
A series of smart, funny video essays from PBS Digital Studios about their favorite books and why they love to read. Host Lindsay Ellis delves into topics like the evolution of YA, how science fiction mirrors our own anxieties, and why the book is sometimes just a _bit_ better than the movie.
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Air Date: 2018-06-04
Which is better, the book or the movie? Explore the question with host Lindsay Ellis.
Air Date: 2018-06-26
Young Adult Fiction (YA) is dominating literature, and more young people are reading now than ever before. Lindsay El...
Air Date: 2018-07-13
While science fiction is associated with Mars, robots, and cyberpunk, its origin story is shaped throughout several c...
Air Date: 2018-07-30
Love it or hate it, the romance novel is the highest grossing literary genre. Its history is long and winding (like y...
Air Date: 2018-08-21
Fantasy novels are more than just hundreds of pages worth of swords and magic! Okay, there's some of that. But it's a...
Air Date: 2018-08-30
What makes a book important? Why are some books required reading in high school, while others are lost to history?
Air Date: 2018-11-21
Despite the adage of not judging a book by its cover, there’s a lot of time, intent, and money spent creating memorab...
Air Date: 2018-12-07
You might being asking yourself-- Why do ghostwriters even exist? Isn’t that cheating? Isn’t literature supposed to b...
Air Date: 2018-12-17
Who is the most powerful character in fiction? Villains may doom the world, heroes may save it, but no one has more c...
Air Date: 2019-01-11
Food varies wildly from place to place and from culture to culture; since humans are such sensory creatures, using wo...
Air Date: 2019-01-24
Death as a character reveals how we process one of life’s greatest mysteries, and there’s a lot more breadth to how t...
Air Date: 2019-02-07
Ancient Greek Mythology has worked its way into modern pop culture so deeply that it would be an almost Sisyphean tas...
Air Date: 2019-04-18
Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables is one of history’s most famous novels and one of the longest-running musicals in Broadw...