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Former Governors Butch Otter (R), Idaho, David Ige (D), Hawaii & Gary Herbert (R), Utah, discuss the importance for the next generation to get involved in public service and why they are the key for lasting bipartisanship change for the future.

Liz Collins is well-known for pushing the boundaries of art and design in innovative and experimental work in fabric, yarn, and other materials and techniques associated with textile media. Although Collins embraces a language of abstraction, bold colors, patterns, and symbols allude to q***r and feminist references, sourcing further inspiration from interpersonal and environmental forces such as electricity, volatility, connectivity, and energy exchange. Whether in the form of textile, painting, drawing, or installation, Collins frequently explores the dichotomy of structure and entropy—qualities inherent to textile that speak to the fissures present in broader architectural, political, and social structures.

Collins’s current and forthcoming exhibitions include the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, and Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, curated by Lynne Cooke, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. In 2025, Collins will have a mid-career retrospective curated by Kate Irvin at the RISD Museum in Providence, RI, with an accompanying monograph.

Collins has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY; Touchstones Rochdale, Rochdale, UK, among others. She has been featured in group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the New Museum, New York, NY; The Drawing Center, New York, NY; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, among others. In 2020, the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery released Liz Collins — Energy Field, the artist’s first major publication.

Presented in partnership with Design Core Detroit.
Series presenting partners: Detroit PBS and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Radio.

To get in the Halloween mood, PBS Books and the American Library Association’s Booklist editor are teaming up to help you find your next big scare! Public Librarian and National Director Heather-Marie Montilla will speak with audiobook editor Heather Booth to explore the best mystery, magic and horror audiobooks released over last few years. Audiobooks are rapidly growing in popularity. While a majority of audiobook readers are between 25 and 44 years of age, the immersive audiobook experience is attracting people of all ages. Join us to learn about what to look for when selecting an audiobook and get top book recommendations from the experts.

Presenting Partners: Bipartisan Leadership Project, Western Governors’ Association & Western Governors’ University
Governor Mark Gordon (R), Wyoming & WGA 2023-24 Chair and Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D), New Mexico & WGA 2024-25 Chair to discuss the paths that led them to a life in public service, the role respect plays in the political landscape, and the important role civil discourse needs to play in our political future.

PBS Books presents the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan program "Mike Ford & Jason Carter to Speak: How DO we Run Fair, Safe Elections?" where they will examine the inner workings of the election process as well as expectations for staff conduct around elections. This series has been developed in partnership with Principles for Trusted Elections and More Perfect's Sustainable Democracy Goals.
Co-chaired by Mike Ford (son of President Ford) and Jason Carter (grandson of President Carter), the Principles for Trusted Elections is an effort to bring awareness to the process insuring fair, safe, and secure elections. More Perfect's "Five Democracy Goals" were created to support key cornerstones of a sustainable and vigorous democracy

Sibling conflict, showbiz grudges, and family secrets all complicate matters on a new Moonflower Murders! Don't miss it, TONIGHT (9/29) at 9pm on MASTERPIECE Mystery! on WXXI-TV.

Literary icon and great American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, joins the PBS Books Readers Club to discuss a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic.
**Named a Most Anticipated Book by the New York Times, Washington Post, Today.com, Goodreads, and more**
Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, doesn’t want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her sanity. So when Alma inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, her homeland, she has the beautiful idea of turning it into a place to bury her untold stories—literally. She creates a graveyard for the manuscript drafts and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her.

Readers will be excited to pair this novel with the September 2024 release of American Masters: Julia Alvarez on PBS, chronicaling the life and work of one of the most critically and commercially successful Latina writers of her generation.

September marks the 50th anniversary of President Gerald R. Ford's pardon of former President Richard Nixon. Over the past five decades, that act has been both vilified and then lionized as a great act of patriotism.

Five decades later, what is the significance of that unique, historical pardon? PBS Books is delighted to share a discussion with four legal experts on the significance of the Nixon pardon, in an appearance recorded at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

The discussion features University of Michigan law professor and former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks, Nixon White House Counsel John Dean and University of Baltimore Law School professor Kimberly Wehle.