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A curated selection of videos, including book trailers, brief interviews, and other literary curiosities updated daily.
With work on their minds this Labor Day weekend (when many of us are taking three days off), the fine folks at Open Road Media take a look at how several writers, including Andres Dubus and Don Winslow, paid the bills while they were struggling to make it in the literary world.
Christopher Fritton of the Western New York Book Arts Center demonstrates the process of creating part of a book for the artist Richard Tuttle.
Earlier this month Random House published the paperback edition of Let's Take the Long Way Home, Gail Caldwell's memoir of her friendship with Caroline Knapp, author of Drinking: A Love Story (The Dial Press, 1996), who died of lung cancer at age forty-two in 2002.
In September Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish South African author Jacques Strauss's debut novel, The Dubious Salvation of Jack V., about eleven-year-old Jack Viljee, whose hometown of Johannesburg in 1989 is still ruled by apartheid.
Seth Fried, whose story collection The Great Frustration was published by Soft Skull Press in May, finds a simple way of getting good placement of his debut book in the Union Square Barnes & Noble in New York City.
Now available in the App Store for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, Booktrack provides a soundtrack for e-books, including songs, ambient music, and sound effects, that is automatically paced to an individual's reading speed.
Directed by Katja Esson, Poetry of Resilience is a documentary about six international poets who individually survived Hiroshima, the Holocaust, China's Cultural Revolution, the Kurdish Genocide in Iraq, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Iranian Revolution. For more information, visit www.poetryofresilience.com.
Samuel Menashe, the first poet to receieve the Neglected Masters Award from the Poetry Foundation, in 2004, died Monday night in his sleep. He was eighty-five years old. In this clip, from the WNYC series "Know Your Neighbor," Menashe is seen in his New York City apartment, where he lived for fifty years.
Mary Johnson, a former nun in Mother Teresa's order, the Missionaries of Charity, talks about her new memoir, An Unquenchable Thirst: Following Mother Teresa in Search of Love, Service, and an Authentic Life (Spiegel & Grau). Watch the video then read Eryn Loeb's article about Johnson in the current issue of the magazine.
Percival Everett, whose nineteenth novel, Assumption, will be published by Graywolf Press in November, discusses the role of art in society.
