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A curated selection of videos, including book trailers, brief interviews, and other literary curiosities updated daily.
A Good Hard Look, Ann Napolitano's second novel, is a fictionalization of the last few years of Flannery O'Connor's life in Milledgeville, Georgia. In this clip, the author and her editor, Jenny Smith, discuss the book, which will be published this week by Penguin Press.
The Beginners, the debut novel by poet, Fence editor, and now novelist Rebecca Wolff, was published last month by Riverhead Books. The coming-of-age story of a girl in a New England town with a secret history is "as creepy as it is marvelous," according to Publishers Weekly.
First watch this introduction to America: Now and Here, then read Alex Dimitrov's article about the role poetry is playing in the national art project, in the current issue.
In this clip the Miami New Times follows artist Agustina Woodgate as she sews poetry tags into clothes at local thrift shops.
In this book trailer for Carolyn Parkhurst's novel The Nobodies Album, recently published in paperback by Anchor Books, the author introduces The Carolyn Parkhurst Collection.
Earlier this year actor James Franco and biographer Paul Mariani fielded questions at the Boston College premiere of The Broken Tower, a film directed by and starring Franco, based on Mariani's 1999 biography, The Broken Tower: The Life of Hart Crane.
The documentary film Committing Poetry in Times of War tells the story of Bill Nevins, a humanities teacher and youth poetry coach who was suspended and later fired from his teaching job after standing up for a student who wrote a poem critical of the war in Iraq. The entire film can be seen at Snagfilms.com.
The documentary film To Be Heard, which made its debut last November and won a grand jury prize and the audience award at the film festival Doc NYC, follows three teens from the South Bronx whose struggle to change their lives begins when they start to write poetry.
This ad campaign, developed by the Voskhod ad agency for the bookstore 100,000 Books in Yekaterinburg, Russia, recently won an award at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity .
Watch this footage of wild turkeys attacking Michigan author Bonnie Jo Campbell, whose new novel, Once Upon a River, will be published next month by W. W. Norton. Then read Kevin Nance's profile of Campbell in the July/August issue.
