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Maxine Hong Kingston and Leslie Marmon Silko
Last week Maxine Hong Kingston, whose memoir, I Love a Broad Margin to My Life, was published in January by Knopf, and Leslie Marmon Silko, author of the memoir The Turquoise Ledge (Viking, 2010), read together at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York City.
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
You may want to turn up the volume because this unique clip, the book trailer for Elisabeth Tova Bailey's memoir, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Algonquin Books, 2010), delivers exactly what the title promises. The memoir, which was named one of the best books of 2010 by the Huffington Post, follow's the author's observations of a forest snail that has taken up residence on her nightstand during a long illness.
The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady
This trailer for Elizabeth Stuckey-French's second novel, The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady, published next week by Doubleday, is directed and edited by Ben Mekler. Stuckey-French's short stories have appeared in The Normal School, the Atlantic, the Gettysburg Review, the Southern Review, and Five Points
In this clip from James Wright's Ohio, a documentary by Tom Koba and Larry Smith that is being reissued on DVD later this month by Bottom Dog Press, the late poet William Matthews speaks to the importance of place in Wright's work.
Roger Rosenblatt's Four Reasons to Write
In this recent interview with Jeffrey Brown on the PBS NewsHour, author, essayist, and longtime professor Roger Rosenblatt discusses his book Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing, published last month by Ecco.
The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins
Diego Maclean directed this animated poem, narrated by Billy Collins, from the poet's 1995 collection, The Art of Drowning (University of Pittsburgh Press).
"The Typewriter" by Leroy Anderson
Viennese percussionist Martin Breinschmid performs Leroy Anderson's "The Typewriter" with the Strauss Festival Orchestra Vienna in Ludwigshafen,Germany, in 2008.
John Powers, a professer at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, assembled his kenetic scuplture, "Remember," using a collection of vintage typewriters.
Winter's Bone, based on the 2006 novel by Daniel Woodrell, is nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture.
Fiction writer Reynolds Price, who died last Thursday at the age of seventy-seven, is the subject of a new documentary, Pass It On, which takes a look at the impact the late author had on his students at Duke University, where he taught writing and the poetry of Milton for more than fifty years.