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Grolier Poetry Book Shop: Diana Arterian, Frannie Lindsay, Ariel Yelen

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In this 2025 reading hosted by the Grolier Poetry Book Shop, Diana Arterian reads from Agrippina the Younger (Northwestern University Press, 2025), Frannie Lindsay reads from The Snow’s Wife (CavanKerry Press, 2020), and Ariel Yelen reads from I Was Working (Princeton University Press, 2024).

New Stories by Virginia Woolf

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In this PBS NewsHour video, Malcolm Brabant speaks with archivists and scholars about discovering lost stories written by Virginia Woolf before her first novel was published. The discovery culminated into a newly published collection of three comic stories, The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories (Princeton University Press, 2025), edited by Urmila Seshagiri.

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Jhumpa Lahiri on Translating Literature

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“Translate literature and it will teach you how to write.” In this American Library in Paris event, Jhumpa Lahiri reads from her essay collection Translating Myself and Others (Princeton University Press, 2022) and talks about her latest book, Bone Into Stone (Sylph Editions, 2024), which details her experiences translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses from the Latin in partnership with the classicist Yelena Baraz.

Andrei Codrescu: Google Kills Creativity

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Poet, novelist, and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu recently delivered a lecture about art, the Internet, and his latest book, The Poetry Lesson (Princeton University Press, 2010), at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. In this clip he talks about how Google is killing creativity and what Facebook is "really" all about.

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