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A masterpiece of modernist literature, exploring family, memory, and the passage of time. Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse delves into the complex relationships within the Ramsay family and their intellectual circle. Set across two days ten years apart, the novel uses stream of consciousness to reveal the characters' innermost thoughts and feelings as they grapple with love, loss, and the impact of societal changes. Experience Woolf's groundbreaking...

In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears.

Kaye Gibbons joins Elissa Schappell to discuss The Life All Around Me, the sequel to her novel Ellen Foster. Andrea Marcovicci reads an excerpt.

Michael Cunningham (The Hours) sits down with Stacey D'Erasmo to discuss his novel Specimen Days. Isaiah Sheffer reads an excerpt.

Karen Joy Fowler leads a celebration of Jane Austen. Hope Davis reads selections from Austen's classic works.

Edwidge Danticat sits down with director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs) to discuss and read from her book, “Brother, I'm Dying.”

Isaiah Sheffer sits down with two memoirists, Alexandra Fuller and Wendy Kann, to discuss their memoirs from Africa: Fuller's Scribbling the Cat and Kann's Casting with a Fragile Thread.

Susan Cooper talks with Symphony Space's education director about The Dark Is Rising sequence, her series of five thrilling fantasy novels for young readers, among them The Dark Is Rising and 1976 Newbery Medal winner The Grey King. The heroic series, originally published in the 1960s and 70s, is inspired by Arthurian myths and depicts an epic struggle between good ("The Light") and evil ("The Dark") in which children like 11-year-old Sign-Seeker...

David Wrobleski sits down with Dan Menaker to discuss and read excerpts from his book, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle.

Geraldine Brooks sits down with John Hockenberry to discuss her novel People of the Book. Rita Wolf reads an excerpt.