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PBS NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown profiles eighty-eight-year-old David Ferry, who was recently honored with the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize as well as the National Book Award for poetry. Ferry is currently tackling a translation of Virgil's Aeneid.
The recent announcement that Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature has sparked conversations, like the one with Jeffrey Brown on PBS NewsHour, about what it means to be a writer living under a Communist government.
The NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown recently spent some time with poet Natalie Diaz, author of the collection When My Brother Was an Aztec (Copper Canyon Press, 2012), who is working to preserve the rapidly disappearing Mojave language.
Billy Collins, who was named the nation's poet laureate a few months before September 11, 2001, reads his poem "The Names" and talks with PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown about the impact of 9/11.
PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown gives an overview of the Borders saga, the last chapter of which begins today when the bookstore chain enters liquidation and offers going-out-of-business sales at its remaining locations, and talks with Slate's Annie Lowrey about the demise of the forty-year-old company.
The author of The Tiger's Wife, published in March by Random House, recently sat down with PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown to discuss her novel, which Publishers Weekly called "a brilliant debut."
The Iowa Writers' Workshop, the nation's oldest postgraduate writing program, is celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary this year. Jeffrey Brown delivered this recent report on PBS NewsHour.
Prolific author and Princeton professor Joyce Carol Oates recently appeared on the PBS NewsHour to speak with Jeffrey Brown about her new memoir, The Widow's Story (Ecco), in which she writes about her experience following the death of her husband three years ago. In this clip she discusses what she calls widowhood's "world of absurdity."
In this recent interview with Jeffrey Brown on the PBS NewsHour, author, essayist, and longtime professor Roger Rosenblatt discusses his book Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing, published last month by Ecco.
The poet laureate recently discussed his new position on the PBS NewsHour. "It's a more public position and role and so forth than I normally would like," says Merwin, whose most recent book, The Shadow of Sirius, won the Pulitzer Prize.
