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A curated selection of videos, including book trailers, brief interviews, and other literary curiosities updated daily.
What would a world without books look like? Written and codirected by Richard Dadd along with Dan Fryer, The Last Bookshop was shot in bookstores around London and Kent. "We love bookshops," the filmmakers write. "But we saw that many are going through tough times. We wanted to contribute to the cultural debate with our own celebration in support of these glorious independents and their shelves of treasures."
The New Yorker staff writer Hilton Als spoke with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz about work and inspiration at an event earlier this month at the Strand Book Store in New York City.
A frequent contributor to Poets & Writers Magazine (check out his urgent essay in the current issue), Benjamin Percy has a new book coming out. A werewolf novel for the literary set, Red Moon is forthcoming in May from Grand Central Publishing. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Founded in 1935, Penguin Books revolutionized marketing and publishing by producing inexpensive softcovers with an instantly recognizable design. Richard from AbeBooks.com gives viewers a color-coded survey of the iconic series of books.
The eighty-five-year-old prize-winning fiction writer whose new novel, All That Is, was published this month by Knopf, speaks at the New York State Writers Institute about The Lover by Marguerite Duras.
"All relationships between writers and readers are love stories," says Ruth Ozeki, author most recently of the novel A Tale for the Time Being (Viking, 2013), whose article "A Crucial Collaboration: Reader-Writer-Character-Book" appears in the current issue.
Last April Frank Bidart, who is interviewed in the current issue by frequent contributor William Giraldi, read Robert Lowell's "For the Union Dead" as part of Mass Poetry's second annual Common Threads group reading and discussion program for National Poetry Month. Bidart's new book, Metaphysical Dog, will be published in May by FSG.
"If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything," said David Foster Wallace in this March 1996 interview with Leonard Lopate, animated by Patrick Smith.
What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? That is the tantalizing premise of Kate Atkinson's latest novel, Life After Life, published this month by Reagan Arthur Books. The novel has already been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, better known by its previous name, the Orange Prize.
New York Times illustrator, artist, chef, and author of Mumbai New York Scranton, published by Scribner in March, discusses her memoir about her adventures abroad with author and humorist John Hodgman at New York City's Strand Book Store.
