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Ander Monson's video interpretation of one of the essays in his 2007 collection, Neck Deep and Other Predicaments (Graywolf Press). "Best watched in the dark, lights off, January in Michigan, real cold," Monson writes on his YouTube channel.
This short film, written and directed by David Spies and produced by Phil Seneker, is about a writer who is pressured by his literary agent to find his muse.
This poem by Todd Boss, read by the author, animated by Tom Jacobsen, with music by Jesse Marks, was produced by Motionpoems.
Six finalists are announced for the fifty-thousand-dollar International Prize for Arabic Fiction; Publishers Weekly launches a quarterly listing of self-published books; Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride" turns 150 years old; authors recite Dickens's A Christmas Carol in New York City; and other news.
This book trailer, produced by one of the authors featured in our sixth annual debut poets roundup, features clips from a Tea Party political rally held this past summer in Racine, Wisconsin, and music by The Scarring Party.
Two Texas establishments are looking to honor books authored by home state poets and fiction writers.
Recently published writers from Texas or who write about Texas themes could be eligible for prizes ranging from twelve hundred dollars to six thousand dollars.
Texas Christian University's biennial TCU Texas Book Award, which offers a prize of five thousand dollars, is open until December 31 to books of prose "about Texas" that were published in 2009 and 2010. The award has recognized one writer of literary fiction or creative nonfiction since the inaugural prize in 2003, Stephen Harrigan's Gates of the Alamo (Knopf, 2000), which was set in nineteenth-century Texas (others have been given to research-based nonfiction writers).
The Texas Institute of Letters is also seeking literary standouts in poetry, short fiction, and the novel for its literary awards. The six-thousand-dollar Jesse H. Jones Award is given for a novel or short story collection, and two one-thousand-dollar awards are given for a first book of fiction and a published short story. One volume of poetry is recognized with the twelve-hundred-dollar Helen C. Smith Memoiral Award, and a writer of nonfiction (including creative nonfiction) will receive the Carr P. Collins Award of five thousand dollars. Eligible titles, published in 2010, should be submitted directly to the judges by January 8, 2011.
And for Texas writers of any publishing stripe longing for time to write? Now might be the time to check out the residency fellowships offered by the University of Texas at J. Frank Dobie's former ranch house west of Austin. The application deadline is January 15, 2011.
Assange may have already sold his memoirs to Knopf; Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants hits the big screen; a literary quiz for the winter solstice; a writer's report from the e-book summit in New York City; and other news.
Leslie C. Chang, one of the twelve authors featured in the sixth annual debut poets roundup, reads from her poetry collection on March 23, 2010, at Fordham University as part of the Poets Out Loud series.
A British author seeks to become a publicly traded entity; Ron Howard embarks on an ambitious Dark Tower adaptation; the vast possibilities of Google's searchable books archive; publishers have high hopes for Christmas Day e-book sales; and other news.
Frank O'Hara reads his poem "Lana Turner Has Collapsed" to Nirvana's cover of "Love Buzz" in this audio mix created by Len Sousa.
