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A curated selection of videos, including book trailers, brief interviews, and other literary curiosities updated daily.
Terese Svoboda's fifth novel, Bohemian Girl, forthcoming from Bison Books next month, is one of twelve new and noteworthy books featured in the latest installment of Page One. Watch the trailer then read an excerpt from the first chapter.
Simon & Schuster employees have a little fun reading from Nicholson Baker's new erotic novel, House of Holes, which was reviewed on the cover of last Sunday's New York Times Book Review by Sam Lipsyte, who called it a "hideously glorious filthfest."
Based on the 2003 novel by Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin, starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly and directed by Lynne Ramsay, will open in theaters in France next month, in the U.K. in October, and in the U.S. in December.
In response to the "I Hate Reading" Facebook page (which is "liked" by nearly half a million people), Lindsay Thompson, an account manager at AbeBooks, created this brief appreciation of books. And if you find this inspiring, check out one of several (sadly less popular) "I Love Reading" pages that have popped up on Facebook.
The official pub date for Justin Torres's We the Animals (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is September 1, but already the debut novel is racking up superlatives typically reserved for more established authors. Michael Cunningham calls it "heartbreaking" and "beautiful." Paul Harding calls it "an indelible and essential work of art." And Benjamin Percy, in the current issue of Esquire, calls it "a knock to the head that will leave your mouth agape."
In this 1977 experimental film by Larry Jordan, Orson Welles reads Coleridge's classic poem.
The next poet laureate, Philip Levine, who will succeed W. S. Merwin when he takes over the post in October, reads a selection of his poems, including "What Work Is."
Published this month by Melville House, Christopher Boucher's novel, How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive, tells the story of a newspaper reporter living in western Massachusetts and trying to raise his son, a 1971 Volkswagen Beetle. To promote the book, Boucher yesterday set off on a road trip from Los Angeles to Boston in a 1972 Beetle.
BookBaby president Brian Felson sat down with literary agent Brian DeFiore at this year's London Book Fair to discuss whether it's fair that large publishers, under the agency model, pay standard royalties of 25 percent of net ebook sales to authors despite saving money as a result of not having to print or ship books.
The trailer for Paul Legault's second collection, The Other Poems, forthcoming in October from Fence Books, features text from the first poem in the book, "There You Go." Legault is a program associate at the Academy of American Poets.
