Nov 30 Conversation: Lorin Stein, Editor of The Paris Review, on the Art of the Short Story By Tom LeGro What is a great short story and what does it take to write one? The Paris Review posed those questions to 20 contemporary authors and asked them to pick a story they love in the almost 60-year-old archives of the… Continue reading
Nov 22 Watch Book Offers Portrait of Prolific Photographer Who Captured Native American Lives Book Offers Portrait of Prolific Photographer Who Captured Native American Lives… Continue watching
Nov 12 Monday on the NewsHour: Kevin Powers, Author of ‘The Yellow Birds’ By Tom LeGro Extended interview and reading with Kevin Powers, author of the novel "The Yellow Birds."… Continue reading
Nov 12 Watch Iraq Veteran’s War Fiction Taps Personal Experience Kevin Powers served in the U.S. Army in Iraq in 2004 and 2005. When he returned to the U.S. he turned initially to poetry to work through his own questions about his experience, but found he needed "a larger canvas."… Continue watching
Nov 09 Conversation: Bringing Joey to Life in ‘War Horse’ By Tom LeGro The play "War Horse" is the story of friendship, war, love and one remarkable steed named Joey. To get an idea of what it's like to control Joey from his expressive ears to his hooves, Jeffrey Brown sat down with… Continue reading
Nov 02 Q&A: Mary Jo Bang’s Translation of ‘Inferno’ Offers a Fresh Taste of Hell By Arts Desk Mary Jo Bang's new translation of Dante's "Inferno is true to the moral and emotional intensity of the original, but she infuses the text with her own voice and modern allusions to Stephen Colbert and "Southpark."… Continue reading
Oct 31 Q&A: In Zadie Smith’s ‘NW,’ Some Harsh Truths About Friendship By Molly Finnegan Zadie Smith's latest novel, "NW," is an exploration into the joys and problems of a modern friendship between two women in North London. Decidedly less radiant than some of her earlier works, "NW" delivers the reader some harsh truths about… Continue reading
Oct 29 Watch Author Bill Ivey Argues for Rediscovering Values at Heart of American Ideal Author Bill Ivey Argues for Rediscovering Values at Heart of American Ideal… Continue watching
Oct 29 Bill Ivey, Former NEA Chairman, Author of ‘Handmaking America’ By Tom LeGro More of Jeffrey Brown's conversation with Bill Ivey, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and author of "Handmaking America: A Back-to-Basics Pathway to a Revitalized American Democracy."… Continue reading
Oct 26 Watch New Erdrich Novel Deals With Crime and Jurisdiction on North Dakota Reservation New Erdrich Novel Deals With Crime and Jurisdiction on North Dakota Reservation… Continue watching