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    An Evening with Kara Swisher & Mary Barra

    Program Description: Join PBS Books as we offer a special evening with best-selling author, Kara Swisher, and General Motors Chair and CEO Mary Barra, which is being presented by the University of Michigan’s Wallace House Center for Journalists and the Gerald R. Ford of Public Policy, as part of the university’s continuing series: “Democracy in Crisis: Views from the Press.”  Award-winning journalist, author, and podcaster, Kara Swisher has interviewed nearly every consequential innovator and tech entrepreneur working today. Her new memoir, Burn Book: A Tech Love Story, is an insider’s tale of success, failure, hubris, and optimism. As the electric vehicle revolution becomes a predominate topic in this [...]

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    The Wright Conversations with Poet Nikki Giovanni

    Program Description: As part of its Wright Conversations series, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History presents Nikki Giovanni, one of this country’s most widely read poets and one of America’s most renowned poets worldwide. Her poem, “Knoxville, Tennessee,” is arguably the single literary work most often associated with that city. Giovanni has received numerous awards in the course of her career, including seven Image Awards from the N.A.A.C.P., more than two-dozen honorary degrees, the first Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award, the Langston Hughes Medal for Poetry, and the Carl Sandburg Literary Award; additionally, Oprah Winfrey [...]

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    Lynn Hershman Leeson | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series

     This speaker event was recorded live on Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 5:30 pm at the Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI.As part of the 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival, this special program will showcase a curated selection of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s short films, followed by a conversation. Filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson will join remotely, and curator Julia Yezbick will interview her from the Michigan Theater’s stage.Lynn Hershman Leeson’s work cannot be contained by any one medium. Her practice is voracious; consuming both traditional artistic media (installation, painting, and video) as well as interactive LaserDiscs and synthetic DNA. Responding to the social and scientific technologies of the [...]

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    “You Are Here” Author Talk with Ada Limón

    Program Description: PBS Books is thrilled to celebrate Poetry Month and Earth Month with Ada Limón, the 24th Poet Laurette of the United States. National Director of PBS Books, Heather-Marie Montilla and Ada Limón discuss her recently published anthology You Are Here: Poetry In The Natural World, a collection of fifty poems that reflect on our relationship to the natural world by contemporary writers. Collaboratively published by Milkweed Editions and the Library of Congress, this anthology depicts the ever-changing poetic landscape. Ada Limón provides a new foundation on how we can explore and enjoy poetry in our own unique way [...]

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    PBS Books Readers Club – Scott Alexander Howard

    Readers Club Home Episodes Episode Description: Join the PBS Books Readers Club as we plumb the depths of Scott Alexander Howard's debut novel, The Other Valley. Fans of the PBS series A Brief History Of The Future and books like Never Let Me Go and The Giver will enjoy this book about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future. 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. On the other side, [...]

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    Visions of America: Voices of Arab American Experiences – Exploring the Arab American National Museum

    Visions of America Home Episodes Program Description: Join VISIONS OF AMERICA: All the Stories, People & Places as we highlight Arab Americans stories and communities through our episode Voices of Arab-American Experiences, Exploring the Arab American National Museum. VISIONS OF AMERICA is a collaboration between PBS Books and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) that highlights cultural institutions and captures first-person experiences to celebrate the diverse tapestry of America, as we approach the American's semiquincentennial. IMLS Deputy Director Laura Huerta Migus talks with the Director of the Arab American National Museum Diana Abouali, Ph.D. [...]

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    Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series (CAALS) 35th Bauder Lecture with Tracy K. Smith

    Program Description: The Marygrove Conservancy has partnered with PBS Books to present the 35th Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series (CAALS). Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, former poet laureate of the United States, and professor of English and African and African American Studies at Harvard, Tracy K. Smith, will read from her award-winning work followed by discussion lead by Nandi Comer, the Michigan Poet Laureate to discover more about Prof. Smith’s work and legacy. Established in 1989, CAALS is an annual event bringing a nationally known African American author to our campus for a public lecture and class session or conversation. Through generous support [...]

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    “Memory Piece” Author Talk with Lisa Ko

    Program Description: In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, PBS Books is thrilled to have a bestselling author, Lisa Ko, join us to discuss her highly anticipated book Memory Piece. Lisa takes us on a road trip through time with Giselle (artist), Jackie (internet tech expert) & Ellen (activist), three lifelong friends whose lives as children growing up in the 80s shaped their prospects as adults at the turn of the millennia. We discuss the stories, people, and cultural events spanning the past four decades that inspired this story, and the outlook based on current events that shaped the book's dystopian [...]

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    Author Talk with Kelly Yang

    Program Description: Join PBS Books National Director Heather-Marie Montilla for an update from bestselling author, Kelly Yang. Since our last conversation with Kelly, she has released seven new titles for her middle-grade readers to enjoy, including two additions to her beloved series The Front Desk. We’ll discover more behind these novels and find out what’s next for Kelly Yang on this episode of PBS Books. Front Desk Series Front Desk by Kelly Yang Inside Out and Back Again meets Millicent Min, Girl Genius in this timely, hopeful middle-grade novel with a contemporary Chinese twist. Mia [...]

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    What to Read this Summer with Booklist Reader

    Program Description: Join PBS Books and the American Library Association’s Booklist Reader teams as we dive into all the must-read adult fiction books this summer. Whether you’re on the hunt for a quick weekend read, looking for a new series, or thinking about re-discovering a favorite author, there will be no shortage of great picks in this can’t-miss episode. So, grab a pen as we help you create your Summer Reading List!  What to Read this Summer (2024) James by Percival Everett When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold [...]

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    PBS Books Readers Club – Rachel Khong

    Readers Club Home Episodes Episode Description: Read along with the PBS Books Readers Club this May for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. We’ll dive into Real Americans, the highly anticipated novel by Rachel Khong, author of Goodbye, Vitamin. Rachel Khong joins the PBS Books Readers Club to discuss this sweeping family drama that tells the story of three generations of Chinese Americans, raising questions about identity and what it means to be Real Americans. Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily [...]