Discussion on American Optimism
Douglas Brinkley (American Moonshot), Jason Berry (City of a Million Dreams), and Elizabeth Schwartz (Before I Do) talked about optimism in American history and politics.
251 viewsDouglas Brinkley (American Moonshot), Jason Berry (City of a Million Dreams), and Elizabeth Schwartz (Before I Do) talked about optimism in American history and politics.
251 viewsBookTV presented coverage of the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Awards, given each year to honor the best books published in the United States, according to the organization. The NBCC is …
589 viewsMaureen Corrigan, author of So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures, and Andrew Levy, author of Huck Finn’s America: Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpi…
909 viewsMaureen Corrigan talked about her book So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures. This interview was held at the 37th Annual National Press Club Book Fair and Auth…
565 viewsIn the “Writing from Life” panel moderated by Edie Donohue, four authors talked about their books and the motives behind each work. The panelists were: Maureen Corrigan, author of Leave…
133 viewsMaureen Corrigan was interviewed about her book Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books, published by Random House, in which she describes how books shaped her life.
292 viewsDuring the Book and Author Luncheon, fiction and nonfiction writers talked about and read from their writings. Mr. Hornby wrote A Long Way Down. Mr. Winchester wrote A Crack in the Edge of t…
130 viewsAn editor, an author and a radio correspondent analyzed the art and technicalities of writing book reviews. They took questions from the audience.
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