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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“He does the work. I do the cleanup, and we fight.” Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb is a documentary directed by Lizzie Gottlieb exploring the remarkable fifty-year relationship between Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert Caro and his longtime editor Robert Gottlieb, and the art of editing.
Tags: Creative Nonfiction | Turn Every Page | documentary | movie trailer | 2022 | Robert Caro | Robert Gottlieb | editing | editors | writing process -
“This whole thing has been a great big fat lesson in just be yourself.” In this Center for Fiction event, Dawn Winter talks about writing her debut novel, Sedating Elaine (Knopf, 2022), with her editor Jenny Jackson, vice president and executive editor at Knopf.
Tags: Fiction | Dawn Winter | Sedating Elaine | Knopf | 2022 | novel | Jenny Jackson | editors | editing | Center for Fiction -
In this National Centre for Writing video, Hannah Chukwu, assistant editor at Penguin Random House’s imprint Hamish Hamilton, speaks about receiving submissions from agents, pitching, and the editing process for the literary fiction and nonfiction authors she has worked with, including Bernardine Evaristo, Arundhati Roy, and Zadie Smith.
Tags: Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | Hannah Chukwu | Hamish Hamilton | Penguin Random House | editors | editing | National Centre for Writing | 2021