Lucille Clifton at the Dodge Poetry Festival
The late poet Lucille Clifton reads at the 2008 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. This year's festival, which will take place in Newark, New Jersey, begins on October 7.
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The Future of Publishing
Originally produced for a sales conference by the UK branch of Dorling Kindersley Books, this video was inspired by a similar palindromic clip titled "The Lost Generation."
Nick Hornby Collaborates With Ben Folds
The album Lonely Avenue, a collaboration between musician Ben Folds and writer Nick Hornby, will be released by Nonesuch Records on September 28. Folds and Hornby will perform at an event presented by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation in Washington, D.C., on October 19.
Stevie Wonder on Copyright Restrictions
On Monday Stevie Wonder addressed the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization to request improved accessibility to copyright protected works by the visually impaired.
An Animated Sentence by Joy Williams
Artist Alice Cohen animates and scores a sentence from Joy Williams's story "Baba Iaga and the Pelican Child," published in the fourth issue of Electric Literature.
Will Ferrell on His New Film
Everything Must Go, a film based on the short story “Why Don’t You Dance?” by Raymond Carver starring Will Ferrell, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival this month.
An Interview With Tom Wolfe
In 2008 Time magazine interviewed Tom Wolfe, who will be awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by the National Book Foundation at a ceremony in New York City on November 17. A film adaptation of Wolfe's 1968 book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, directed by Gus Van Sant, is set to release in 2011.
Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
The film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go is now playing in select theaters. Poets & Writers Magazine profiled the author when the book was published by Knopf in 2005.
"Lake Echo, Dear" by C. D. Wright
A video poem by C. D. Wright, whose book One With Others is forthcoming next month from Copper Canyon Press.
A Literary Agent's Advice on Pitching Your Book
Agent Nathan Bransford of Curtis Brown, Ltd., in San Francisco talks about what he looks for in a pitch.