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Fernando Laposse – Design for Rural Reality | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
Fernando Laposse specializes in transforming humble natural materials into refined design pieces.
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Nayland Blake – Tear Down Our Walls | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
Tear down our walls: the creative drive and reimagining ourselves. Nayland Blake shares their history as an artist, curator and educator in a talk about how crucial the creative process is in imagining new possibilities for us as individuals and communities. Since the late 1980s, Nayland Blake has constructed an influential body of work exploring play, eroticism, and the subjective experiences of desire, power, and loss. Inspired by feminist theory and queer subcultures, Blake addresses the contradictions of representation in sculptures, drawings, performances, and videos, particularly as it relates to their own identity as a nonbinary multiracial artist. Nayland Blake [...]
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Ty Jeffries – Miss Hope Springs | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
Ty Jeffries is a prolific composer, lyricist, pianist, singer, and character comedian, whose critically acclaimed works are influenced by the combination of his classical training and his love of both the golden age of Hollywood and the Great American and British Songbooks.
Our Favorite Books of the Year
Join hosts Lauren, Fred, Princess and Heather as they reminisce the exciting first season of the PBS Books Readers Club! They'll highlight the most incredible author moments and fascinating reads from the series this year that were heartfelt, funny, and inspiring! Plus, hosts dish out their favorite book picks for 2024 — providing readers with an ultimate gift guide for the holiday season! This year’s book picks explored an array of genres, from historical fiction (Geraldine Brooks, Horse), suspense (Tana French, The Hunter), American history and religion (Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song), biography (Walter Isaacson, Leonardo da Vinci), [...]
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Author Talk | David Brooks
Best-selling author, New York Times columnist and PBS NewsHour correspondent, David Brooks talks about his book, “How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen.” In his latest book, Brooks offers a personal, practical guide for how each of us can deal with what he calls the nation’s loneliness epidemic.
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2025 Carnegie Medal Finalist Preview
PBS Books and Booklist Reader highlight the six 2024 Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction Awards.
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Filmmaker Talk with Zach OHora – Carl the Collector
Join PBS Books as we meet the newest member of the PBS Kids Family Carl the Collector and all his friends with show creator, author and illustrator Zach OHora. This new series, which premiered last fall, is the first PBS Kids program to center on a neurodiverse character. Learn more about Carl and all his adventures while celebrating the diverse way kids think and express themselves. About the Author Zachariah OHora Illustrator, Author & Creator “Carl the Collector” New York Times best-selling illustrator and author Zachariah OHora is creator and executive producer of “Carl the Collector,” which is produced [...]
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PBS Books Readers Club – “Remarkably Bright Creatures” by Shelby Van Pelt
About the Book Dazzling and unexpected, Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel, REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES (Ecco; On-sale: May 3, 2022; ISBN: 9780063204157), is set over the course of a summer in a fictional town on Puget Sound. This is a witty and warm tale of a widow’s friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium—and the truths she finally uncovers about her son’s disappearance thirty years ago. Tova Sullivan began mopping floors and tidying up on the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium after her husband died. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which [...]
