Author Talk: Katie Gutierrez
PBS Books partners with The Library of Congress to host a conversation with acclaimed author Katie Gutierrez. The program is presented as part of The Library of Congress National Book Festival. This festival features the best and brightest literary talent in the nation today.
Episodes
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Author Talk: Katie Gutierrez
S7 E10 - 52m 25s
PBS Books partners with The Library of Congress to host a conversation with acclaimed author Katie Gutierrez. The program is presented as part of The Library of Congress National Book Festival. This festival features the best and brightest literary talent in the nation today.
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Author Talk: Rachel Aviv
S7 E9 - 44m 53s
PBS Books partners with The Library of Congress to host a conversation with acclaimed author Rachel Aviv. The program is presented as part of The Library of Congress National Book Festival. This festival features the best and brightest literary talent in the nation today.
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Author Talk: Kelly Lytle Hernández
S7 E8 - 48m 26s
PBS Books partners with The Library of Congress to host a conversation with acclaimed author Kelly Lytle Hernández. The program is presented as part of The Library of Congress National Book Festival. This festival features the best and brightest literary talent in the nation today.
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Author Talk: Dhonielle Clayton
S7 E7 - 55m 51s
PBS Books partners with The Library of Congress to host a conversation with acclaimed author Dhonielle Clayton. The program is presented as part of The Library of Congress National Book Festival. This festival features the best and brightest literary talent in the nation today.
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Author Talk: Clint Smith
S7 E6 - 48m 28s
PBS Books partners with The Library of Congress to host a conversation with acclaimed author Clint Smith. The program is presented as part of The Library of Congress National Book Festival. This festival features the best and brightest literary talent in the nation today.
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Author Talk: Mitch Albom
S7 E5 - 55m 58s
PBS Books partners with The Library of Congress to host a conversation with acclaimed author Mitch Albom. The program is presented as part of The Library of Congress National Book Festival. This festival features the best and brightest literary talent in the nation today.
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Author Talk: Geraldine Brooks
S7 E4 - 41m 32s
PBS Books partners with The Library of Congress to host a conversation with acclaimed author Geraldine Brooks. The program is presented as part of The Library of Congress National Book Festival. The festival features the best and brightest literary talent in the nation today.
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Author Talk: Kate Clifford Larson
S7 E3 - 50m 44s
PBS Books partners with The Library of Congress to host a conversation with acclaimed author Clifford Larson. The program is presented as part of The Library of Congress National Book Festival. This festival features the best and brightest literary talent in the nation today.
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Author Talk: Juliet Menéndez
S7 E2 - 52m 41s
PBS Books partners with The Library of Congress to host a conversation with acclaimed author Juliet Menéndez. The program is presented as part of The Library of Congress National Book Festival. This festival features the best and brightest literary talent in the nation today.
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Author Talk: Lucinda Roy & Leslye Penelope
S7 E1 - 56m 25s
PBS Books, in collaboration with Virginia Public Media (VPM) is delighted to host this virtual event celebrating the Library of Congress National Book Festival with Leslye Penelope, author of "The Monsters We Defy," and Lucinda Roy, author of "Flying the Coop," to discuss their work, their dedication to creating strong empowered female heroines, and their involvement in the festival.
Extras + Features
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Humanizing and Empowering | Ryan O'Dowd
S6 E1 - 1m 5s
The film "The Public" premieres Friday, April 5th, and Estevez, who wrote and directed the film, said that librarians assured him that he effectively captured the experience of life inside of a library, while O'Dowd, who is executive director of a large homeless shelter, avowed the same response from those he surveyed.
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Libraries Role in Society | Emilio Estevez
S6 E1 - 41s
Emilio Estevez creative process for his new film 'The Public,' exposed him to several writers and researchers like Anne Lamott, who further illuminated, for him and for all of us, the vital role that libraries continue to play in serving and enriching their communities.
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The Inspiration | Emilio Estevez
S6 E1 - 1m 52s
Actor, writer and director Emilio Estevez talks about his inspiration for making 'The Public,' a film dramatizing as a peaceful sit-in by the homeless inside a public library that escalates into a standoff with the police and attracts attention from the media.
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Libraries offer a Respite | Ryan O'Dowd
S6 E1 - 36s
Ryan O'Dowd, speaking from his experience as the executive director of a large homeless shelter, describes libraries as a place offering more than shelter, but a respite for the homeless population of a community, which is at the crux of the events dramatized by writer, director, and actor Emilio Estevez in his new film, 'The Public.'
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Favorite Character | Emilio Estevez
S6 E1 - 2m 10s
Emilio Estevez' new film, 'The Public,' has an ensemble cast, with actors like Alec Baldwin, Taylor Schilling, Gabrielle Union, Christian Slater, Jeffrey Wright, Jacob Vargas, Michael Kenneth Williams and Che “Rhymefest” Smith. Here, Estevez talks about who he would choose as his favorite character from the script he wrote.
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Birth of Collaboration | Ryan O'Dowd
S6 E1 - 40s
Ryan O'Dowd is Executive Director of Hesed House, the second largest homeless shelter in Illinois, and the author of the Librarian's Guide to Homelessness, and when PBS Books interviewed him at the Miami Dade Public Library, he talked about how he wound up having a sustained collaborative role in discussing the issues addressed by Emilio Estevez' new film, 'The Public.'
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Film Development | Emilio Estevez
S6 E1 - 45s
Emilio Estevez initially wanted to get started on his new film, 'The Public,' back in 2008. In this interview, filmed at the Miami Dade Public Library, Estevez talks about how the 2008 Recession stalled production, and wound up allowing him to rework the story, improving it and augmenting its relevance.
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