Extended Readers Club | Leonardo Da Vinci
The PBS Books Readers Club Welcomes Renown Historian Walter Isaacson and Guest Sarah Burns, Co-Director/Writer of the new Ken Burns film, LEONARDO da VINCI debuting November on PBS.
Extended Readers Club | Robert Thorogood
Robert Thorogood, author, screenwriter, and producer, joins the PBS Books Readers Club to discuss The Marlow Murder Club, soon a PBS Masterpiece series. The book stars 77-year-old Judith Potts, a crossword setter who, after witnessing a murder, forms the "Marlow Murder Club" with dog-walker Suzie and vicar’s wife Becks to uncover a serial killer.
Extended Readers Club | Julia Alvarez
Get more questions, answers, and stories from the extended interview of iconic author Julia Alvarez at the PBS Books Readers Club. Her novel, The Cemetery of Untold Stories, asks: Whose stories get to be told, and whose buried? Alvarez reminds us that the stories of our lives are never truly finished.
Extended Readers Club | Tana French
Bestselling Irish crime fiction writer Tana French, “one of the greatest crime novelists writing today” (VOX), discusses her spellbinding new thriller "The Hunter" with the Readers Club hosts. Stick around for more dazzling details as Tana reveals details behind her writing process and the complex and thrilling stories that have solidified her as a defining writer of our generation.
Extended Readers Club | Percival Everett
Delve deeper into this episode of the PBS Books Readers Club featuring Percival Everett and his novel "James". In "James", Everett places Jim, the enslaved character in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, front and center in this powerful narrative, giving voice to his untold story.
Extended Readers Club | Olivia Ford
Sit down with author Olivia Ford for more delicious insights into writing Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame. Also, enjoy a guest appearance from Alejandra Ramos, host of The Great American Recipe on PBS.
Extended Readers Club | Rachel Khong
Dive deeper into "Real Americans" by Rachel Khong. A profound tale of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance—a story of trust, forgiveness, and finally coming home. Exuberant and explosive, Real Americans is a social novel par excellence that asks: Are we destined, or made? And if we are made, who gets to do the making? Can our genetic past be overcome?
Extended Readers Club | Scott Alexander Howard
Watch the extended conversation with author Scott Alexander Howard. The Other Valley tells the story of Odile, an awkward, quiet girl vying for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position, she’ll decide who may cross her town’s heavily guarded borders. To the east, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west, it’s twenty years in the past.
Extended Readers Club | Allison Pataki
Watch the full conversation as we chat with New York Times bestselling author Allison Pataki about her latest book “Finding Margaret Fuller.” In this virtual discussion we’ll dive into this fascinating historical fiction read about the adventures of Margaret Fuller, a renowned writer, journalist, and trailblazing women’s rights advocate whose story has too often gone untold.
Extended Readers Club | Horse and All Creatures
Join the PBS Books Readers Club hosts as they sit down with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Geraldine Brooks to discuss her bestselling novel "HORSE". Learn about her process when writing this novel and her life off the pages. And don't miss an inside look on what’s in store for our beloved characters of All Creatures Great and Small season 4 with the Executive Producer, Jamie Crichton.
Reframing Diversity with Dr. Derrick Gay | MLA Conference
A renowned educational consultant, Dr. Derrick Gay is a strong advocate for the importance of students learning cultural competency and empathy if they are to successfully navigate an increasingly diverse, globalized and multicultural society.
At the annual conference of the Michigan Library Association in Novi, he discusses the role of libraries in this crucial cause, in his closing keynote.
Spoken Word with Suban Nur Cooley | MLA Conference
At the annual conference of the Michigan Library Association in Novi, watch spoken word with Suban Nur Cooley.
Exclusive Interview with Dr. Derrick Gay
Watch an exclusive interview with Dr. Derrick Gay on reframing diversity.
Richard Ford | 2019 National Book Festival
Richard Ford, author of The Sportswriter and its sequels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Independence Day. Remarked by literary reviewers as a modern-day Hemingway or Faulkner, Ford's works are distinguished by a focus on the perseverance of family and community through turbulent circumstances.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka | 2019 National Book Festival
Krosoczka is the creator of the popular Lunch Lady graphic novel series for young readers, which has won the Children's Book Choice Award. Along with the popular Star Wars Jedi Academy Series (also for grade-school age readers), Krosoczka just released an illustrated memoir about his experiences as a young adult.
Lalia Lalami | 2019 National Book Festival
Author Laila Lalami's 'The Moor's Account’ won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Lalami joins PBS Books in D.C. at the National Book Festival to talk about her writing, which includes the most recent 2019 novel 'The Other Americans,' a hybrid of family saga, murder mystery, and love story.
Marie Arana | 2019 National Book Festival
Peruvian-American author Marie Arana is not only senior advisor to the U.S. Librarian of Congress, but also the director of the National Book Festival. Her latest, Silver, Sword & Stone tells the stories of three contemporary Latin Americans embodying the forces of exploration, violence, and religion across thousands of years of vivid history.
Jericho Brown | 2019 National Book Festival
Guggenheim Fellow and National Book Award winner Jericho Brown. This Shreveport-raised poet and professor has been published in the New Yorker, The New Republic, and is the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University. His latest, The Tradition, eloquently raises alarms to a society accustomed to terror.
Markus Zusak | 2019 National Book Festival
Born in Sydney Australia, author Markus Zusak's 2005 young-adult World War II novel 'The Book Thief' won Publishers Weekly's Best Children's Book of the Year and was recently adapted into a film. Last autumn, he published 'Bridge of Clay,' the story of five brothers discovering the secret behind their father's disappearance. He has written six novels.
R.J. Palacio | 2019 National Book Festival
R.J. Palacio is an author and graphic designer whose 2012 debut, 'Wonder' reached #1 on the NY Times Best-Seller list; it was recently adapted into a major motion picture. That book served as inspiration for the Choose Kind movement and has sold more than 5 million copies worldwide. A first-generation American (of Colombian ancestry).
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