French Movie
The 2012 season of Motionpoems, produced in partnership with Best American Poetry 2011, starts with Scott Wenner's adaption of David Lehman's poem "French Movie."
A curated selection of videos, including book trailers, brief interviews, and other literary curiosities updated daily.
To Die By Your Side
Olympia Le-Tan's embroidered clutch-bags spring to life in this amazing stop-motion film directed by Spike Jonze and Simon Cahn and animated by Sylvain Derosne and Léonard Cohen. Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side) has been a featured selection at film festivals around the world, including those in Athens, Paris, Belgium, Montreal, London, South Korea, and Buenos Aires. Watch the complete six-minute film on Vimeo.
"Three" by Marc Basch
In Electric Literature's latest Single Sentence Animation, Jason Mitcham animates a sentence from Marc Basch's "Three," a story published in Issue 6. Music by Meredith Varn.
Painting Bukowski
Self-taught Los Angeles artist Adam Stone paints poet Charles Bukowski in this short video recorded last month.
The Flowers of War
American audiences will have a chance to read Geling Yan's novel, originally published in China as The 13 Women of Nanjing, when Other Press publishes The Flowers of War, Nicky Harman's translation, in January 2012. Meanwhile, a film adaptation of The Flowers of War, directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Christian Bale, is set for a December 16 release in China; it will open in U.S. theaters later this month.
Kinfolk Magazine
Having friends and family over for the holidays? Check out this trailer for the second issue of Kinfolk Magazine then visit www.kinfolkmag.com to learn more about the quarterly magazine of essays, interviews, art, and photography that caters to the growing community of artists with a shared interest in small gatherings.
The Danger of a Single Story
"Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories." At the TED conference two years ago, novelist Chimamanda Adichie warned that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
Charles Frazier
The author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons talks about his third novel, Nightwoods, published by Random House earlier this fall. "I'm a slow writer," he says. "I really focus on the language.... A page is a good day for me."
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
This short film, directed by Aleksandar Kostic and narrated by Miki Manojlovic, was inspired by Danilo Kiš's story "A Tomb for Boris Davidovich." Kiš, a Yugoslavian writer who was influenced by Vladimir Nabokov and Jorge Luis Borges, died in 1989.
The Failed Writer
In the latest installment of his Failed Writer series, Yuvi Zalkow talks about his love affair with failure and how it serves him as a writer. "If you haven't already, give it a try," he says. "Be a hell of a failure. See what you learn from it."