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SUMMARY:What to Read this Summer with Booklist Reader
DESCRIPTION:Program Description:\nJoin 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!  \nWhat to Read this Summer (2024)James\nJames by Percival Everett \nWhen the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans\, separated from his wife and daughter forever\, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile\, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father\, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know\, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. \nWhile many narrative set pieces of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms\, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks\, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin…)\, Jim’s agency\, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light. \nBrimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a “literary icon” (Oprah Daily)\, and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime\, James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature. \nState of Paradise\nState of Paradise by Laura van den Berg \nA heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly\, from a reality-warping storyteller. \nAlong with her husband\, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author returns to her mother’s house in the Florida town where she grew up. As the summer heat sets in\, she wrestles with family secrets and memories of her own troubled youth. Her mercurial sister\, who lives next door\, spends a growing amount of time using MIND’S EYE\, a virtual reality device provided to citizens of the town by ELECTRA\, a tech company in South Florida\, during the doldrums of a recent pandemic. But it’s not just the ominous cats\, her mother’s burgeoning cult\, or the fact that her belly button has become an increasingly deep cavern―something is off in the town\, and it probably has to do with the posters of missing citizens spread throughout the streets. \nDuring a violent rainstorm\, the writer’s sister goes missing for several days. When she returns\, sprawled on their mother’s lawn and speaking of another dimension\, the writer is forced to investigate not only what happened to her sister and the other missing people but also the uncanny connections between ELECTRA\, the famous author\, and reality itself. \nA sticky\, rain-soaked reckoning with the elusive nature of storytelling\, Laura van den Berg’s Florida Diary is an interlocking and page-turning whirlwind. With inimitable control and thrilling style\, she reaches deep into the void and returns with a story far stranger than either reality or fiction. \nVilla E\nVilla E by Jane Alison \nFrom the author of Meander\, Spiral\, Explode\, an astounding novel inspired by the collision of Irish designer Eileen Gray and famed Swiss architect Le Corbusier. \nAlong the glittering coast of southern France\, a white villa sits atop an earthen terrace—a site of artistic genius\, now subject to bitter dispute. Eileen\, a new architect known for her elegant chair designs\, poured the concrete herself; she built it as a haven for her and her lover\, and called it E-1027. When the hulking Le G\, a founder of modernist architecture\, laid eyes on the house in 1929\, he could see his influence in the sleek lines—and he would not be outdone. Impassioned\, he took a paintbrush to the clean\, white walls. . . . \nThirty years later\, Eileen has not returned to Villa E and Le G has never left—his summers spent aging in a cabin just feet away. Mining the psyches of two brilliant\, complex artists and the extrordinary place that bound them\, Jane Alison boldly reimagines a now-legendary act of vandalism into a lushly poetic and mesmerizing novel of power\, predation\, and obsession. \nCatalina\nCatalina by Carla Cornejo Villavicencio \nWhen Catalina is admitted to Harvard\, it feels like the fulfillment of destiny: a miracle child escapes death in Latin America\, moves to Queens to be raised by her undocumented grandparents\, and becomes one of the chosen. But nothing is simple for Catalina\, least of all her own complicated\, contradictory\, ruthlessly probing mind. Now a senior\, she faces graduation to a world that has no place for the undocumented; her sense of doom intensifies her curiosities and desires. She infiltrates the school’s elite subcultures—internships and literary journals\, posh parties and secret societies—which she observes with the eye of an anthropologist and an interloper’s skepticism: she is both fascinated and repulsed. Craving a great romance\, Catalina finds herself drawn to a fellow student\, an actual budding anthropologist eager to teach her about the Latin American world she was born into but never knew\, even as her life back in Queens begins to unravel. And every day\, the clock ticks closer to the abyss of life after graduation. Can she save her family? Can she save herself? What does it mean to be saved? \nBrash and daring\, part campus novel\, part hagiography\, part pop song\, Catalina is unlike any coming-of-age novel you’ve ever read—and Catalina\, bright and tragic\, circled by a nimbus of chaotic energy\, driven by a wild heart\, is a character you will never forget. \nOne of Our Kind\nOne of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon \nThe Stepford Wives meets Get Out in Nicola Yoon’s first adult novel\, a terrifying and thought-provoking look at what it means to be truly free in America. \nWhen Jasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty\, California\, they hope to find a community of like-minded people\, a place where their growing family can thrive. King settles in at once\, embracing the Liberty ethos\, including the luxe wellness center at the top of the hill\, which proves to be the heart of the community. But Jasmyn struggles to find her place. She expected to find liberals and social justice activists striving for racial equality\, but Liberty residents seem more focused on booking spa treatments and ignoring the world’s troubles. \nJasmyn’s only friends in the community are equally perplexed and frustrated by Liberty’s outlook\, a frustration that turns to dread when their loved ones start embracing the Liberty way of life. As Jasmyn learns more about Liberty and its founders\, she discovers a terrible secret that threatens to destroy her world in ways she never could have imagined. \nThis Strange Eventful History\nThis Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud \nAn immersive\, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history\, from one of our finest contemporary novelists. \nOver seven decades\, from 1940 to 2010\, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state―separated in the chaos of World War II\, running from a complicated colonial homeland\, and\, after Algerian independence\, without a homeland at all. This Strange Eventful History\, told with historical sweep\, is above all a family story: of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne\, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of François and Denise\, devoted siblings connected by their family’s strangeness; of François’s union with Barbara\, a woman so culturally different they can barely comprehend one another; of Chloe\, the result of that union\, who believes that telling these buried stories will bring them all peace. \nInspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family’s history\, Claire Messud animates her characters’ rich interior lives amid the social and political upheaval of the recent past. As profoundly intimate as it is expansive\, This Strange Eventful History is “a tour de force…one of those rare novels that a reader doesn’t merely read but lives through with the characters” (Yiyun Li). \nMrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame\nMrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford \nNothing could be more out of character\, but after fifty-nine years of marriage\, as her husband Bernard’s health declines\, and her friends’ lives become focused on their grandchildren—which Jenny never had—Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies to be a contestant on the prime-time TV show Britain Bakes. \nWhisked into an unfamiliar world of cameras and timed challenges\, Jenny delights in a new-found independence. But that independence\, and the stress of the competition\, starts to unearth memories buried decades ago. Chocolate teacakes remind her of a furtive errand involving a wedding ring; sugared doughnuts call up a stranger’s kind act; a simple cottage loaf brings back the moment her life changed forever. \nWith her baking star rising\, Jenny struggles to keep a lid on that first secret—a long-concealed deceit that threatens to shatter the very foundations of her marriage. It’s the only time in six decades that she’s kept something from Bernard. By putting herself in the limelight\, has Jenny created a recipe for disaster? \nThe Hunter\nThe Hunter by Tana French \nIt’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. \nCal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He’s found it\, more or less: he’s built a relationship with a local woman\, Lena\, and he’s gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places. But then Trey’s long-absent father reappears\, bringing along an English millionaire and a scheme to find gold in the townland\, and suddenly everything the three of them have been building is under threat. Cal and Lena are both ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey\, but Trey doesn’t want protecting. What she wants is revenge. \nFrom the writer who is “in a class by herself\,” (The New York Times)\, a nuanced\, atmospheric tale that explores what we’ll do for our loved ones\, what we’ll do for revenge\, and what we sacrifice when the two collide. \nskin & bones\nskin & bones by Renée Watson \nAt 40\, Lena Baker is at a steady and stable moment in life—between wine nights with her two best friends and her wedding just weeks away\, she’s happy in love and in friendship until a confession on her wedding day shifts her world. \nUnmoored and grieving a major loss\, Lena finds herself trying to teach her daughter self-love while struggling to do so herself. Lena questions everything she’s learned about dating\, friendship\, and motherhood\, and through it all\, she works tirelessly to bring the oft-forgotten Black history of Oregon to the masses\, sidestepping her well-meaning co-workers that don’t understand that their good intentions are often offensive and hurtful. \nThrough Watson’s poetic voice\, skin & bones is a stirring exploration of who society makes space for and is ultimately a story of heartbreak and healing. \nYou Are Here\nYou Are Here by David Nicholls \nMarnie is stuck. \nStuck working alone in her London flat\, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that often feels like it’s passing her by. \nMichael is coming undone. \nReeling from his wife’s departure\, increasingly reclusive\, taking himself on long\, solitary walks across the moors and fells. \nWhen a persistent mutual friend and some very English weather conspire to bring them together\, Marnie and Michael suddenly find themselves alone on the most epic of walks and on the precipice of a new friendship. \nBut can they survive the journey? \nA new love story by beloved bestseller David Nicholls\, You Are Here is a novel of first encounters\, second chances and finding the way home. \nOne of Us Knows\nOne of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole \nYears after a breakdown and a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder derailed her historical preservationist career\, Kenetria Nash and her alters have been given a second chance they can’t refuse: a position as resident caretaker of a historic home. Having been dormant for years\, Ken has no idea what led them to this isolated Hudson River island\, but she’s determined not to ruin their opportunity. \nThen a surprise visit from the home’s conservation trust just as a Nor’easter bears down on the island disrupts her newfound life\, leaving Ken trapped with a group of possibly dangerous strangers—including the man who brought her life tumbling down years earlier. When he turns up dead\, Ken is the prime suspect. \nCaught in a web of secrets and in a race against time\, Ken and her alters must band together to prove their innocence and discover the truth of Kavanaugh Island—and their own past—or they risk losing not only their future\, but their life. \nOcean's Godori\nOcean’s Godori by Elaine U. Cho \nOcean Yoon has never felt very Korean\, even if she is descended from a long line of haenyeo\, Jeju Island’s beloved female divers. She doesn’t like soju\, constantly misses cultural references\, and despite her love of the game\, people still say that she doesn’t play Hwatu like a Korean. Ocean’s also persona non grata at the Alliance\, Korea’s solar system–dominating space agency\, since a mission went awry and she earned a reputation for being a little too quick with her gun. \nWhen her best friend\, Teo\, second son of the Anand Tech empire\, is framed for murdering his family\, Ocean and her misfit crewmates are pushed to the forefront of a high-stakes ideological conflict. But dodging bullets and winning space chases may be the easiest part of what comes next. \nA thrilling adventure across the solar that delivers hyperkinetic action sequences and irresistible will-they-won’t-they romance alongside its nuanced exploration of colonialism and capitalism\, Ocean’s Godori ultimately asks: What do we owe our past? How do we navigate our present while honoring the complicated facets of our identity? What can our future hold?
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SUMMARY:Author Talk with Kelly Yang
DESCRIPTION:Program Description:\nJoin 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. \nFront Desk Series\nFront Desk\nFront Desk by Kelly Yang \nInside Out and Back Again meets Millicent Min\, Girl Genius in this timely\, hopeful middle-grade novel with a contemporary Chinese twist. \nMia Tang has a lot of secrets: \nNumber 1: She lives in a motel\, not a big house. Every day\, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms\, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests. \nNumber 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner\, Mr. Yao\, finds out they’ve been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free\, the Tangs will be doomed. \nNumber 3: She wants to be a writer. But how can she when her mom thinks she should stick to math because English is not her first language? \nIt will take all of Mia’s courage\, kindness\, and hard work to get through this year. Will she be able to hold on to her job\, help the immigrants and guests\, escape Mr. Yao\, and go for her dreams? \nThree Keys\nThree Keys by Kelly Yang \nThe story of Mia and her family and friends at the Calivista Motel continues in this powerful\, hilarious\, and resonant sequel to the award-winning novel Front Desk. \nMia Tang thinks she’s going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud owners of the Calivista Motel\, Mia gets to run the front desk with her best friend\, Lupe\, and she’s finally getting somewhere with her writing! But as it turns out\, sixth grade is no picnic… \n1. Mia’s new teacher doesn’t think her writing is all that great. And her entire class finds out she lives and works in a motel! \n2. The motel is struggling\, and Mia has to answer to the Calivista’s many\, many worried investors. \n3. A new immigration law is looming and if it passes\, it will threaten everything — and everyone — in Mia’s life. \nIt’s a roller coaster of challenges\, and Mia needs all of her determination to hang on tight. But if anyone can find the key to getting through turbulent times\, it’s Mia Tang! \nRoom to Dream\nRoom to Dream by Kelly Yang \nMia Tang is going for her dreams! \nAfter years of hard work\, Mia Tang finally gets to go on vacation with her family — to China! A total dream come true! Mia can’t wait to see all her cousins and grandparents again\, especially her cousin Shen. As she roams around Beijing\, witnessing some of the big changes China’s going through\, Mia thinks about the changes in her own life\, like . . . \n1. Lupe’s taking classes at the high school! And Mia’s own plans to be a big writer are . . . stuck. \n2. Something happened with Jason and Mia has no idea what to do about it. \n3. New buildings are popping up all around the motel\, and small businesses are disappearing. \nCan the Calivista survive? Buckle up! Mia is more determined than ever to get through the turbulence\, now that she finally has . . . room to dream! \nKey Player\nKey Player by Kelly Yang \nMia Tang is play to win! \nThe Women’s World Cup is coming to Southern California\, and everyone has soccer fever―especially Mia Tang! The U.S. team is playing China in the finals\, and Mia feels like her two identities are finally coming together. But when her P.E. teacher gives her a C\, Mia tries to pull up her grade by scoring interviews with the championship teams. It’s not so easy when . . . \n1. The two teams are hunkered down in secret hotels in Pasadena and not taking any media requests. \n2. Mr. Yao is back at the motel―as a co-owner! Jason is sure his dad deserves a second chance. Mia is not so sure. \n3. Mia’s parents are trying to buy a house of their very own\, which turns out to be a LOT harder than they thought! \nAs Mia aims for her goals\, she’ll have to face strikers from all corners\, as well as her own fears. But if anyone can find a way to win big\, it’s Mia Tang! \n  \nTop Story\nTop Story by Kelly Yang \nMia Tang is at the top of her game! \nShe’s spending winter break with Mom\, Lupe\, Jason\, and Hank in San Francisco’s Chinatown! Rich with history and hilarious aunties and uncles\, it’s the place to find a great story―one she hopes to publish while attending journalism camp at the Tribune. But this trip has as many bumps as the hills of San Francisco . . . \n1. Mia’s camp is full of older kids\, with famous relatives\, fancy laptops\, and major connections! Can she compete with just her pen and passion? \n2. Lupe’s thinking about skipping ahead to college! Will Mia ever get a chance to just chill with her best friend? \n3. Jason’s crushing hard on a new girl. For the first time ever\, Mia is speechless…and jealous. Can she find the courage to tell Jason―gulp―that she has a crush on him? \nEven for the best writers\, it’s not always easy to find the right words. But if anyone can tell a top story\, it’s Mia Tang! \nOther Great Reads by Kelly Yang\nParachutes\nParachutes by Kelly Yang \nThey’re called parachutes: teenagers dropped off to live in private homes and study in the United States while their wealthy parents remain in Asia. Claire Wang never thought she’d be one of them\, until her parents pluck her from her privileged life in Shanghai and enroll her at a high school in California. \nSuddenly she finds herself living in a stranger’s house\, with no one to tell her what to do for the first time in her life. She soon embraces her newfound freedom\, especially when the hottest and most eligible parachute\, Jay\, asks her out. \nDani De La Cruz\, Claire’s new host sister\, couldn’t be less thrilled that her mom rented out a room to Claire. An academic and debate team star\, Dani is determined to earn her way into Yale\, even if it means competing with privileged kids who are buying their way to the top. But Dani’s game plan veers unexpectedly off course when her debate coach starts working with her privately. \nAs they steer their own distinct paths\, Dani and Claire keep crashing into one another\, setting a course that will change their lives forever. \nNew From Here\nNew From Here by Kelly Yang \nWhen the coronavirus hits Hong Kong\, ten-year-old Knox Wei-Evans’s mom makes the last-minute decision to move him and his siblings back to California\, where they think they will be safe. Suddenly\, Knox has two days to prepare for an international move—and for leaving his dad\, who has to stay for work. \nAt his new school in California\, Knox struggles with being the new kid. His classmates think that because he’s from Asia\, he must have brought over the virus. At home\, Mom just got fired and is panicking over the loss of health insurance\, and Dad doesn’t even know when he’ll see them again\, since the flights have been cancelled. And everyone struggles with Knox’s blurting-things-out problem. \nAs racism skyrockets during COVID-19\, Knox tries to stand up to hate\, while finding his place in his new country. Can you belong if you’re feared; can you protect if you’re new? And how do you keep a family together when you’re oceans apart? Sometimes when the world is spinning out of control\, the best way to get through it is to embrace our own lovable uniqueness. \nFinally Heard\nFinally Heard by Kelly Yang \nWhen ten-year-old Lina Gao sees her mom’s video on social media take off\, she’s captivated by the potential to be seen and heard! Maybe online she can finally find the confidence she craves. Whereas in real life she’s growing so fast\, she feels like microwave popcorn\, bursting out of her skin! \nWith the help of her two best friends\, Carla and Finn\, and her little sister\, Millie\, Lina sets off to go viral. Except there’s a lot more to social media than Lina ever imagined\, like: \n1. Seeing inside her classmates’ lives! Is she really the only person on the planet who doesn’t have a walk-in closet? \n2. Group chats! Disappearing videos! What is everyone talking about in the secret chats? And how can she join? \n3. A bazillion stories about what to eat\, wear\, and put on her face. Could they all be telling the truth? Everyone sounds so sure of what they’re saying! \nAs Lina descends deeper and deeper into social media\, it will take all her strength to break free from the likes and find the courage to be her authentic self in this fast-paced world. \nFinally Seen\nFinally Seen by Kelly Yang \nMy sister got to grow up with my parents. Me? I grew up with postcards from my parents. \nWhen ten-year-old Lina Gao steps off the plane in Los Angeles\, it’s her first time in America and the first time seeing her parents and her little sister in five years! She’s been waiting for this moment every day while she lived with her grandmother in Beijing\, getting teased by kids at school who called her “left behind girl.” Finally\, her parents are ready for her to join their fabulous life in America! Except\, it’s not exactly like in the postcards: \n1. School’s a lot harder than she thought. When she mispronounces some words in English on the first day\, she decides she simply won’t talk. Ever again. \n2. Her chatty little sister has no problem with English. And seems to do everything better than Lina\, including knowing exactly the way to her parents’ hearts. \n3. They live in an apartment\, not a house like in Mom’s letters\, and they owe a lot of back rent from the pandemic. And Mom’s plan to pay it back sounds more like a hobby than a moneymaker. \nAs she reckons with her hurt\, Lina tries to keep a lid on her feelings\, both at home and at school. When her teacher starts facing challenges for her latest book selection\, a book that deeply resonates with Lina\, it will take all of Lina’s courage and resilience to get over her fear and choose a future where she’s finally seen. \nPrivate Label\nPrivate Label by Kelly Yang \nSerene dreams of making couture dresses even more stunning than her mom’s\, but for now she’s an intern at her mom’s fashion label. When her mom receives a sudden diagnosis of pancreatic cancer\, all that changes. Serene has to take over her mother’s business overnight while trying to figure out what happened with her dad in Beijing. He left before she was born\, and Serene wants to find him\, even if it means going against her mom’s one request—never look back. \nLian Chen moved from China to Serene’s mostly white Southern California beach town a year ago. He doesn’t fit in at school\, where kids mispronounce his name. His parents don’t care about what he wants to do—comedy—and push him toward going to MIT engineering early. Lian thinks there’s nothing to stick around for until one day he starts a Chinese Club after school . . . and Serene walks in. \nWorlds apart in the high school hierarchy\, Serene and Lian soon find refuge in each other\, falling in love as they navigate life-changing storms. \nYes We Will: Asian Americans Who Shaped History\nYes We Will: Asian Americans Who Shaped History by Kelly Yang \nFrom creating beautiful music like Yo-Yo Ma to flying to outer space like Franklin Chang-Díaz; from standing up to injustice like Fred Korematsu to becoming the first Asian American\, Black and female vice president of the United States like Kamala Harris\, this book illuminates the power of Asian Americans all over the country\, in all sorts of fields. \nEach spread is illustrated by a different renowned Asian American or Asian artist. Alongside the poetic main text\, Yes We Will includes one-line biographies of the person or historical moment featured on the page\, with extended biographies at the end. Readers of different ages and needs can use the book in different ways\, from classroom discussions to bedtime readalouds and more. \nYes We Will answers the question\, can we accomplish whatever we dream? With love\, courage\, determination\, and lots of imagination\, we can—and we will! \nGuest Biography:\nKelly Yang\, Author\nKELLY YANG is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of FINALLY SEEN\, NEW FROM HERE\, the FRONT DESK series (“One of the 30 Most Influential Children’s Books Of All Time” -BookRiot)\, including FRONT DESK\, THREE KEYS\, and ROOM TO DREAM\, KEY PLAYER\, and TOP STORY\, YES WE WILL\, and young adult novels PARACHUTES and PRIVATE LABEL. FRONT DESK is Kelly’s award-winning middle grade debut novel about a 10 year old Chinese American immigrant girl who manages the front desk of a motel while her parents clean the rooms. FRONT DESK was awarded the 2019 Asian Pacific American Award for Literature\, the Parents’ Choice Gold Medal\, was the 2019 Global Read Aloud\, and was named an Amazon Best Book of the Year\, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year\, a Kirkus Best Book of the Year\, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year\, a NPR Best Book of the Year\, and a Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year. \nKelly immigrated to America when she was 6 years old and grew up in Southern California\, where she and her parents worked in three different motels. She overcame poverty to go to college at the age of 13 and law school at the age of 17. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley\, where she majored in Political Science\, and Harvard Law School. After law school\, she gave up law to pursue her passion of writing and teaching children writing. She is the founder of The Kelly Yang Project (kellyyang.edu.hk)\, a leading writing and debating program for kids in Asia. As a writing teacher for 13 years\, Kelly helped thousands of children find their voice and become better writers and more powerful speakers. Before turning to fiction\, she was also a columnist for the South China Morning Post for many years. Her writing has been published in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and The Atlantic. She is the Honorary Chair of the American Library Association for National Library Week. She has three children and lives in Los Angeles.
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SUMMARY:"Memory Piece" Author Talk with Lisa Ko
DESCRIPTION:Program Description:\nIn 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 landscape four decades in the future. This visionary book will have you remembering and reflecting on the past\, give you a glimpse of life not driven by technology\, and leave you questioning what the future looks like. Join us to get special insights into this provocative book.  \nMemory Piece\n\n\nIn the early 1980s\, Giselle Chin\, Jackie Ong\, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. “Allied in the weirdest parts of themselves\,” they envision each other as artistic collaborators and embark on a future defined by freedom and creativity.By the time they are adults\, their dreams are murkier. As a performance artist\, Giselle must navigate an elite social world she never conceived of. As a coder thrilled by the internet’s early egalitarian promise\, Jackie must contend with its more sinister shift toward monetization and surveillance. And as a community activist\, Ellen confronts the increasing gentrification and policing overwhelming her New York City neighborhood. Over time their friendship matures and changes\, their definitions of success become complicated\, and their sense of what matters evolves.Moving from the predigital 1980s to the art and tech subcultures of the 1990s to a strikingly imagined portrait of the 2040s\, Memory Piece is an innovative and audacious story of three lifelong friends as they strive to build satisfying lives in a world that turns out to be radically different from the one they were promised. \n\n\n\nLearn more about Memory Piece: \nLearn more about Artist On Kawara: \nDive into Lisa’s Time Capsule: \nLearn more about performance artist Tehching Hsieh: \nGuest Biography:\nLisa Ko\, Author\nLISA KO is the author of the nationally bestselling novel The Leavers\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award\, and winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Ko’s short fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories and her essays and nonfiction have been published in The New York Times and The Believer.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/memory-piece-author-talk-lisa-ko/
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SUMMARY:Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series (CAALS) 35th Bauder Lecture with Tracy K. Smith
DESCRIPTION:Program Description:\nThe 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.  \nEstablished 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 the series has remained free and accessible to the community. To date\, over 10\,000 people have attended the Friday night public readings to hear outstanding writers share their work\, and thousands of Detroit area high school and college students as well as others in the Detroit community have studied these works and attended class sessions with guest authors in the series. \nSponsorship of this program has been brought to you by: The Lillian and Don Bauder Foundation\, Michigan Arts and Culture Council\, The National Endowment for the Arts\, and The Kresge Foundation & AARP of Michigan. \nAbout the book:\nTo Free the Captives touches down in Sunflower\, Alabama\, the red-dirt town where Smith’s father’s family comes from\, and where her grandfather returned after World War Iwith a hero’s record but difficult prospects as a Black man. Smith considers his life and the life of her father through the lens of history. Hoping to connect with their strength and continuance\, she assembles a new terminology of American life. \nBearing courageous witness to the terms of Freedom afforded her as a Black woman\, a mother\, and an educator in the twenty-first century\, Smith etches a portrait of where we find ourselves four hundred years into the American experiment. Weaving in an account of her growing spiritual practice\, she argues that the soul is not merely a private site of respite or transcendence\, but a tool for fulfilling our duties to each other\, and a sounding board for our most pressing collective questions: Where are we going as a nation? Where have we been? \nAbout the Author:\nTracy K. Smith\n22nd United States Poet Laureate (2017-2019) & Professor of English and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University\, and a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute \nTracy K. Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet\, memoirist\, editor\, translator and librettist. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017-19\, during which time she spearheaded American Conversations: Celebrating Poetry in Rural Communities with the Library of Congress\, created the American Public Media podcast The Slowdown\, and edited the anthology American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time. \nSmith is the author of five poetry collections: Such Color: New and Selected Poems\, which won the 2022 New England Book Award; Wade in the Water\, which was awarded the 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award; Life on Mars\, which won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize; Duende\, winner of the 2006 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets; and The Body’s Question\, which received the 2003 Cave Canem Prize. Her memoir\, Ordinary Light\, was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in nonfiction. She is the co-translator (with Changtai Bi) of My Name Will Grow Wide like a Tree: Selected Poems of Yi Lei\, which was a finalist for the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize; and co-editor (with John Freeman) of There’s a Revolution Outside\, My Love: Letters from a Crisis. Her memoir-manifesto\, To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul\, was a Time magazine and Washington Post Best Book of the Year\, and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. \nAmong Smith’s other honors are the Academy Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets\, the Harvard Arts Medal\, the Columbia Medal for Excellence\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award and an Essence Literary Award. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Philosophical Society. \nShe is a Professor of English and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University\, and a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/caals-tracy-smith/
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SUMMARY:Visions of America: Voices of Arab American Experiences - Exploring the Arab American National Museum
DESCRIPTION:Visions of America HomeEpisodesProgram Description:\nJoin 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. \nIMLS Deputy Director Laura Huerta Migus talks with the Director of the Arab American National Museum Diana Abouali\, Ph.D. about her important institution\, its cultural and community significance\, and some exciting museum projects. IMLS Acting Deputy Director of Library Services Anthony Smith discusses with librarian and scholar Kaoukab Cherbaro about her work\, Arab American culture\, heritage\, and preservation\, while highlighting her recent exhibit Science\, Nature and Beauty: Harmony and Cosmological Perspectives in Islamic Science. \nMore to discover with Visions of America:\n  \n \nDiscover more with Dr. Kaoukab Chebaro who has spent her career championing for the preservation of the individual history of Arabs across the globe. Her work within these institutions has brought first person storytelling center stage. Hear more about the important work being done to amplify the Arab American story through incredible archive efforts across the areas of math\, science\, poetry\, language\, culture and more.  \nExhibits & Projects: \nArab American National Museum – Museum Website\nScience\, Nature and Beauty: Harmony and Cosmological Perspectives in Islamic Science – Exhibit Brochure\, Learn More About the Exhibit\nThe Muslim World Project – Muslim World Project\, What Can Manuscripts Teach Us?\nPalestinian Oral History Archive – Archive\nIslamic Science Exhibit Catalog – Exhibit Brochure\, Learn More About the Exhibit\nSam Hamod\, Poet – Dying With the Wrong Name\, About Sam Hamod\nDunya Mikhail\, Poet – About Dunya\nGuest Biographies:\nDiana Abouali – Director of the Arab American National Museum\nDiana Abouali is the director of the Arab American National Museum (AANM). She has worked in higher education and in the museum and cultural heritage sectors in the United States\, Palestine and Jordan. Diana joined ACCESS in 2019. \nRead More\nBorn in Toronto\, Canada to Palestinian parents\, Diana completed her secondary education in Kuwait. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and received an MA in Middle Eastern Studies (1995) and a PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies (2004) from Harvard University. From 2005 to 2012\, Diana was an assistant professor at Dartmouth College\, teaching courses in Arab-Islamic civilization\, gender studies and the social and cultural history of the Middle East. \nFrom 2012 to 2013\, Diana worked as Head of Research and Collections at the newly established Palestinian Museum in Birzeit\, Palestine. Relocating to Amman\, Jordan in 2014\, she worked as Director of Education\, Outreach and Awareness at the Petra National Trust. She was Project Manager at Tiraz: Widad Kawar Home for Arab Dress on an AHRC-ESRC Global Challenges Fund (UK) project\, in cooperation with Plymouth University and the Information and Research Center-King Hussein Foundation. In that position and as part of a larger study of resilience among male Syrian artisan refugees in Jordan\, she co-produced a training program and toolkit in social-enterprise creation to preserve cultural heritage. Diana has organized and delivered cultural heritage education workshops to Syrian children and women in the Azraq and Zaatari refugee camps\, and occasionally teaches college-level courses in the U.S. and Jordan. Diana is a member of the general assembly of Taawon-Welfare Association\, the largest Palestinian NGO that provides development and humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory and Lebanon. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of ArteEast (NYC) and CultureSource (MI) and serves on the Citizens Advisory Committee at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. She is a graduate of Leadership Detroit XLI. \nKaoukab Chebaro – Head\, Global Studies\, Columbia University\nKaoukab Chebaro currently serves as the Head of Global Studies at the Columbia University Libraries. She previously served as Associate University Librarian for Archives and Special Collections at the Libraries of the American University of Beirut\, and as the Islamic and Middle East Studies Librarian at the Columbia University Libraries. \nRead More\nKaoukab has served on numerous Library\, archives and cultural heritage committees in or about the region. She has also served as the PI for the NEH-funded Palestinian Oral History Archive (2016-19). Kaoukab is interested in oral history as a tool at the service of expanding the politics of knowledge production and representation\, specifically around the Global South\, the Middle East\, and human rights.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/voices-of-arab-american-experiences/
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SUMMARY:PBS Books Readers Club - Scott Alexander Howard
DESCRIPTION:Readers Club HomeEpisodes \nEpisode Description:\nJoin 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. \nThe 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\, it’s the same valley\, the same town. Except to the east\, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west\, it’s twenty years behind. The towns repeat in an endless sequence across the wilderness. This thrilling page-turner will make readers ask the question: would you want to know your future if you could? And what would you risk to change it? The Other Valley is a Simon & Schuster Top Shelf Pick\, a Goodreads Most Anticipated Fantasy\, Science Fiction\, and Horror Book of 2024\, and is soon to be a TV series. \nSo don’t miss this chance to join the PBS Books Readers Club in conversation with Scott Alexander Howard about this pick that Booklist calls “Beautifully written… a triumph.”  \nAbout the Book:\nGet the E-BookDONATE NOW and download your e-book copy. \nSixteen-year-old Odile is 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\, it’s the same valley\, the same town. Except to the east\, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west\, it’s twenty years behind. The towns repeat in an endless sequence across the wilderness. When Odile recognizes two visitors she wasn’t supposed to see\, she realizes that the parents of her friend Edme have been escorted across the border from the future\, on a mourning tour\, to view their son while he’s still alive in Odile’s present. Edme––who is brilliant\, funny\, and the only person to truly see Odile––is about to die. Sworn to secrecy in order to preserve the timeline\, Odile now becomes the Conseil’s top candidate. Yet she finds herself drawing closer to the doomed boy\, imperiling her entire future. \nGuest Biography:\nScott Alexander Howard\nScott Alexander Howard lives in Vancouver\, British Columbia. He has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard\, where his work focused on the relationship between memory\, emotion\, and literature. The Other Valley is his first novel. Connect with him at ScottAlexanderHoward.com. \nReaders Club Hosts:\nHeather Marie Montilla\nHeather-Marie Montilla\, a dynamic integrative leader\, is an educator and nonprofit manager. She has worked in the nonprofit sector and libraries for over two decades\, making a positive impact in arts\, cultural\, educational\, and community-building arenas. \nHaving joined the PBS Books team as their Library Bureau Chief in Fall 2018\, Montilla is now the National Director of PBS Books and has interviewed more than 150 writers. In addition\, she is a faculty member at Michigan State University and Eastern Michigan University for their Arts and Cultural/Entertainment Management Programs. Having been an Executive Director for 8 years\, Heather has a wide range of experience in management\, finance\, strategic planning\, marketing\, and fundraising. Heather holds a MPA From Columbia University\, a MLIS from Wayne State University\, and a bachelor’s from Duke University. She lives in Chicagoland\, and is married with four children\, a dog\, and a bird. \nPrincess Weekes\nPrincess Weekes is an award winning writer and video essayist who works at breaking down the intersections between race\, gender\, and pop culture. Formally an Assistant Editor at The Mary Sue\, co-host of Netflix’s The Geeked Podcast\, and co-host and co-writer on the PBS Digital Series It’s Lit. On weekends she works as a bookseller at a local bookstore. When not reading or writing she can be found playing TTRPGs of cuddling with her cat\, Lola. \nLauren Smith\nExecutive Producer and host of national PBS programming at Detroit Public TV\, Lauren develops content for PBS and other distributors of public media for broadcast\, streaming\, and other digital channels and has executive-produced and/or produced over 60 national broadcast and programs. Her passion is to develop inspiring\, entertaining\, and educational content alongside the best national and international talent\, and to engage important content with communities across the country. Lauren loves to read and has worked to develop and produce PBS Books content for nearly ten years! \nFred Nahhat \nFred Nahhat is an Emmy Award-winning producer\, host\, and presenter for Detroit’s PBS station\, where he serves as Sr. VP of Production. A 30-year broadcast veteran\, Fred has hosted and produced numerous programs for Public TV – including music specials from Il Volo\, Celtic Gold and the New Divas – as well as other series and specials “New Year’s Eve with the DSO”\, “The Detroit Dream Cruise\,” “The PBS Books Readers Club” and “Get Up\, Get Out\,” among others. \nHe is a graduate of Wayne State University and a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Michigan Chapter\, USA Hockey\, and Leadership Detroit.
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SUMMARY:"You Are Here" Author Talk with Ada Limón
DESCRIPTION:Program Description:\nPBS 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 and discusses her important work as the first Latina US Poet Laurette\, making poetry more accessible for all Americans. Highlights include her collaboration with the National Park Service and NASA on exciting projects.  \nYou Are Here\nPublished in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States\, a singular collection of fifty poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by our most celebrated contemporary writers. \nFor many years\, “nature poetry” has evoked images of Romantic poets standing on mountain tops. But our poetic landscape has changed dramatically\, and so has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States\, Ada Limón\, this book challenges what we think we know about “nature poetry\,” illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes—both literal and literary—are changing. \nYou Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation’s most accomplished poets\, including Joy Harjo\, Diane Seuss\, Rigoberto González\, Jericho Brown\, Aimee Nezhukumatathil\, Paul Tran\, and more. Each poem engages with its author’s local landscape—be it the breathtaking variety of flora in a national park\, or a lone tree flowering persistently by a bus stop—offering an intimate model of how we relate to the world around us and a beautifully diverse range of voices from across the United States. \nRead More by Ada Limón:\nThe Carrying\nThe Carrying by Ada Limón \nVulnerable\, tender\, acute\, these are serious poems\, brave poems\, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility—“What if\, instead of carrying / a child\, I am supposed to carry grief?”—and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: “Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza\, something brutal.” And still Limón shows us\, as ever\, the persistence of hunger\, love\, and joy\, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. “Fine then\, / I’ll take it\,” she writes. “I’ll take it all.” \nIn Bright Dead Things\, Limón showed us a heart “giant with power\, heavy with blood”—“the huge beating genius machine / that thinks\, no\, it knows\, / it’s going to come in first.” In her follow-up collection\, that heart is on full display—even as The Carrying continues further and deeper into the bloodstream\, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world. \nThe Hurting Kind\nThe Hurting Kind by Ada Limón \n“I have always been too sensitive\, a weeper / from a long line of weepers\,” writes Limón. “I am the hurting kind.” What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world’s pain and joys\, but to the meanings that bend in the scrim between the natural world and the human world? To divine the relationships between us all? To perceive ourselves in other beings—and to know that those beings are resolutely their own\, that they “do not / care to be seen as symbols”? \nWith Limón’s remarkable ability to trace thought\, The Hurting Kind explores those questions—incorporating others’ stories and ways of knowing\, making surprising turns\, and always reaching a place of startling insight. These poems slip through the seasons\, teeming with horses and kingfishers and the gleaming eyes of fish. And they honor parents\, stepparents\, and grandparents: the sacrifices made\, the separate lives lived\, the tendernesses extended to a hurting child; the abundance\, in retrospect\, of having two families. \nAlong the way\, we glimpse loss. There are flashes of the pandemic\, ghosts whose presence manifests in unexpected memories and the mysterious behavior of pets left behind. But The Hurting Kind is filled\, above all\, with connection and the delight of being in the world. “Slippery and waddle thieving my tomatoes still / green in the morning’s shade\,” writes Limón of a groundhog in her garden\, “she is doing what she can to survive.” \nLucky Wreck\nLucky Wreck by Ada Limón \nThe poems in Lucky Wreck trace the excitement of plans and the necessary swerving detours we must take when those plans fail. Looking to shipwrecks on the television\, road trips ending in traffic accidents\, and homes that become sites of infestation\, Ada Limón finds threads of hope amid an array of small tragedies and significant setbacks. Open\, honest\, and grounded\, the poems in this collection seek answers to familiar questions and teach us ways to cope with the pain of many losses with earnestness and humor. Through the wrecks\, these poems continue to offer assurance. \nCelebrating the fifteenth anniversary of Limón’s award-winning debut\, this edition includes a new introduction by the poet that reflects on the book and on how her writing practice has developed over time. \n  \nBright Dead Things\nBright Dead Things by Ada Limón \nA book of bravado and introspection\, of 21st century feminist swagger and harrowing terror and loss\, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact—tracing in intimate detail the various ways the speaker’s sense of self both shifts and perseveres as she moves from New York City to rural Kentucky\, loses a dear parent\, ages past the capriciousness of youth\, and falls in love. \n \nGuest Biography:\nAda Limón\, Poet\nAda Limón the author of six books of poetry\, including The Carrying\, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her book Bright Dead Things was nominated for the National Book Award\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her most recent book of poetry\, The Hurting Kind\, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and wrote a poem that will be engraved on NASA’s Europa Clipper Spacecraft that will be launched to the second moon of Jupiter in October 2024. As the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States\, her signature project is called You Are Here and focuses on how poetry can help connect us to the natural world. She will serve as Poet Laureate until the spring of 2025. In October of 2023 she was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship.
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SUMMARY:Lynn Hershman Leeson | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION: \nThis speaker event was recorded live on Thursday\, March 28\, 2024 at 5:30 pm at the Michigan Theater\, Ann Arbor\, MI. \nAs 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. \nLynn 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 day\, Hershman Leeson’s work anticipates the quandaries into which we will be collectively thrown. Her performance piece as Roberta Breitmore (1973) underscored the gendered contours of personhood as defined by the state\, laying bare the ways in which we reproduce ourselves as ephemeral simulacra according to these superstructures. She was working with chatbots (Agent Ruby\, 1998 – 2002) downloadable to a Palm Pilot decades before chatGPT had broken into public consciousness\, questioning the role that artificial intelligences will play in our lives. This program of her short film and video works highlights her long-held fascination with reality\, selfhood\, and technological reproduction\, prompting us to question whether it is at all possible to disambiguate ourselves from our tech-saturated worlds. Her short films shown here distill the impetus of her decades-long work: a quest for freedom from the many constraints imposed on us by society and the potentialities as well as the pitfalls presented by the ongoing technological augmentation of our lives.  \nJulia Yezbick is a filmmaker\, artist\, programmer\, and anthropologist. She received her PhD in Media Anthropology and Critical Media Practice from Harvard University. Her audio and video works have been exhibited at the Berlin International Film Festival\, the Art Gallery of Ontario\, the New York Library for Performing Arts\, Station Arts Space (Beirut)\, the Ann Arbor Film Festival\, the Broad Underground Film series (Lansing)\, the AgX Film Collective\, and the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Detroit. Yezbick’s works of experimental nonfiction are grounded in feminist responses to social issues such as housing and urban transformations as well as commentaries on gendered labor\, identity\, and movement and the body. She is a 2018 Kresge Artist Fellow for film\, the founding Editor of Sensate: a journal for experiments in critical media practice\, and co-directs Mothlight Microcinema in Detroit. Yezbick is currently an Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit. \nLearn More>> \n\n\nThe Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series Spring 2024 Season\nThis spring\, the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series brings respected leaders and innovators from a broad spectrum of creative fields to Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater for weekly in-person events. \nDetroit Public Television and PBS Books\, in partnership with the Stamps School\, will stream each week’s event Fridays at 8pm. \nSee the full schedule of events livestreamed by PBS Books here. \nSome programs may not be available online\, depending on artist requests. Interested in receiving notifications before online videos go live? Sign up to receive a reminder before each event begins streaming. \nWatch Past Penny Stamps Episodes
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SUMMARY:The Wright Conversations with Poet Nikki Giovanni
DESCRIPTION:Program Description:\nAs 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 recognized her in 2005 as one of twenty-five “Living Legends.” She continues to teach\, write\, and publish books. Her most recent collection\, “Make Me Rain\,” was released in October of 2020. \nGuest Biography:\nNikki Giovanni\, Poet\nPoet Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville\, Tennessee\, on June 7\, 1943. Although she grew up in Cincinnati\, Ohio\, she and her sister returned to Knoxville each summer to visit their grandparents. Nikki graduated with honors in history from her grandfather’s alma mater\, Fisk University. Since 1987\, she has been on the faculty at Virginia Tech\, where she is a University Distinguished Professor. She has been nominated for a Grammy and a finalist for the National Book Award. She has authored three New York Times and Los Angeles Times best-sellers\, highly unusual for a poet. For more information in the words of the poet herself\, visit here.
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Kara Swisher & Mary Barra
DESCRIPTION:Program Description:\nJoin 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.”  \nAward-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 country\, Swisher sits down with Mary Barra\, Chair and CEO of General Motors\, to discuss her new book and explore the dynamic interplay of legacy companies\, innovation\, strategic bets on the future and tech’s potential to solve problems and not just create them.  \nBook Description:\nFrom award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty\, scathing\, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. \nPart memoir\, part history\, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players. From “the queen of all media” (Walt Mossberg\, Wall Street Journal)\, this is the inside story we’ve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world. \nAbout Wallace House:\nWallace House Center for Journalists at the University of Michigan is committed to fostering excellence in journalism. It is home to programs that recognize\, sustain and elevate the careers of journalists to address the challenges of journalism today\, foster civic engagement and uphold the role of a free press in a democratic society. It believes in the fundamental mission of journalism to document\, interpret\, analyze and investigate the forces shaping society. \nGuest Biographies:\nKara Swisher\, Award-Winning Journalist\nKara Swisher is the host of the podcast\, “On with Kara Swisher\,” and the cohost of the “Pivot” podcast with Scott Galloway\, both distributed by New York magazine. She was the co-founder and editor-at-large of Recode\, host of the “Recode Decode” podcast and co-executive producer of the Code conference. She was a former contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and host of its “Sway” podcast and has also worked for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. “Burn Book: A Tech Love Story” is her third book. \nMary Barra\, General Motors Chair & CEO\nMary Barra is Chair and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors. Under Barra’s leadership\, GM envisions a world with zero crashes\, zero emissions and zero congestion. Prior to becoming CEO\, Barra served as GM executive vice president\, Global Product Development\, Purchasing and Supply Chain\, and as senior vice president\, Global Product Development. In these roles\, Barra and her teams were responsible for the design\, engineering and quality of GM vehicle launches worldwide.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/evening-with-kara-swisher-mary-barra/
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SUMMARY:CW&T | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:This speaker event was recorded live on Thursday\, March 21\, 2024 at 5:30 pm at the Michigan Theater\, Ann Arbor\, MI. \nCW&T is the recipient of the 2022 National Design Award for Product Design from Cooper Hewitt\, Smithsonian Design Museum. CW&T started as and remains the two-person design practice of Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy. With backgrounds in Architecture\, Film and Computer Science\, the duo met at NYU ITP where they began their scale- and medium-agnostic approach to design. \nSince 2009\, CW&T’s work has spanned from interactive software to human-scaled tools that enhance their relationships to work\, life\, and time. Their practice centers around an iterative process of sketching\, prototyping\, testing\, writing code\, machining parts\, and building each edition themselves to assess their intuitions around improving their everyday experiences. Their projects have included devices that alter our perception of time\, an electronics curriculum for artists\, an astrological compass for space travelers\, and objects engineered to last multiple generations. \nSharing their process with their community is essential to their practice. CW&T cultivates an ethos of openness through teaching and open source software and hardware. Their pedagogy extends into the home/​studio where they host office hours to lend a hand\, or offer insight to anyone interested in figuring out how to make something themselves. \nLearn More>> \n\n\nThe Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series Spring 2024 Season\nThis spring\, the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series brings respected leaders and innovators from a broad spectrum of creative fields to Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater for weekly in-person events. \nDetroit Public Television and PBS Books\, in partnership with the Stamps School\, will stream each week’s event Fridays at 8pm. \nSee the full schedule of events livestreamed by PBS Books here. \nSome programs may not be available online\, depending on artist requests. Interested in receiving notifications before online videos go live? Sign up to receive a reminder before each event begins streaming. \nWatch Past Penny Stamps Episodes
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/cwt-penny-stamps-distinguished-speaker-series/
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SUMMARY:PBS Books Readers Club - Allison Pataki
DESCRIPTION:Readers Club HomeEpisodes \nEpisode Description:\nJoin the PBS Books Readers Club 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. \nThis work is a book-lovers dream\, telling the story of Fuller’s thrilling adventures and relationships with notable literary figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson\, Henry David Thorough\, Nathaniel Hawthorne\, and Edgar Allen Poe. Pataki’s captivating storytelling will transport you back in time to the 19th century\, where Fuller’s intellect and passion for social change made her a force to be reckoned with. So\, grab a cup of tea\, cozy up in your favorite reading nook\, and get ready to embark on a literary journey with Allison Pataki and the PBS Books Readers Club. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to connect with fellow book lovers and learn more about one of history’s most inspiring women. \nAbout the Book:\nGet the E-BookDONATE NOW and download your e-book copy. \nIn 1836\, when young\, brazen\, beautiful\, and unapologetically brilliant Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson\, the celebrated “Sage of Concord\,” to stay in Concord\, MA\, she finds her intellectual equals among his coterie of enlightened friends. She becomes a role model to young Louisa May Alcott\, an inspiration to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s character of Hester Prynne and the scandalous Scarlet Letter\, a friend to Henry David Thoreau as he ventures into the woods of Walden Pond…and a muse to Emerson himself. But as love triangles and interpersonal drama threaten her ambitions\, Margaret finds her restless soul in need of new challenges and adventure and decides she must venture into the broader world. \nAnd so she charts a singular course against a backdrop of dizzying historical drama: From Boston\, where she hosts a women-only literary salon for students like Elizabeth Cady Stanton; to Harvard’s campus\, where she is the first woman permitted to study within its walls; to her role as the first female foreign news correspondent\, mingling with luminaries like Frederic Chopin; and to Rome where she finds a world of passion\, romance\, and revolution\, taking a Roman count as a lover amid a revolution that would result in Italy’s unification. \nWith a star-studded cast and epic sweep of historical events\, this is a story of an inspiring trailblazer\, a woman who loved big and lived even bigger—a fierce adventurer who transcended the rigid roles ascribed to women\, and changed history for millions\, all on her own terms. \nGuest Biography:\nAllison Pataki\nAllison Pataki is the New York Times bestselling author of The Traitor’s Wife\, The Accidental Empress\, Sisi\, The Queen’s Fortune\, and The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post. She is also the author of the nonfiction memoir Beauty in the Broken Places and the children’s books\, Nelly Takes New York and Poppy Takes Paris. Her novels have been translated into more than 20 languages around the world; she has appeared on Today\, Good Morning America\, Good Day New York\, and MSNBC’s Morning Joe among other outlets.  \nShe has several screenplay adaptations of her novels currently in development for film and television. Pataki graduated cum laude from Yale University and is a former news writer and producer\, having written for The New York Times\, USA Today\, and other outlets. A member of The Historical Novel Society and a certified Yoga instructor\, she lives in New York with her husband and family. \nReaders Club Hosts:\nHeather Marie Montilla\nHeather-Marie Montilla\, a dynamic integrative leader\, is an educator and nonprofit manager. She has worked in the nonprofit sector and libraries for over two decades\, making a positive impact in arts\, cultural\, educational\, and community-building arenas. \nHaving joined the PBS Books team as their Library Bureau Chief in Fall 2018\, Montilla is now the National Director of PBS Books and has interviewed more than 150 writers. In addition\, she is a faculty member at Michigan State University and Eastern Michigan University for their Arts and Cultural/Entertainment Management Programs. Having been an Executive Director for 8 years\, Heather has a wide range of experience in management\, finance\, strategic planning\, marketing\, and fundraising. Heather holds a MPA From Columbia University\, a MLIS from Wayne State University\, and a bachelor’s from Duke University. She lives in Chicagoland\, and is married with four children\, a dog\, and a bird. \nPrincess Weekes\nPrincess Weekes is an award winning writer and video essayist who works at breaking down the intersections between race\, gender\, and pop culture. Formally an Assistant Editor at The Mary Sue\, co-host of Netflix’s The Geeked Podcast\, and co-host and co-writer on the PBS Digital Series It’s Lit. On weekends she works as a bookseller at a local bookstore. When not reading or writing she can be found playing TTRPGs of cuddling with her cat\, Lola. \nLauren Smith\nExecutive Producer and host of national PBS programming at Detroit Public TV\, Lauren develops content for PBS and other distributors of public media for broadcast\, streaming\, and other digital channels and has executive-produced and/or produced over 60 national broadcast and programs. Her passion is to develop inspiring\, entertaining\, and educational content alongside the best national and international talent\, and to engage important content with communities across the country. Lauren loves to read and has worked to develop and produce PBS Books content for nearly ten years! \nFred Nahhat \nFred Nahhat is an Emmy Award-winning producer\, host\, and presenter for Detroit’s PBS station\, where he serves as Sr. VP of Production. A 30-year broadcast veteran\, Fred has hosted and produced numerous programs for Public TV – including music specials from Il Volo\, Celtic Gold and the New Divas – as well as other series and specials “New Year’s Eve with the DSO”\, “The Detroit Dream Cruise\,” “The PBS Books Readers Club” and “Get Up\, Get Out\,” among others. \nHe is a graduate of Wayne State University and a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Michigan Chapter\, USA Hockey\, and Leadership Detroit.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/readers-club-103/
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SUMMARY:Visions of America: Exploring "Herstory" - Trailblazing Women in Museum and Library Spaces
DESCRIPTION:Visions of America HomeEpisodes \nProgram Description:\nIn this episode of VISIONS OF AMERICA: All Stories\, All People\, All Places\, trailblazing women leading museums and libraries are highlighted. These are the women who have advocated for\, founded\, and inspired many of our nation’s most treasured institutions\, and the women today\, who are carrying on that legacy.   \nMembers of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) leadership\, Laura Huerta Migus and Teri DeVoe\, join PBS Books Heather-Marie Montilla to explore the lesser-known stories of the women\, who have been instrumental to contributing to our country’s cultural institutions–libraries\, museums\, and archives. Dr. Carla Hayden\, Thelma Golden\, Dr. Margaret Walker\, and Lucy Somerville Howorth are among the exceptional women discussed. Then\, IMLS Anne Radice chats with the Alice West Director of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA)\, Dr. Susan Fisher Sterling\, to share about the museum’s beginnings\, its mission\, and its recent renovation\, which continues the legacy of co-founder Billie Cole Holladay’s vision.  \nDiscover more about the National Museum of Women in the Arts\n \nGuest Biographies:\nLaura Huerta Migus – Deputy Director for Museum Services\nLaura Huerta Migus was appointed Deputy Director of the Office of Museum Services in July 2021. She came to IMLS following her tenure as executive director of the Association of Children’s Museums (ACM) in Arlington\, Virginia\, the world’s largest professional society promoting and advocating on behalf of children’s museums and children’s museum professionals. \nRead More\nThroughout her career\, Huerta Migus has been devoted to the growth and education of children\, particularly those from underserved and under-resourced communities. Under her leadership\, ACM pursued innovative and effective partnerships to leverage the power of children’s museums worldwide. \nIn 2018\, Huerta Migus was named as an Ascend Fellow of the Aspen Institute\, and in 2016\, she was recognized as a Champion of Change for Summer Opportunity by the White House. She is a noted speaker and author on topics of equity and audience-focused museum practice for institutions including the Board of Science Education of the National Academies of Sciences\, the U.S. Play Coalition\, and various university texts. \nPreviously\, she served as the director of professional development and equity initiatives at the Association of Science-Technology Centers\, Inc.\, has published articles in peer-reviewed texts\, and served as principal investigator on numerous informal learning initiatives. \nSince joining IMLS\, Huerta Migus has helped the agency establish the American Latino Museum Internship and Fellowship Initiative (ALMIFI). This initiative is designed to strengthen the institutional capacity of American Latino museums\, provide paid internship and fellowship opportunities for a diverse range of students\, and build connections between colleges\, universities\, and museums. \nShe also worked closely with IMLS’ Office of Research and Evaluation to successfully launch the first National Museum Survey (NMS)\, which will capture the scope and scale of museums’ presence and reach within the U.S. over time. Once mature\, the survey will collect foundational\, high-level data directly from museums to inform policymakers\, the museum field\, and the public about the social\, cultural\, educational\, and economic roles that the nation’s diverse museums play in American society. \nHuerta Migus holds a bachelor’s degree in Spanish from Texas A&M University and a master’s degree in organization development and leadership from Saint Joseph’s University. \nTeri DeVoe – Associate Deputy Director in the Office of Library Services\nAssociate Deputy Director in the Office of Library Services Teri DeVoe is an Associate Deputy Director at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). She leads the Grants to States program that provides formula-based library funding to states\, territories\, and freely associated states. \nRead More\nTeri has also served in multiple positions in the agency’s Office of Library Services since 2012. Previously\, Teri was the Coordinator of the EPA National Library Network and has additional library experience in university\, school\, and non-profit settings. She holds a Master of Science in Library Science (MSLS)\, and an MA in art history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. \nAnne-Imelda Radice – Senior Advisor\nAnne-Imelda Radice is a senior advisor in the Office of the Director. She previously served as Director of the Division of Public Programs at NEH. Prior to joining NEH in July 2018 she served as Executive Director of the American Folk Art Museum. \nRead More\nFrom 2006 to 2010 Radice served as Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Her previous government positions include Acting Deputy Chairman for Programs and Special Advisor to the Chairman of NEH\, Chief of Staff for the U.S. Department of Education\, Acting Chairman and Senior Deputy Chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)\, Chief Arts Advisor for the U.S. Information Agency\, and Curator for the Architect of the U.S. Capitol. Radice is a recipient of the Presidential Citizen’s Medal\, the Forbes Medal\, and the NEA’s Chairman’s Medal. She holds an MBA from American University\, a PhD in art and architectural history from the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill\, an MA from Villa Schifanoia School of Fine Arts in Florence\, Italy\, and an AB from Wheaton College. \nSusan Fisher Sterling – Alice West Director of NMWA in Washington\, D.C.\nSusan Fisher Sterling is Alice West Director of NMWA in Washington\, D.C. She built her career and the stature of the museum around the message of equity for women through excellence in the arts. \nRead More\nSterling started at NMWA in 1988-a year after the museum opened—as associate curator\, then was appointed curator of modern and contemporary art\, followed by chief curator/deputy director. Sterling assumed the directorship of the museum in 2008. Under Sterling’s collaborative\, feminist leadership\, the museum has presented landmark exhibitions of work by many of today’s most influential women artists and organized numerous associated publications. She also led projects advancing the scholarship and recognition of great women artists of history. NMWA’s influence has grown through signature programs like the groundbreaking Women\, Arts\, and Social Change public programs initiative\, which hosts diverse speakers and presenters on topics related to arts and gender equity. The museum’s globally recognized #WomenArtists social media campaign\, which challenges fellow cultural institutions to make significant commitments to gender equity\, has been cited as an inspiration for countless equity initiatives across numerous industries. Over her tenure\, the museum’s collection has grown to more than 6\,000 works across all mediums. A lifelong champion of women in the arts\, Sterling has received National Orders of Merit from Brazil and Norway. She has been recognized as one of the Most Powerful Women in Washington by Washingtonian magazine and is a recipient of ArtTable 30th Anniversary Honors as well as the President’s Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art. Sterling holds a B.A. in art and archaeology from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.A. and Ph.D. in art and archaeology from Princeton University.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/exploring-herstory/
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SUMMARY:Artemío Rodriguez | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:This speaker event was recorded live on Thursday\, March 7\, 2024 at 5:30 pm at the Michigan Theater\, Ann Arbor\, MI. \nArtemio Rodríguez is a Mexican artist who was born in Tacámbaro\, Michoacán. He began his career as a printer’s apprentice with Juan Pascoe at his renowned letterpress studio Taller Martin Pescador (Kingfisher Workshop) in Tacámbaro\, Michoacán. At the age of 21\, Rodríguez immigrated to Los Angeles and became a printmaker at Self Help Graphics. He co-founded La Mano Press in 2002 in Los Angeles before relocating to Michoacán in 2008\, where he co-founded La Mano Gráfica\, a gallery and craft store. Rodríguez directs the Library of Illustrated Books (Biblioteca del Libro Ilustrado\, BLI)\, where his many public projects include The Bibliográfico\, a 1977 Toyota converted into a traveling library\, and the Graficomovil\, a 1948 delivery truck converted into a gallery and printmaking studio. \nRodríguez is known for his linocut prints as well as his mural-sized prints and for his vehicles. Influenced by both European medieval woodcuts and Mexican cultural symbolism developed by artists like José Guadalupe Posada\, Rodríguez’s style emphasizes simplicity\, clarity\, and imbued with a personal narrative. His images come from contemporary icons like American cartoons and Mexican culture\, mythology and surrealism. A poet at heart\, Rodríguez uses the physicality of the printmaking process to write stories in images. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of many public institutions\, including the Seattle Art Museum\, Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, Hammer Museum\, Petersen Automotive Museum\, Library of Congress\, Phoenix Art Museum and Museo José Guadalupe Posada. A retrospective look of his works can be seen in the book American Dream. \nLearn More>> \n\n\nThe Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series Spring 2024 Season\nThis spring\, the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series brings respected leaders and innovators from a broad spectrum of creative fields to Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater for weekly in-person events. \nDetroit Public Television and PBS Books\, in partnership with the Stamps School\, will stream each week’s event Fridays at 8pm. \nSee the full schedule of events livestreamed by PBS Books here. \nSome programs may not be available online\, depending on artist requests. Interested in receiving notifications before online videos go live? Sign up to receive a reminder before each event begins streaming. \nWatch Past Penny Stamps Episodes
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SUMMARY:"The Queen of Sugar Hill" Author Talk with ReShonda Tate
DESCRIPTION:Program Description:\nCelebrating Women’s History Month\, National Director of PBS Books\, Heather-Marie Montilla\, chats with bestselling author ReShonda Tate to explore the legacy of one of Hollywood’s icons—Hattie McDaniel—through her new historical fiction novel\, “The Queen of Sugar Hill.” Join us as we discover more about this icon of the silver screen and how the story of her roles on and off the screen still resonates today. With no shortage of triumphs\, tragedies\, severe setbacks\, and controversy\, ReShonda Tate brings the powerful story of trailblazer Hattie McDaniel to life for a new generation. \nBook Description:\nIt was supposed to be the highlight of her career\, the pinnacle for which she’d worked all her life. And as Hattie McDaniel took the stage in 1940 to claim an honor that would make her the first African-American woman to win an Academy Award\, she tearfully took her place in history. Between personal triumphs and tragedies\, heartbreaking losses\, and severe setbacks\, this historic night of winning best supporting actress for her role as the sassy Mammy in the controversial movie Gone With the Wind was going to be life-changing. Or so she thought. \nMonths after winning the award\, not only did the Oscar curse set in where Hattie couldn’t find work\, but she found herself thrust in the middle of two worlds—Black and White—and not being welcomed in either. Whites only saw her as Mammy and Blacks detested the demeaning portrayal. As the NAACP waged an all-out war against Hattie and actors like her\, the emotionally conflicted actor found herself struggling daily. \nThrough it all\, Hattie continued her fight to pave a path for other Negro actors\, while focusing on war efforts\, fighting housing discrimination\, and navigating four failed marriages. Luckily\, she had a core group of friends to help her out—from Clark Gable to Louise Beavers to Ruby Berkley Goodwin and Dorothy Dandridge. \nThe Queen of Sugar Hill brings to life the powerful story of one woman who was driven by many passions—ambition\, love\, sex\, family\, friendship\, and equality. In re-creating Hattie’s story\, ReShonda Tate delivers an unforgettable novel of resilience\, dedication\, and determination—about what it takes to achieve your dreams—even when everything—and everyone—is against you. \nGuest Biography:\nReShonda Tate\, Author\nAs a national bestselling author and award-winning journalist\, ReShonda Tate has the credentials\, and the passion\, to bring stories to life. A highly sought-after motivational speaker/poet\, ReShonda is a three-time nominee and previous winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature. She has received a plethora of distinguished awards and honors for her journalism\, fiction\, and poetry writing skills\, including an induction into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame and the Texas Literary Hall of Fame. Two of her novels have been made into television movies.
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SUMMARY:The State of Bipartisanship in America
DESCRIPTION:Description:\nThe week of March 11-15 is Civic Literacy Week in America. The concept of civics in the United States embraces disagreements and encourages a search for compromise. \nIn recent years\, that concept seems to have been forgotten\, as the nation struggles with difficult issues that have spawned deep political division. \nRecently\, two Governors who are calling on Americans to “Disagree Better” spokes at the Economic Club of Washington. \nGovernor Spencer Cox of Utah is a Republican and the current chair of the National Governors Association\, where he leads a civility initiative called “Disagree Better.” Governor West Moore of Maryland is a Democrat who has pledged to work with both political parties in his state to do what is best for Maryland citizens. They were interviewed by PBS NewsHour Senior Correspondent Judy Woodruff. \nPBS Books and our partners at the Bipartisan Leadership Project are proud to have played a role in sharing this conversation with the country. \nPBS Books\, in partnership with the Bipartisan Leadership project\, is proud to share a recent conversation between two governors who are trying to promote reasonable discussion and compromise in their states. \nInterested in Learning More?\nPBS Newshour’s America at a Crossroad series with Senior Correspondent\, Judy Woodruff\, takes a closer look at “How governors are working on solutions amid intense political polarization”. Watch it here. \nMore Info:\nPBS Books: Home – PBS Books \nDetroit Public Television: https://www.dptv.org/ \nBipartisan Leadership Project: Bipartisan Leadership Project (BLP) – Preparing the Next Generation of Elected Leaders to Put People Ahead of Politics \nThe Economic Club of Washington\, D.C.:The Economic Club of Washington DC | \nGovernor Spencer Cox: About Utah Gov. Spencer J. Cox | Governor Spencer J. Cox \nGovernor Wes Moore: Governor Wes Moore – Our Leadership – Office of Governor Wes Moore (maryland.gov) \nThe National Governors Association’s Disagree Better Initiative: Disagree Better – National Governors Association (nga.org) \nJudy Woodruff: Judy Woodruff | PBS NewsHour \nOrganizations:\nPBS Books at Detroit Public Television:  \nPBS Books is a multi-platform initiative celebrating the love of reading. PBS Books is dedicated to connecting books with audiences by engaging them in unique experiences to spark their curiosity and encourage a life-long love of reading and learning. \nDetroit Public TV is the viewer-supported PBS member station serving Southeast Michigan. Our vision is for a community in which people trust public TV to help them discover new ideas\, make informed decisions\, and enjoy enriched lives. \nThe Bipartisan Leadership Project: \nThe mission of the Bipartisan Leadership Project (BLP) is to initiate and guide organizations in providing leadership development that equips leaders with skills necessary to lead in the polarized environment. Leaders of the BLP have initiated political leadership programs at Michigan State University’s Institute for Public Policy and Social Research and at George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. These programs bring together politically\, ethnically\, and geographically diverse people to learn together. The program uniquely focuses on the development of conflict resolution and leadership skills for this political environment. Participants build trust\, tolerance\, and the ability to listen to each other in finding workable solutions to the serious problems we face. With the involvement of scholars\, leaders\, practitioners\, and the robust interaction of participants\, these programs are producing amazing results. The BLP also helped develop a leadership program for high school students at John Lewis High School to increase the pipeline for the next generation of leaders. \nThe Economic Club of Washington\, D.C. \nThe Economic Club of Washington\, D.C. is widely recognized as the premier forum for distinguished global leaders to share their insights about major issues of the day with top-tier business leaders. \nDisagree Better Initiative of the National Governors Association: \nDisagree Better is an effort to show that as Americans\, we can work through our differences to find solutions to the most difficult problems facing our states and our nation. This effort includes a series of public-facing efforts\, assisted by NGA and chosen from a toolkit of interventions that are customizable for each state/governor. \nGuest Biographies:\nHonorable Wes Moore\, Governor of Maryland\nWes Moore is the 63rd Governor of the state of Maryland. He is Maryland’s first Black Governor in the state’s 246-year history\, and is just the third African American elected Governor in the history of the United States. \nBorn in Takoma Park\, Maryland\, on Oct. 15\, 1978\, to Joy and Westley Moore\, Moore’s life took a tragic turn when his father died of a rare\, but treatable virus when he was just three years old. After his father’s death\, his family moved to the Bronx to live with Moore’s grandparents before returning to Maryland at age 14. \nMoore is a proud graduate of Valley Forge Military Academy and College\, where he received an Associate’s degree in 1998\, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Afterward\, he went on to earn his Bachelor’s in international relations and economics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore\, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. \nWhile at Johns Hopkins\, Moore interned in the office of former Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke. Moore was the first Black Rhodes Scholar in the history of Johns Hopkins University. As A Rhodes Scholar\, he earned a Master’s in international relations from Wolfson College at Oxford. \nIn 2005\, Moore deployed to Afghanistan as a captain with the 82nd Airborne Division\, leading soldiers in combat. Immediately upon returning home\, Moore served as a White House Fellow\, advising on issues of national security and international relations. \nIn 2010\, Moore wrote “The Other Wes Moore\,” a story about the fragile nature of opportunity in America\, which became a perennial New York Times bestseller. He went on to write other best-selling books that reflect on issues of race\, equity\, and opportunity\, including his latest book “Five Days\,” which tells the story of Baltimore in the days that followed the death of Freddie Gray in 2015. \nMoore built and launched a Baltimore-based business called BridgeEdU\, which reinvented freshman year of college for underserved students to increase their likelihood of long-term success. BridgeEdu was acquired by the Brooklyn-based student financial success platform\, Edquity\, in 2018. \nIt was Moore’s commitment to taking on our toughest challenges that brought him to the Robin Hood Foundation\, where he served for four years as CEO. During his tenure\, the Robin Hood Foundation distributed over $600 million toward lifting families out of poverty\, including here in Maryland. \nWhile the Robin Hood Foundation is headquartered in New York City\, Wes and his family never moved from their home in Baltimore. \nMoore has also worked in finance with Deutsche Bank in London and with Citigroup in New York. \nMoore and his wife Dawn Flythe Moore have two children – Mia\, 12; and James\, 10. \nHonorable Spencer J. Cox\, Governor of Utah\nGov. Spencer J. Cox is a husband\, father\, farmer\, recovering attorney\, and Utah’s 18th governor. He’s also currently serving as 2023-2024 chairman of the National Governors Association. \nGov. Cox has a long track record of public service\, serving as a city councilmember\, mayor\, county commissioner and state legislator before being appointed as Utah’s lieutenant governor in 2013. He was sworn in as governor on Jan. 4\, 2021. \nDuring his first term in office\, Gov. Cox has cut $1.1 billion in taxes\, implemented landmark changes in water law\, water conservation and infrastructure planning\, locked in record funding for education and teachers\, enacted universal school choice\, and secured funds for affordable housing. A long-time advocate for suicide prevention and mental health resources\, he’s become a national voice on protecting youth from the harms of social media. He also signed early education and workforce program funding\, launched the One Utah Health Collaborative\, and expanded opportunities for women\, diverse communities and those living in rural parts of the state. \nWith a focus on solutions\, Gov. Cox promotes respect in politics and innovation in government\, works across party lines to find common ground\, and regularly participates in hands-on service projects. These elements are the foundation of his NGA Chair’s Initiative\, “Disagree Better: Healthy Conflict for Better Policy.” \nA sixth-generation Utahn\, Gov. Cox was born and raised in Fairview\, a town of 1\,200 in the center of the state. He met First Lady Abby Palmer Cox at age 16 and they married after he returned from serving a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mexico. He attended Snow College\, Utah State University\, and the Washington and Lee University School of Law\, then clerked for U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart and worked at a Salt Lake City law firm. Several years later\, Gov. Cox and First Lady Cox moved back to Fairview to raise their four children – Gavin\, Kaleb\, Adam\, and Emma Kate – on the family farm. The governor\, first lady and Emma Kate currently reside in the Kearns Mansion\, also known as the Governor’s Mansion\, in Salt Lake City. \nJudy Woodruff\, Senior Correspondent\, Former Anchor & Managing Editor\, PBS NewsHour\nJudy Woodruff is a senior correspondent and the former anchor and managing editor of the PBS NewsHour. She has covered politics and other news for five decades at NBC\, CNN and PBS. \nAt PBS from 1983 to 1993\, she was the chief Washington correspondent for the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. From 1984 – 1990\, she also anchored PBS’ award-winning documentary series\, “Frontline with Judy Woodruff.” Moving to CNN in 1993\, she served as anchor and senior correspondent for 12 years; among other duties\, she anchored the weekday program “Inside Politics.” She returned to the NewsHour in 2007\, and in 2013\, she and the late Gwen Ifill were named the first two women to co-anchor a national news broadcast. After Ifill’s death\, Woodruff was named sole anchor. \nIn 2011\, Judy was the anchor and reporter for the PBS documentary “Nancy Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime.” And in 2007\, she completed an extensive project on the views of young Americans\, titled “Generation Next: Speak Up. Be Heard.” Two hour-long documentaries aired on PBS\, along with a series of reports on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer\, NPR\, in USA Today and on Yahoo News. \nFrom 2006 – 2013\, Judy anchored a monthly program for Bloomberg Television\, “Conversations with Judy Woodruff.” In 2006\, she was a visiting professor at Duke University’s Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. In 2005\, she was a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press\, Politics and Public Policy. \nAt NBC News\, Woodruff was White House correspondent from 1977 to 1982. For one year after that she served as NBC’s Today Show chief Washington correspondent. She wrote the book\, This is Judy Woodruff at the White House\, published in 1982 by Addison-Wesley. Her reporting career began in Atlanta\, Georgia\, where she covered state and local government. \nWoodruff is a founding co-chair of the International Women’s Media Foundation\, an organization dedicated to promoting and encouraging women in journalism and communication industries worldwide. She serves on the boards of trustee of the Freedom Forum\, The Duke Endowment and the Carnegie Corporation of New York\, and is a director of Public Radio International and the National Association to End Homelessness. She is a former member of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics\, a former director of the National Museum of American History and a former trustee of the Urban Institute. \nJudy is a graduate of Duke University\, where she is a trustee emerita. \nShe is the recent recipient of an Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award\, as well as the Radcliffe Medal\, the Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism\, the Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism from Arizona State University. \nShe is the recipient of more than 25 honorary degrees. \nJudy lives in Washington\, DC\, with her husband\, journalist Al Hunt\, and they are the parents of three children: Jeffrey\, Benjamin and Lauren.
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SUMMARY:"Sorry Snail" Author Talk with Tracy Subisak
DESCRIPTION:Program Description:\nCelebrate Social and Emotional Learning Day by joining us for a fantastic conversation with PBS Books National Director Heather-Marie Montilla and author and illustrator Tracy Subisak\, discussing her book Sorry\, Snail. This heartfelt children’s book showcases that everyone has feelings and helps to teach the importance of empathy. Join us for a fun conversation about a super-sweet book. No apology required. \nBook Description:\nAri is feeling angry. When she takes that anger out on an innocent snail\, the snail demands an apology! Which Ari gives\, half-heartedly. And that’s that. Until Ms. Snail and her friends appear in every corner of Ari’s life\, determined to elicit the most genuine apology from an increasingly regretful girl. \nGuest Biography:\nTracy Subisak\, Author and Illustrator\nTracy Subisak is the award-winning\, Taiwanese and Polish American author-illustrator of Sorry\, Snail and Jenny Mei Is Sad. She has illustrated many books including This Book is Not for You!\, by NYT bestselling author Shannon Hale and Amah Faraway by Margaret Chiu Greanais. Tracy currently lives in Taipei\, Taiwan with her husband\, her dog Lala\, and a copious amount of house plants. You can visit her online at tracysubisak.com and on Instagram at @tracysubisak.
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SUMMARY:"Housewife" Author Talk with Lisa Selin Davis
DESCRIPTION:Program Description:\nAs we celebrate Women’s History Month\, PBS Books National Director Heather-Marie Montilla is joined by journalist and author Lisa Selin Davis to chat about her latest book Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What To Do Instead. Lisa tackles the “myth” of the divide between breadwinners and homemakers. Examining working-women throughout history\, Lisa provides the roadmap for women to be empowered to choose the best path for themselves as they navigate balance in modern-day society.  \nBook Description:\nThe notion of “housewife” evokes strong reactions. For some\, it’s nostalgia for a bygone era\, simpler and better times when men were breadwinners and women remained home with the kids. For others\, it’s a sexist\, oppressive stereotype of women’s work. Either way\, housewife is a long outdated concept—or is it? \nLisa Selin Davis\, known for her smart\, viral\, feminist\, cultural takes\, argues that the “breadwinner vs. homemaker” divide is a myth. She charts examples from prehistoric female hunters to working class housewives in the 1930s\, from First Ladies to 21st century stay-at-home moms\, on a search for answers to the problems of what is referred to as women’s work and motherhood. Davis discovers that women have been sold a lie about what families should be. Housewife unveils a truth: interdependence\, rather than independence\, is the American way. \nThe book is a clarion call for all women—married or single\, mothers or childless—and for men\, too\, to push for liberation. In Housewife\, Davis builds a case for systemic\, cultural\, and personal change\, to encourage women to have the power to choose the best path for themselves. \nGuest Biography:\nLisa Selin Davis\, Author\nLisa Selin Davis is a critically-acclaimed essayist and journalist whose work has appeared in major publications\, include the New York Times\, the Wall Street Journal\, the Washington Post\, Time\, The Free Press\, and many others. She is the author of Tomboy\, as well as two novels. She lives in New York City with her family. \nVisit her website: https://www.lisaselindavis.com/
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SUMMARY:Ken Aptekar | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:This speaker event was recorded live on Tuesday\, February 13\, 2024 at 5:30 pm at the U-M Art Museum\, Ann Arbor\, MI. \nArtist Ken Aptekar toys with historical paintings by using the history of art as his playground. He time-travels works from the past into the present by his repainting joined to his own texts. Here’s the idea: Paintings are nothing on their own\, they start meaning something only when you start talking back to them. Aptekar turns this conviction into oil paintings on wood panels over which he bolts glass sandblasted with text. This idea animating his work extends to digital prints\, and more recently\, video\, and illuminated manuscripts. With words disrupting reinterpreted images from art history\, his works assert the value of recognizing our transhistorical bonds\, society’s vexing failings\, and art’s capacity to bring us together across our differences. \nAs COVID-19 swept into our lives\, Aptekar began new work on illuminated manuscripts. Holed up in a corner of the vaulted furnace room of his house in Burgundy\, France\, he worked with gouache\, tiny brushes\, gold leaf\, and calligraphy pen in his own ​“scriptorium.” He merged two very different types of communication; the exquisite\, labor-intensive techniques and forms seen in medieval pages hidden away in rare book rooms were pressed into the service of messages made minute to minute on cell phones. For his talk\, Aptekar will highlight the twists and turns in his shifting preoccupations that produced works at times disturbing\, contemplative\, and hilarious. \nLearn More>> \n\n\nThe Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series Spring 2024 Season\nThis spring\, the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series brings respected leaders and innovators from a broad spectrum of creative fields to Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater for weekly in-person events. \nDetroit Public Television and PBS Books\, in partnership with the Stamps School\, will stream each week’s event Fridays at 8pm. \nSee the full schedule of events livestreamed by PBS Books here. \nSome programs may not be available online\, depending on artist requests. Interested in receiving notifications before online videos go live? Sign up to receive a reminder before each event begins streaming. \nWatch Past Penny Stamps Episodes
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SUMMARY:Visions of America: African American Family Stories and Genealogy - Visiting the International African American Museum and Exploring Connections
DESCRIPTION:Visions of America HomeEpisodes \nProgram Description:\nUncovering African American Stories and Genealogy: Visiting the International African American Museum and Exploring Connections\, part of the VISIONS OF AMERICA: All Stories\, All People\, All Places series\, produced collaboratively by PBS Books and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The program is hosted by the National Director of PBS Books\, Heather-Marie Montilla\, and the IMLS Acting Director\, Cyndee Landrum. \nCelebrating lesser-known stories of African Americans\, IMLS Deputy Director of Museum Services Laura Huerta Migus begins our journey at the International African American Museum (IAAM) in Charleston\, South Carolina with the Museum’s President and CEO Dr. Tonya Matthews and the Museum’s Center for Family History’s Director Brian Sheffey. IAAM is a newly opened museum\, which tells the unvarnished stories of the African American experience.   \nAnthony Smith\, who is the Associate Deputy Director for Discretionary Grants for Libraries at IMLS and a hobbyist genealogist\, speaks with librarian and scholar Dr. LaVerne Gray\, who is an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University and the recipient of an IMLS grant supporting her project: Uncovering Black Lives Project: Investigating the information community and collections of African Americans Genealogists. We’ll investigate the connections and collectives that bring people together in community and how they contribute to the genealogical field.  \nGuest Biographies:\nTonya M. Matthews\, Ph.D. – President & CEO\, International African American Museum\nDr. Tonya M. Matthews is a thought-leader in social entrepreneurship\, institutional equity and inclusion strategy\, and the intersection of formal and informal education. Her background as both poet and engineer has made her a highly sought-after visioning partner on boards and community and economic development projects\, as well as a frequent public speaker and presenter for gatherings across all ages and sectors. \nRead More\nA non-profit executive veteran\, Dr. Matthews is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of the International African American Museum (IAAM) located in Charleston\, SC at the historically sacred site of Gadsden’s Wharf. Under Dr. Matthews’ leadership\, IAAM has become a champion of authentic\, empathetic storytelling of African American history and thus is one of the nation’s newest platforms for the disruption of institutionalized racism as America continues the walk toward “a more perfect union.” \nDr. Matthews brings her “pre-K through gray” philosophy of education alongside a deep respect for life-long learning and radical empathy skill building to every appointment. Dr. Matthews’ storied career includes her role as Associate Provost for Inclusive Workforce Development & Director of the STEM Innovation Learning Center at Wayne State University and\, prior to that\, as the President & CEO of the Michigan Science Center – flexing her science and STEM educational equity chops in both roles. She is the founder of The STEMinista Project\, a movement to engage girls in their future with STEM careers and tools and STEMinista Rising\, which supports professional women in STEM – and the colleagues who champion them. \nDr. Matthews’ dedication to community and accomplishments are widely recognized. She has been noted as one of the Charleston’s Most Influential by Charleston Business Magazine twice and honored as Trailblazer by Career Mastered Magazine (2017). She is a former member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Science Education and was appointed by both Democratic and Republican administrations to the National Assessment Governing Board. She has authored several articles and book chapters on inclusive board governance\, non-profit management\, and fundraising. Dr. Matthews is a published poet and is included in 100 Best African American Poems (2010) edited by Nikki Giovanni. She has also been honored with an honorary doctorate from Central Michigan University for her career achievements and contributions. \nDr. Matthews received her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University and her B.S.E. in biomedical and electrical engineering from Duke University\, alongside a certificate in African/African American Studies. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority\, Inc. and The Links\, Inc. Dr. Matthews is a native of Washington\, D.C. and – in each community she has settled – is known for planting roots on the side of town best for keeping an eye on progress. \nLaVerne Gray\, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor\nLaVerne Gray comes to the iSchool after recently completing her PhD in the College of Communication and Information at the University of Tennessee\, Knoxville. Her dissertation\, “In a Collective Voice: Uncovering the Black Feminist Information Community of Activist-Mothers in Chicago Public Housing\, 1955-1970\,” explores Black feminist agency in community development within constructed urban spaces. \nRead More\nThe study employs qualitative analyses of archival documents\, to reveal a Black Feminist Information Community(BFIC) framework. Her research was supported through the 2017 Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) Fellowship\, where she used archives throughout the city of Chicago to explore evidence for her research. \nUsing Critical Race and Black Feminist perspectives\, LaVerne Gray’s research explores information location and value in marginal community spaces. She is keenly interested in African-American historical information collectives and archival-evidence analysis. \nBrian Sheffey – Director of the Center for Family History at the International African American History Museum\nBrian Sheffey is the Director of the Center for Family History at the International African American History Museum in Charleston\, South Carolina. He is the host of the popular African American genealogy\, culture\, and history television series Genealogy Adventures\, which he presents with Donya Williams on e360tv. \nRead More\nHis research areas have focused on the U.S. regions east of the Mississippi River\, including the northern British American Colonies. He has particular expertise in researching enslaved people and enslaved communities in the early British American colonial era. \nIn 2023\, he was hired by the University of Virginia Foundation to research and find the descendants of the enslaved community held at William Garth’s Birdwood Plantation in Charlottesville\, Virginia. He has also spent the past few years researching the ancestry of communities of enslaved people held by the Bull\, Butler\, Middleton\, Brewerton\, and Guerard families in South Carolina. \nBrian is the author of two award-winning Amazon Top 10 selling genealogy books: “Practical Genealogy: 50 Simple Steps to Research Your Diverse Family History” and “Family Tree Workbook: 30+ Step-by-Step Worksheets to Build Your Family History.” \nAnthony D. Smith – Associate Deputy Director for Discretionary Grants\, Office of Library Services\, at the Institute of Museum and Library Services\nAnthony D. Smith is the Associate Deputy Director for Discretionary Grants\, within the Office of Library Services\, at the Institute of Museum and Library Services. \nRead More\nIn his role\, Anthony has oversight and management responsibilities for the National Leadership Grants for Libraries\, Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program\, Native American Library Services Basic and Enhancement Grants\, Native American Library Services Enhancement Grants\, and the Native Hawaiian Library Services Grant program. He has worked in the Federal government since 2010\, serving in various roles supporting national library programs. Anthony began his library career in 1995 after a 10-year career in the U.S. Navy. He joined the University of Tennessee Library Systems team\, where his work involved replacing “dumb terminals” with new desktop computers and providing maintenance support for library staff. During his time at the University of Tennessee\, Knoxville\, he would earn his master’s in library and information science. This led to a tenure-track position as the digital initiatives’ librarian and then coordinator\, overseeing the establishment and operation of the Digital Library Center.  Mentoring and teaching factored heavily into Anthony earning tenure in 2006. In addition to teaching graduate courses in digital librarianship\, he also traveled to Makerere University in Uganda to teach digital library skills for library staff.  Continuing to build on his professional skillset\, Anthony applied to ARLs Leadership Career Development Program (LCDP) and was accepted in the class of 2007-08. “It was a pivotal career moment for me and opened a number of career doors\,” says Anthony. In 2007\, Anthony accepted an associate university librarian role at the University of Miami\, as the director for digital services. Through his work at UM and his previous experience teaching abroad\, he was invited to teach digital asset management and digital preservation courses for UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (OOC) in Oostende\, Belgium. His work for the OOC occurred between 2009 – 2012 and is an experience he considers the most rewarding work of his career. Anthony would leave UM in 2010\, accepting the role of Senior Program Officer for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).  Serving as a program officer for the National Leadership Grant program\, he was able to help shape the national agenda for libraries. He also successfully led the development of an early learning grant program designed to ensure that libraries were poised to support early reading skills. In 2013\, Anthony joined the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) at the Government Publishing Office and was appointed as the Director of Projects and Systems. In this role\, he led a team responsible for the development\, implementation\, and maintenance of systems to support over 1100 member libraries throughout the United States and its territories. In addition\, he oversaw web harvesting activities and the program management office. In 2020\, he would return to IMLS as the Associate Deputy Director for all library discretionary grant programs. “I don’t think I would change a thing if I got a chance to do all over again\,” says Anthony. “I have been positioned in a way throughout my career where I could do for others\, which is priceless.” \nLaura Huerta Migus – Deputy Director for Museum Services\nLaura Huerta Migus was appointed Deputy Director of the Office of Museum Services in July 2021. She came to IMLS following her tenure as executive director of the Association of Children’s Museums (ACM) in Arlington\, Virginia\, the world’s largest professional society promoting and advocating on behalf of children’s museums and children’s museum professionals. \nRead More\nThroughout her career\, Huerta Migus has been devoted to the growth and education of children\, particularly those from underserved and under-resourced communities. Under her leadership\, ACM pursued innovative and effective partnerships to leverage the power of children’s museums worldwide. \nIn 2018\, Huerta Migus was named as an Ascend Fellow of the Aspen Institute\, and in 2016\, she was recognized as a Champion of Change for Summer Opportunity by the White House. She is a noted speaker and author on topics of equity and audience-focused museum practice for institutions including the Board of Science Education of the National Academies of Sciences\, the U.S. Play Coalition\, and various university texts. \nPreviously\, she served as the director of professional development and equity initiatives at the Association of Science-Technology Centers\, Inc.\, has published articles in peer-reviewed texts\, and served as principal investigator on numerous informal learning initiatives. \nSince joining IMLS\, Huerta Migus has helped the agency establish the American Latino Museum Internship and Fellowship Initiative (ALMIFI). This initiative is designed to strengthen the institutional capacity of American Latino museums\, provide paid internship and fellowship opportunities for a diverse range of students\, and build connections between colleges\, universities\, and museums. \nShe also worked closely with IMLS’ Office of Research and Evaluation to successfully launch the first National Museum Survey (NMS)\, which will capture the scope and scale of museums’ presence and reach within the U.S. over time. Once mature\, the survey will collect foundational\, high-level data directly from museums to inform policymakers\, the museum field\, and the public about the social\, cultural\, educational\, and economic roles that the nation’s diverse museums play in American society. \nHuerta Migus holds a bachelor’s degree in Spanish from Texas A&M University and a master’s degree in organization development and leadership from Saint Joseph’s University. \nCyndee Landrum – Deputy Director for Library Services\nCyndee Landrum was appointed as the Deputy Director of the Office of Library Services in June 2019. In her current role she collaborates with IMLS’s senior leadership to support agency priorities\, policy\, and partnerships\, and provide leadership and direction for the library grant programs. \nRead More\nLandrum oversees the agency’s largest program\, Grants to States\, which is the primary source of federal funding for library services in the United States\, and the agency’s discretionary grant programs\, including National Leadership Grants for Libraries\, the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian program\, Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services\, and the newest library grant initiative\, Accelerating Promising Practices for Small Libraries. \nOver a professional career of more than 20 years\, Landrum has served in public libraries across the country. Prior to her IMLS appointment\, she served as CEO-director of the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library in Indiana. She also served as assistant director for public services at Oak Park Library in Illinois\, assistant director of Mt. Lebanon Public Library in Pittsburgh\, and held various positions at the Glendale Public Library in Arizona. She has been active in local\, state\, and national professional associations including serving as president of the Arizona Library Association. Landrum also has volunteered on local nonprofit and municipal boards\, including the Evansville Promise Zone Governance Advisory Board. \nLandrum holds a bachelor’s degree in linguistics from Northwestern University\, a master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Southern Mississippi\, and is a doctoral candidate in the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons University.
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SUMMARY:PBS Books Readers Club - Henry Louis Gates\, Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Readers Club HomeEpisodes \nJoin the PBS Books Readers Club as we sit down with author\, scholar\, and filmmaker Henry Louis Gates\, Jr. for a deeper look at the stories and inspirations behind his bestselling book The Black Church: This Is Our Story\, This Is Our Song. Prof. Gates guides us through the roots of the Black church and its importance as a foundation of American identity. Prof. Gates also explores over a century of Black spirituality through sermon & song in his newest PBS series Gospel\, discusses the long-buried secrets that are brought to life in his hit PBS series Finding Your Roots\, and teases his soon-to-be-released book The Black Box: Writing The Race. \nGet the E-BookDonate and get your e-book copy. \nThe Black Church\nFor the young Henry Louis Gates\, Jr.\, growing up in a small\, residentially segregated West Virginia town\, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life’s blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America\, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries\, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end\, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood\, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy\, as a magnet for political mobilization\, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture\, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues. \nIn a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces\, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery\, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all\, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery’s formal eradication\, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued\, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn’t even past—Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston\, South Carolina\, following a thwarted slave rebellion. \nBut as Gates brilliantly shows\, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle\, and it has produced many of the Black community’s most notable leaders. At the same time\, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today\, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities\, regardless of race\, sex\, or gender. Still\, as a source of faith and refuge\, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society’s darkest forces\, the Black Church has been central\, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear. \nGet the E-BookDonate and get your e-book copy on March 19. \nThe Black Box\nDistilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates\, Jr.’s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies\, THE BLACK BOX: Writing the Race\, is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way. From Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass\, W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington\, to Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright\, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison—these writers used words to create a livable world—a “home” —for Black people destined to live out their lives in a bitterly racist society. \nIt is a book grounded in the beautiful irony that a community formed legally and conceptually by its oppressors to justify brutal sub-human bondage\, transformed itself through the word into a community whose foundational definition was based on overcoming one of history’s most pernicious lies. This collective act of resistance and transcendence is at the heart of its self-definition as a “community.” Out of that contested ground has flowered a resilient\, creative\, powerful\, diverse culture formed by people who have often disagreed markedly about what it means to be “Black\,” and about how best to shape a usable past out of the materials at hand to call into being a more just and equitable future. \nThis is the epic story of how\, through essays and speeches\, novels\, plays\, and poems\, a long line of creative thinkers has unveiled the contours of—and resisted confinement in—the “black box” inside which this “nation within a nation” has been assigned\, willy nilly\, from the nation’s founding through to today. This is a book that records the compelling saga of the creation of a people. \nFinding Your Roots\nFINDING YOUR ROOTS with Henry Louis Gates\, Jr. returns for its 10th season on PBS. Over the course of ten new episodes\, Gates and his team use genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis to trace the family trees of well-known personalities\, telling stories that illuminate America’s shared past and fundamental diversity. With each turn of the page in their “book of life”\, Gates reveals to his guests the long-buried secrets\, hidden identities\, and lost ancestors who have laid the groundwork for their success. In learning the emotional and sometimes complex narratives of their ancestry\, each guest achieves a deeper understanding of history\, family\, and belonging. What’s more\, this new season features some special guests— drawn from the audience. Following a nation-wide casting call\, three viewers were selected to join the line-up of celebrities and sit down with Gates to solve a family mystery and discover what lies hidden in their own roots. \nGOSPEL\nFollowing the blockbuster success of THE BLACK CHURCH: THIS IS OUR STORY\, THIS IS OUR SONG\, a new. series\, GOSPEL\, from acclaimed scholar Henry Louis Gates\, Jr. explores Black spirituality through sermon and song. From the blues to hip-hop\, African Americans have been the driving force of sonic innovation for over a century. But\, while musical styles come and go\, there is one sound that has been a constant source of strength\, courage\, and wisdom. It is a message that resounds from the pulpit to the choir lofts on any given Sunday — one of good news in bad times: gospel. \nOver the course of four episodes\, GOSPEL digs deep into the origin story of Black gospel music that blended the sacred spirituals with the blues tradition and soared to new heights during the Great Migration. Since the time of the sorrow songs\, Black sacred music was a cathartic and confidential way to communicate the anger and frustration of living as a Black person in America. Even in the 21st century\, gospel continues to evolve and remains a source of cultural affirmation and sustenance\, bringing an enduring tradition into the future. The series also traces how preaching styles evolved from the musical “whoopers\,” to the slick TV-ready lectures of megachurch pastors. In addition\, the documentary explores how class\, gender\, cultural innovations and consumer technologies — such as records\, radio\, television and the internet — shaped the development of Black preaching and gospel over the centuries. \nGuest Biography:\nHenry Louis Gates Jr.\nAward-winning filmmaker\, literary scholar\, journalist\, cultural critic\, and institution builder\nHenry Louis Gates\, Jr.\, is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. An award-winning filmmaker\, literary scholar\, journalist\, cultural critic\, and institution builder\, Professor Gates has authored or coauthored more than twenty books\, including Stony the Road\, The Black Church\, and The Black Box\, and created more than twenty documentary films\, including his groundbreaking genealogy series Finding Your Roots. \nHis six-part PBS documentary\, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross\, earned an Emmy Award\, a Peabody Award\, and an NAACP Image Award. This series and his PBS documentary series Reconstruction: America after the Civil War were both honored with the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. \nReaders Club Hosts:\nHeather Marie Montilla\nHeather-Marie Montilla\, a dynamic integrative leader\, is an educator and nonprofit manager. She has worked in the nonprofit sector and libraries for over two decades\, making a positive impact in arts\, cultural\, educational\, and community-building arenas. \nHaving joined the PBS Books team as their Library Bureau Chief in Fall 2018\, Montilla is now the National Director of PBS Books and has interviewed more than 150 writers. In addition\, she is a faculty member at Michigan State University and Eastern Michigan University for their Arts and Cultural/Entertainment Management Programs. Having been an Executive Director for 8 years\, Heather has a wide range of experience in management\, finance\, strategic planning\, marketing\, and fundraising. Heather holds a MPA From Columbia University\, a MLIS from Wayne State University\, and a bachelor’s from Duke University. She lives in Chicagoland\, and is married with four children\, a dog\, and a bird. \nPrincess Weekes\nPrincess Weekes is an award winning writer and video essayist who works at breaking down the intersections between race\, gender\, and pop culture. Formally an Assistant Editor at The Mary Sue\, co-host of Netflix’s The Geeked Podcast\, and co-host and co-writer on the PBS Digital Series It’s Lit. On weekends she works as a bookseller at a local bookstore. When not reading or writing she can be found playing TTRPGs of cuddling with her cat\, Lola. \nLauren Smith\nExecutive Producer and host of national PBS programming at Detroit Public TV\, Lauren develops content for PBS and other distributors of public media for broadcast\, streaming\, and other digital channels and has executive-produced and/or produced over 60 national broadcast and programs. Her passion is to develop inspiring\, entertaining\, and educational content alongside the best national and international talent\, and to engage important content with communities across the country. Lauren loves to read and has worked to develop and produce PBS Books content for nearly ten years! \nFred Nahhat \nFred Nahhat is an Emmy Award-winning producer\, host\, and presenter for Detroit’s PBS station\, where he serves as Sr. VP of Production. A 30-year broadcast veteran\, Fred has hosted and produced numerous programs for Public TV – including music specials from Il Volo\, Celtic Gold and the New Divas – as well as other series and specials “New Year’s Eve with the DSO”\, “The Detroit Dream Cruise\,” “The PBS Books Readers Club” and “Get Up\, Get Out\,” among others. \nHe is a graduate of Wayne State University and a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Michigan Chapter\, USA Hockey\, and Leadership Detroit.
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SUMMARY:Kelli Anderson | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:This speaker event was recorded live on Thursday\, February 15\, 2024 at 5:30 pm in the Michigan Theater\, Ann Arbor\, MI. \nKelli Anderson has found that design — and paper engineering in particular — enables one to find possibility hiding in plain view in our world. Interactions with even the most ubiquitous\, low-tech materials can reveal amazing facets of our reality. This is because these radically minimalist structures still behave in concert with the physical and social forces which structure our world. With no hidden parts\, humble paper can act as a direct interface on sound\, light\, and time; making these abstractions tangible and accessible\, in a way that more black-box tech obscures. It can show us what it means to be human. \nKelli Anderson is an artist\, designer and paper engineer who pushes the boundaries of ordinary materials and formats by seeking out hidden possibilities in the physical and digital world. In 2008\, she worked as part of a team to distribute a recreated copy of The New York Times — filled entirely with articles from a Utopian future. The group won the Ars Electronica Prix Award of Distinction for their work. In 2011\, she created a paper record player that garnered major attention from numerous media outlets including Mashable\, Kottke\, Slashdot\, Make\, PCWorld\, Swiss Miss\, Wired\, the Toronto Star\, and NPR. Her work has been published by Wired UK\, Gestalten\, Rockport Publishing\, iDN\, How Design Magazine\, and Hemispheres Magazine. In 2011\, she left her position as a digital collections photographer at the American Museum of Natural History to focus on independent work. Her live/​work space houses a 1919 letterpress and ​“an assortment of other benevolent contraptions.” \nLearn More>> \n\n\nThe Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series Spring 2024 Season\nThis spring\, the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series brings respected leaders and innovators from a broad spectrum of creative fields to Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater for weekly in-person events. \nDetroit Public Television and PBS Books\, in partnership with the Stamps School\, will stream each week’s event Fridays at 8pm. \nSee the full schedule of events livestreamed by PBS Books here. \nSome programs may not be available online\, depending on artist requests. Interested in receiving notifications before online videos go live? Sign up to receive a reminder before each event begins streaming. \nWatch Past Penny Stamps Episodes
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/kelli-anderson-penny-stamps-distinguished-speaker-series/
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SUMMARY:Nkeiru Okoye | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:This speaker event was recorded live on Thursday\, February 8\, 2024 at 5:30 pm in the Michigan Theater\, Ann Arbor\, MI. \nNkeiru Okoye is an American-born composer of African American and Nigerian ancestry. After studying composition\, music theory\, piano\, conducting\, and Africana Studies at Oberlin Conservatory\, she pursued graduate studies at Rutgers University and became one of the leading African American women composers. An activist through the arts\, Okoye creates a body of work that welcomes and affirms both traditional and new audiences. \nNkeiru Okoye’s new commission When the Caged Bird Sings premieres on Saturday\, February 10\, 2024 at 7:30 PM at UM’s Hill Auditorium\, as a collaboration between UMS and the U‑M School of Music\, Theatre & Dance. When the Caged Bird Sings fuses elements of oratorio\, theater\, and opera in a multi-movement musical ceremony\, which Okoye describes as ​“a gathering” that invokes the ritual of the concert experience as a ritual of community. Drawing inspiration from the Black church\, it celebrates the spirit of rising above expectations and transforming adversity into triumph. Partly in tribute to the activist and poet laureate Maya Angelou\, the work celebrates the transformative ability of Black women\, commemorating those who have paved a path for future generations in many fields of human endeavor. \nLearn More>> \n\n\nThe Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series Spring 2024 Season\nThis spring\, the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series brings respected leaders and innovators from a broad spectrum of creative fields to Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater for weekly in-person events. \nDetroit Public Television and PBS Books\, in partnership with the Stamps School\, will stream each week’s event Fridays at 8pm. \nSee the full schedule of events livestreamed by PBS Books here. \nSome programs may not be available online\, depending on artist requests. Interested in receiving notifications before online videos go live? Sign up to receive a reminder before each event begins streaming. \nWatch Past Penny Stamps Episodes
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/nkeiru-okoye-penny-stamps-distinguished-speaker-series/
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SUMMARY:Author Talk with Cheryl Wills
DESCRIPTION:Program Description:\nPBS Books host Heather-Marie Montilla sits down with author and journalist Cheryl Wills to discuss her book Isn’t Her Grace Amazing! The Women Who Changed Gospel Music. Join us as Cheryl reflects on her inspiration and motivation behind this stunning portrayal of these legendary women\, with powerful accounts of their resilience and strength in their words. We’ll explore the books’ gorgeous photographs of these dynamic women\, which capture their importance and prominence\, and hear more about the stories behind these icons of the gospel and why their timeless messages have held strong for generations. \nBook Description:\nNothing in the world soothes the soul better than Gospel music. From the foot-stomping\, hand-clapping melodies of yesterday to the head-bobbing\, bass-thumping hits of today\, Gospel music ignites the spirit and delivers the inspiration that takes us from the rough side of the mountain to the peak of God’s love and grace. That feeling of joy\, peace\, love\, and contentment is amplified when it’s ringing through the voice of a sister who can SANG\, Cheryl Wills reminds us. The remedy for a tough day at work can be alleviated with Mary Mary’s uplifting jam Shackles\, the answer to your heart’s desires can be found in the harmonies of The Clark Sisters Name It\, Claim It\, and if you need a reminder of God’s love\, there is nothing more timeless that Aretha Franklin’s stirring rendition of Amazing Grace. \nSome talented performers\, like Sister Rosetta Tharpe have faded from history\, while singers like Yolanda Adams are at the top of her game. During the twentieth century\, Willie Mae Ford spent most of her life encouraging and uplifting Christians both in church and on stage and composed more than 100 Gospel songs\, yet it was men like her co-writer\, Thomas A. Dorsey\, who received the accolades and fame. Many women in the Gospel music industry go unnoticed\, unpaid\, and under-appreciated for their contributions\, yet it is these women who are often the bedrock for songwriting\, arranging\, directing\, and developing singers. \nCheryl Wills\, the granddaughter of a Gospel singer\, at last shines a spotlight on these spectacular women of song. The only book of its kind\, Isn’t Her Grace Amazing! showcase the talents\, gifts\, and skills of women in the Gospel music industry. It celebrates these heroines\, chronicles their journeys from the choir loft to the world’s largest stages\, and reveals how they revolutionized this sacred music that is beloved worldwide. From the matriarchs of this movement to today’s chart-topping divas\, Wills offers in-depth portraits of twenty-five amazing women of Gospel music–based on interviews and extensive research–behind-the-scenes stories of favorite gospel hits\, and illuminates what makes each of them shine. \nGuest Biography:\nCheryl Wills is a veteran journalist with Spectrum News NY1. The Emmy Award winning reporter and author has written a series of books about her enslaved great-grandfather who was a Union Soldier during The Civil War. Cheryl has interviewed some of the most influential figures in the world\, including the first woman president of Africa: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon and the late great writer and activist Maya Angelou. \nShe lives in New York City. For more than a decade she was the host of the Essence Festival’s All-Star Gospel Tribute\, a standing room only event that has honored Cissy Houston\, Kim Burrell\, Yolanda Adams\, Kirk Franklin\, Mary Mary\, Bishop T.D. Jakes\, Dorinda Clark-Cole among many others.
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SUMMARY:Soheap Pich | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:This speaker event was recorded live on Thursday\, February 1\, 2024 at 5:30 pm in the Michigan Theater\, Ann Arbor\, MI. \nSopheap Pich is widely considered to be Cambodia’s most internationally prominent contemporary artist. In 1979\, when the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia led to the ousting of the Khmer Rouge régime\, he fled with his family to Thailand\, spending four years in refugee camps before immigrating to the United States. Memories of traveling vast distances on foot and witnessing the devastation of war — broken bodies\, ravaged landscapes\, abandoned artillery\, ruined buildings\, and the breakdown of social and cultural institutions — underpin his early sculptural practice. While Pich studied painting\, earning a BFA from the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst (1995)\, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1999)\, he turned his attention to sculpture after returning to Cambodia in 2002 where he laboriously began working with local materials – bamboo\, old rafters\, rattan\, burlap\, beeswax\, broken utensils\, and earth pigments gathered from his local surroundings. Pich’s works have been collected and shown in many museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the Guggenheim\, the Centre George Pompidou\, the Mori Art Museum\, M+\, and the National Gallery of Singapore\, as well as many international exhibitions including the 57th Venice Biennale (2017)\, Documenta 13 (2012)\, the 6th Asia Pacific Triennale (2009)\, the Setouchi Triennale (2022)\, and the Guangju Biennale (2023)\, among others. He lives and works in Phnom Penh\, Cambodia. \nLearn More>> \n\n\nThe Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series Spring 2024 Season\nThis spring\, the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series brings respected leaders and innovators from a broad spectrum of creative fields to Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater for weekly in-person events. \nDetroit Public Television and PBS Books\, in partnership with the Stamps School\, will stream each week’s event Fridays at 8pm. \nSee the full schedule of events livestreamed by PBS Books here. \nSome programs may not be available online\, depending on artist requests. Interested in receiving notifications before online videos go live? Sign up to receive a reminder before each event begins streaming. \nWatch Past Penny Stamps Episodes
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SUMMARY:PBS Books Readers Club - Horse and All Creatures Great & Small
DESCRIPTION:Readers Club HomeEpisodes \nJoin the PBS Books Readers Club hosts Fred\, Lauren\, Heather\, and Princess as they sit down with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Geraldine Books to discuss her bestselling novel HORSE. We’ll talk with Geraldine about the captivating relationship between horse and human\, her process when writing this novel\, and get to know more about her life off the pages. With the not to miss season 4 of All Creatures Great & Small finally here\, we sit down with the new Executive Producer\, Jamie Crichton\, to get an inside look on what’s in store for our beloved charters\, learn about adapting these treasured tails from Darrowby\, and learn about life on set of the MASTERPIECE favorite. \nGet the BookGrab a copy using our Bookshop link. \nGuest Biographies:\nGeraldine Brooks\, Author of Horse\nGeraldine Brooks is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel March and the international bestsellers The Secret Chord\, Caleb’s Crossing\, People of the Book\, and Year of Wonders (recently optioned by Olivia Colman). She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Brooks started out as a reporter in her hometown\, Sydney\, and went on to cover conflicts as a Wall Street Journal correspondent in Bosnia\, Somalia\, and the Middle East. Brooks lives in Martha’s Vineyard\, Massachusetts with her sons; her horses\, Valentine and Screaming Hot Wings; and a dog named Bear. \nJames Crichton\, Executive Producer and Lead Writer of Season 4 of All Creatures Great and Small \nJamie is currently Lead Writer and Executive Producer on Series 4 of All Creatures Great & Small (Playground / Channel 5 / PBS Masterpiece). His previous work includes Three Pines (Left Bank / Amazon)\, The Last Kingdom (Carnival / Netflix)\, Grantchester (Kudos / ITV / PBS Masterpiece)\, The Tunnel (Kudos / Sky Atlantic)\, Law & Order: UK (Kudos / ITV) and Ripper Street (Tiger Aspect / BBC). \nHis crime thriller Bogland won the Grand Prize in the American Screenwriters Association International Screenwriting Competition. Prior to becoming a writer Jamie was Head of Development at Really Useful Films\, where he sourced and developed new ideas and writers\, as well as managing and script editing the development slate. \nHis original feature screenplay The Dahls (Raw Film & TV)\, is in development with Pathé\, and he has adapted Belinda Bauer’s Rubbernecker (Film Cymru Wales) and Michael Morpurgo’s The Butterfly Lion. \nReaders Club Hosts:\nHeather Marie Montilla\nHeather-Marie Montilla\, a dynamic integrative leader\, is an educator and nonprofit manager. She has worked in the nonprofit sector and libraries for over two decades\, making a positive impact in arts\, cultural\, educational\, and community-building arenas. \nHaving joined the PBS Books team as their Library Bureau Chief in Fall 2018\, Montilla is now the National Director of PBS Books and has interviewed more than 150 writers. In addition\, she is a faculty member at Michigan State University and Eastern Michigan University for their Arts and Cultural/Entertainment Management Programs. Having been an Executive Director for 8 years\, Heather has a wide range of experience in management\, finance\, strategic planning\, marketing\, and fundraising. Heather holds a MPA From Columbia University\, a MLIS from Wayne State University\, and a bachelor’s from Duke University. She lives in Chicagoland\, and is married with four children\, a dog\, and a bird. \nPrincess Weekes\nPrincess Weekes is an award winning writer and video essayist who works at breaking down the intersections between race\, gender\, and pop culture. Formally an Assistant Editor at The Mary Sue\, co-host of Netflix’s The Geeked Podcast\, and co-host and co-writer on the PBS Digital Series It’s Lit. On weekends she works as a bookseller at a local bookstore. When not reading or writing she can be found playing TTRPGs of cuddling with her cat\, Lola. \nLauren Smith\nExecutive Producer and host of national PBS programming at Detroit Public TV\, Lauren develops content for PBS and other distributors of public media for broadcast\, streaming\, and other digital channels and has executive-produced and/or produced over 60 national broadcast and programs. Her passion is to develop inspiring\, entertaining\, and educational content alongside the best national and international talent\, and to engage important content with communities across the country. Lauren loves to read and has worked to develop and produce PBS Books content for nearly ten years! \nFred Nahhat \nFred Nahhat is an Emmy Award-winning producer\, host\, and presenter for Detroit’s PBS station\, where he serves as Sr. VP of Production. A 30-year broadcast veteran\, Fred has hosted and produced numerous programs for Public TV – including music specials from Il Volo\, Celtic Gold and the New Divas – as well as other series and specials “New Year’s Eve with the DSO”\, “The Detroit Dream Cruise\,” “The PBS Books Readers Club” and “Get Up\, Get Out\,” among others. \nHe is a graduate of Wayne State University and a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Michigan Chapter\, USA Hockey\, and Leadership Detroit.
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SUMMARY:Author Talk with Yolanda Renee King - We Dream A World
DESCRIPTION:Program Description:\nAs we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr Day\, PBS Books invites you to hear from the next generation that is building on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King. Heather-Marie Montilla sits down with Author Yolanda Renee King and Illustrator Nicole Tadgell to discuss Miss King’s debut book Carrying the Light from My Grandparents Martin Luther King\, Jr. and Coretta Scott King: We Dream a World. In We Dream A World\, Yolanda Renee King discusses her family legacy and her vision for the future of young change-makers\, while Nicole Tadgell reflects upon the creation of her remarkable imagery that brings the author’s words to life. \nBook Description:\nA stirring picture book tribute to Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, authored by their only grandchild\, Yolanda Renee King\, with illustrations by award-winning artist Nicole Tadgell\, WE DREAM A WORLD: Carrying the Light from My Grandparents\, Martin Luther King Jr.\, and Coretta Scott King (On sale January 2\, 2024; Ages 4-8; Orchard Books/Scholastic) serves as a grandchild’s gift to her grandparents – and the world. \nInspired by her family’s legacy of national civil rights advocacy\, Yolanda Renee King is leading a new generation of modern activists. Though the 15-year-old never met her grandfather\, she has galvanized countless young people to stand up and speak out on a range of issues affecting the world today – racial equality\, gun violence\, climate change\, poverty\, education\, and more. Her new book\, a call for unity and equality\, is inspired by Langston Hughes’s seminal poem I Dream A World. The book’s narrative expresses Yolanda’s deep love for her grandparents\, while also speaking to children everywhere about her hopes for a new future\, as expressed through her call-and-response affirmation that brings thunderous participation at her public speeches and addresses: “Spread the word! Have you heard? All across the nation\, we are going to be a great generation!” \nIn WE DREAM A WORLD\, Yolanda Renee King shows the world that young people are strong enough to carry on their elders’ legacy while creating a new path for themselves. Her words are meaningful and universal\, and will embolden and inspire the next generation of change-makers In a statement\, Yolanda Renee King said about WE DREAM A WORLD\, “I’m very pleased to join Scholastic for my book publishing debut. On my grandfather’s 95th birthday\, I’m excited to share this love letter in his honor. This book lets every child rediscover my grandparents’ dream.” \nGuest Biographies:\nYolanda Renee King never met her grandfather\, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But the young leader is one of the countless activists inspired by his actions. Yolanda was born and raised in the state of Georgia to parents\, Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King. She grew up in the city of Atlanta. She was named after her aunt\, Yolanda King. She is the first and only grandchild of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. \nDr. King and his wife Coretta helped change the course of history by spreading a message of equality for all people\, regardless of their race or color. Inspired by the path set by her grandparents\, Yolanda is trailblazing her own way forward. \nNicole Tadgell is an award-winning watercolor artist whose work spans more than 30 luminous picture books for children. Known for creating realistic yet whimsical characters and scenes\, Nicole’s work has been honored by the Kansas Notable Book Award\, the Christopher Award\, the Children’s Africana Book Award\, the Américas Award\, the Arkansas Diamond Primary Book Award\, and the Growing Good Kids Award. \nHer books have been featured by the Bank Street Best College of Education\, the Smithsonian Notable Books for Children\, the Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choices Annual List\, New York Public Library’s Best 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing\, Eastern Washington University Excellent Choice\, Maine’s A Capital Read\, and the Rutgers University Top 5. \nBorn in Detroit\, Michigan\, art has always been both an escape and a labor of love for Nicole. Frequent moves challenged her natural shyness\, especially in new schools where she was the only black kid in class. “I always had pencils and paper nearby. It helped me make sense of the world around me or create imaginary worlds to live in for a while\,” she says. Today\, Nicole continues to bring stories to life while advocating for diversity in children’s literature. \nIn addition to her artwork\, she finds beauty\, strength and solace in the practice of tai chi\, which has led her through trauma and recovery\, and into spiritual awakening. A former resident of Massachusetts\, Nicole recently moved to Chesapeake\, Virginia. She speaks and leads workshops at elementary schools\, libraries\, bookstores\, and art classes for people of all ages. She is also an advertising agency art director with more than two decades’ experience in graphic design.
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SUMMARY:What to Read in 2024 with Booklist Reader
DESCRIPTION:Program Description:\nIf you are struggling to find that next great read\, this episode of PBS Books sits down with Booklist Reader experts to explore some of the not to miss books of 2024!  The American Library Association’s Booklist Reader is a library patron–facing magazine featuring diverse readers’ advisory recommendations for readers of all ages. During this program\, the editors describe their top choices in various genres–adult\, audio\, graphic novels\, young adult\, and youth of all ages. \nLearn more about this amazing publication and the most anticipated books for 2024. Booklist Reader aspires to extend and expand library services in America and around the world\, raising awareness about diverse books. Since 1905\, Booklist has been publishing pre-publication book reviews or reviews of books before they’re available for purchase\, as well as reader advisory materials\, author interviews\, special collections for library workers and reviews on special content. In this program\, you can learn from all of their extraordinary expertise. \nWhat to Read in 2024Adult\nThe Backyard Bird Chronicles\nThe Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan \nTracking the natural beauty that surrounds us\, The Backyard Bird Chronicles maps the passage of time through daily entries\, thoughtful questions\, and beautiful original sketches. With boundless charm and wit\, author Amy Tan charts her foray into birding and the natural wonders of the world. \nThe Black Box: Writing the Race\nThe Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates Jr. \nA magnificent\, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves\, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other\, over the course of the country’s history. \nThere’s Always This Year\nThere’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib \nA Growing up in Columbus\, Ohio\, in the 1990s\, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball\, one in which legends like LeBron James were forged and countless others weren’t. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical\, historical\, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it\, who we think deserves success\, the tension between excellence and expectation\, and the very notion of role models\, all of which he expertly weaves together with intimate\, personal storytelling. \nBurma Sahib\nBurma Sahib by Paul Theroux \nFrom the acclaimed author of THE MOSQUITO COAST and THE BAD ANGEL BROTHERS comes a riveting new novel exploring one of English literature’s most beloved and controversial figures—George Orwell—and the early years as an officer in colonial Burma that transformed him from Eric Blair\, the British Raj policeman\, into Orwell the anticolonial writer. \nFourteen Days\nFourteen Days Ed. by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston \nSet in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns\, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild\, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse\, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different\, major literary voice—from Margaret Atwood and Celeste Ng to Tommy Orange and John Grisham. \nThe Great Divide\nThe Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez \nAn epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal\, casting light on the unsung people who lived\, loved\, and labored there\, by Cristina Henríquez\, acclaimed author of THE BOOK OF UNKNOWN AMERICANS. \nThis Could Be Us\nThis Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan \nSoledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because\, of course\, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She’s a domestic goddess who’s never met a party she couldn’t host or a charge she couldn’t lead. The one with all the answers and the perfect vinaigrette for that summer salad. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes\, and the life she built with the man who was supposed to be her forever\, goes poof in a cloud of betrayal and disillusion. \nSweetness in the Skin\nSweetness in the Skin by Ishi Robinson \nA winning debut novel about a young teenage girl in Jamaica determined to bake her way out of her dysfunctional family and into the opportunity of a lifetime. \nRiver Mumma\nRiver Mumma by Zalika Reid-Benta \nIssa Rae’s INSECURE with a magical realist spin: RIVER MUMMA is an exhilarating contemporary fantasy novel about a young Black woman who navigates her quarter-life-crisis while embarking on a mythical quest through the streets of Toronto. \nThe Kamogawa Food Detectives \nThe Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai \nDown a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare\, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that’s not the main reason customers stop by . . .The father-daughter duo are ‘food detectives’. Through ingenious investigations\, they are able to recreate dishes from a person’s treasured memories – dishes that may well hold the keys to their forgotten past and future happiness. The restaurant of lost recipes provides a link to vanished moments\, creating a present full of possibility. \nWhen Grumpy Met Sunshine\nWhen Grumpy Met Sunshine by Charlotte Stein \nA steamy\, opposites-attract romance with undeniable chemistry between a grumpy retired footballer and his fabulous and very sunshine-y ghostwriter. \nGraphic Novels\nMy Favorite Thing Is Monsters\, Book 2\nMy Favorite Thing Is Monsters\, Book 2 by Emil Ferris \nSet against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago\, MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS BOOK TWO is the eagerly awaited conclusion to the most acclaimed graphic novels of the past decade. Presented as the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes as she tries to solve the murder of her beloved and enigmatic upstairs neighbor\, Anka Silverberg\, a holocaust survivor\, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. \nZodiac: A Graphic Memoir\nZodiac a Graphic Memoir by Ai Weiwei and Elettra Stamboulis\, Art by Gianluca Constantini \nIn this beautifully illustrated and deeply philosophical graphic memoir\, legendary artist Ai Weiwei explores the connection between artistic expression and intellectual freedom through the lens of the Chinese zodiac. \nLunar New Year Love Story\nLunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang\, Art by LeUyen Pham \nGraphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com about fate\, family\, and falling in love.\n. \nYouth\nMeet Me on Mercer Street\nMeet Me on Mercer Street by Booki Vivat \nAspiring artist Kacie spends most of her time on Mercer Street with her best friend\, Nisha\, people-watching and doodling whatever is happening in their neighborhood. But when she comes back from a summer away\, the local corner store is boarded up\, the adults in town are all on edge\, and Nisha is nowhere to be found! Everything is changing\, and Kacie’s not sure what to do about it. Especially without Nisha to help her. \nMax in the House of Spies\nMax in the House of Spies by Adam Gidwitz \nThe first book in a duology\, Max in the House of Spies is a thought-provoking World War II story as only acclaimed storyteller Adam Gidwitz can tell it—fast-paced and hilarious\, with a dash of magic and a lot of heart. \nCosmic Collisions: Asteroid vs. Comet\nCosmic Collisions: Asteroid vs. Comet by Dr. Marc J Kuchner and illustrated by Matt Schu \nWhat happens when two massive hunks of hurtling space debris slam into each other? Welcome to round one in the Cosmic Collisions series—an exciting children’s debut from an expert astrophysicist. \nThe Book That Almost Rhymed\nThe Book That Almost Rhymed by Omar Abed\, illustrated by Hatem Aly \nEvery great adventure needs a hero—or two! This playful take on storytelling and equity proves that two tellers can make a rhyming tale twice as nice. \nWild Places: The Life of Naturalist David Attenborough\nWild Places: The Life of Naturalist David Attenborough by Hayley Rocco\, illustrated by John Rocco \nAn inspiring and accessible picture book biography of the beloved naturalist\, broadcaster\, and documentarian David Attenborough—stunningly illustrated by a Caldecott Honoree. \nYoung Adult\nThe Bad Ones\nThe Bad Ones by Melissa Albert \nAfter her estranged best friend goes missing and she herself starts losing time\, Nora digs into a creepy local legend. \nSky's End\nSky’s End by Marc J. Greyson \nPlummet into a kill-or-be-killed competition where a scrappy underdog hell-bent on revenge must claw his way to the top in this thrilling YA fantasy debut. Exiled to live as a Low\, sixteen-year-old Conrad refuses to become heir to his murderous uncle. But Meritocracy is a harsh and unforgiving rule on the floating island of Holmstead\, and when his ailing mother is killed by monstrous gorgantauns\, Conrad cuts a deal to save the only family he has left. To rescue his sister from his uncle’s clutches\, Conrad must enter the Selection of the Twelve Trades. \nSo Let Them Burn\nSo Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole \nIn the aftermath of a war\, two magical sisters contend with divine magic and dragon-riding invaders in this Jamaican-inspired fantasy. \nThis Day Changes Everything\nThis Day Changes Everything by Edward Underhill \nIn 24 hours\, two queer teenagers go from strangers to friends to maybe more as they embark on a scavenger hunt around NYC. \nThe Girl\, the Ring\, & the Baseball Bat\nThe Girl\, the Ring\, & the Baseball Bat by Camille Gomera-Tavarez \nThree New Jersey teens obtain magical items that will purportedly solve all their problems in this entrancing magical-realism novel by Camille Gomera-Tavarez. \nMy Throat an Open Grave\nMy Throat an Open Grave by Tori Bovalino \nLeah Jones has no hope for a future outside of Winston\, Pennsylvania. She’s on the verge of dropping out of high school\, barely balancing her job at the gas station with her duty to care for her baby brother\, Owen. But when Owen is taken by the Lord of the Wood\, Leah must face the dangers of the wood to write a song that will win Owen back—and the truth of how her life went so very wrong. \nShut Up\, This is Serious\nShut Up\, This Is Serious by Carolina Ixta \nAn unforgettable YA debut about two Latina teens growing up in East Oakland as they discover that the world is brimming with messy complexities\, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo and Erika L. Sánchez. \nEscaping Mr. Rochester \nEscaping Mr. Rochester by L.L. McKinney \nThis captivating take on JANE EYRE gives Bertha more attention as she and Jane plot to flee Thornfield Hall and the oppressive Mr. Rochester. \nAudiobook\n#CrimeTime\n#CrimeTime by Jeneva Rose and Drew Pyne; Read by Samantha Desz\, Piper Goodeve\, Kevin R. Free\, Gary Tiedemann\, Chris Andrew Ciulla\, Phil Thron\, Nancy Linari\,\, Abelardo Campuzano\, Jennifer Damiano\, Peter Berkrot and P.J. Ochlan \nThe first audio original from Jeneva Rose\, the author of blockbuster bestseller THE PERFECT MARRIAGE\, #CRIMETIME is a full-cast mystery written with her husband\, Drew Pyne\, perfect for fans of Only Murders in the Building and Finley Donovan Is Killing It. \nThe Lost Van Gogh\nThe Lost Van Gogh by Jonathan Santlofer; Read by Edoardo Ballerini \nFor years\, there have been whispers that\, before his death\, Van Gogh completed a final self-portrait. Curators and art historians have savored this rumor\, hoping it could illuminate some of the troubled artist’s many secrets\, but even they have to concede that the missing painting is likely lost forever. But when Luke Perrone\, artist and great-grandson of the man who stole the Mona Lisa\, and Alexis Verde\, daughter of a notorious art thief\, discover what may be the missing portrait\, they are drawn into a most epic art puzzles. \nWest Heart Kill\nWest Heart Kill by Dann McDorman; Read by Robert Petkoff \nA unique and irresistible murder mystery set at a remote hunting lodge where everyone is a suspect\, including the erratic detective on the scene—a remarkable debut that gleefully upends the rules of the genre. \nThe Wonderful World of James Herriot\nThe Wonderful World of James Herriot: A Charming Collection of Classis Stories by James Herriot; Read by Anna Madeley \nThe perfect listen for fans of All Creatures Great and Small\, this is a charming collection of classic stories from James Herriot’s much-loved books\, with insights into his life and work from his children Rosie and Jim. \nThe Distance Between Us\nThe Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition by Reyna Grande; Read by Alejandra Reynoso \nAward-winning author Reyna Grande shares her personal experience of crossing borders and cultures in this middle grade adaptation of her memoir. \nCoretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King\nCoretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King by Coretta Scott King; Read by January LaVoy \nAdapted from her adult memoir\, this is the autobiography of Coretta Scott King—wife of Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, founder of the Martin Luther King\, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (the King Center)\, and twentieth-century American civil and human rights activist. This audiobook features sound design and special effects to enhance your enjoyment of Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King. Listen out for the sounds or protest\, change\, and a life well lived. \nFeatured Guests\nDonna Seaman - Editor\, Adult Books\nDonna Seaman\, Editor\, Adult Books\, keeps busy assigning books to our fantastic freelance reviewers\, consulting with colleagues\, editing\, reading\, writing\, or planning coverage for future issues of Booklist. Donna heads to museums whenever possible\, and was thrilled to be able to combine her ardor for literature and art in IDENTITY UNKNOWN: REDISCOVERING SEVEN AMERICAN WOMEN ARTISTS (2017). Donna is also a very grateful and proud recipient of RUSA/ALA’s Louis Shores Award for excellence in book reviewing. \nGeorge Kendall - Editor & Publisher\nGeorge Kendall began as Booklist Editor & Publisher in 2019 and since March 2023 is also serving as the American Library Association’s Interim Director of Publishing & Media. George received his MA in Literary Studies from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He has worked in publishing for most of his career\, but was once a professional musician and will sometimes\, though very rarely\, dust off his French horn and play a few notes. \nSusan Macguire - Senior Editor\nSusan Maguire\, Senior Editor\, Collection Management and Library Outreach\, worked for a decade in public libraries before joining Booklist. She loves reading and talking about reading and talking to librarians about talking about reading. \nSarah Hunter - Editor\, Youth/Graphic Novel\nSarah Hunter\, Editor of the Books for Youth and Graphic Novel sections\, came to Booklist following her work with Open Books\, a literacy nonprofit in Chicago\, after receiving an MA in English from the University of Chicago\, and she’s traded critical theory and post-modern literature for picture book illustration and comics (surprisingly not as unrelated as you might think). In addition to the many hours she spends reading\, writing\, and editing for every issue\, she is proud to manage Booklist’s annual Guide to Graphic Novels in Libraries supplement. \nHeather Booth - Audio Editor\nHeather Booth\, Audio Editor\, has been at Booklist since 2018\, a librarian since 2002\, and has been listening to audiobooks since they came on records that were tucked into paper pockets in her picture books. She is always up for listening to a quirky family story\, a twisty mystery\, or that book so well crafted it takes your breath away. Heather in on a quest to bake a perfect macaron and enjoys spending time with family\, her dogs\, and nature. \nMaggie Reagan - Senior Editor\, Youth\nMaggie Reagan\, Senior Editor\, Books for Youth\, Booklist and Book Links\, holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from Denison University and attended the NYU Summer Publishing Institute. During lockdown\, she accidentally acquired several cats who are very enthusiastic about Zoom meetings. Ask her about her favorite ABBA song if you are starved for conversation.
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SUMMARY:The Magic of Masterpiece - "All Creatures Great and Small" Filmmaker Talk with Ben Vanstone
DESCRIPTION:The Magic of Masterpiece \nProgram Description:\nJoin PBS Books for a conversation with Ben Vanstone\, Writer and Executive Producer of MASTERPIECE’s All Creatures Great and Small. \nAs the writer and Executive Producer\, Vanstone will discuss and examine the adaptation of All Creatures Great and Small\, the timeless story written by James Herriot. \nAbout the Show:\nAll Creatures Great and Small Season 3 is filled with compassion\, trials\, and triumph in the Yorkshire Dales. Tag along on adventures with Siegfried Farnon\, Tristan Farnon\, Mrs. Hall\, and more as James and Helen prepare for a wedding! Will Tristan earn Siegfried’s approval? How will James fair with local farmers? Look back with us on this Season 3 preview filled with more adventures\, more antics\, and more animals! Catch up on past seasons of All Creatures Great & Small by becoming a member of your local station and receive benefit of PBS Passport for extended access to Masterpiece series like All Creatures Great & Small \nGuest Biography:\nBen Vanstone has created and Executive Produced All Creatures Great & Small for MASTERPIECE on PBS. He is currently writing and show-running Season 4. Prior to that\, Ben wrote and was Co-Executive Producer on The English Game for Netflix. Ben created and is show-running the series adaptation of Amor Towle’s novel A Gentleman in Moscow for eOne/Showtime starring Ewan McGregor\, which is currently in production.
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SUMMARY:The Magic of Masterpiece - "Endeavour" Filmmaker Talk with Charlotte Webber
DESCRIPTION:The Magic of Masterpiece \nProgram Description:\nPBS Books was thrilled to host a conversation about MASTERPIECE’s final season of Endeavour with producer Charlotte Webber. Hear insights into the making of the ninth season and about what you can expect to see as the series comes to an end. \nAbout the Show:\nWith characters from Colin Dexter’s books\, Shaun Evans as Endeavour Morse and Roger Allam as Fred Thursday return for the ninth and final season of the critically acclaimed detective drama Endeavour. Set in the early 70s in Oxford\, the final season finds Endeavour Morse and Fred Thursday entering a new era. Catch up on past seasons of Endeavour by becoming a member of your local station and receive benefit of PBS Passport for extended access to Masterpiece series like Endeavour. \nGuest Biography:\nCharlotte Webber joined the Mammoth family as Executive Producer in December 2022\, having worked with the team in various guises since 2018. Charlotte’s first role with Mammoth Screen was script editing WORLD ON FIRE\, and she has since script edited THE PALE HORSE and produced the last ever series of ENDEAVOUR. \nBefore working for Mammoth\, Charlotte worked for BBC Drama London and script edited GOOD OMENS for Amazon Prime. As part of her remit as Executive Producer\, Charlotte is keen to develop a diverse slate of bold\, distinctive projects with a queer focus.
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