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A curated selection of videos, including book trailers, brief interviews, and other literary curiosities updated daily.
To promote her new book of essays, You Must Go and Win, published by Faber and Faber this month, Ukrainian-born musician Alina Simone asked a few poets, including James Copeland, Anna Moschovakis, Matvei Yankelevich, Brett Flecher Lauer, Tao Lin, Claire Donato, and Jeff T. Johnson, to read some Craigslist posts.
In this rare footage, filmed just weeks before his death on July 7, 1930, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle speaks about Sherlock Holmes, the scientific method, fan letters, and his interest in psychic phenomenon.
From Open Road Media comes this video of Kaylie Jones and Andre Dubus III sharing memories of their dads.
In this silent film by Richard Grunn, a common man discovers "the mysterious power of poetry."
Poet Kelle Groom's memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl, about her recovery from alcoholism following the death of her fourteen-month-old son, is published this month by Free Press. Check out this and other new and noteworthy books in the July/August issue's Page One section.
Nearly all of his forty-four published books were science fiction, but Philip K. Dick, who died in 1982, has influenced countless writers and filmmakers with sociological, political, and metaphysical themes that trenscend genre. The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, edited and introduced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this fall, is the author's final work.
The author of The Tiger's Wife, published in March by Random House, recently sat down with PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown to discuss her novel, which Publishers Weekly called "a brilliant debut."
Kabir Kapoor performed his poem "Evolution," which takes us through the planet's evolution, from dark nothingness to the modern computer, at the second annual Bristol Sign Poetry Festival at the University of Bristol in England in February.
