TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE

PROMO     9/28/2008 "Libraries"
*America was once a nation of readers, but now experts warn that reading is in
decline as our cultural life moves online. In this hour of To the Best of Our
Knowledge, an hour in praise and defense of the book.  Ursula Le Guin takes
book publishers to task and a beloved children's book editor recalls happy
days with Danny the Dinosaur and Little Bear.    

PROGRAM RUNDOWN: "Libraries"

0:00 - 1:00    Billboard (1:00)

1:00 - 6:00    SILENCE (5:00)

6:01 - 23:32   SEGMENT 1: (17:33)
     Maryanne Wolfe directs the Center for Reading and Language Research at
     Tufts University and is the author of "Proust and the Squid: The Story
     and Science of the Reading Brain."  She talks with Anne Strainchamps
     about the science of reading and why there's some reason to worry about
     the state of reading in our culture.  Also, celebrated science fiction
     and fantasy author Ursula Le Guin tells Steve Paulson that she believes
     books will always endure. Her thoughts on reading appeared in an essay
     in Harper's Magazine called "Notes on the Alleged Decline in Reading."
          
     Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio International."

23:33 - 24:02  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

24:03 - 45:37  SEGMENT 2: (21:36)
     Geraldine Brooks has written a novel which creates a fictional history
     for a real book   the remarkable rare, illuminated Jewish manuscript
     known as the Sarajevo Haggadah.  Brooks tells Jim Fleming about the real
     book and the novel she created, which is called "People of the Book." 
     Also, writer and critic Alberto Manguel has assembled a personal library
     of some thirty thousand volumes which he houses in an old converted
     stone barn in a village in France.  Manguel talks with Anne Strainchamps
     about his library and other libraries and librarians he has known. 
     Manguel's books on reading include "A Reading Diary," "A History of
     Reading," and most recently "The Library at Night."  
          
     Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio International."

45:38 - 46:07  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

46:08 - 59:00  SEGMENT 3: (12:52)
     Susan Hirschmann is a legendary children's book editor and founder of
     Greenwillow Books. She talks with Steve Paulson about some of the famous
     children's book authors she worked with including Jack Prelutsky and
     Kevin Henkes. 
          
     Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo


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