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The Diversity Test: Gender and Literature in Translation
From the PEN America World Voices festival, National Book Award winner Norman Rush, novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lorraine Adams, and Israeli novelist Alex Epstein discuss gender and literature in translation; moderated by novelist Claire Messud.
Writers on Technology and Everyday Life
Author Steven Johnson, editor Julian Dibbell, researcher Danah boyd, and Yale's Jack Balkin, discuss social media, online communities, Google, blogs, bullying and more.
Green Is the New Red by Will Potter
Here's the trailer for Will Potter's new book, Green Is the New Red, an investigation of how environmental and animal activists are being treated as terrorists.
An interview with Dinaw Mengestu
Dinaw Mengestu, recently named one of the "20 under 40" by the New Yorker, discusses his latest novel How to Read the Air.
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson's is the author of a new book called The Psychopath Test. Here he ponders the checklist that mental-health practitioners use to spot psychopaths.
New European Fiction
Naja Marie Aidt, Valter Hugo Mãe, and Jean-Philippe Toussaint read from and discuss the inaugural volume of Best European Fiction with editor Aleksandar Hemon.
In the Plex
What does Google know about you? Steven Levy, author of In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives explains.
An Interview with Chris Kraus
Artist and author Chris Kraus talks with Martin Rumsby about film and capitalism ("Capitalism thrives on narrative"), as well as her film Gravity & Grace, her "ticket out of the ghetto of the experimental film world."
CAConrad reads in a bathtub
Readings can take place in a lot of places—bookstores, bars. Or, as this video of CAConrad proves, a bathtub. Here, the author of the excellent The Book of Frank introduces a poem by saying: "I was finding a lot of crow feathers. And I had this dream that I gave birth to a little baby.... It was a little cake baby. And I gave it to the crows and the crows loved it, and it made me really happy." Happy Poetry Month!
Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View
Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer is joined by author Jeffrey Rosen and NYPL's Paul Holdengräber for a conversation about his book Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View. Together, they will examine what the Court must do to maintain public confidence, and discuss the ten books that shaped Justice Breyer's intellectual persona.
Jaimy Gordon reads from Lord of Misrule
National Book Award-winner in fiction Jaimy Gordon reads from her racetrack novel Lord of Misrule at the 2010 National Book Awards finalists event.
Tom McCarthy: In Praise of Georg Trakl
Tom McCarthy's novel C takes place in the early 20th century and is rife with allusions, radio signals, war, drugs addict, and secrets. Here, he talks about his "new favorite author," the early-20th-century German poet Georg Trakl, a drug addict and doctor during World War I. Says McCarthy: "His whole world is polluted and toxic."
Christopher Hitchens on Hitch-22
Christopher Hitchens talks with Salman Rushdie about his memoir Hitch-22 at the 92nd Street Y.
Rob Sheffield interviewed by Amanda Stern
Rob Sheffield, author of Love is a Mix-Tape, prepares to DJ for the National Book Award's 5 Under 35 party—and explains how his set will resemble the boat-destroying scene in The Iliad.
Deb Olin Unferth and Ben Marcus Read New Work
Ben Marcus gives a preview of his forthcoming novel, The Flaming Alphabet, which will be published in January 2012. But first, Deb Olin Unferth reads from her artful Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War, a memoir that shifts from wise to youthful to hilarious—often in the course of a single sentence.

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