Jump to navigation Skip to content
A curated selection of videos, including book trailers, brief interviews, and other literary curiosities updated daily.
"I saw some shit that needed to be spoken, so I just said it." This and other priceless quotes are featured in this moving collage for an event by the Guild Literary Complex and the University of Chicago celebrating the life and work of pioneering poet Gil Scott-Heron, who passed away last May.
Julia Loktev's adaptation of a story by Tom Bissell (who was profiled in the magazine back in 2007) stars Gael Garcia Bernal and Hani Furstenberg as an engaged couple on a trek through Georgia, the country. The Loneliest Planet will open in theaters on October 26.
From the simple ("Carry a notebook everywhere") to the questionable ("Sing in the shower") to the essential ("Get away from the computer"), this motion graphics clip by Tofu Design is a pretty nifty reminder of ways we can stay creative during these long, hot summer days.
Luke Frazier talks to some local poets in Kent, Ohio, about Traveling Stanzas, a collaboration between the Wick Poetry Center's outreach program and the Glyphix design studio at Kent State University.
This student documentary project by Hanah Ryu Chung relies on interviews with individuals who are active in the Toronto print community, including Joanne Saul of Type Books, Stan Bevington of Coach House Books, and Michael Torosian of Lumiere Press, to explore the world of print and ask important questions about its future.
Matthew Batt's memoir, Sugarhouse: Turning the Neighborhood Crack House Into Our Home Sweet Home, which tells the the story of how the purchase and restoration of a disasterous fixer-upper saves a young marriage, was published last month by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
The author of the debut novel The Dog Stars, forthcoming in August from Knopf, talks about Graham Greene's practice of writing exactly five hundred words a day, every day, and the importance of momentum in the writing process.
Natalie Bakopoulos, who was interviewed by Charles Baxter for this issue's roundup of debut fiction writers, talks about her Greek roots and her first novel, The Green Shore, published by Simon & Schuster this month.
We thought we'd inject a little energy into our Wednesday with this music video by Julian Smith. Don't you ever interrupt me when I'm reading a book!
The NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown recently spent some time with poet Natalie Diaz, author of the collection When My Brother Was an Aztec (Copper Canyon Press, 2012), who is working to preserve the rapidly disappearing Mojave language.
