June 25, 2009
Book TV
Mentioning “book” and “TV” in one sentence may seem like an oxymoron to some, but I’m hooked. On Book TV that is. Book TV is a pretaped, 24 hour per day series of (commercial free) interviews with some of today’s most fascinating authors. I discovered Book TV by accident while cruising the vast wastelands one fine night and bumbled into an hour long interview with Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of the smash novella “Eat, Pray, Love”. Listening to this woman speak was like a blast of clear intellectualism-something I generally don’t expect to experience on the boob-tube. The woman speaks extemporaneously on a variety of subjects in clear, lucid prose delivered in complete, cogent paragraphs. Amazing! After an hour of listening to her I was hooked.A random sampling of their offerings includes: Azir Nafisi discussing her book “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”. Professor Nafisi resigned from her job as a professor of English literature at a university in Tehran due to repressive policies in 1995. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Ms. Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. See a complete schedule plus active content at booktv.org. This is the real deal-enjoy.Jeremy Myers is the Owner of Lyssabeth’s Fort Collins Officiants