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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.31.2007 - 5:57 pm
posted by Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart plays comic and political hardball on CNN's Crossfire in 2004.
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Dec.31.2007 - 5:57 pm
posted by Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart appears on Late Show With David Letterman in February 1996.
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Dec.31.2007 - 5:56 pm
posted by Jon Stewart
Bill Moyers interviews Jon Stewart from the Daily Show. They discuss everything from government transparency to Virginia Tech, to the war on terror. You can watch the rest of the interview on the PBS...
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Dec.31.2007 - 5:51 pm
posted by Shaun D Landry
Shaun Landry with Storytellers Unplugged improvising the story of Miss Macie from the suggestion "Barber Shop" at The San Francisco Improv Festival 2007
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Dec.31.2007 - 2:14 pm
posted by Po Bronson
Redroom.com presents Po Bronson (What Should I Do With My Life?) reading at Litquake 2007, San Francisco's annual literary festival. Bronson talks about when readers are driven to profound acts—...
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Dec.30.2007 - 10:50 am
posted by David Munro
Trailer for the film Full Grown Men.
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Dec.28.2007 - 6:26 pm
posted by Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert introduces and then "argues" with Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, at a BookTV Expo in June 2007.
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Dec.28.2007 - 6:22 pm
posted by Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert appears in How Not to Communicate with the Second City comedy troupe in Chicago. Also in the sketch are  young unknowns Paul Dinello and Aliza Shalowitz. This piece was written,...
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Dec.28.2007 - 5:46 pm
posted by Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert was the featured entertainer for the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in April 2006. Standing a few yards from President George W. Bush—in front of an audience that...
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Dec.28.2007 - 5:44 pm
posted by Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert was the featured entertainer for the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in April 2006. Standing a few yards from President George W. Bush—in front of an audience that...
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Oct.14.2009 - 1:08 am
posted by Sheila English
Boyfriend behaving badly... Suspect your husband of straying... Jennifer Hunter can provide the ultimate test. She runs an agency that offers fidelity inspections for those who suspect their loved...
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Oct.23.2009 - 2:08 pm
posted by Sheila English
In our world, we have a great deal of confusion stemming from virtually every aspect of life. Society entrances and titillates with many indulgences, gluttony persists, and we falter along an unclear...
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Jan.13.2010 - 1:28 am
posted by Sheila English
Brain Thief is a fun, literate speculative fiction adventure, sort of New England cyberpunk noir, set a year or ten from now, somewhere between the Berkshires and Boston, and includes, at no extra...
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Mar.23.2010 - 10:09 pm
posted by Sheila English
Trapped with a bloodthirsty killer behind locked gates, one woman comes face to face with her worst nightmare: a killer without limitswithout remorsewithout mercy. Without Mercy: the pulse pounding...
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Apr.06.2010 - 9:40 pm
posted by Sheila English
Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical, everything having to do with Jeremiah and Conrad, happens then. But one summer, one wonderful and terrible summer, the more...
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Mar.29.2011 - 10:59 am
New web trailer for Ada's Daughter: A Story of Diversity, Hope, And Personal Strength.
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Sep.08.2011 - 9:51 pm
posted by Manjiri Prabhu
A novel which takes place in 48 hours and moves from India to Germany to London. A tale of romance, suspense and betrayal. . .
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Nov.25.2008 - 8:20 am
posted by Andrew Kaplan
By developing and toning her own bounce-back muscles at critical points in her life, Lisa found the power to become her authentic self and achieve everything she dared to hope for. Now, in NO MATTER...
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Mar.16.2009 - 8:13 pm
posted by Julia Stein
This song is a musical tribute to laidoff workers at U.S. Steel/Stelco in Ontario, Canada, and also in tribute to laidoff workers everywhere
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May.19.2009 - 3:47 pm
posted by Sheila English
In 1883, a desperately ill Odessa St. Clair arrives at a Colorado sanitarium, seeking a cure for her consumption. When she witnesses a murder, Dessa struggles toward health, to solve the mystery—and...
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