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“The idea was to use a kind of fragmented approach to talking about colonialism...because I think that’s increasingly the way we think about and access historical narratives.” In this video, Katie Kitamura talks about the structural choices behind her second novel, Gone to the Forest (Free Press, 2012). Kitamura’s most recent novel, A Separation (Riverhead Books, 2017), tells the story of the end of a marriage and a husband gone missing in Greece.
The film adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s Edgar Award–winning crime novel, Live by Night (William Morrow, 2012), follows the Coughlin family’s epic rise and fall through the Prohibition Era, from Boston to the Gulf Coast. Ben Affleck directs and stars in the film with Chris Cooper, Elle Fanning, Sienna Miller, and Zoe Saldana.
“Nothing makes me want to hurl a book across the room harder and faster than when the writer gives me a quick little emotional recap to make sure I’m keeping up.” For the Word Works series at Hugo House, Pam Houston, the author most recently of Contents May Have Shifted (Norton, 2012), delivers a lecture on crafting dialogue.
This book trailer provides an atmospheric preview of Jon Boilard’s debut novel, A River Closely Watched (MacAdam/Cage, 2012). Boilard’s first short story collection, Settright Road (Dzanc Books, 2017), is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
“A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away and it is one part rapture.” Barbara Kingsolver reads from her novel Flight Behavior (Harper, 2012) and answers questions from the audience for an event presented by Salon@615 at the Nashville Public Library.
“Understand we have never seen an apple, so we are completely free from apples.” In this 2014 video of the first PEN DIY series event, Natalie Diaz breaks down five personal steps to writing about family, and discusses her poetry with Mike Albo.
“Never in my mind did I think I was writing about love. Now I look at it and there’s no question, it’s all about the intimacies of love...” Chloe Caldwell reads from and talks about her first collection of essays, Legs Get Led Astray (Future Tense Books, 2012). Caldwell’s second essay collection, I’ll Tell You in Person (Emily Books, 2016), is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
“Maybe he could tell I had a look in my eye / That wasn’t crazy anymore / Maybe he could feel the wild cool blood in me / And it frightened him / And he lashed out in fear...” Dorothea Lasky reads "I Had a Man" from her poetry collection Thunderbird (Wave Books, 2012) for the Milk & Roses Reading Series in Brooklyn.
“These men, though: they had a smell I can’t name, / and, if they wanted, could reach down to touch me / but didn’t, and disappeared when my hand / reached their door frame.” Brad Richard reads "The Men in the Dark" from his third poetry collection, Butcher's Sugar (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012).
Teju Cole reads from his novel Open City (Random House, 2012) while accepting the 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction. Cole speaks about his collection of essays, Known and Strange Things (Random House, 2016), in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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