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In this clip from the 2003 documentary Alfred Eisenstaedt: Photographer, the award-winning photographer describes his experience shooting Ernest Hemingway for Life magazine in 1952. One of Eisenstaedt's photos appeared on the cover; inside was Hemingway's new story, "The Old Man and the Sea."
The New York Times Book Review published online yesterday its 10 Best Books of 2010. In this video, fiction writer Ann Beattie, whose collection The New Yorker Stories was included on that list, discusses the early days of her career and the creative process of writing short stories.
Married authors John Yunker and Midge Raymond present a cautionary tale titled "Love in the Time of Amazon.com."
Paul Auster reads from his sixteenth novel, Sunset Park, published earlier this month by Henry Holt.
Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer talks about his new book, Tree of Codes, a die-cut book published on November 15, 2010, by Visual Editions in which Foer carves out a story within the story of Bruno Schulz's classic novel The Street of Crocodiles.
CNN takes a look at the production of a play based on Adam Bertocci's Two Gentlemen of Lebowski: A Most Excellent Comedie and Tragical Romance, published last month by Simon & Schuster. Bertocci transforms Joel and Ethan Coen's 1998 movie, The Big Lebowski, into a five-act comedy of errrors written by William Shakespeare.
Novelist Nicole Krauss recently appeard on the PBS NewsHour to discuss the inspiration for her third book, Great House, which was published by Norton last month. The novel, about a stolen writing desk, was recently named a finalist for the National Book Award.
Brian Dettmer, whose art has appeared in past issues of Poets & Writers Magazine, explains his process of altering used books, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, textbooks, and medical guides, to create intricate three-dimensional works that reveal new interpretations of the original books.
Poet Jim Daniels wrote the screenplay for Mr. Pleasant, a film about one weekend in the life of Red, a student in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, in the early 1980s. The film will be shown on Friday, November 19, at the Three Rivers Film Festival in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Watch the trailer.
Literary MagNet chronicles the start-ups and closures, successes and failures, anniversaries and accolades, changes of editorship and special issues—in short, the news and trends—of literary magazines in America. This issue's MagNet features Pleiades, Nashville Review, Sycamore Review, One Story, the Oxford American, the Awakenings Review, Fairy Tale Review, and Bound Off.
