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Feb.06.2011 - 1:14 pm
Progress
posted by Cheryl L Snell
We drown in the details— what to bring to potluck, where to meet for coffee. There’s a Starbuck’s on the corner where we once sold lemonade, our homemade sign coming apart in an attic somewhere. We...
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Nov.09.2011 - 5:24 pm
Open Road Media: Erica Jong on Fear of Flying
posted by Erica Jong, Ph.D.
"At the time I wrote Fear of Flying," recalls Erica Jong, "there was not a book that said women are romantic, women are intellectual, women are sexual—and brought all those things together."...
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Aug.19.2011 - 1:42 pm
Walking a Field into Evening
posted by Larry R. Smith
Here a short poem video I've made this day to share. It uses my poem WALKING A FIELD INTO EVENING which has been printed in several places, most recently in Yoga International magazine. Peace
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Apr.08.2011 - 12:06 pm
Belva Davis in Conversation with Deborah Santana
posted by Deborah Santana
Strand Book Store, New York- February 23, 2011
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Aug.03.2009 - 8:46 am
On These Walls: Quotations and Images of the Library of Congress
posted by John Y. Cole
Confessions of a Loyal Librarian Redroom.com presents exclusive video of John Y. Cole, a historian of the Library of Congress and founding director of its Center for the Book. John has worked at the...
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Dec.29.2010 - 9:43 pm
Salman and the Fire of Life
posted by Salman Rushdie
Celebrated author Salman Rushdie talks to NDTV's Barkha Dutt on his latest book Luka and the Fire of Life. Rushdie says his new book is a product of the strong desire of his younger son Milan.
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May.30.2011 - 2:33 pm
Afghanistan Can't Wash Away Vietnam
posted by Andrew Q Lam
Andrew Lam reads his essay, "Afghanistan Can't Wash Away Vietnam" from "New California Writing" - an anthology of writing about California by Californian Writers. He is the author of East Eats West:...
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Nov.28.2010 - 4:29 pm
Love in the Time of Amazon.com
posted by Midge Raymond
A cautionary tale about husband-and-wife authors, "Love in the Time of Amazon.com," by John Yunker and Midge Raymond. And a book trailer (of sorts) for The Tourist Trail by John Yunker and Forgetting...
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Jul.25.2012 - 12:36 pm
Resurrecting Love: The Cemetery That Can Heal a Nation
posted by China Galland
Resurrecting Love: The Cemetery That Can Heal a Nation documents the powerful racial conflict over the right to visit cemeteries and to know your ancestors.  This work in progress follows two...
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Dec.23.2008 - 8:22 am
Killing for Coal: Thomas G. Andrews
posted by Andrew Kaplan
On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia...
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Dec.23.2008 - 9:28 am
Gang Leader for a Day: Sudhir Venkatesh
posted by Andrew Kaplan
The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. Gang Leader for a Day is the...
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Jan.28.2009 - 7:52 pm
Scandal
posted by Sheila English
The earl of Banallt is no stranger to scandal when he meets Sophie Evans, the young wife of a fellow libertine. Unlike the women who usually fall into his bed, Sophie refuses to be seduced. Soon...
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May.02.2009 - 1:54 pm
May Day Los Angeles 2009
posted by Julia Stein
May Day Los Angeles 2009 Immigration Rights demonstration
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Oct.07.2009 - 4:52 pm
Chronicles of a Sage: Simple Complexities
posted by Deborah Simpson
How much quantifies too much? How much of a small amount is not enough? When are we truly satisfied? How about the complexity of holding onto the fabric of intangibility? What is perception?...
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Oct.12.2009 - 11:15 am
On Deciding to Write
posted by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Catherine Ryan Hyde talks to Patti Patane of "The Reading Light" about the origins of the decision to embark on the difficult career of fiction writing.
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Jan.02.2010 - 2:20 am
Pakistan: New Year 2010 Resolutions نئے سال ۲۰۱۰ کے عہد و...
posted by Hashim Syed
New Year 2010 Resolutions نئے سال ۲۰۱۰ کی قراردادیں (This is a bilingual English / Urdu Presentation) سال ۲۰۰۹ جاتے جاتے پاکستان کو کئی نئے زخم دے گیا۔ ۲۸ دسمبر کو کراچی میں ہونے والا واقعہ، اور اس...
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Jan.21.2010 - 9:07 pm
Dragons in the Dark
posted by Rebecca Ryals Russell
Transported from Earth two teens must fulfill the prophecy to find the rest of the Vigorios (Child Warriors), gather and lead them to an Enchanted Island where the Majikals (fairies, elves, dwarfs,...
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Feb.24.2010 - 3:20 pm
THE STORY - a poem by Sandra Beasley
posted by Sandra Beasley
Sandra Beasley reads "The Story" from I WAS THE JUKEBOX: POEMS, winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize and forthcoming from W. W. Norton in 2010. For more information visit www.sandrabeasley....
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Mar.17.2010 - 1:13 am
Youtube
posted by Dai Wilde
Promotional/sales ad for author David Wilde based in New Mexico, USA. David is currently a long time independent scholar/researcher in New Mexico at the University of New Mexico since 1984. http://...
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