Arts Nov 28 Watch 7:39 Kentucky writing program amplifies unheard voices through the power of publishing Ordinary people with extraordinary stories. That’s the ethos behind the Louisville Story Program which is celebrating ten years of amplifying unheard voices and untold stories. Jeffrey Brown went to Kentucky to see the power of writing one’s own story. It’s… By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport
Nation Sep 01 Watch 9:49 Can a longer school year help students recover from pandemic learning loss? More than three years ago, schools received the first installment in the biggest ever one-time infusion of federal money dedicated to education, about $190 billion to protect against COVID and reverse the academic setbacks that followed the pandemic. One district… By Geoff Bennett, Layla Quran
Arts May 21 Watch 5:47 ‘Everyone has a story.’ Growing industry makes memoir-writing more accessible What is our legacy? What do we leave behind after we’re gone? During the pandemic, many of us pondered these questions. Now, more people are passing on their stories in the form of memoirs. As Jeffrey Brown reports, these books… By Jeffrey Brown, Lorna Baldwin, Andrew Corkery, Kaisha Young
Arts May 06 Watch 3:27 Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Brief But Spectacular take on writing and memory As long as he can remember, author Viet Thanh Nguyen has been interested in how stories about his home country of Vietnam are told in America. In his own works, including the Pulitzer-winning novel "The Sympathizer," he centers on the… By Steve Goldbloom, Melissa Williams, Elizabeth Burton
Aug 23 Watch 4:43 How America’s writers are joining forces in hopes to bridge divides By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport A group of prominent writers has come together in an innovative way during the pandemic to reckon with these divisive times. Its mission statement says, "The nation is injured. We hope to contribute to its healing." Jeffrey Brown has a… Continue watching
Nov 11 PEN America names winners of prison writing program award By Hillel Italie, Associated Press PEN America has announced the winners of a new award, supported by a grant from the estate of the late Madeleine L'Engle, for participants in the literary and human rights organization's Prison Writing Mentorship Program. Continue reading
Oct 15 Watch 6:19 How fiction draws Pulitzer-winner Elizabeth Strout home to Maine By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport Olive Kitteridge is overbearing and hard to love, as well as complicated and compelling. The character at the center of Elizabeth Strout's 2009 Pulitzer-winning novel is also back -- in a new book called "Olive, Again." Strout takes Jeffrey Brown… Continue watching
Oct 14 Don’t email like you text, and other tips for writing to a professor By Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed Need to ask a question before class? Here's what you need to know before you hit "send."… Continue reading
Sep 11 Why writer Sally Rooney stopped tying up loose ends in ‘Conversations With Friends’ By Elizabeth Flock "Once I identified that impulse, and reasoned myself out of it, I wrote the final scene as it is now – and I felt the novel was finished," Rooney said. Continue reading