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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“If you’re on Twitter and Facebook and sharing there, there’s no pressure of concealment, and I think good memoir comes out of that place.” Dani Shapiro, whose fifth memoir, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love (Knopf, 2019), is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, talks with Literary Hub’s Emily Temple about how social media could have an adverse effect on writing and storytelling.
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“Just keep going.” In this video from the 2017 Bay Area Book Festival, Literary Hub senior editor Emily Temple speaks to authors, including Michael Chabon, Vanessa Hua, Katie Kitamura, Paul Murray, Hannah Tinti, Ayelet Waldman, and Esmé Weijun Wang, about the best writing advice they have ever received.
Tags: Poetry | Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | Cross-Genre | writing advice | Jim Shepard | Vanessa Hua | Ayelet Waldman | Michael Chabon | Katie Kitamura | Esmé Weijun Wang | Hannah Tinti | 2017 | Literary Hub | Bay Area Book Festival -
The Lacuna, the center of the Bay Area Book Festival, is an outdoor interactive library made out of fifty thousand free books donated by the Internet Archive and constructed by the FLUX Foundation.
Tags: library | Bay Area Book Festival | Lacuna Project | Poetry | Fiction | Creative Nonfiction