I Have a Time Machine
I Have A Time Machine | Brenda Shaughnessy | TEDxHarvardCollege
Brenda Shaughnessy reads her poem "I Have a Time Machine" and discusses the role that poetry can play in recovering from traumatic experiences for a TEDx event at Harvard University. Shaughnessy is the author of Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon Press, 2012) and So Much Synth (Copper Canyon Press, 2016).
Brenda Shaughnessy
Our Andromeda
So Much Synth
Robin MacArthur
Dear Vermont
Robin MacArthur reads a love letter to her home state of Vermont for an episode of State of the Re:Union with music scored by Red Heart the Ticker, MacArthur's band with her husband Tyler Gibbons. MacArthur's debut novel, Heart Spring Mountain (Ecco, 2018), is featured in Page One in the January/February 2018 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
State of the Re:Union
Heart Spring Mountain
Ed Lin's Trilogy
Robert Chow Books by Ed Lin
Ed Lin's hardboiled thriller trilogy, This Is a Bust (Kaya Press, 2007), Snakes Can't Run (Minotaur Books, 2010), and One Red Bastard (Minotaur Books, 2012), is being reissued by Witness Impulse. The mystery novels take place in the 1970s, and feature Chinese American detective and Vietnam veteran Robert Chow solving crimes in New York City's Chinatown.
Ed Lin
Witness Impulse
Kaya Press
The Dinner Trailer #1 (2017) | Movieclilps Trailers
Herman Koch's novel, The Dinner (Hogarth, 2012), translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett, has been adapted into a feature film directed by Oren Moverman and starring Steve Coogan, Richard Gere, Rebecca Hall, and Laura Linney. The story unfolds over the course of a dinner as two couples struggle over moral implications surrounding a crime committed by their teenage sons.
Herman Koch
Elena Passarello
Contemporary Writers Series: Elena Passarello
"The thing when you write about pop culture—especially pop culture that you're interested in—that you have to avoid, is just saying 'isn't this cool?' again and again...I realized that I needed to put myself into it." Elena Passarello talks about writing creative nonfiction and reads from her first book, Let Me Clear My Throat (Sarabande Books, 2012). Passarello's Animals Strike Curious Poses (Sarabande Books, 2017) is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Let Me Clear My Throat
Animals Strike Curious Poses
Fiona McCrae on Publishing
Fiona McCrae & Molly Antopol on Publishing
"Ideally, you're trying to get your eye as close to the text as you can." At the 2012 Summer Literary Seminars, author Molly Antopol speaks with Graywolf Press publisher Fiona McCrae about editing and acquiring manuscripts.
Fiona McCrae
Summer Literary Seminars
Gone to the Forest
Katie Kitamura's GONE TO THE FOREST
"The idea was to use a kind of fragmented approach to talking about colonialism...because I think that's increasingly the way we think about and access historical narratives." In this video, Katie Kitamura talks about the structural choices behind her second novel, Gone to the Forest (Free Press, 2012). Kitamura's most recent novel, A Separation (Riverhead Books, 2017), tells the story of the end of a marriage and a husband gone missing in Greece.
Katie Kitamura
Riverhead Books
Live By Night - Official Trailer [HD]
The film adaptation of Dennis Lehane's Edgar Award–winning crime novel, Live by Night (William Morrow, 2012), follows the Coughlin family's epic rise and fall through the Prohibition Era, from Boston to the Gulf Coast. Ben Affleck directs and stars in the film with Chris Cooper, Elle Fanning, Sienna Miller, and Zoe Saldana.
Pam Houston on Dialogue
Word Works presents Dialogue with Pam Houston
"Nothing makes me want to hurl a book across the room harder and faster than when the writer gives me a quick little emotional recap to make sure I'm keeping up." For the Word Works series at Hugo House, Pam Houston, the author most recently of Contents May Have Shifted (Norton, 2012), delivers a lecture on crafting dialogue.
Hugo House
Word Works
Contents May Have Shifted
A River Closely Watched
"A River Closely Watched"
This book trailer provides an atmospheric preview of Jon Boilard's debut novel, A River Closely Watched (MacAdam/Cage, 2012). Boilard's first short story collection, Settright Road (Dzanc Books, 2017), is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Jon Boilard
MacAdam/Cage
Settright Road