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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Watch this 2018 reading and conversation with Nobel Prize–winning author Annie Ernaux celebrating the English publication of her book The Years, along with translator Alison L. Strayer and Seven Stories Press publisher Dan Simon at the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris, France.
Tags: Creative Nonfiction | Translation | Annie Ernaux | The Years | Seven Stories Press | 2018 | French | Alison L. Strayer | Dan Simon | Shakespeare and Company | Nobel Prize -
At Shakespeare and Company in Paris, Argentinian writer Ariana Harwicz talks about her debut novel, Die, My Love (Charco Press, 2017), with Carolina Orloff, who cotranslated the book from the Spanish with Sarah Moses. The novel is longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize.
Tags: Fiction | Ariana Harwicz | Carolina Orloff | Sarah Moses | Charco Press | 2017 | 2018 | Man Booker International Prize | Shakespeare and Company | Die, My Love -
“Six months remain until you will be born and anything at all could happen to you in that time...” Karl Ove Knausgaard reads from his book Autumn (Penguin Press, 2017), which is featured in Page One in the September/October 2017 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Tags: Fiction | Karl Ove Knausgaard | Autumn | Penguin Press | 2017 | Page One | September/October 2017 | Shakespeare and Company -
If this simple, evocative video shot at Shakespeare and Company in Paris and set to Melody Gardot's "Over the Rainbow" doesn't give you an almost irresistable urge to visit an independent bookstore today, you've probably been buying all your books online.
Tags: short film | Shakespeare and Company | Poetry | Fiction | Creative Nonfiction
