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Bob Hicok's "Having intended to merely pick on an oil company, the poem goes awry" gets dramatic in documentarian Joanna Kohler's adaptation, produced by Motionpoems.
In this short video produced by Columbia School of Journalism's Mariana Ionova, poet Alex Ustach talks about her work in a perfumery in New York City and how perfume and poetry intertwine.
How does a new book make you feel? That's the question posed in this clip from Hachette Australia, which features stacks of new books, including Justin Cronin's The Twelve ("Survive"), Kevin Powers's The Yellow Birds ("Heal"), and Will Schwalbe's The End of Your Life Book Club ("Cry").
This clip of Natasha Trethewey reading on April 12 at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago as part of the Dark Room Collective Reunion Tour, was recorded by Rachel Eliza Griffiths. Read Kevin Nance's profile of the new poet laureate, "This Time, This Voice," in the current issue.
The Penguin Press has released eight novels by Thomas Pynchon, including Gravity's Raindbow, Vineland, and Against the Day, as e-books. If that news doesn't excite you, perhaps this rockin' trailer will.
Authors Alison Bechdel, Terry Castle, and Joan Schenkar and editor Robert Weil talk about the influence of Patricia Highsmith, twenty-one of whose works are available in print and e-book from W. W. Norton.
To promote his third novel, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, published this month by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Jonathan Evison is hitting the road for a tour that begins August 25 at Sunriver Books & Music in Sunriver, Oregon, and wraps up on October 28 at the Texas Book Festival in Austin.
America's '80s icon is back with a novel in stories, When It Happens to You, published this month by It Books. In this video from the Daily Beast, Ringwald talks about writing, the perils of Twitter, and her work in Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink.
The late poet is seen here reading two poems at the 2008 Dodge Poetry Festival. The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–2010, published in September by BOA Editions, is one of the twelve titles featured in this issue's Page One.
Thirty years after the publication of The Invention of Solitude, Paul Auster returns to the memoir form with Winter Journal, one of the twelve titles included in this issue's Page One. In this video, Auster reads from the first chapter of the memoir, published this month by Henry Holt.