Lynne Andriani reports on Publishers Weekly that a new weekly TV show that will go to different locations each week and talk to different writers who live there launches today on nonprofit network LinkTV. The half-hour program, Open Book, will be hosted by its creator, publicist and editor Ina Howard, who says “Our aim is to help writers and publishers reach diverse and diffuse audiences through the media they’re already consuming, and then to bring them back to books.”

The first episode — which you can watch here — “will feature writers, actors and musicians in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, including authors Ishmael Beah (A Long Way Gone), Jennifer Egan (The Keep) and Moustafa Bayoumi (How Does It Feel to Be a Problem), as well as actor Jeffrey Wright, poet Suheir Hammad (Def Jam Poetry) and others.”