Bibliofiles

Segment 1: In 1990, Deanna Dikeman took a photo of her parents waving goodbye to her as she drove away.She continued to take these pictures for decades…

Enjoy this guide to the best books read by our Bibliofiles and KCUR staffers in 2019.The books that matter most as we look back on the year aren't always…

Segment 1: Books in school, according to a librarian.A retired Shawnee Mission school librarian reflects on the change she's witnessed in school libraries…

Segment 1: Why we don't fix things any more, and why that matters.There's a national movement encouraging people to learn how to fix things as an antidote…

Segment 1: If laughter is the best medicine, can a doctor write a prescription for a joke? In this conversation, we break down what makes a successful…

Segment 1: A bookstore stage for a literary legend.Tru is a one-man production about writer Truman Capote's lonely Christmas in 1975. We speak with the…

Segment 1: How should we respond to violent acts of hatred?On Saturday, a gunman killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh,…

The 'dark side' of suburbia has been a running theme in American literature for at least a couple of decades. The theme has many forms: existential…

Do you devour 'think pieces' online? Or perhaps you read essays the old-fashioned way: in books. Either way, you're participating in the timeless art of…

Love is hard to define — so how do you analyze a whole literary genre with rules built around the concept? Today, KCUR's 'Bibliofiles' explain the themes,…

Some see memoir writing as a shameless act of navel-gazing. Fair enough . . . But a great memoir is about more than the person who wrote it. It's about…

End-of-the-world scenarios have always been a popular fiction trope. Now, there's one scenario that doesn't seem so fictional, at least not anymore:…