"A great work of literature transcends its genre—whatever genre that might be," says Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon in this profile by Open Road Media, which has made a number of Chabon's novels available as e-books.

"He was so old-school he kicked dope strapped down in jail in West Hollywood," says author Jerry Stahl, who joins Henry Rollins and Amiri Baraka in this profile of the author of Last Exit to Brooklyn, Requiem for a Dream, The Demon, and The Room, now available as e-books from Open Road Media.

In Fall of the Birds, a new novella available as an e-book from Open Road Media, fiction writer and Conjunctions editor Bradford Morrow tells the story of a man who tracks an inexplicable plague of bird deaths. "Thinking of a world without birds would almost be like stripping out a color from the spectrum," Morrow says in this short video.

"So in the end you can't even really regret your misfortunes—because they led you somewhere," says Alice Walker in this retrospective video from Open Road Media, which recently released Walker's work, including The Color Purple, in digital form.

With work on their minds this Labor Day weekend (when many of us are taking three days off), the fine folks at Open Road Media take a look at how several writers, including Andres Dubus and Don Winslow, paid the bills while they were struggling to make it in the literary world.

From Open Road Media comes this video of Kaylie Jones and Andre Dubus III sharing memories of their dads.

In this clip, produced by Open Road Media, novelist Pat Conroy talks about his early years as the eldest of seven children raised in a strict military household in Beaufort, South Carolina. "I was making up stories about my life at a very early age," says the author of The Prince of Tides and The Lords of Discipline. "I was writing fiction long before I knew I was writing fiction."