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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The Power is a television series adaptation of the award-winning 2016 novel of the same name by Naomi Alderman. The ten-episode Amazon Prime Video series has been adapted by Alderman, Sarah Quintrel, and Raelle Tucker, and stars Toni Collette, Auli’i Cravalho, Toheeb Jimoh, John Leguizamo, and Eddie Marsan.
Tags: Fiction | The Power | Naomi Alderman | television adaptation | trailer | Amazon Prime Video | 2023 -
In this video, Bill Gates recommends five books for his annual summer reading list, which include the historical novel The Lincoln Highway (Viking, 2021) by Amor Towles and the speculative novel The Power (Little, Brown, 2017) by Naomi Alderman.
Tags: Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | Bill Gates | summer reading | 2022 | The Lincoln Highway | Amor Towles | The Power | Naomi Alderman | historical fiction | speculative fiction -
“There are big questions about where I take my career, how one makes that decision; to be able to talk about that with somebody who really understands those business questions, as well as the creative questions, is wonderful.” Naomi Alderman, who received the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for The Power (Viking, 2017), and Margaret Atwood talk about their experiences being paired together as mentee and mentor, respectively, under the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative program.
