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The author, who died on Wednesday at the age of ninety-one, is seen here in a 2009 conversation with Lawrence Bridges about his best-known work, the novel Fahrenheit 451. President Barack Obama noted yesterday that Bradbury’s “gift for storytelling reshaped our culture and expanded our world.”
This short film, directed by Aleksandar Kostic and narrated by Miki Manojlovic, was inspired by Danilo Kiš's story “A Tomb for Boris Davidovich.” Kiš, a Yugoslavian writer who was influenced by Vladimir Nabokov and Jorge Luis Borges, died in 1989.
The visionary cofounder of Apple died of complications from pancreatic cancer yesterday at the age of fifty-six. Here are some choice cuts from his commencement address at Stanford University in 2005, presented in the form of a poem.
Earlier this month Random House published the paperback edition of Let's Take the Long Way Home, Gail Caldwell's memoir of her friendship with Caroline Knapp, author of Drinking: A Love Story (The Dial Press, 1996), who died of lung cancer at age forty-two in 2002.
Samuel Menashe, the first poet to receive the Neglected Masters Award from the Poetry Foundation in 2004, died Monday night in his sleep on August 22, 2011. He was eighty-five years old. In this clip, from the WNYC series “Know Your Neighbor,” Menashe is seen in his New York City apartment, where he lived for fifty years.
In 1960 Carl Sandburg, the poet, journalist, Lincoln biographer, and three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, appeared on CBS's “What’s My Line?” which ran from 1950 to 1967, the year Sandburg died.
Nearly all of his forty-four published books were science fiction, but Philip K. Dick, who died in 1982, has influenced countless writers and filmmakers with sociological, political, and metaphysical themes that trenscend genre. The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, edited and introduced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this fall, is the author's final work.
The anime art film Spring & Chaos, directed by Shoji Kawamori and created exclusively for Japanese television, is based on the life of Japanese poet Kenji Miyazawa, who died in 1933.
“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?” Muriel Rukeyser asked in her poem “Käthe Kollwitz.” She answered: “The world would split open.” In this clip, Rukeyser, who died in 1980, reads the poem “In Our Time.”
The author of five poetry collections, including Ghost in a Red Hat, which was just published by W. W. Norton, Rosanna Warren reads “Aftermath,” one in a series of elegies she wrote the for poet Deborah Tall, who died of breast cancer in 2006. This reading took place on March 7, 2011 at Nyack College.
![What's My Line? - Carl Sandburg; Milton Berle; Nick Adams [panel] (Sep 11, 1960)](https://www.pw.org/files/styles/video_thumb_medium/public/media-oembed/i.ytimg.com/vi/GkJ2-rP78TU/hqdefault.jpg?itok=CRKRwP_1)
