Cheryl Strayed, Helen McDonald, and More on PBS Book View
Authors Roxane Gay (Bad Feminist), Cheryl Strayed (Wild), Jess Walter (Beautiful Ruins), Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn etc.), Helen MacDonald (H is for Hawk), U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, and more will appear on PBS on Friday and Saturday, April 1-2, during Book View Now’s coverage of the AWP Conference and Bookfair, held this year in Los Angeles.
Coverage livestream hours on Friday, April 1 and Saturday, April 2 airs from 1-6 p.m. EST / 10 am – 3 pm PST at bookviewnow.org and PBS.org. The full schedule is below.
Friday, April 1 - All times Pacific Time
10:00 AM David Fenza, Exec. Director, AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs)
10:15 AM Patricia Engel, The Veins of the Ocean
10:30 AM Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler
10:45 AM Garth Greenwell, What Belongs to
11:00 AM Elizabeth Alexander, The Light of the World with Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus
11:15 AM Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things
11:30 AM Amy Wilentz, Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti
11:45 AM Brian Castner, All Ways We Kill and Die with Phil Klay, Redeployment
12:15 PM TBD
12:30 PM Cheryl Strayed, Wild
12:45 PM Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
1:00 PM Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins
1:15 PM Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
1:30 PM Mitchell Jackson, The Residue Years
2:00 PM Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
2:15 PM Emily St. John Mandel, Station
2:30 PM Ruth Ozeki, A Tale For the Time Being
2:45 PM Susan Orlean, Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
Saturday, April 2 - All times Pacific Time
10:00 AM Jonathan Lethem, Lucky Alan: and Other Stories and Dissident
10:15 AM TBD
10:30 AM Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
10:45 AM Megan Kruse, Call Me Home
11:00 AM Jennifer Gilmore, The Mothers, We Were Never Here
11:15 AM Brian Evenson, A Collapse of Horses
11:30 AM Paul Lisicky, The Narrow Door
11:45 AM Jonny Diamond, Editor in Chief, Literary Hub
12:00 PM Edward Hirsh, Gabriel: A Poem
12:15 PM Gregory Pardlo, Digest
12:30 PM Reginald Dwayne Betts, Bastards of the Reagan Era
1:00 PM Mary Norris, Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
1:15 PM Matt Bell, Scrapper
1:30 PM TBD
1:45 PM Laura Kasischke, Mind of Winter and The Infinitesimals
2:00 PM Juan Felipe Hererra, United States Poet Laureate, Notes on the Assemblage
2:15 PM Kirstin Valdez Quade, Night at the Fiestas
2:30 PM Alex Gilvarry, From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant
2:45 PM Helen McDonald, H Is For Hawk