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Lauren Redniss gives a TEDx Talk about the process of trial, error, and transforming mistakes that went into the creation of her second book, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout (It Books, 2010). Redniss was awarded the 2016 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award for her latest book, Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future (Random House, 2015).
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jane Smiley explains why The Winter’s Tale is her favorite play by William Shakespeare. To commemorate the four hundred year anniversary of his death in April 2016, Folger Shakespeare Library has collected videos of people sharing their favorite Shakespeare stories.
"I was too young to remember my father's death or much of his life." This book trailer for The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father (Metropolitan Books, 2016) by Kao Kalia Yang features Hmong song poetry composed and sung by Bee Yang, the author's father.
Layli Long Soldier, one of the 2016 Whiting Award winners in poetry, reads a selection of poems for Real Pants.
Alice Sola Kim reads a selection of short stories for a Litquake event with Kearny Street Workshop in 2012. Kim is one of the 2016 Whiting Award winners in fiction.
Tale of Tales is a film adaptation based on the Pentamerone, a seventeenth-century publication of fairy tales collected by Italian poet Giambattista Basile, which contains the earliest versions of stories such as Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Sleeping Beauty. Directed by Matteo Garrone, the film stars Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, and John C. Reilly.
Brian Blanchfield reads from his essay collection, Proxies: Essays Near Knowing (Nightboat, 2016), at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Blanchfield is one of the 2016 Whiting Award winners in nonfiction.
This short film is based on Jory John's humor piece "I'm an Expert Haggler at Garage Sales" published in McSweeney's Internet Tendency in 2015. Directed by David Jude Harris, the film stars Matt Ingebretson and Diane Sellers.
"Twenty-two stories about the magic of useless things" promises the book trailer for Dolan Morgan's new collection of short stories, Insignificana (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016). Civil Coping Mechanisms was featured in Small Press Points in the May/June 2015 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
At the New Craftsmen in London, Olivia Laing reads from Ernest Hemingway's short story "Now I Lay Me," and then from her second book, The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking (Picador, 2013), which chronicles the alcoholism of six writers. Laing's new book, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Picador, 2016), examines loneliness and contemporary interpersonal relations.
