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The Danish Girl, a film adaptation of David Ebershoff's first novel, follows the story of married painters Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener, and Lili's journey as a transgender pioneer. The film is directed by Tom Hooper and stars Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander.
"I believe making art—and writing in particular—is not just a literary practice, but also a life practice." In this video, the first in a short series, Lidia Yuknavitch shares her experiences, tips, and philosophies on writing from the body, and writing with core metaphors.
Man Booker Prize–winner Marlon James speaks with PBS NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown about the voices in his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings (Riverhead Books, 2015) and what writing with all the senses means.
"The snow was dancing like cotton wool in the light of the street lamps. Aimlessly, unable to decide whether it wanted to fall up or down..." The opening lines of Jo Nesbø's most recent novel, Blood on Snow (Knopf, 2015), translated from the Norwegian by Neil Smith, are read in the audio edition by Patti Smith.
One BookTuber offers his view on 2015's book lists from the New York Times to Publishers Weekly, Amazon to Goodreads. Paula Hawkins's debut novel, The Girl on the Train (Riverhead Books, 2015), James Hannaham's Delicious Foods (Little, Brown, 2015), and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau, 2015) are books that top the lists.
"I ain't afraid to die anymore. I done it already." The Revenant, based on Michael Punke's 2002 novel of the same name, follows one man's journey across the frozen American West to avenge the murder of his son. Directed by Academy Award-winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the film will be released in December 2015.
Corina Copp reads an early version of her poems from The Green Ray (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015) for the sixth Antibody Series in 2014. Copp is featured in "Fractures Through Time" in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
"She creates an intimate space in which these bodies can connect," says Claudia Rankine, describing the poems in Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems (Knopf, 2015) by Robin Coste Lewis. Lewis won the 2015 National Book Award in poetry for her debut collection and is one of the debut poets featured in "Fractures Through Time" in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Morgan Parker reads her poem "Black Woman With Chicken" for Pen Pal Poets. Her debut collection, Other People's Comfort Keeps Me up at Night (Switchback Books, 2015), was selected for the 2013 Gatewood Prize, and her second collection, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce, is forthcoming from Tin House Books in February 2017. Parker is one of the debut poets featured in "Fractures Through Time" in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
"The future isn't machines constantly slamming..." Corinna Copp reads her poem "Poor Wave" at the Poetry Project along with Miguel Gutierrez. Copp, author of The Green Ray (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015), is one of the debut poets featured in "Fractures Through Time" in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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