Theater video tags: 2019

Anthony Veasna So Reads From Straight Thru Cambotown

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In this 2019 Lambda Literary Retreat video, the late Anthony Veasna So reads from his novel-in-progress, Straight Thru Cambotown. This excerpt appears in his posthumously published book, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes (Ecco, 2023), which is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Carmen Maria Machado: In the Dream House

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In this 2019 Politics and Prose Bookstore event, award-winning author Carmen Maria Machado reads from her memoir, In the Dream House (Graywolf Press, 2019), and discusses her challenges writing a second-person narrative and how she delicately confronted traumatic memories in a conversation with author Jeannie Vanasco.

Young-Ha Kim

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“The moment kids start to lie is the moment storytelling begins.” Young-Ha Kim delivers a TEDx Talk about all children beginning as artists, novel writing as a process of composing one sentence after another, and the value of a world in which everyone creates art, whether in public or in private. Kim’s story collection Diary of a Murderer (Mariner Books, 2019), translated from the Korean by Krys Lee, is featured in Page One in the May/June 2019 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Advice From Arthur Sze

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“When you think you’re getting good, be humble. There’s no end to the learning.” In this video, Arthur Sze visits his high school, the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, and offers advice from his years of experience as a poet. Sze is the recipient of the 2013 Jackson Poetry Prize and won the 2019 National Book Award in poetry for his collection Sight Lines (Copper Canyon Press, 2019).

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Ours Poetica: Gala Mukomolova

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“The book itself is a meditation about growing up between an immigrant life and a queer life, between countries and between different kinds of kinship systems.” Gala Mukomolova discusses her debut collection, Without Protection (Coffee House Press, 2019), and reads her poem “X” in this installment of the Ours Poetica series, sponsored by Complexly and the Poetry Foundation.

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Sarah Moss

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“I don’t really think you can teach people to write, you can just teach them to read. Read everything you can about your setting or your characters or whatever it is you don’t know.” In this Granta video, Sarah Moss, author of the novels Ghost Wall (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019) and Summerwater (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021), offers advice on first drafts, research, and the importance of reading to a writer.

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Han Kang on the Horror of Humanity

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In this 2019 Louisiana Channel interview, Man Booker–winning author Han Kang speaks about the origins of her writing from her love of books to her questions about humanity. “When we are confronted by the horror of humanity, we have to question ourselves,” says Kang. Her new novel, Greek Lessons (Hogarth, 2023), translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won, is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

The Slowdown Podcast: Major Jackson and Aria Aber

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Poet and producer of The Slowdown podcast Myka Kielbon introduces a special episode featuring a conversation with host Major Jackson and poet Aria Aber, author of the Whiting Award–winning collection, Hard Damage (University of Nebraska Press, 2019). Jackson answers questions about The Slowdown in a Q&A by Julia Mallory in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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