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 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon video, the host reveals the return of the Fallon Book Club with a March Madness style bracket of sixteen books to vote for as a winner, including James (Doubleday, 2024) by Percival Everett, Wandering Stars (Knopf, 2024) by Tommy Orange, and Grief Is for People (MCD/FSG, 2024) by Sloane Crosley.
Tags: Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | The Tonight Show | Jimmy Fallon | James | Percival Everett | Wandering Stars | Tommy Orange | Grief Is for People | Sloane Crosley | 2024 -
In this Politics and Prose event, award-winning author Tommy Orange reads from his second novel, Wandering Stars (Knopf, 2024), and discusses the musicality of language and the challenge of writing about trauma in a conversation with Kaveh Akbar. Wandering Stars is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Tags: Fiction | Tommy Orange | Wandering Stars | Knopf | Kaveh Akbar | Page One | March/April 2024 | Politics and Prose Bookstore -
In this One Book, One Chicago event, Tommy Orange discusses the importance of Native American voices, the intricate plotlines of his debut novel, There There (Knopf, 2018), and the historical roots of his forthcoming novel, Wandering Stars, in a conversation with Donna Seaman at the Chicago Public Library.
Tags: Fiction | Tommy Orange | There There | Wandering Stars | Knopf | Chicago Public Library | One Book, One Chicago | conversation | Donna Seaman | 2023
