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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Lindsay Ellis
Self - Host
With Botequim, in the Lisbon neighborhood of Graça, as a starting point, we will remember the Portuguese writer, poet, and great figure of the capital’s literary salons. During a long period od the her life, especially in latter years, Botequim was the centre of the writer's life, with her being the greatest personality of the salon that gathered around her.
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An extraordinary variety of writers, who often suffered terrible adversity throughout their lives, created wonderful places full of happiness in which children lived far from the sorrows of adult life.
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Personalities of Czech society, culture and art offer a glimpse into their libraries.
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The definitive documentary on one of the most relevant and popular figures of literature and television in Spain in the second half of the 20th century: Terenci Moix.
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A journey that tells the thought of the greatest protagonists of Western philosophy, from its origins to the great thinkers of the twentieth century, through the story of great contemporary philosophers.
A journey through America that introduces our list of the 100 best-loved books and explores the many ways in which these novels affect, reflect and connect us all.
Following comedian Frank Skinner and Scottish crime writer Denise Mina as they team up to recreate James Boswell's and Dr Johnson's 18th century trip through Scotland to the Hebrides.
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Who was Homer, and what is the meaning of The Odyssey? In this documentary we follow the footsteps of Ulysses, also known by his Greek name Odysseus—a hero as relevant today as he was nearly three thousand years ago, on a journey across some of the most fascinating landscapes and seascapes of the Mediterranean region. With the help of prominent international scholars, we seek to resolve the questions that still surround one of humanity’s greatest literary works and its enigmatic author.
Wishbone is a children's television show. The show's title character is a Jack Russell Terrier of the same name. Wishbone lives with his owner Joe Talbot in the fictional modern town of Oakdale, Texas. He daydreams about being the lead character of stories from classic literature He was known as "the little dog with a big imagination". Only the viewers and the characters in his daydreams can hear Wishbone speak. The characters from his daydreams see Wishbone as whatever famous character he is currently portraying and not as a dog.
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.
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A dreamy seamstress and mother of three's life is turned upside down when she's wrongly diagnosed with a terminal disease along with an actually terminally ill wealthy book publisher.
An anthology of erotic stories by famous writers like Guy de Maupassant, Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne, Marquis de Sade, Giovanni Boccaccio, Marquis de Foudras, Daniel Defoe, Anton Tchekov, Jin Ping Mei, and Aristophanes.
At first glance Yukishiro Nanako seems like a normal high school girl, but she has a notable eccentricity: instead of speaking, she communicates only through written senryu poetry! This means she expresses herself only in 5-7-5 syllables. To most this might seem like an inconvenience, but for Nanako and her ex-delinquent bestie, Busujima Eiji, it adds to the experience of their high school lives as they run the Literature Club.
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13 episodes • 2018
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When the Book is Better than the Movie | Jun 4, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 2 | The Evolution of YA | Jun 26, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Why Sci Fi is a Mirror on Society | Jul 13, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 4 | An Ode to the Romance Novel | Jul 30, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 5 | How Fantasy Reflects Our World | Aug 21, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Why did they make me read this in High School? | Aug 30, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Can You Judge a Book by Its Cover? | Nov 21, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Fear of Ghost...Writing! | Dec 7, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Unreliable Narrators | Dec 17, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Food & Fiction: Memorable Meals in Literature | Jan 11, 2019 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Death, Personified | Jan 24, 2019 | 0.0 |
| 12 | How Greek Mythology Inspires Us | Feb 7, 2019 | 0.0 |
| 13 | The Beauty and Anguish of Les Misérables! | Apr 18, 2019 | 0.0 |
15 episodes • 2020
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Case for Fan Fiction | Feb 27, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Afrofuturism From Books to Blockbusters | Mar 19, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 3 | How Fictional Pandemics Reflect the Real Thing | Apr 29, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Why We Still Love Little Women, 150 Years Later | May 27, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 5 | The Byronic Hero: Isn’t it Byronic? | Jun 24, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 6 | The Constructed Languages of JRR Tolkien | Jul 16, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 7 | War and Peace and Everything Else | Aug 7, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 8 | The It’s Lit! Musical Episode | Aug 27, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 9 | The Fiery History of Banned Books | Sep 21, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 10 | The (Stephen) King of Horror | Nov 5, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Are Graphic Novels... Novels? | Nov 25, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Dune, The Most Important Sci Fi Series Ever? | Dec 17, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Anne Rice, The Queen of Literary Monsters | Jan 6, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Literary Icons You NEED to Know From the Harlem Renaissance | Feb 26, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 15 | How Do You Write a Bestseller? | Mar 18, 2021 | 0.0 |