Not in My Lifetime
Yuvi Zalkow, the writer responsible for the previously posted clip about writing desk envy, is back with an irreverent trailer for his unpublished novel. Or is it a memoir?
A curated selection of videos, including book trailers, brief interviews, and other literary curiosities updated daily.
Brian Turner
Public television station KNPB's reporter Michael Hagerty interviews Brian Turner, an Iraq War veteran and author of the poetry collections Phantom Noise (2010) and Here, Bullet (2005), about his experience writing about the war.
Nickel and Dimed
This week Picador is publishing a tenth-anniversary edition of Barbara Ehrenreich's best-selling book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. This clip, from the 2007 documentary The American Ruling Class, features Ehrenreich and former Harper's editor Lewis Lapham.
$1 Book Heaven
Check out this trailer for the new web series $1 Book Heaven, directed by Mike Lowther, about a bookstore where each new employee is crazier than the last one.
Bookstore Reunion
An unexpected reunion in a bookstore gets awkward in this short film starring Anthony Ahern, Alison Bell, and Petra Kalive and written and directed by Miklos Janek.
Gay Talese
The best-selling author of eleven books, including A Writer's Life (Knopf, 2006), a former reporter for the New York Times, and the father of The New Journalism, Gay Talese is also one of the best-dressed writers around. Check out this video of the elegent author by Jake Davis, and while you're at it, watch the latest episode of the web series Put This On, which features an interview with Talese.
Alina Simone
Ukranian-born singer-songwriter Alina Simone released her latest album, Meet Your Own Danger, in June, the same month Faber and Faber published her first book, a collection of essays titled You Must Go and Win. Here's Simone performing "My Love Is a Mountain" at Union Hall in New York City.
Writing Desk Envy
Writer Yuvi Zalkow made this short video about his desire for a beautiful, creative workspace. After you watch it check out John Casey's writing desk as well as snapshots of writing spaces submitted by our readers.
Celebrity Shakespeare
Jim Meskimen, an accomplished actor and voice artist whose long list of acting credits includes five movies directed by Ron Howard and two Paul Thomas Anderson films, recites Shakespeare with twenty-five different celebrity impressions.
Bye Borders
PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown gives an overview of the Borders saga, the last chapter of which begins today when the bookstore chain enters liquidation and offers going-out-of-business sales at its remaining locations, and talks with Slate's Annie Lowrey about the demise of the forty-year-old company.