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A curated selection of videos, including book trailers, brief interviews, and other literary curiosities updated daily.
This trailer for Helen Phillips's debut "novel in the form of linked fables," And Yet They Were Happy, published this month by Leapfrog Press, is animated by the author's husband, Adam Thompson, and features music by his brother, Nathan. Vanity Fair described Phillips as a "surreal miniaturist," and critic Michael Dirda praised her book as "a gallery of marvels."
Follow Virgil Biggs as he tries to promote his new poetry collection, Bigg Olive, which was inspired by the local Target Superstore, among other things, in this humorous video.
Despite a bestelling novel as its source—and a score that was composed by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood—the film adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood, directed by Anh Hung Tran, has been met with decidedly mixed reviews that boil down to: The book is better. The movie was released in Japan and Russia last December and in the UK in March.
Will Allison, whose beautifully written debut novel, What You Have Left, was released in 2007, discusses his followup, Long Drive Home, published this month by Free Press.
Poet C. D. Wright was recently interviewed on the PBS NewsHour about her latest book, One With Others (Copper Canyon Press, 2010).
About a year ago Dean Young read his poem "Your Super Bookstore Recommends" for Teleportal Readings in Austin, Texas. Earlier this month Young underwent a successful heart transplant, some of the costs of which were offset by the ongoing fundraising efforts of the poetry community.
In the eleven-minute film In the Spotlight (2007), starring Michelle Tea, Guinevere Turner, and Clint Catalyst, with music by Emily Wells, writer and director Hilary Goldberg presents the story of an aspiring author who is offered the chance to be the front person for a literary hoax and discovers a fate far worse than rejection.
Actor Jeremy Irons and best-selling novelist Josephine Hart discuss the reading series Hart has organized in London's West End in an effort to renew public interest in the "compressed power" of poetry.
"What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?" Muriel Rukeyser asked in her poem "Käthe Kollwitz." She answered: "The world would split open." In this clip, Rukeyser, who died in 1980, reads the poem "In Our Time."
Aspring novelist (and "Insane Lunatic") James Andrew Wilson takes us through the five emotional stages of writing a novel.
