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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In this Service95 Book Club conversation hosted by Dua Lipa, author Vincent Delecroix talks about the 2021 English Channel disaster that inspired his novel Small Boat (Hope Road Publishing, 2025), translated from the French by Helen Stevenson, and his decision to write from the perspective of a bystander observing calamity.
Tags: Fiction | Translation | Vincent Delecroix | Small Boat | Hope Road Publishing | Helen Stevenson | Service95 Book Club | Dua Lipa | French | 2025 -
“Memory is my instrument and my element, my material,” says French Nobel Prize–winning author Annie Ernaux in this Louisiana Channel interview with Matthias Dressler-Bredsdorff in Copenhagen. “I’m nobody when I write. I search. When I write, I know I have a woman’s experience.”
Tags: Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | Annie Ernaux | Nobel Prize | French | Louisiana Channel | interview | 2023 -
Watch this 2018 reading and conversation with Nobel Prize–winning author Annie Ernaux celebrating the English publication of her book The Years, along with translator Alison L. Strayer and Seven Stories Press publisher Dan Simon at the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris, France.
Tags: Creative Nonfiction | Translation | Annie Ernaux | The Years | Seven Stories Press | 2018 | French | Alison L. Strayer | Dan Simon | Shakespeare and Company | Nobel Prize
