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A curated selection of videos, including book trailers, brief interviews, and other literary curiosities updated daily.
In this recent interview with Jeffrey Brown on the PBS NewsHour, author, essayist, and longtime professor Roger Rosenblatt discusses his book Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing, published last month by Ecco.
Diego Maclean directed this animated poem, narrated by Billy Collins, from the poet's 1995 collection, The Art of Drowning (University of Pittsburgh Press).
Viennese percussionist Martin Breinschmid performs Leroy Anderson's "The Typewriter" with the Strauss Festival Orchestra Vienna in Ludwigshafen,Germany, in 2008.
John Powers, a professer at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, assembled his kenetic scuplture, "Remember," using a collection of vintage typewriters.
Winter's Bone, based on the 2006 novel by Daniel Woodrell, is nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture.
Fiction writer Reynolds Price, who died last Thursday at the age of seventy-seven, is the subject of a new documentary, Pass It On, which takes a look at the impact the late author had on his students at Duke University, where he taught writing and the poetry of Milton for more than fifty years.
Before he designed the cover and special section of our current issue, Jim Tierney developed this series of book cover designs for his senior thesis project at Philadelphia's University of the Arts.
Simon & Schuster, publisher of the forthcoming O: A Presidential Novel, which was written by an anonymous author who claims to have spent time with the president, put together this cheeky book trailer.
Chicago poet Steve Roggenbuck created this video in celebration of the "three-month birthday" of his self-published chapbook i am like october when i am dead. The surreal mix of video and sound features a reading of the e. e. cummings poem "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond" and thirteen overlapping MP3s.
In this clip, produced by Emerson College, National Book Award-winning poet Terrance Hayes talks about his experience as guest editor of the Winter 2010 issue of the literary journal Ploughshares.
