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An Interview with Loorie Moore
The celebrated fiction writer Lorrie Moore reflects on the post-9/11 world rendered in her latest book, A Gate at the Stairs.
An Interview with Vladimir Nabokov
A classic 1950s CBC television interview with Vladimir Nabokov and Lionel Trilling discussing Lolita: "We can't trust a creative writer to say what he has done."
An Interview with Jonathan Franzen
"It takes me a long time to write a novel, and what gets me going, finally, is trying to figure the world out," says Jonathan Franzen. Here, he discusses the inspirations behind his novel Freedom, and one of the challenges he faces as a writer: How to describe characters without satirizing them.
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!
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.
David Foster Wallace Interviewed by Charlie Rose
We're currently in the midst of Pale King overload, and as everyone writes about David Foster Wallace, it can become difficult to remember what he was actually like. Here's something to refresh our memories: Excerpts from Wallace's 1996 interview with Charlie Rose, on the "Future of Fiction in the Information Age."
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."
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
Christopher Hitchens on Hitch-22
Christopher Hitchens talks with Salman Rushdie about his memoir Hitch-22 at the 92nd Street Y.
An Interview with Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Journalist Sheryl McCarthy chats with Rahna Reiko Rizzuto about her memoir Hiroshima in the Morning, in which the author talks with people who survived the atomic attacks.

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