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Feb.06.2011 - 1:14 pm
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
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
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
posted by Deborah Santana
Strand Book Store, New York- February 23, 2011
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Aug.03.2009 - 8:46 am
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
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
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
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
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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Aug.24.2011 - 2:00 pm
posted by R. Barri Flowers
A marriage made in hell... Barely five feet tall, sweet and innocent looking, Charlene Gallego used all of her charms to beguile pretty teenage girls and young women into the back of a van, where her...
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Aug.24.2011 - 1:07 pm
posted by Rosemary Jones
Ashes of the Bonfire Queen by Rosemary Jones is one tale of a hero who comes home, just to start over again.
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Aug.24.2011 - 12:54 pm
posted by Anastasia M Ashman
What comes after cultural disenfranchisement? What comes after Expat Harem, the book? What comes after expat+HAREM, the community site? This slideshow charts the evolution of Anastasia's own global...
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Aug.24.2011 - 12:49 pm
posted by Anastasia M Ashman
ANASTASIA ASHMAN, the founder of expat+HAREM, the global niche charts her evolution from disenfranchised expat to builder of the global niche educational community for transglobalists,...
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Aug.24.2011 - 12:10 pm
posted by Josh Friedberg
This is for a song for anyone who needs it! Captions available
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Aug.23.2011 - 6:25 pm
posted by Robert Sward
Robert Sward reads his poem 'This is a Father', the last peom in the book, "God Is In The Crack" Robert's new book of poetry, 'New and Selected Poems, 1957-2011', to be published by Red Hen Press...
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Aug.23.2011 - 4:25 pm
posted by Kelli Stanley
Book trailer for CITY OF SECRETS, the next Miranda Corbie novel.
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Aug.23.2011 - 1:00 pm
posted by Arlene Goldbard
Q&A with audience following keynote speech.
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Aug.23.2011 - 12:53 pm
posted by Arlene Goldbard
Keynote address at APASO’s annual conference, hosted by the Greater Austin Creative Alliance at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center: “The Wellspring: How Your Work is Transforming The World (...
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Aug.23.2011 - 12:31 pm
posted by Andrew Q Lam
Andrew Lam visited UC Davis in 2010 to read from his books, East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres and Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora.
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Aug.30.2008 - 7:45 am
posted by R. N. Morris
I finally get down to work.
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Jan.17.2009 - 1:23 pm
posted by Andrew Q Lam
New America Media's Editor, Andrew Lam, Returns home in 2004 with a film crew to Vietnam for visit. Andrew is Author of Perfume Dreams, Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora and long time...
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Apr.24.2010 - 5:12 pm
posted by Mara Buck
Poem read by the author in memory of global disasters, especially the Haitian earthquake. From a recently published anthology by 32 poets, Vwa:Poems For Haiti, proceeds to benefit Haitian relief,...
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Apr.06.2011 - 5:21 pm
posted by Michael Anthony
I decided to do an experiment and see what I could do with $20.00 at Fiverr.com, this is one of the videos that I got out of it. This is the first video I got back. In the background my song "...
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Jun.24.2008 - 3:42 pm
posted by Jason Bayani
Jaylee Alde performs "Lighthouse" Jason Bayani performs "Ardenwood B-Boys" Proletariat Bronze covers "If You Want To Know What We Are" by Carlos Bulosan
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Apr.17.2009 - 1:06 pm
Here, you will see part one of five (or six--who knows? I'm bad at this) of the Orinda Book reading of April 16th. This was the kickoff reading for WOMBA, featuring Michelle Richmond, Susan...
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Nov.03.2010 - 1:12 pm
posted by Peter Conners
February 3, 2010. Peter Conners reads and discusses his memoir,Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead (Da Capo Press, 2010) for Syracuse University's Raymond Carver...
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Jan.17.2009 - 1:21 pm
posted by Andrew Q Lam
Andrew Lam, editor of New America Media, took a trip back to Vietnam in 2004, produced by PBS - Exec producer Rene Tajima, director Lourdes Portillo.
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Jul.03.2009 - 11:58 am
posted by Louise Shaffer
Emmy winning actress Louise Shaffer from RYAN'S HOPE, THE EDGE OF NIGHT, SEARCH FOR TOMORROW and several other soaps is now a successful novelist. On Thursday, July 2 she hosted "An Evening with...
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Oct.22.2009 - 10:34 pm
posted by Laura Glen Louis
"An Exacting Man" was written in honor of Alfred Peet, of Peet's Coffee, and delivered at his momorial in October, 2007 at the Berkeley City Club. The video of "An Exacting Man" is from a reading in...
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