DVD Review: Bill Moyers: A World of Ideas, Writers
Every weekend, C-SPAN 2 becomes Book TV, airing talks by, and interviews with, nonfiction authors. Some Fridays, while looking at the schedule on Book TV’s website, I go overboard, recording nearly every program set to air, first the books I recognize as having in my stacks in my room, and then topics that interest me […]
DVD Review: In Their Own Words
Before you put either the “British Novelists” disc or “Great Thinkers” disc of In Their Own Words in your DVD player, get a notebook, notepad, legal pad, index cards, scraps of paper, whatever you use to jot down grocery lists, important phone numbers, or anything else that’s important to your daily life. You’ll need it. […]