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A curated selection of videos, including book trailers, brief interviews, and other literary curiosities updated daily.
In this footage of Al Alvarez's 1967 interview with John Berryman in Dublin, the poet talks about some of the techniques he employed in 77 Dream Songs, which had won the Pulitzer Prize three years earlier, and reads "Dream Song 14." Berryman commited suicide on January 7, 1972.
After years of planning, Google eBooks, the e-bookstore that's been described as an "open ecosystem" that will eventually offer more than three million books, is finally here. See for yourself in this promotional video.
Gerardo Mena, a decorated veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, recently won the 2010 War Poetry contest, sponsored by the Web site winningwriters.com, for his poem "So I Was a Coffin." This video poem features music composed by Mena as well as photographs contributed by members of the 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion or their family members.
In this clip from the 2003 documentary Alfred Eisenstaedt: Photographer, the award-winning photographer describes his experience shooting Ernest Hemingway for Life magazine in 1952. One of Eisenstaedt's photos appeared on the cover; inside was Hemingway's new story, "The Old Man and the Sea."
The New York Times Book Review published online yesterday its 10 Best Books of 2010. In this video, fiction writer Ann Beattie, whose collection The New Yorker Stories was included on that list, discusses the early days of her career and the creative process of writing short stories.
Married authors John Yunker and Midge Raymond present a cautionary tale titled "Love in the Time of Amazon.com."
Paul Auster reads from his sixteenth novel, Sunset Park, published earlier this month by Henry Holt.
Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer talks about his new book, Tree of Codes, a die-cut book published on November 15, 2010, by Visual Editions in which Foer carves out a story within the story of Bruno Schulz's classic novel The Street of Crocodiles.
CNN takes a look at the production of a play based on Adam Bertocci's Two Gentlemen of Lebowski: A Most Excellent Comedie and Tragical Romance, published last month by Simon & Schuster. Bertocci transforms Joel and Ethan Coen's 1998 movie, The Big Lebowski, into a five-act comedy of errrors written by William Shakespeare.
Terrance Hayes, who on Wednesday took home the National Book Award in poetry for his latest collection, Lighthead (Penguin), read one of his poems at the Jazz Poetry Concert in Pittsburgh.
