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A curated selection of videos, including book trailers, brief interviews, and other literary curiosities updated daily.
Shot and produced by Almudena Toral, this video documents seventy-six-year-old New York poet Jack Agüeros's struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Agüeros, a community advocate who directed El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem for eight years, is the author of four poetry collections, including Lord, Is This a Psalm? (Hanging Loose Press, 2002).
In August Melville House Publishing will reprint five classic novellas, all with the same title. Watch this playful trailer for The Duel by Giacomo Casanova, Anton Chekhov, Joseph Conrad, Heinrich von Kleist, and Aleksandr Kuprin, forthcoming from Melville House's Art of the Novella series.
Next month Three Rivers Press will publish Suzanne Morrison's memoir Yoga Bitch: One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment. The book chronicles what happens when a coffee-drinking, cigarette-smoking, steak-eating, twenty-five-year-old student decides to travel to Bali for a two-month yoga teacher training program.
Okay, this is just about the best thing we've watched all summer. Check out this video of Brazenhead Books, a secret bookstore inside Michael Seidenberg's apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Why is it secret? Just watch this.
Reading from his second novel, The Storm at the Door, published last month by Random House, Stefan Merrill Block was the featured author at the Franklin Park Reading Series, held on the second Monday of every month at the Franklin Park Bar and Beer Garden in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
In the latest installment of Picador's Big Ideas/Small Books series of paperbacks, poet and critic Wayne Koestenbaum takes readers on a tour of humiliating circumstances in history, literature, art, current events, music, film, and his own life.
Check out this time-lapse video of a new Half Price Books store being built in San Antonio. The store opens for business tomorrow.
Back in 2001 Shaun Winter bought a ticket for twenty-one days of unlimited travel on the Greyhound Bus Line. In three weeks he covered six thousand miles while making a film, Untitled Paintings, and writing a book, 21 Days on a Greyhound Bus.
In 1960 Carl Sandburg, the poet, journalist, Lincoln biographer, and three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, appeared on CBS's "What's My Line?" which ran from 1950 to 1967, the year Sandburg died.
For his new documentary film, Page One: Inside the New York Times, filmmaker Andrew Rossi gained unprecedented access to the paper's newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk for a year. Check out the footage of David Carr, a reporter, Media Equations columnist, and author of The Night of the Gun, a memoir published by Simon & Schuster in 2008.
