Five Cinematic Author Events
For an alternative movie night, view these extended readings and conversations with literary luminaries Zadie Smith, Édouard Louis, Min Jin Lee, Ocean Vuong, and Joy Harjo.
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The Shakespeare Sonnet Project
The New York Shakespeare Exchange is working with filmmakers and directors to produce collaborative video adaptations of Shakespeare’s sonnets, bringing the Bard’s timeless poems to a new audience.
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The Written Image: Visualization of Narrative Structure
In their analysis of three classic texts, two UC Berkeley Neuroscience PhD candidates created an interactive visualization of the emotional relationships between each book’s cast of characters.
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Writing an Elegy for a Dead World
Inspired by the works of Shelley, Keats, and Byron, a new video game challenges its players to get creative with writing-based gameplay.
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Answer Songs: Music as Muse
A songwriter responds to literature—such as stories by Jonathan Lethem and George Saunders—with music, carrying the creative conversation across art forms.
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Motionpoems Gets Moving
A Minneapolis-based collaborative brings poetry to life through a series of animated films.
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Shteyngart Trailer Stars Franco and Franzen, Holiday Gifts for Book Lovers, and More
Novelist Jennifer Miller examines the marketplace pressure placed on author photos; Jason Diamond showcases his ten favorite nonfiction titles of the year; the Guardian lists the books banned from Guantánamo Bay detention camp; and other news.
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Sylvia Plath in New York, Halloween Short Stories, and More
Starting tomorrow, Amazon will collect sales tax in Massachusetts and Connecticut; USA Today reveals what can be gleaned from two decades of its best-seller lists; Salon gathered short and scary stories from twelve authors, including Shani Boianjiu and Mat Johnson; and other news.
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Neil Gaiman Novel Banned in New Mexico School, Maria Bustillos on James Thurber, and More
Neil Gaiman’s novel Neverwhere was banned from a school library in Alamogordo, New Mexico; the New Yorker gathered several writers and asked for their thoughts on Alice Munro; Maria Bustillos considers the great James Thurber’s role in the genesis of creative nonfiction; and other news.
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Elon Green Speaks With Gay Talese, What Makes a Good Story, and More
Amazon intends to build a distribution center in Kenosha, Wisconsin; Heidi Pitlor explains what makes a good short story; Elon Green interviews Gay Talese about his most famous essay for Esquire; and other news.
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