At age 83, Robert Caro pulls back the curtains on his process, in his new book "Working." He also answers the question he is asked most often: why does it take him so long to write his books? Caro is the author of the Robert Moses biography "The Power Broker" and "The Years of Lyndon Johnson," The biographer, who has spent much time doing what he does best in the Allen Room of The New York Public Library, returns to share some stories of his own with William P. Kelly, The New York Public Library’s Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Research Libraries.
Thomas Struth on Collective Memory and Family Photos
Neil Gaiman Reads "A Christmas Carol"
Maira Kalman on Her Favorite Things
Mark Strand on Artistic Imagination
Marcus Samuelsson on Food, Love, & Gratitude
Richard Ford on Becoming a Reader and Finding a Voice
George Clinton on the Future of Funk
Neil Gaiman on Fairy Tales Revisited
Sam Roberts on New York City
Marjane Satrapi - Narratives of Social Protest.
Jane Smiley - The Last Hundred Years
Philip K. Howard - The Rule of Nobody
Tom Perotta - Nine Inches
Ben Lerner - 10:04
Ayana Mathis - The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Losing Parents to AIDS: The Personal and the Political
Robert Morris: "Object Sculpture, 1960-1965"
CUT – The Songs That Didn't Make It
The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
George Prochnik - "The Impossible Exile"
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