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A curated selection of videos, including book trailers, brief interviews, and other literary curiosities updated daily.
Poet and musician Jim Carroll was putting the finishing touches on a novel when he passed away on September 11, 2009. Next week Viking will publish that novel, The Petting Zoo. This is the music video of The Jim Carroll Band's "People Who Died," which appeared on the soundtrack of the 1995 fim version of his autobiography, The Basketball Diaries, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
In the September/October 2009 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, we published the essay "Taking It to the Streets: My Year in Guerrilla Publishing" in which Mike Heppner writes about his trajectory from commercially published author to small press author to self-published, D-I-Y author. In this video, Heppner describes the final stage of his Man Talking Project: hand-delivering his manuscript to one of his readers.
New Yorker editor David Remnick talks with Ian Frazier, whose new book, Travels in Siberia, was published earlier this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The conversation took place at the New Yorker Festival on October 3.
One of this year's MacArthur fellows, each of whom received $500,000, is Matthew Carter, a master type designer, who during his career has designed over 250 fonts. Most recently Carter has focused on developing easily readable fonts for computer screens, including those for handheld devices.
A short film by Tucker Capps, inspired by One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe, edited by Molly McQuade and published by Sarabande Books this month.
Asunder, a collection of short stories and a novella by Robert Lopez, was published early this month by Dzanc Books, one of the innovative presses featured in the current issue.
The Practice of the Wild, a documentary film about Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Gary Snyder, who has been called the poet laureate of deep ecology, premieres in New York City on November 12.
Matthew Stadler, cofounder of Publication Studio, one of the innovative presses featured in the new issue, gave this talk at Richard Hugo House's first writers conference, on May 22, 2010. The theme of the event was "Finding Your Readers in the 21st Century."
Artist Andre da Loba animates a sentence, with music by Tim Leeds, from Roberto Ransom's "Three Figures and a Dog," published in the fourth issue of Electric Literature
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and recently named a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award, Emma Donoghue's novel Room, published last month by Little, Brown, is getting a lot of attention despite—or perhaps because of—its rather disturbing premise.
