PBS Books

Culture Series / 11 Seasons

PBS Books celebrates your love of books and introduces you to best-selling authors. We connect you to the written word through book fairs and unique events around the country.

Watch: S2025 E20

41m 23s

Curtis Sittenfeld | Miami Book Fair 2018

16m 52s

Curtis Sittenfeld on "You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories" at the 2018 Miami Book Fair interviewed by Rich Fahle. A suburban mother of two fantasizes about the downfall of an old friend whose wholesome lifestyle empire may or may not be built on a lie. A high-powered lawyer honeymooning with her husband is caught off guard by the appearance of the girl who tormented her in high school.

David Grann | Miami Book Fair 2018

15m 54s

David Grann on "White Darkness" at the 2018 Miami Book Fair interviewed by Rich Fahle for PBS Books. By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with color photographs

Jason Reynolds | Miami Book Fair 2018

15m 44s

Jason Reynolds on "Lu" at the 2018 Miami Book Fair interviewed by Ashley Ford. Lu must learn to leave his ego on the sidelines if he wants to finally connect with others in the climax to the New York Times bestselling and award-winning Track series from Jason Reynolds.

Fatima Farheen Mirza | Miami Book Fair 2018

19m 23s

Fatima Farheen Mirza on A Place For Us A Novel at the 2018 Miami Book Fair interviewed by Rich Fahle. The first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker’s new imprint, SJP for Hogarth, A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity, and belonging

Michael Ondaatje | Miami Book Fair 2018

16m 33s

Michael Ondaatje on "Warlight: A Novel" at the 2018 Miami Book Fair interviewed by Jeffrey Brown. From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers.

Glory Edim | Miami Book Fair 2018

16m 20s

Glory Edim on "Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves" at the 2018 Miami Book Fair interviewed by Jeffrey Brown. Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives—but not everyone regularly sees themselves in the pages of a book.

Steve Kornacki | Miami Book Fair 2018

17m 32s

Steve Kornacki on "The Red and The Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism" at the 2018 Miami Book Fair interviewed by Rich Fahle. From MSNBC correspondent Steve Kornacki, a lively and sweeping history of the birth of political tribalism in the 1990s—one that brings critical new understanding to our current political landscape from Clinton to Trump

Kwame Alexander | Miami Book Fair 2018

17m 18s

Kwame Alexander on "Swing" at the 2018 Miami Book Fair interviewed by Rich Fahle. New York Times bestselling authors Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess (Solo) tell a lyrical story about hope, courage, and love that will speak to anyone who’s struggled to find their voice. And the surprise ending shines a spotlight on the issues related to our current social divide,

RO Kwon | Miami Book Fair 2018

16m 55s

R.O. Kwon on "The Incendiaries" at the 2018 Miami Book Fair interview by Rich Fahle. "Radiant...A dark, absorbing story of how first love can be as intoxicating and dangerous as religious fundamentalism." --New York Times Book Review. A powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith, and loss.

Michael Beschloss | Miami Book Fair 2018

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Michael Beschloss on "Presidents of War" at the 2018 Miami Book Fair interviewed by Jeffrey Brown. From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America’s wartime chief executives

Sonia Sotomayor – 2018 National Book Festival

16m 51s

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor talks with PBS Books co-host Rich Fahle about her books, My Life Story and The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor at the 2018 National Book Festival.

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