Lectures tagged "Family Issues"


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Chang-rae Lee: The Surrendered
Chang-Rae Lee
March 10, 2010
00:39:22
Award-winning novelist Chang-rae Lee reads from his newest work, The Surrendered.
Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy
Paula Butturini
March 2, 2010
00:59:57
Journalist Paula Butturini talks about her new memoir Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy. Paula and John met in Italy, fell in love, and four years later, married in Rome. But less than a month after the wedding, tragedy struck.
John Banville: The Infinites
John Banville
February 23, 2010
00:47:52
Booker Prize--winning novelist John Banville reads from his new book The Infinities. On a languid midsummer's day in the countryside, old Adam Godley, a renowned theoretical mathematician, is dying.
Steve Yarbrough: Safe From the Neighbors
Steve Yarbrough
February 19, 2010
00:33:12
Award-winning novelist and finalist for the 2005 PEN/Faulkner Award, Steve Yarbrough reads from his newest novel, Safe from the Neighbors. Luke May teaches local history--his lifelong obsession--at his old high school in Loring, Mississippi.
Kevin Sampsell and Justin Taylor
Kevin Sampsell
February 17, 2010
00:43:39
Writer Kevin Sampsell and blogger Justin Taylor read from their new books. In 2008, Kevin Sampsell's estranged father died of an aneurysm.
Eternally Green: Natural Burial and New Cemetery Landscapes
Mark Harris
February 13, 2010
01:05:00
Environmental journalist Mark Harris presents a history of the changes in American burial practices, from natural burials in the 17th and early 18th century, to the beginning of the funeral industry during the Civil War, to today's modern funeral with embalming (and its toxic chemicals), metal caske
Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates
William Grant
February 4, 2010
00:50:50
Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. executive producer William R. Grant and producer Stephen Ives discuss the series with Dr. David Altshuler, a clinical endocrinologist and human geneticist from the Broad Institute.
Role of Citizen Action in Solving Global Warming
Ken Ward
January 28, 2010
00:58:55
Graphic designer Ken Ward and community organizer Andree Zaleska discuss how ordinary citizens can contribute to finding solutions to global warming.