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 Today Show interview, Colson Whitehead talks about his novel Cool Machine (Doubleday, 2026), the third and final volume of his Harlem Trilogy, and his research process while writing crime fiction.
Tags: Fiction | Colson Whitehead | Harlem Trilogy | Today Show | Cool Machine | Doubleday | interview | crime thriller -
In this Today Show video, Isaac Fitzgerald, author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts (Bloomsbury, 2022), recommends books to read for the coming year, including Erasure by Percival Everett, Anna O by Matthew Blake, and 1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round by Jami Attenberg.
Tags: Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | Isaac Fitzgerald | Today Show | book recommendations | Percival Everett | Jami Attenberg | Matthew Blake | 2024 -
“Everything happens fast. Handcuffs on Chino. Uniforms do the same to the others who didn’t run fast enough.” In this video, Javier Zamora speaks with Today Show’s Jenna Bush about his three-thousand-mile journey alone as a nine-year-old from El Salvador to the United States which he recounts in his memoir, Solito (Hogarth, 2022).
Tags: Creative Nonfiction | Javier Zamora | Solito | memoir | Hogarth | 2022 | Today Show | interview
