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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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Dec.11.2012 - 2:18 pm
posted by Barbara Froman
Get the hankies ready.... Today's heart-rending clip is from my favorite adaptation of A Christmas Carol: Scrooge (1951), directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. Alastair Sim plays the title character....
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Dec.10.2012 - 11:03 am
posted by David Knop
In the award winning novel, Mining Sacred Ground, former Marine and tribal cop Peter Romero is called to mete out justice while protecting a secret five hundred years old. Romero battles...
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Dec.10.2012 - 8:46 am
posted by Barbara Froman
From O'Henry's Full House (1952):  "The Gift of the Magi" directed by Jean Negulesco, and narrated by John Steinbeck.
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Dec.09.2012 - 10:59 am
posted by Barbara Froman
A teaser for a documentary about the Landfillharmonic.  Inspiring!
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Dec.08.2012 - 7:34 am
posted by Barbara Froman
"He Watching over Israel" from Felix Mendelssohn's oratorio, Elijah.   Happy Hanukkah.
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Dec.07.2012 - 4:27 pm
posted by Steve Caplan
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Dec.07.2012 - 4:24 pm
posted by Steve Caplan
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Jan.26.2012 - 10:02 pm
posted by Mitch Cullin
Filmmaker Peter I. Chang trains his camera on his partner Mitch Cullin who, several years after the fact, recalls his 2005 book tour around the U.S. with candid insight about the following...
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Mar.14.2008 - 3:16 pm
posted by JT Ellison
Book trailer for 14, the second in the Taylor Jackson series From Mira Books September 2008
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Jan.15.2008 - 4:18 pm
posted by Lori Hope
Producer Michelle Mahoney produced this story that aired on The Hallmark Channel's morning show in December 2006 and January 2007
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May.06.2009 - 11:11 am
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Sep.26.2011 - 5:25 pm
posted by Aberjhani
"Angel of Peace" by Aberjhani has been described as poem number 5 in the author's "Songs of the Angelic Gaze" series and was published in the book THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS. Some of the text in this...
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Dec.14.2007 - 12:27 pm
posted by Caroline Leavitt
Author interview for essay in the anthology, The Other Woman.
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Feb.14.2011 - 3:59 pm
posted by Kim Addonizio
from a reading at City Lights Books in San Francisco, with T-Wrex on guitar, from my new poetry collection Lucifer at the Starlite (W.W. Norton).
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Oct.05.2012 - 11:52 am
posted by Joseph Means
Millie and Honey find the traveling machine and take their first journey.
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Sep.04.2009 - 11:46 am
posted by Po Bronson
Based on the New York magazine article by Po Bronson, about the Power and Peril of Praising Our Kids.
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