Celebrated Professor Arnold Weinstein is talking about the books that made his life - how a bad reader in his Memphis boyhood found Melville and went on to write prolifically on the relationship of the reader to the text - as he puts in, the "common bloodline" between students, teachers, and books. Weinstein pairs his profound faith in the nutritional value of books with a healthy dislike for the literary theory that has dominated college teaching over the last four decades. The question for Arnold Weinstein is: who are we as readers?

Then, the great New York City reporter and columnist Jimmy Breslin is sounding off on war, race, and the death of the newspapers he once vitalized. Breslin describes his reporting style as "a dirty shirt at night." His new book is the story of how Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson integrated New York baseball in the 1940s, paving the way, he says, for the Obama to the Whitehouse.

Celebrated Professor Arnold Weinstein is talking about the books that made his life - how a bad reader in his Memphis boyhood found Melville and went on to write prolifically on the relationship of the reader to the text - as he puts in, the "common bloodline" between students, teachers, and books. Weinstein pairs his profound faith in the nutritional value of books with a healthy dislike for the literary theory that has dominated college teaching over the last four decades. The question for Arnold Weinstein is: who are we as readers?

Then, the great New York City reporter and columnist Jimmy Breslin is sounding off on war, race, and the death of the newspapers he once vitalized. Breslin describes his reporting style as "a dirty shirt at night." His new book is the story of how Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson integrated New York baseball in the 1940s, paving the way, he says, for the Obama to the Whitehouse.

Celebrated Professor Arnold Weinstein is talking about the books that made his life - how a bad reader in his Memphis boyhood found Melville and went on to write prolifically on the relationship of the reader to the text - as he puts in, the "common bloodline" between students, teachers, and books. Weinstein pairs his profound faith in the nutritional value of books with a healthy dislike for the literary theory that has dominated college teaching over the last four decades. The question for Arnold Weinstein is: who are we as readers?

Then, the great New York City reporter and columnist Jimmy Breslin is sounding off on war, race, and the death of the newspapers he once vitalized. Breslin describes his reporting style as "a dirty shirt at night." His new book is the story of how Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson integrated New York baseball in the 1940s, paving the way, he says, for the Obama to the Whitehouse.