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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"It's somewhere between Seinfeld and Black Swan." In this humorous book trailer for Sloane Crosley's debut novel, The Clasp (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), actress Amanda Seyfried does a spoof on book blurbs.
Tags: 2015 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | book trailer | Sloane Crosley | blurbs | The Clasp | Fiction -
Narrated by Jonathan Ames, this fifteen-minute documentary investigates Gary Shteyngart's prolific book blurbing and features Ron Charles, A.J. Jacobs, A.M. Homes, Molly Ringwald, Karen Russell, Dinaw Mengestu, and others.
Tags: short film | Ron Charles | Gary Shteyngart | Jonathan Ames | blurbs | Creative Nonfiction