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For fans of mash-ups such as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Killer comes The Meowmorphosis by Frank Kafka and Coleridge Cook, published this week by Quirk Books.
In April and early May the multimedia production Muse's Market toured the Western United States, bringing together a combination of live music, art, performance poetry, and philosophy to address the topic of sustainability.
Seth Fried has a little fun with the book trailer format in this teaser for his debut story collection, The Great Frustration, published this month by Soft Skull Press.
In this trailer for Scott Sparling's debut novel, Wire to Wire (June), the author talks to his editor at Tin House Books, Tony Perez, about his book, which features a cast of "train-hopping, drug-dealing, glue-huffing lowlifes in a stunning homage to...the American crime novel."
This trailer for Helen Phillips's debut "novel in the form of linked fables," And Yet They Were Happy, published this month by Leapfrog Press, is animated by the author's husband, Adam Thompson, and features music by his brother, Nathan. Vanity Fair described Phillips as a "surreal miniaturist," and critic Michael Dirda praised her book as "a gallery of marvels."
Follow Virgil Biggs as he tries to promote his new poetry collection, Bigg Olive, which was inspired by the local Target Superstore, among other things, in this humorous video.
Despite a bestelling novel as its source—and a score that was composed by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood—the film adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood, directed by Anh Hung Tran, has been met with decidedly mixed reviews that boil down to: The book is better. The movie was released in Japan and Russia last December and in the UK in March.
Will Allison, whose beautifully written debut novel, What You Have Left, was released in 2007, discusses his followup, Long Drive Home, published this month by Free Press.
Poet C. D. Wright was recently interviewed on the PBS NewsHour about her latest book, One With Others (Copper Canyon Press, 2010).
About a year ago Dean Young read his poem "Your Super Bookstore Recommends" for Teleportal Readings in Austin, Texas. Earlier this month Young underwent a successful heart transplant, some of the costs of which were offset by the ongoing fundraising efforts of the poetry community.