Lectures tagged "literature"


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Steve Almond 101
Steve Almond
February 16, 2010
01:16:00
Author Steve Almond reads from his new book, This Won't Take but a Minute, Honey, and discusses his unique take on the art and craft of creative writing. This lecture is particularly geared towards creative writing students and beginning writers.
Collecting and Preservation in Libraries
Matthew Battles
March 15, 2007
01:20:57
Matthew Battles and Kenneth Carpenter discuss the future of collecting and preservation in libraries. This series examines a number of issues that have long confronted the library world, and which hold implications for libraries for the future.
Audio-only
Alistair MacLeod: Assorted Readings
Alistair MacLeod
January 26, 2006
00:32:57
Alistair MacLeod discusses his writing, which focuses on cultural, historical, and immigration themes, and emphasizes the importance of the past on the present.
Audio-only
Chronicles of Narnian: C.S. Lewis and the Culture Wars
Alan Jacobs
January 18, 2006
01:14:24
Alan Jacobs discusses his new biography of C.S. Lewis, author of the beloved children's books, The Chronicles of Narnia, and how Lewis and his work got swept up in America's contemporary culture wars.
Audio-only
Truth vs. Style: Challenge of Valaida Snow
Candace Allan
October 5, 2005
01:18:59
Candace Allen discusses her first novel, Valaida, based on the life of entertainer and jazz trumpeter Valaida Snow.
Audio-only
Britain and the Seven Years War
Eliga H. Gould
September 14, 2005
00:57:16
Eliga H. Gould, professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, discusses this broader dimension and the impact that the Seven Years War's global character had on British and American politics.