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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).
Jhumpa Lahiri talks with Ann Goldstein, translator of Elena Ferrante's novels, about Ferrante, literature, translation, and writing at the Center for Jewish History. Lahiri, who is featured in the the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, has a new memoir, In Other Words (Knopf, 2016), which is translated from the Italian by Goldstein. For more from Lahiri and Goldstein, listen to the latest episode of Ampersand: The Poets & Writers Podcast.
Fiction writer Leni Zumas delivers the craft talk "In Praise of Debris: On Using Shards, Dregs, and Detritus in Fiction" during Poets & Writers Live Portland.
Poet Matthew Dickman discusses "Skinheads, Suicide, and Government Assistance: Why Subjects Don't Make Poets Into Heroes."
Essayist Elena Passarello presents the craft talk "Point Sublime: Research and Uncertainty in the Literary Essay."
Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers an inspiring talk about the origins of storytelling to kick off Poets & Writers Live Portland in October 2015.
Essayist Jenny Boully delivers a craft talk called "Beginnings and Endings: Revising Lives in Nonfiction" at Poets & Writers Live in Chicago.
Novelist Edward Kelsey Moore delivers a craft talk called "Making Up the Truth: Using Real-Life Experiences to Enrich Fiction" at Poets & Writers Live in Chicago.
Poet Roger Reeves delivers a craft talk called “The Work of Art in the Age of Ferguson, Baltimore, and Charleston” at Poets & Writers Live in Chicago.
Poet Li-Young Lee gives the poetry keynote at Poets & Writers Live Chicago in June 2015.
