Poets & Writers Theater
Every day we share a new clip of interest to creative writers—author readings, book trailers, publishing panels, craft talks, and more. So grab some popcorn, filter the theater tags by keyword or genre, and explore our sizable archive of literary videos.
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Watch the trailer for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, a film adaptation of the 2013 novel of the same name by Helen Fielding. Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, and Emma Thompson reprise their roles in this fourth installment of the Bridget Jones film series, which follows the titular character navigating romance as a single mother and widow.
Tags: Fiction | Bridget Jones | film adaptation | movie trailer | romance | Helen Fielding | 2025 -
“All of the stories, in some way, seem to be about characters moving away from their own points of origin or states of mind.” In this Green Apple Books event, Corinna Vallianatos reads from her story collection Origin Stories (Graywolf Press, 2025) and discusses her fascination with the interiority of characters in a conversation with Colin Winnette. For more from Vallianatos, read her installation of our Ten Questions series.
Tags: Fiction | Corinna Vallianatos | Origin Stories | Graywolf Press | short story | Colin Winnette | Green Apple Books | Ten Questions | 2025 -
In this BookTrib interview, Maggie Su speaks about how her debut novel, Blob: A Love Story (Harper, 2025), began as a short story and then a play, and her interests in surreal and speculative stories.
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In this Harvard Radcliffe Institute event, Ilya Kaminsky reads a selection of poems from his collection Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press, 2019), including “We Lived Happily During the War” and “While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses,” and discusses being an immigrant and poet in between languages in a conversation with Stephanie Sandler.
Tags: Poetry | Ilya Kaminsky | Deaf Republic | Graywolf Press | Stephanie Sandler | Harvard Radcliffe Institute | reading | conversation | 2025 -
In this Green Apple Books event, Karissa Chen reads from her debut novel, Homeseeking (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2025), and speaks about how her late grandfather’s experiences during the Chinese Civil War inspired the book in a conversation with Vanessa Hua.
Tags: Fiction | Karissa Chen | Homeseeking | G. P. Putnam's Sons | Vanessa Hua | Green Apple Books | reading | conversation | debut novel | 2025 -
Watch the trailer for Mickey 17, a science fiction film based on Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel, Mickey7. Written, produced, and directed by Bong Joon-ho and starring Robert Pattinson, the film follows a man who is hired to die and be cloned repeatedly while exploring a dangerous planet.
Tags: Fiction | Mickey 17 | Mickey7 | Edward Ashton | novel | film adaptation | movie trailer | science fiction | Bong Joon-ho | Robert Pattinson | 2025 -
“I love when a character in a novel, or in a story, or even in a poem, experiences a sense of change that they cannot come back from.” In this Books Are Magic event, Aria Aber reads from her debut novel, Good Girl (Hogarth, 2025), and discusses themes of shame, self-destruction, and coming of age as an artist in a conversation with Leslie Jamison. For more from Aber, read her installment of our Ten Questions series.
Tags: Fiction | Aria Aber | Good Girl | Hogarth | novel | Leslie Jamison | Books Are Magic | reading | 2025 -
In this episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast with host Miwa Messer, New York Times Book Review critic at large A. O. Scott talks about his journey as a journalist and book critic, reflects on “instant classics” like Percival Everett’s novel James (Doubleday, 2024), and discusses how the experience of discovering books has changed because of the internet.
Tags: Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | Poured Over | Miwa Messer | A. O. Scott | New York Times Book Review | James | Percival Everett | book critic | 2025