A curated selection of videos, including book trailers, brief interviews, and other literary curiosities updated daily.

March Is Women's History Month

In this new video from Open Road Media, bestselling authors Alice Walker, Erica Jong, and Alix Kates Shulman talk about their work advocating for women, writing about women, and exploring stories about the female experience.

Book Dominoes

The arts collective Responsible Fishing UK took over a lecture hall at the Barnsley Library in South Yorkshire, England, last March to attempt a world-record "Domino Topple" using discarded hardcover library books.

Loud Dreaming in a Quiet Room

This animated film for Betsy Wheeler's poetry collection Loud Dreaming in a Quiet Room (National Poetry Review Press, 2012) features art and animation by Luca Depierro and music by Stephen Barnard.

Ander Monson

Oh, look: Poet, novelist, nonfiction writer, and editor Ander Monson appears to be reading "For Orts," a poem from The Available World (Sarabande Books, 2010), in a refrigerator. In a tiger costume.

Pictionary: Cormac McCarthy Edition

Fun for the whole family, the game includes "a timer filled with muted black sand and pencils crafted from the ragged bones of dead horses" in this hilarious video from the Upright Citizens Brigaide, written by Achilles Stamatelaky and directed by Jennifer Treuting.

Ira Glass on Storytelling

After listening to Ira Glass, the inimitable host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life, talk about what it takes to be a good storyteller, David Shiyang Liu created this graphic representation of Glass's words of wisdom.

Sh*t Book Reviewers Say

The Washington Post fiction critic Ron Charles stars in this addition to the current video craze that has produced such gems as the recently released Sh*t Agents and Editors Say.

Nathan Englander

In the studio to record the audio version of his lastest book, the story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, Nathan Englander discusses the impetus for essentially rewriting Raymond Carver's famous story with the Holocaust in mind.

Dear Sugar

On the night of February 14, at the historic Verdi Club in San Francisco, Chery Strayed, who is profiled in the current issue of the magazine, was revealed to be the anonymous author of Dear Sugar, a popular advice column on Stephen Elliott's the Rumpus. Here's some amateur footage of the event.

Philip Levine

In this clip from Fresno State University, the poet laureate reads "Gospel," from his collection Breath (Knopf, 2004). For more Philip Levine, read Michael Bourne's interview in the current issue and listen to the poet read "The Mercy."

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