The film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go is now playing in select theaters. Poets & Writers Magazine profiled the author when the book was published by Knopf in 2005.

"Part of the role of poetry and poets is to force ourselves past the common ways of looking at things." Jane Hirshfield, whose poetry collection The Beauty was released by Knopf in March, speaks about the responsibility of the poet in America today.

1Q84, the eagerly anticipated tome by Haruki Murakami, will be published by Knopf next month. The image of the book at the end of this trailer doesn't do it justice: The novel is nearly 950 pages long.

Chip Kidd, the associate art director at Knopf and Pantheon, talks about his cover design for Haruki Murakami's novel 1Q84. Note the Spirograph drawings behind his desk (three of them were featured in Kidd's design of the January/February 2010 cover of Poets & Writers Magazine). And read Ken Gordon's take on the girth of Murakami's huge book and others in the current issue.

"My joy is the same as twelve Ethiopian goats standing silent in the morning light," writes Jack Gilbert in his poem "The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart." His Collected Poems will be published by Knopf in March.

In one of the darkest book trailers in recent memory, Erin Cosgrove presents this short film based on Ben Marcus's The Flame Alphabet, published this month by Knopf. "In the beginning was the word, and it made people sick..."

The author of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, who is profiled in the current issue, describes her three-month, eleven-hundred-mile hike in this new video from Knopf.

In this clip from Fresno State University, the poet laureate reads "Gospel," from his collection Breath (Knopf, 2004). For more Philip Levine, read Michael Bourne's interview in the current issue and listen to the poet read "The Mercy."

In the studio to record the audio version of his lastest book, the story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, Nathan Englander discusses the impetus for essentially rewriting Raymond Carver's famous story with the Holocaust in mind.