Sep 16 Watch Poet Philip Schultz Shares His Work Poet Philip Schultz shares his work. He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for "Failure."… Continue watching
Sep 08 Watch ‘The Submission’ Imagines 9/11 Memorial With an Alternate History What if a jury selected a design for the new 9/11 memorial and then discovered that its architect was a Muslim? A new novel, "The Submission," by Amy Waldman, explores that imagined scenario. Jeffrey Brown and the author discuss her… Continue watching
Dec 21 Conversation: Best Unsung Books of 2010 By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to Andrew Altschul, books editor for the Rumpus, about the under-appreciated novels of 2010. Continue reading
Nov 18 Patti Smith, Indie-Published Novel are Rock Stars of 2010 National Book Awards Known for her poetry and her rock 'n' roll, music legend Patti Smith has now been honored for her prose with a National Book Award, given out Wednesday night in New York. Continue reading
Oct 22 Conversation: Nicole Krauss’ ‘Great House’ By Tom LeGro Four narrators weave their own stories investigating the effects of loss, loneliness and deep uncertainty in Nicole Krauss' novel, "Great House," which is a finalist for the National Book Award. Continue reading
Oct 07 Conversation: The Life and Work of Nobel Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to Efrain Kristal, a UCLA professor of comparative literature and of Spanish and Portuguese, about the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa. Continue reading
Sep 30 Conversation: Jonathan Franzen By Molly Finnegan The disintegration of a family in a very fractured and unsettled, post-9/11 America is told in "Freedom," the new novel by Jonathan Franzen. His last novel, "The Corrections," won the 2001 National Book Award. Continue reading
Sep 28 Conversation: Yiyun Li, Fiction Writer and Winner of the 2010 MacArthur Fellowship By Molly Finnegan Born in Beijing, MacArthur Fellow Yiyun Li came to the United States in 1996 to complete a doctoral program in immunology, but decided then to change her career path and instead do something that was more important to her: writing. Continue reading
Jun 25 Conversation: Archive Offers Revealing Look at John Updike By Tom LeGro Harvard University's Houghton Library, a rare book and manuscript depository, has inherited nearly 170 boxes of John Updike's papers, including rejected short stories, personal letters and revised and rewritten drafts. Continue reading