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Airs Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

Animator Mike Salva Talks About His New Short

Navy Doc and Combat Psychologist Write Graphic Novel For Corpsmen

We've got some reading to recommend in between your bouts of spring cleaning. We'll talk about a number of impressive debut novels, as well as a panoramic look at America in book form and a comprehensive study of debt from an unlikely source, celebrated novelist Margaret Atwood.

Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) has promised to amend his financial reports to more fully explain a profitable land deal he made with a partner in Las Vegas. The Associated Press reported that Reid's original disclosure was incomplete, in possible violation of Senate ethics rules.

Are We Reading Less Because of the Web?

Dan Brown's latest book "The Lost Symbol" is flying off the shelves and Oprah has picked a new book-club book. Things are looking up for the publishing industry, especially since this fall promises books from some of the leading fiction and non-fiction writers working today. We'll preview the fall season and recommend some books that you can read right now.

Warwick's bookseller Seth Marko has been reading a chapter a day of James Patterson's "9th Judgment" since April. He started the project hoping to understand the appeal of the world's highest paid author. We'll talk to Marko to see what he discovered.

A Coens' Tweener Film

Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS app. Ronald Reagan was America's most ideological president in his rhetoric, yet pragmatic in his actions. He believed in balanced budgets, but never submitted one; hated nuclear weapons, but built them by the thousands; preached family values, but presided over a dysfunctional family. His vision of America divided the nation, yet no matter what people thought of him politically, Reagan always won them over personally.