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A curated selection of videos, including book trailers, brief interviews, and other literary curiosities updated daily.
This animated poem, read by Russell Edson, who passed away on April 29 after a long illness, is part of Poetry Everywhere, produced by the Poetry Foundation in association with docUWM at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Animation by Chris Lightbody.
Polly Courtney, the author of six novels who self-published her latest, Feral Youth (2013), after being frustrated by the "chick-lit" covers assigned to her by HarperCollins, offers the third in her series of how-to videos on self-publishing. Watch Part 1: Editing and Part 2: Cover Design.
”I have a fair amount of fear when I am writing a book. You need to hate your work, but if you hate it too much it will stop you from writing," says Jeffrey Eugendies in this conversation with Jonathan Safran Foer, moderated by journalist Martin Krasnik and filmed at the Louisiana Literature Festival in 2012.
The former New Yorker staff writer and director emeritus of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU delivered this keynote address, "A Typology of Convergences: Towards a Unified Field Theory of Cultural Transmission," at the 2013 Graduate Student Conference at the School of Visual Arts.
Patrick Roche performs his poem "21" at the 2014 College Unions Poetry Slam at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
In this Single Sentence Animation for Electric Literature, Martha Colburn animates "Human Events" by Stephen O'Connor. Music by Thollem McDonas.
In this video from a TED conference in March, Elizabeth Gilbert reflects on why success can be as disorienting as failure and offers a simple—though hard—way to carry on, regardless of outcomes.
The author of five books, including her most recent, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, talks about her favorite authors, how she chooses what to write, where she finds her subjects, and whether writing her new book changed the way she eats.
"I'd say, as a goal in life, you could do worse than 'Try to be kinder.'" In May 2013 George Saunders gave a commencement speech at Syracuse University. It was recently published as a book, Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness, published earlier this month by Random House, as well as, in abbreviated form, this animated video, narrated by Saunders himself.
This video, produced by Slow Clap, is based on Ben Mirov's poem "High-Fives," from the book Hider Roser, published by Octopus Books. It features music by the band Javelin and stars Dashiell Hillman, Adrian Deane, and Kelly Sanchez.
