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This animated book trailer captures the elements of thriller, mystery, and fable present in Australian author Fiona McFarlane’s debut novel, The Night Guest (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013). McFarlane received the 2017 International Dylan Thomas Prize for her story collection, The High Places (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016).
In this book trailer, Richard Flanagan, winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize, narrates a selection from his forthcoming novel, First Person, to be published by Knopf in 2018. Written in the style of a memoir, the novel follows a struggling writer who has six weeks to ghostwrite the memoir of a con artist.
“I just really wanted my words back—it was the one thing I lost, and it was the one thing I wanted back.” In the book trailer for her debut memoir, Tell Me Everything You Don’t Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life (Ecco, 2017), Christine Hyung-Oak Lee describes experiencing a stroke and how writing contributed to her recovery.
This book trailer for John Darnielle's Universal Harvester, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in February, offers a glimpse into the mysterious contents in copies of VHS tapes that set the stage for this suspenseful novel.
This book trailer provides an atmospheric preview of Jon Boilard’s debut novel, A River Closely Watched (MacAdam/Cage, 2012). Boilard’s first short story collection, Settright Road (Dzanc Books, 2017), is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
“I left Indiana and drove towards happiness.” Watch the book trailer for John W. Evans's second memoir, Should I Still Wish (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), which is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
In this book trailer for his debut memoir, All Tomorrow’s Parties (Grove Press, 2016), Rob Spillman recounts defining experiences from time spent as a child in Berlin, Aspen, and Baltimore. Spillman, who serves as the editor of Tin House and the executive editor of Tin House Books, is featured in Agents & Editors in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
In this book trailer for her debut story collection, Know the Mother (Wayne State University Press, 2016), Desiree Cooper reads from "In the Ginza." Cooper is featured in "5 Over 50 Reads" in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Winner of the 2015 Kibble Literary Award and Queensland Premier's Award for Fiction, Joan London’s novel The Golden Age (Europa Editions, 2016) explores the epic story of a Hungarian Jewish family’s escape to Australia after World War II. While in the hospital for polio treatment, the young protagonist has a romantic relationship with a girl he meets there.
“A cook marries ingredients much the way a poet marries words. This is a human experience.” In Cooking With the Muse: A Sumptuous Gathering of Seasonal Recipes, Culinary Poetry, and Literary Fare (Tupelo Press, 2016), poet Stephen Massimilla and chef Myra Kornfeld collaborate on an anthology of culinary poems and recipes. The book explores the connection between cooking and writing, and includes works by luminaries such as Emily Dickinson, Pablo Neruda, Zora Neale Hurston, Seamus Heaney, and Jane Hirshfield.
