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 Conversation: Leon Botstein on How Circus Music Helped Shape American Pop Culture By Tom LeGro "Circus and the City: New York, 1793-2010" is an exhibition now showing at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery. It is, as it sounds, a big look at the development and pageantry of the circus over time through many different angles. Continue reading
Oct 23 Tuesday on the NewsHour: Philip Glass By Tom LeGro, Anne Azzi Davenport More of Jeffrey Brown's interview with Philip Glass. Continue reading
Oct 19 Conversation: Louise Erdrich on Her New Novel, ‘The Round House’ By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to Louise Erdrich, author of the novel "The Round House," which has been nominated for a National Book Award. Continue reading
Oct 17 Conversation: Cellist Maya Beiser’s ‘Elsewhere’ By Tom LeGro With its elements of music, singing, theater, dance and video, "Elsewhere" is described by its creator, cellist extraordinaire Maya Beiser, as a "CelloOpera." It's a collaboration of Beiser and theater director Robert Woodruff that tells the Biblical story of Lot's… Continue reading
Oct 08 Monday on the NewsHour: Salman Rushdie By Tom LeGro More of Jeffrey Brown's interview with writer Salman Rushdie. Continue reading
Oct 08 Dissident Vietnamese Poet Nguyen Chi Thien, Author of ‘Flowers of Hell,’ Dies at Age 73 By Tom LeGro Nguyen Chi Thien, a Vietnamese dissident poet who spent 27 years in communist prisons and was the acclaimed author of "Flowers of Hell," died last week in California after a long bout of illness. Continue reading
Oct 04 Conversation: Kevin Powers, Author of ‘The Yellow Birds’ By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to Kevin Powers, author of the novel "The Yellow Birds" and who served in the U.S. Army in Iraq in 2004 and 2005. Continue reading
Oct 02 Battleground North Carolina: Behind the Scenes By Online DA In Durham, Raleigh and Rocky Mount, N.C., we take you behind the scenes from our reporting on the battleground state. Continue reading
Sep 28 Conversation: Junot Diaz By Tom LeGro The writer Junot Diaz is back with a new collection of stories titled "This Is How You Lose Her." They feature several characters from his first novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," which won the Pulitzer Prize for… Continue reading