is the Story of a Happy Marriage’ By Victoria Fleischer // Ann Patchett reflects on fiction version nonfiction and the state of books today in a conversation with chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown. "Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard." That's according to Ann Patchett, author of "Bel Canto" and… Continue reading
Dec 28 Watch Book Critic Ron Charles Discusses Year’s Best Works of Fiction Jeffrey Brown talks with book critic Ron Charles of The Washington Post about the best works of fiction in 2011 and the shape of the industry. Continue watching
Dec 21 Watch The Year in Fiction Jeffrey Brown talks to Ron Charles of the Washington Post about the year in fiction. Continue watching