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SUMMARY:Moonflower Murders | Masterpiece Filmmaker Talk
DESCRIPTION:Episode Description:\nJoin PBS Books in conversation with award-winning novelist and screenwriter\, Anthony Horowitz to discuss MASTERPIECE Mystery!\, Moonflower Murders. This new six-part series sequel continues where the smash hit Magpie Murders left off with editor turned amateur sleuth Susan Ryeland (Manville) and world-famous fictional detective Atticus Pünd (McMullan). Learn fun insights directly from Anthony Horowitz prior to the release of the PBS show! \nMoonflower Murders premieres Sunday\, September 15th at 9 PM ET | 8PM CT \nBefore you watch Moonflower Murders\, go behind the story of the hit series Magpie Murders on PBS Books!  You can watch the full series on the PBS App with your Passport subscription. \nAbout the Show:\n\nThe second of Anthony Horowitz’s adaptation of his own bestselling Susan Ryeland/Atticus Pünd series\, Moonflower Murders picks up in the aftermath of Magpie Murder’s riveting finale\, as book editor-turned-sleuth (turned hotelier) Susan Ryeland is living in Crete with her longtime boyfriend\, Andreas. But her idyll is disturbed by the shadow of a murder committed at a British country hotel eight years ago. Alan Conway\, Susan’s prima donna former author\, visited the hotel and wrote a novel based on what happened there—a novel that later led Cecily Treherne\, who helps run the hotel\, to believe that the wrong man is behind bars. Now Cecily has disappeared. Can Susan uncover the secret hidden in the book and find Cecily before it’s too late? \n\nGuest Biography:\nAnthony Horowitz\nAnthony is one of the most prolific and successful writers working in the UK – and is unique for working across so many media. \nAnthony’s award-winning novel Magpie Murders was published in 2016 to critical acclaim and he adapted it himself for the screen. It aired on MASTERPIECE Mystery! in 2023 with Lesley Manville in the lead role. The sequel\, Moonflower Murders will premiere on MASTERPIECE beginning September 15\, 2024 and Leslie Manville is back to reprise her role as editor Susan Ryland.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/moonflower-murders-masterpiece-filmmaker-talk/
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SUMMARY:Highlights - 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:LOC National Book Festival 2024 \nEpisode Description:\nIf you missed any of the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival or want to learn more behind the books of the over 90 featured authors\, poets\, and illustrators\, join PBS Books in collaboration with the Library of Congress as we highlight the memorable moments of the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival. \nFeatured Speakers\, in order of appearance:\n“A Confident Cook”\nFeaturing: Tamron Hall\, Lish Steiling\, Dr. Carla Hayden \nFull DiscussionCelebrating James Baldwin’s Centennial\nFeaturing: Ayana Mathis\, Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Eric Deggans \nFull DiscussionShhh! Don’t Tell Our Secret About the Couch!\nFeaturing: Sasha Dowdy\, Adam Rubin\, Liniers \nFull DiscussionMusic is Medicine\nFeaturing: Renée Fleming\, Daniel J. Levitin\, Michael Andor Brodeur  \nFull DiscussionModern Dating: We Love It\, We Hate It\nFeaturing: Abby Jimenez\, Casey McQuiston\, Megan Labrise  \nFull DiscussionInvestigating the Algorithm: Our Uneasy Ties to Tech\nFeaturing: Joy Boulamwini \, Kyle Chayka\, Regina G. Barber \nFull DiscussionLiterature to Life Performs: ‘I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter’\nWatch the full performance. \nFull Performance‘Romantasy’ Novels\nFeaturing: Rebecca Yarros\, Emily Kwong \nFull DiscussionCelebrating the 40th Anniversary of “The House on Mango Street”\nFeaturing: Sandra Cisneros\, Rachel Martin \nFull DiscussionFeatured 2024 LOC Virtual Author Interviews from PBS Books:\nThe House on Mango Street | Sandra Cisneros \nWatchGood Night Thoughts | Max Greenfield \nWatchthe year of the buttered cat | Susan & Lexi Haas \nWatchThe Heaven and Earth Grocery Store | James McBride \nWatchJust for the Summer | Abby Jimenez \nWatchNight Flyer | Tiya Miles \nWatchMusic and Mind |Renée Fleming \nWatch
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/loc-bookfest-2024-highlights/
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SUMMARY:Creating Reading Rainbow: The Untold Story of a Beloved Children's Series
DESCRIPTION:Episode Description:\nPBS Books explores the stories behind the beloved PBS children’s program\, Reading Rainbow\, with Barbara Irwin\, Tony Buttino\, Sr. and Pam Johnson\, who are the authors of Creating Reading Rainbow: The Untold Story of a Beloved Children’s Series. Join us as we discover the early history of this groundbreaking innovation of learning media that still holds a special place in the lives of many. \nGuest Biograpies:\nBarbara Irwin\, Tony Buttino Sr.\, Pam Johnson\, Ph.D.\nBarbara Irwin\, Author & Reading Rainbow Project Assistant\, Educational Services\, WNED-TV\nBarbara Irwin\, Ph.D.\, is Professor Emerita of Communication at Canisius University in Buffalo\, New York. Specializing in media studies\, she taught courses in media and children\, public broadcasting\, and media literacy. Irwin worked as a Reading Rainbow Project Assistant in the Educational Services department at WNED-TV during the early years of the series. In 2011\, she was named a Faculty Fellow of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation. Frequently sought after by local and national media\, her interviews have appeared on National Public Radio\, E! Entertainment Network\, and in USA Today and The Los Angeles Times\, among others. Dr. Irwin is an authority on daytime television and media history\, and co-authored the New York Times bestseller The Young and the Restless Most Memorable Moments and The Young and the Restless Special Silver Anniversary Collector’s Edition. \nTony Buttino Sr.\, Author & Creator\, Reading Rainbow\nTony Buttino Sr. is best known for his leadership in the creation of the Emmy award-winning Public TV series Reading Rainbow. Most of his forty years of working at WNED-TV were spent utilizing and marketing instructional television (ITV) as a teaching and learning tool. And for his efforts\, his colleagues affectionately refer to him as the “Father of ITV.” A multi-year effort to use television to bridge the summer reading gap led to the creation of Reading Rainbow\, which began as a summer series on PBS\, reaching over 6 million beginning readers in its first season. The series went on to become a year-round sensation and was broadcast for 26 years – among the longest running children’s series on PBS. Although as co-executive producer Buttino garnered five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Children’s Series\, he says his biggest accomplishment is being able to reach youngsters through television and motivating them to read.\, \nPam Johnson\, Ph.D.\, Author & V.P. of Education and Engagement\, Reading Rainbow\, WNED-TV\nPam Johnson\, Ph.D.\, is Executive Director of Ready To Learn at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting\, a school readiness program developed in partnership with PBS KIDS\, leading children’s content producers\, researchers\, and America’s public media stations with funding from the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to joining CPB\, Dr. Johnson served as Vice President for Education and Engagement at WNED-TV where she spearheaded learning services and advanced innovative initiatives including ThinkBright TV\, the Buffalo Professional Development and Technology Center\, and Reading Rainbow’s national outreach and web priorities. With a passion for exciting children and their grown-ups about learning through media\, Johnson shares that it all began as a station intern working closely with her longtime colleague and friend\, Tony Buttino\, during Reading Rainbow’s early years.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/creating-the-reading-rainbow/
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SUMMARY:Assessment of Nixon Pardon | Policy Talks @ The Ford School
DESCRIPTION:Policy Talks @ The Ford School \nTalk streams on Monday\, Sept. 23 at 8:00 PM EDT \nPolicy Talks @ the Ford School Presents: \nSeptember marks the 50th anniversary of President Gerald R. Ford’s pardon of former President Richard Nixon. Over the past five decades\, that act has been both vilified and then lionized as a great act of patriotism. \nFive decades later\, what is the significance of that unique\, historical pardon? PBS Books is delighted to share a discussion with four legal experts on the significance of the Nixon pardon\, in an appearance recorded at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy \nThe discussion features University of Michigan law professor and former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade\, former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks\, Nixon White House Counsel John Dean and University of Baltimore Law School professor Kimberly Wehle.
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SUMMARY:PBS Books Readers Club - "The Cemetery of Untold Stories" by Julia Alvarez
DESCRIPTION:Readers Club HomeEpisodes \nLiterary icon and great American novelist Julia Alvarez\, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents\, joins the PBS Books Readers Club to discuss a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic. \nReaders will be excited to pair this novel with the September 2024 release of American Masters: Julia Alvarez on PBS\, chronicling the life and work of one of the most critically and commercially successful Latina writers of her generation. \nDon’t miss the PBS Books Readers Club on September 25 at 8:00 pm (ET) as Julia Alvarez shares her inspiration\, writing process\, favorite books\, and more. \nAbout the Book:\nGet the E-BookDONATE NOW and download your e-book copy. \n\nNamed a Most Anticipated Book by the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Today.com\, Goodreads\, B&N Reads\, Literary Hub\, HipLatina\, BookPage\, BBC.com\, Zibby Mag\, and more \nAlma Cruz\, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories\, doesn’t want to end up like her friend\, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her sanity. So when Alma inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic\, her homeland\, she has the beautiful idea of turning it into a place to bury her untold stories—literally. She creates a graveyard for the manuscript drafts and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. \nAlma wants her characters to rest in peace. But they have other ideas and soon begin to defy their author: they talk back to her and talk to one another behind her back\, rewriting and revising themselves. Filomena\, a local woman hired as the groundskeeper\, becomes a sympathetic listener to the secret tales unspooled by Alma’s characters. Among them\, Bienvenida\, dictator Rafael Trujillo’s abandoned wife who was erased from the official history\, and Manuel Cruz\, a doctor who fought in the Dominican underground and escaped to the United States. \nThe Cemetery of Untold Stories asks: Whose stories get to be told\, and whose buried? Finally\, Alma finds the meaning she and her characters yearn for in the everlasting vitality of stories. Julia Alvarez reminds us that the stories of our lives are never truly finished\, even at the end. \n\nGuest Biography:\nJulia Alvarez\nJulia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. She is the author of six novels\, three books of nonfiction\, three collections of poetry\, and eleven books for children and young adults. She has taught and mentored writers in schools and communities across America and\, until her retirement in 2016\, was a writer in residence at Middlebury College. Her work has garnered wide recognition\, including a Latina Leader Award in Literature from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute\, the Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature\, the Woman of the Year by Latina magazine\, and inclusion in the New York Public Library’s program “The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters\, from John Donne to Julia Alvarez.” In the Time of the Butterflies\, with over one million copies in print\, was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for its national Big Read program\, and in 2013 President Obama awarded Alvarez the National Medal of Arts in recognition of her extraordinary storytelling. \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-109/
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SUMMARY:Kelly Church - Sustaining Traditions | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:Kelly Church is an Ottawa and Pottawatomi artist belonging to the Matchi-be-nash-she-wish tribe in Hopkins\, MI. A member of the Gun Lake Band in Michigan and a Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Ojibwe descendent\, she comes from an unbroken line of black ash basket makers and from the largest black ash weaving family in the Great Lakes region. Her artistic journey is deeply intertwined with the woodlands and forests of Michigan\, where she harvests and works with a variety of natural fibers including black ash\, birch bark\, cedar bark\, spruce roots\, and basswood. These materials serve as the foundation for her distinctive woven sculptures\, each meticulously crafted and adorned with copper and silver embellishments. \nWith her relatives’ guidance\, Church learned to select the best black ash tree in order to provide the best material to create everything from utilitarian baskets to more conceptual weavings. Each tree she harvests and transforms into a basket tells a story\, just as those before her created baskets that told their own stories. She has learned firsthand how the process of weaving a black ash basket is not only about weaving\, it is also about biochemistry\, forest management\, pest control\, Indigenous language\, family history\, and deep\, ancient connections to the landscape from which her people originate. \nLearn More>> \n\n\nThe Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series Fall 2024 Season\nThis fall\, 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 PBS 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/kelly-church-penny-stamps-distinguished-speaker-series/
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SUMMARY:Mike Ford & Jason Carter to Speak: How DO we Run Fair\, Safe Elections? | Policy Talks @ The Ford School
DESCRIPTION:Policy Talks @ The Ford School \nPolicy Talks @ the Ford School Presents: \nJoin the Ford Presidential Foundation and their partners\, The Carter Center\, More Perfect\, and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at University of Michigan\, as they examine the inner workings of the election process as well as expectations for staff conduct around elections. This series has been developed in partnership with Principles for Trusted Elections and More Perfect’s Sustainable Democracy Goals. \nCo-chaired by Mike Ford (son of President Ford) and Jason Carter (grandson of President Carter)\, the Principles for Trusted Elections is an effort to bring awareness to the process insuring fair\, safe\, and secure elections. More Perfect’s “Five Democracy Goals” were created to support key cornerstones of a sustainable and vigorous democracy. \nLearn More>>
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/fair-safe-elections-ford-school/
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