5 Best Things to Do: November 8-14, 2010
From symphony to circus, for yogis and bookworms, Megan Harris keeps you in-the-know with all the events you just can't miss this week.
Nov 8, 2010 in Video
Photographer: Lynn Goldsmith
Lynn Goldsmith, artist photographer provides insight about her art and her new book, "The Looking Glass."
Aug 17, 2010 in Video
Author Keith Hemstreet: Travels with Gannon & Wyatt
Oliver Sharpe interviews Keith Hemstreet, the co-author of the series "Travels with Gannon and Wyatt: Botswana". He discusses how he got involved with the project and what the future holds for Gannon and Wyatt.
Jul 29, 2010 in Video
George Stranahan: Author and Colorado Book Award Recipient
Physicist, professor, restaurant founder, farmer, and brewer George Stranahan has recently added "award winning author and photographer" to his extensive list of accomplishments. His book, Phlogs, received the Colorado Book Award for the beautiful images and insightful messages it contains. Stranahan is truly a legend in Aspen and his ever-broadening expertise has not seized to amaze us.
Jul 28, 2010 in Video
Author Series: Emily St. John Mandel
In this Author Series, we met with Emily St. John Mandel to discuss the inspiration for her new book "The Singer's Gun." To get your copy of "The Singer's Gun," head over to Bunch of Grapes bookstore on Main St. in Vineyard Haven.
Jun 25, 2010 in Masters (1 Comments)
Author Flora Fraser, "Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire"
Author Flora Fraser discusses her newest book, "Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire" with Plum host Kate Brosnan on the MorningNoon&Night Show. Flora's book tells of Pauline, Napoleon's power-hungry and favorite sister, and the scandals that surrounded her throughout history.
Aug 12, 2009
Peter Heller: "The Whale Warriors"
Author Peter Heller joined Plum at the Bookworm of Edwards to discuss his experiences with Captain Paul Watson and the crew of Sea Shepherds aboard the Farley Mowat, which is the subject of his latest work, The Whale Warriors. The Sea Shepherds engage on open seas with commercial whaling fleets, using any direct action to prevent whalers from completing their operations.
Jan 22, 2009 in Video
Author Profile: Philippa Gregory
Philippa Gregory, author of Wideacre and The Other Boleyn Girl, sat down with Plum to discuss her history as a writer, her writing process, her love of women's & radical history, and her latest work, The Other Queen.
Jan 22, 2009 in Masters
Minds of Mountainfilm: Pico Iyer
Journalist and travel author Pico Iyer sits down with Mountainfilm program director Emily Long to discuss his ancestry, his childhood in the vastly different cultures of '60s London and California, his lifelong relationship with the Dalai Lama as documented in his latest book "The Open Road" and his thoughts on the concepts of non-violence and tolerance.
Dec 17, 2008 in Video
Minds of Mountainfilm: Dr. John Francis
Film producer Tom Shadyac sits down with "The Planet Walker" Dr. John Fancis to discuss Francis' remarkable life. After viewing an oil spill in 1971, Dr. Francis refused to use any vehicle dependent upon oil, walking wherever he needed to go for 22 years, and maintaining a vow of silence for 17 years. During this period of time, he pursued a college education, achieved a doctorate, was a college professor and served as an environmental analyst for the Coast Guard. Dr. Francis discusses his upcoming biopic with Shadyac, his thoughts on Mountainfilm, and his unique and inclusive definition of environment.
Dec 17, 2008 in Video (1 Comments)
Author Rick Bass Discusses Creative Writing
Rick Bass, author of "Where the Seas Used to Be" and "The Hermit's Story", describes the connection between creative and his other love, geology. In creative writing, as in geology, you begin on the surface with very few clues and are digging to find something deeper. Bass shares his inspiration for writing and states that his goal as an author is to create work that is "pretty."
Dec 11, 2008
Audrey on Nantucket
Author Audrey Obremski talks about her first book "Audrey on Nantucket" with Plum TV's host Kate Brosnan. Obremski's book is a compilation of weekly columns written for the Inquirer and Mirror offering her opinion on Nantucket. Audrey and her husband now live in Costa Rica where she continues to write.
Dec 8, 2008 by Jenelle Ferri (Author)
Children's Author Avi on Writing & Reading
Children's author Avi recently stopped by the Bookworm of Edwards & spoke with Plum about his history, his inspiration to write for children and why children are the best audience. Avi contends that artists must be stubborn and authors must write rea
Nov 17, 2008 in Masters
The Scholarly Stephen Trachtenberg
Stephen Trachtenberg, the former President of George Washington University, sits seaside with MorningNoon&Night to discuss his life in the world of education and as an author. His books include "Big Man on Campus" and "Letters to the Next President," with a new one entitled “Why They Fail” on the way. Stephen is a staunch supporter of American education and the role it should be playing in politics. As they say: once an educator, always an educator.
Sep 4, 2008
Jennifer Lowe's Forget Me Not
Carey Molter of Kneeland Gallery sits down with artist and author Jennifer Lowe to discuss her art and the inspiration behind her powerful memoir, Forget Me Not.
Aug 28, 2008 (1 Comments)
At Home With Jay McInerney
Plum's Robyn Moreno sits down with renowned author Jay McInerney and his three dogs. With a career that has spanned the writing spectrum to include novels, short stories, screenplays and wine writing, Jay keeps his readers reading. Outside of the world of the written word, he's involved with the charitable organization Best Buddies that's "dedicated to enhancing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities by providing opportunities for one-to-one friendships and integrated employment."
Aug 25, 2008
Author Lois Brown
Author Lois Brown visits Nantucket's African Meeting House to talk about her book, "Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Black Daughter of the Revolution."
Aug 24, 2008
Wendy Hudson Book List
Wendy Hudson, owner of Nantucket Bookworks discusses her picks for late summer reading as well as the literary scene on Nantucket with MorningNoon&Night Show host Kate Brosnan.
Aug 24, 2008
Cokie Roberts
ABC and NPR’s Cokie Roberts talks to Plum about her latest book, Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation, the power of the political wife and the path that the women of the early republic have made for women today.
Aug 13, 2008 in Video
From Mountain to Mountain
David O. Relin, author of Three Cups of Tea, joins Super Sherpas Apa and Lhakpa in Hailey, ID to help raise money for schools in Nepal. Relin and the Sherpas discuss the importance of maintaining schools in these remote regions, and how their own...
Aug 13, 2008 in Masters (1 Comments)
Jules Feiffer
The Pulitzer Prize winning comic strip cartoonist and author talks about his new book, "The Explainers."
Aug 12, 2008
Linda Fairstein
Founder of the Sex Crimes Unit as an ADA and author talks about her new book "Killer Heat."
Aug 7, 2008
