Detroit's Public Television Channel 56 notes:
Love books?
Head for the LA Times Festival of Books this weekend
Join PBS Book View Now and the PBS Newshour’s Jeffery Brown for Live Coverage
April 9th & 10th 2-7pm ET / 11 am-4pm PT
- Hosted by: Rich Fahle and Jeffrey Brown of PBS NewsHour
- April 9th and 10th, 2016
Join PBS
Book View Now live for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books April 9th and 10th, 2016 from 2-7pm ET / 11 am-4pm PT.
PBS
Book View Now brings the festival to you! The Los Angeles Times’
annual celebration of ideas, creativity and the written word. PBS Book
View Now coverage features author panels, author
interviews and celebrity appearances. Authors scheduled to appear in
the coverage include:
Senator Barbara Boxer, The Art of Tough: Fearlessly Facing Politics and Life
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeny, The Nest
Anna Quindlen, Miller’s Valley
Michael Connelly, The Crossing (The Harry Bosch
Series)
Rainn Wilson, The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy
Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver, Here's Hank: You Can't Drink a Meatball Through A Straw
And Many More!
ABOUT
PBS Book View Now is
an impressive gathering of National Book Award nominees and winners,
as well as enthusiastic readers and writers, all in one place to
explore and celebrate the written word. PBS continues to provide content
that allows viewers to discover new ideas and explore the community
around them. Books matter. And the authors that write
them—together with the ideas and stories they tell—all matter. And no
one understands this as well as PBS. It’s precisely this type of smart, thought provoking content that people turn to PBS to discover. For
many viewers PBS provides a “stage” to musical
acts, a “road trip” to uncharted landscapes, and is now uniquely
positioned as a “conversationalist” to the world of books and authors.
PBS Book View Now provides booklovers unable to attend the
jubilee the occasion to join the fun, expand their knowledge through
non-fiction, and get lost in the world of literature.
Watch a preview from the Miami Book Fair in 2015
here!
Host Rich Fahle
After
meeting his future wife for a first date at the venerated DC
bookstore Kramerbooks, Rich eventually managed it for several years,
before leaving to join the marketing department at the national cable
network
C-SPAN. He was Communications Director and Chief Spokesperson for the
iconic public affairs network and helped launch Book TV. After a number
of years, Rich left DC for Michigan to join Borders, the national
bookstore company, at their headquarters in Ann
Arbor. At Borders, Rich rose to become Vice President of Content and
Entertainment, working with every major publisher, music label, and
movie studio, as well as hundreds of authors, musicians and artists—a
perfect place to satisfy all of his pop culture cravings.
In addition to Astral Road Media, Rich is the executive producer of PBS
Book View Now, a vibrant book and author-focused entertainment hub
distributed via the broad PBS platform.
For more on the PBS Book View Now strategy, see this article in Publisher’s
Weekly.
PBS Book View Now is an opportunity to engage the book lover who appreciates a great story. Produced by Detroit Public Television, PBS
Book View Now is made possible by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Wyncote Foundation, and AWP.
Really love books? And, add the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
live video player to your website!
Enjoy the Festival!
Rich Homberg
President and CEO
Detroit Public Television
248-640-4169 - @RichHomberg -
rhomberg@dptv.org
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