Sam Pink
"And I realized that part of my problem was I visibly resembled an adult." The latest installment of Recommended Reading's Single Sentence Animations is Brandon Ray's animation of a line from "Rontel" by Sam Pink, with music by Makestapes.
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Timothy Donnelly
The author of Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove, 2003) and The Cloud Corporation (Wave, 2010) reads "The New Hymns" as part of the Brooklyn Poets Reading Series on September 21.
Breast Cancer Awareness
In this video Open Road Media salutes the work of three bestselling authors—Gloria Steinem, Virginia Hamilton, and Patricia Gaffney—who battled breast cancer. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month; for more information visit www.nbcam.org
Midnight's Children
Yet another film adaptation of an amazing novel! Based on the Booker Prize-winning novel by Salman Rushdie and directed by Oscar-nominated Deepa Mehta, Midnight's Children is scheduled to open in theaters on November 2.
Tom Hanks
He should probably stick to acting. Watch Tom Hanks perform his poem about the 1990s sitcom "Full House" on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon."
Cloud Atlas
Based on the best-selling novel by David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present, and the future. Directed by Tom Tykwer and Andy Wachowski, starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, and Hugh Grant, the movie opens in theaters on Friday.
Ray Bradbury
Check out Ray Bradbury matching wits with Groucho Marx as a contestant on "You Bet Your Life" in 1955.
Alone With Everybody
Here's an uplifting poem for your Monday! Charles Bukowski's "Alone With Everybody," from Love is a Dog From Hell (Black Sparrow Books, 1977), is set to visuals by Richelle Dumond, Hannah Vischer, Maartje Slijpen and Mathilde Bindervoet.
The Dreamer
Written by Idris Davies, "The Dreamer" is influenced by the Welsh poet's experience working as a coal miner in Wales. All of the footage was shot on location in Montana's Glacier National Park.
Jericho Brown
Poet Jericho Brown recites lines from Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye at "Sheer Good Fortune: Celebrating Toni Morrison" on October 16 at Virginia Tech.