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The movie Poetry, which was written and directed by South Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-Dong, recently won the Regard d'Or Award at the Fribourg International Film Festival in Switzerland. The movie, about a woman in her sixties who decides to take a poetry class at an adult-education center, also took honors for best screenplay at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
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.
Gerardo Mena, a decorated veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, recently won the 2010 War Poetry contest, sponsored by the Web site winningwriters.com, for his poem "So I Was a Coffin." This video poem features music composed by Mena as well as photographs contributed by members of the 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion or their family members.
The New York Times Book Review published online yesterday its 10 Best Books of 2010. In this video, fiction writer Ann Beattie, whose collection The New Yorker Stories was included on that list, discusses the early days of her career and the creative process of writing short stories.
Paul Auster reads from his sixteenth novel, Sunset Park, published earlier this month by Henry Holt.
Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer talks about his new book, Tree of Codes, a die-cut book published on November 15, 2010, by Visual Editions in which Foer carves out a story within the story of Bruno Schulz's classic novel The Street of Crocodiles.
New Yorker editor David Remnick talks with Ian Frazier, whose new book, Travels in Siberia, was published earlier this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The conversation took place at the New Yorker Festival on October 3.
British author Howard Jacobson, who has been described as the love child of Jane Austen and Philip Roth, won the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Finkler Question.
In 2008 TIME Magazine interviewed Tom Wolfe on the fortieth anniversary of his 1968 book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. The journalist and novelist was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by the National Book Foundation in 2010.
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