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 PBS NewsHour video, Ann Patchett, author and owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville, and Maureen Corrigan, professor and book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, offer recommendations for summer reading, including The Satisfaction Café (Scribner, 2025) by Kathy Wang, King of Ashes (Flatiron Books, 2025) by S. A. Cosby, and A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck (Riverhead Books, 2025) by Sophie Elmhirst.
Tags: Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | PBS NewsHour | Ann Patchett | Maureen Corrigan | book recommendations | summer reading | 2025 -
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 -
In this Waterstones video, Sloane Crosley speaks about her second novel, Cult Classic (MCD, 2022), and offers her book recommendations, which include All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews and Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark. For more from Crosley, read her installment of our Ten Questions series.
Tags: Fiction | Sloane Crosley | Cult Classic | MCD | 2022 | Waterstones | Miram Toews | Muriel Spark | book recommendations | Ten Questions
