Neil Gaiman at The University of the Arts Philadelphia, May 17, 2012.

…for about $15 a piece. Watch and learn.

From mosaicmediaboulder’s YouTube description:

The prize-winning, celebrated novelist from Haiti and Brooklyn, whose lyrical prose gives voice to Haitian reality, the power of women and political violence, spoke frankly in this interview held in Miami, Florida, in June, 2003.

From the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society description:

In this edition of HoCoPoLitSo’s “The Writing Life,” poet and musician Terence Winch talks with Irish novelist Colum McCann (winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Let the Great World Spin) after his second novel debuted to great acclaim. McCann, who grew up middle class in Dublin, talks about his two-year bicycle trek around America, gathering stories as a journalist, that helped turn him into a novelist. And while he counts Irish writers as influences, he mostly read Kerouac and Burroughs as a teen.

McCann reads from his first novel, Songdogs, and from This Side of Brightness, about the New York subway tunnels and the homeless who make their homes there, as well as the sand hogs who built the tunnels. McCann spent a year in the tunnels, and counts listening as the best way to research. “I don’t want to write about my family, about me. I think it’s much more liberating to be in the imagination. People always tell to write what you know about, but I say no, write about what you don’t know about.”

For information about HoCoPoLitSo (the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society), visit www.hocopolitso.org.

The Scottish crime writer and playwright talks about a typical day of work:

From the YouTube description:

From Governor General’s Award-winning poet Tim Lilburn comes a new collection of poetry of great scope and ambition. Assiniboia is a richly textured imagining of a Western Canada that could have been. Theatrical, operatic—a masque and a pair of choral performances—the book breaks new formal ground in Canadian poetry. The huge spectacle of Tim Lilburn’s eighth collection gives us a new land peopled by figures from the visionary governments of Louis Riel and from the western mysticism, as well as land forms with the power of speech, all acting together as a kind of ghostly army bent on overturning more than a century of colonial practice.

Just wonderful. So watch it. You shall smile. And learn a bit.

From The Guardian’s YouTube description:

Interviewed at the Guardian’s, Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif speaks about a new wave of creativity that has followed the revolution in Egypt last year. She discusses the street art that has sprung up across Cairo — much of it influenced by Banksy — and how writers’ imaginations have started to roam beyond Egypt’s borders

the old man and the sea from Marcel Schindler on Vimeo.

GalleyCat presents possibly the world’s first book trailer:

Fifty years before the book trailer even existed, the great Ernest Hemingway experimented by tape recording a rambling and possibly intoxicated introduction to Across the River and into the Trees.

From this morning’s Flavorwire link:

Birth of a Book from Glen Milner on Vimeo.

In honor of his birthday, a look at the life of Tennessee Williams -

Yeah, there’s a bit of language. But it’s Tuesday and it’s funny…