Poets & Writers Theater
Every day we share a new clip of interest to creative writers—author readings, book trailers, publishing panels, craft talks, and more. So grab some popcorn, filter the theater tags by keyword or genre, and explore our sizable archive of literary videos.
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"Once upon a time, there was a girl named Little Red Reading Hood who loved her grandmother's local independent bookstore." On The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Jonathan Franzen, author of Purity (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), reads a modern bedtime story about consumerism for the show's host.
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“Be very patient, even patient with chaos,” Lydia Davis advises writers in this compilation of interviews by Louisiana Channel. Seasoned writers from around the world, including Alaa Al Aswany, Umberto Eco, Richard Ford, Patti Smith, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, also offer their thoughts on how to keep writing.
Tags: Poetry | Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | Cross-Genre | Louisiana Channel | Kjell Askildsen | Alaa Al Aswany | Lydia Davis | Umberto Eco | Richard Ford | Jonathan Franzen | Lars Norén | Sjón | Patti Smith | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o | Herbjørg Wassmo | 2016 | writing advice -
“It had started as a family joke: Dad always orders the mixed grill in restaurants, Dad only wants to go to restaurants with mixed grill on the menu.” Patricia Lockwood, poet and author of the memoir Priestdaddy (Riverhead Books, 2017), performs a dramatic reading of a passage from Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001) for the literary nonprofit O, Miami.
Tags: Poetry | Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | Patricia Lockwood | Jonathan Franzen | The Corrections | Priestdaddy | 2001 | 2017 | reading | memoir | Riverhead Books | O, Miami | Farrar, Straus and Giroux -
The bestselling author speaks with PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown about bird-watching, debates, and his latest novel, Purity (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), which is featured in Page One in the current issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Tags: 2015 | September/October 2015 | PBS NewsHour | Jeffrey Brown | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Page One | Jonathan Franzen | Purity | Fiction