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Libraries offer a Respite | Ryan O'Dowd

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.'

Libraries offer a Respite | Ryan O'Dowd

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  • Readers Club | Scott Alexander Howard: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Readers Club | Scott Alexander Howard

    44m 15s

    The Other Valley is Howard’s debut novel. A Goodreads “Most Anticipated Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror Book of 2024”, it’s an elegant and exhilarating literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future. 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?

  • “You Are Here” Author Talk with Ada Limón: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    “You Are Here” Author Talk with Ada Limón

    S2024 E8 - 40m 34s

    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.

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    The Wright Conversations with Poet Nikki Giovanni

    S2024 E7 - 1h 15m

    As part of its Wright Conversations series, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History presents Nikki Giovanni, one of this country’s most widely read poets and one of America’s most renowned poets worldwide. Her poem, “Knoxville, Tennessee,” is arguably the single literary work most often associated with that city.

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