Oct 08 Friday on the NewsHour: Composer Jennifer Higdon and Violinist Hilary Hahn By Tom LeGro, Anne Azzi Davenport Jeffrey Brown's extended interview with Jennifer Higdon and Hilary Hahn's performance of Bach's Sarabande in D minor. 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
Oct 05 Conversation: 'Going Back' With Phil Collins By Tom LeGro Released last week in America, Phil Collins' latest album, "Going Back," is his homage to the music idols of his youth. The collection of Motown and soul hits by the former drummer and lead singer of Genesis reached No. 1… Continue reading
Oct 01 Conversation: Chad Troutwine, Producer of 'Freakonomics' By Tom LeGro First a bestselling book, then a popular blog and soon to be a public radio show, the phenomenon that is "Freakonomics" is the brain child of University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner. Now, "Freakonomics" is a… 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 29 Conversation: Director Nicolas Kent Brings Real Drama of Afghanistan Onstage By Molly Finnegan Starting with the 1842 Anglo-Afghan War and running through to the present day conflict in Afghanistan, a new theater production called "The Great Game: Afghanistan" attempts to educate audiences about the history of modern foreign intervention in that region with… 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
Sep 24 Conversation: Novelist Per Petterson, Author of 'I Curse the River of Time' By Molly Finnegan The bestselling Norwegian author Per Petterson became known to American readers over the last couple of years after his 2003 novel "Out Stealing Horses" was translated into English. He now has a new novel, "I Curse the River of Time". Continue reading
Sep 21 Conversation: Kendall Messick's Close-Up of 'The Projectionist' By Molly Finnegan Delaware movie projectionist Gordon Brinckle had an extraordinary secret: Over the course of nearly 50 years, he created a miniature movie palace in his basement that he called the Shalimar. Photographer Kendall Messick has published a new book of photographs… Continue reading
Sep 17 Conversation: Gary Shteyngart, Author of 'Super Sad True Love Story' By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to Gary Shteyngart, author of "Super Sad True Love Story."… Continue reading