Mar 12 Conversation: Perspective on Google Books from Authors Guild Member James Gleick By Arts Desk In 2005, the Authors Guild brought a lawsuit against Google for digitally scanning books without permission of the books' authors. In November 2009, a court approved an amended settlement between the Guild and Google that gives authors the option of… Continue reading
Jan 13 An Artist’s Favorite Authors Get Some Face Time at the Library On a personal quest to bring his father's work to a broader audience, Carl Kohler's son Henry (together with his sister Frida) he approached galleries in hopes that someone would embrace the work, but didn't have any luck. Continue reading
Jul 09 Watch Writer, poet Jim Harrison is a determined ‘outsider’ Most of Jim Harrison's 32 books have been set in the sparsely populated areas he knows well: Northern Michigan, the Sandhills of Nebraska, the Arizona-Mexico border and in the beautiful "Paradise Valley" near Livingston, Mt., where he now lives much… Continue watching
Jun 22 Watch Author Examines Drug Trade, Afghan Insurgency Author and former ABC news producer Gretchen Peters talks about her book about the drug trade in Afghanistan and Pakistan and how it is fueling the insurgency. Continue watching
Feb 17 Watch Author Offers New Look at ‘Hemingses of Monticello’ National Book Award-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed speaks about her book, "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family" and what sparked her interest in the family's complex history. Continue watching
Jan 27 Watch Acclaimed American Author John Updike Dies at Age 76 John Updike, one of the most prolific and popular American authors of his generation who chronicled the drama of everyday suburban life, died Tuesday, his publisher said. Writer Nicholas Delbanco, a former student of Updike's, remembers his friend and mentor. Continue watching
Oct 31 Watch Legandary Author, Radio Host Studs Terkel Dies Legendary Chicagoan and Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel, renowned as a historian, author and radio broadcaster who excelled at capturing the stories of everyday Americans, died Friday at age 96. The NewsHour remembers Terkel with a clip from a past… Continue watching
Aug 04 Watch Russian Author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89 Acclaimed Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who wrote extensively about the gulag prison system and won the Nobel literature prize for his books on abuses in the Soviet Union, died Sunday at age 89 after a reclusive life fraught with challenges. Continue watching