From the Liverpool Daily Post YouTube description:

Watch our LiveRead video of horror writer Ramsey Campbell reading an extract from his short story, “Laid Down”:

The talk show host and comedienne discusses her third book, Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang:

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So you think you can design a book cover? Just push play to watch the six-hour process unfold at superspeed.

An interesting piece on David Shields’ latest:

The fantasy, horror and science fiction author talks about the craft of writing and his new novel The Extra:

From the AtGoogleTalks YouTube description:

What sustains us in a time of panic? How do we survive disasters beyond our control? Bestselling author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni considers these timely questions in her compelling new novel, ONE AMAZING THING. Drawing on Divakaruni’s personal experience of Hurricane Rita and inspired by literary works ranging from The Decameron to Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto, ONE AMAZING THING explores what happens when people from different walks of life are trapped together are trapped by a violent earthquake.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s honors include an American Book Award, a PEN/Josephine Miles Award, two PEN Syndicated Fiction awards, and a Distinguished Author Award from the South Asian Literary Association. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, and a Pushcart Prize anthology. With the publication of her new novel, One Amazing Thing, Divakaruni is the author of sixteen books, two of which have been made into movies. A frequently sought-after op-ed commentator regarding South Asian-American culture, Divakaruni is the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Houston.

The award winning author talks about her new novel, Wolfsbane Winter:

Booktrust talks to the Ghanaian writer about his early days writing and performing his poetry:

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies comes the true history of our sixteenth president - Seth Grahame-Smith’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter:

Sam Lipsyte reads from his latest book, The Ask:

Guardian writer and author Hannah Pool discusses her book My Father’s Daughter:

Courtesy of YouTube user woodychaos. From the Wikipedia description:

The Charles Bukowski Tapes are an altogether more than four hours long collection of 52 short-interviews with the American cult author Charles Bukowski, sorted by topic and each between one and ten minutes long. Director Barbet Schroeder (Barfly) interviews Bukowski about such themes as alcohol, violence, and women, and Bukowski answers willingly, losing himself in sometimes minute-long monologues. Amongst other things, Bukowski leads the small camera team through his parents’s house and his former neighbourhood, but the largest part of the interviews takes place in Bukowski’s flat or backyard. The documentary includes a scene in which Bukowski reacts violently toward his wife Linda Lee.

Related:

The Charles Bukowski Tapes 1
The Charles Bukowski Tapes 2
The Charles Bukowski Tapes 3
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Courtesy of YouTube user woodychaos. From the Wikipedia description:

The Charles Bukowski Tapes are an altogether more than four hours long collection of 52 short-interviews with the American cult author Charles Bukowski, sorted by topic and each between one and ten minutes long. Director Barbet Schroeder (Barfly) interviews Bukowski about such themes as alcohol, violence, and women, and Bukowski answers willingly, losing himself in sometimes minute-long monologues. Amongst other things, Bukowski leads the small camera team through his parents’s house and his former neighbourhood, but the largest part of the interviews takes place in Bukowski’s flat or backyard. The documentary includes a scene in which Bukowski reacts violently toward his wife Linda Lee.

Related:

The Charles Bukowski Tapes 1
The Charles Bukowski Tapes 2
The Charles Bukowski Tapes 3

Courtesy of YouTube user woodychaos. From the Wikipedia description:

The Charles Bukowski Tapes are an altogether more than four hours long collection of 52 short-interviews with the American cult author Charles Bukowski, sorted by topic and each between one and ten minutes long. Director Barbet Schroeder (Barfly) interviews Bukowski about such themes as alcohol, violence, and women, and Bukowski answers willingly, losing himself in sometimes minute-long monologues. Amongst other things, Bukowski leads the small camera team through his parents’s house and his former neighbourhood, but the largest part of the interviews takes place in Bukowski’s flat or backyard. The documentary includes a scene in which Bukowski reacts violently toward his wife Linda Lee.

Related:

The Charles Bukowski Tapes 1
The Charles Bukowski Tapes 2

Courtesy of YouTube user woodychaos. From the Wikipedia description:

The Charles Bukowski Tapes are an altogether more than four hours long collection of 52 short-interviews with the American cult author Charles Bukowski, sorted by topic and each between one and ten minutes long. Director Barbet Schroeder (Barfly) interviews Bukowski about such themes as alcohol, violence, and women, and Bukowski answers willingly, losing himself in sometimes minute-long monologues. Amongst other things, Bukowski leads the small camera team through his parents’s house and his former neighbourhood, but the largest part of the interviews takes place in Bukowski’s flat or backyard. The documentary includes a scene in which Bukowski reacts violently toward his wife Linda Lee.

Related: The Charles Bukowski Tapes 1

Courtesy of YouTube user woodychaos. From the Wikipedia description:

The Charles Bukowski Tapes are an altogether more than four hours long collection of 52 short-interviews with the American cult author Charles Bukowski, sorted by topic and each between one and ten minutes long. Director Barbet Schroeder (Barfly) interviews Bukowski about such themes as alcohol, violence, and women, and Bukowski answers willingly, losing himself in sometimes minute-long monologues. Amongst other things, Bukowski leads the small camera team through his parents’s house and his former neighbourhood, but the largest part of the interviews takes place in Bukowski’s flat or backyard. The documentary includes a scene in which Bukowski reacts violently toward his wife Linda Lee.

From the 92ndStreetY YouTube description:

Poet Lucille Clifton passed away recently at the age of 73. The New York Times recalled that Clifton: “…received a National Book Award in 2000 for Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000, published by BOA Editions. In 2007, she became the first African-American woman to win the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a $100,000 award that is one of American poetry’s signal honors.

Her book Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir, 1969-1980 (BOA, 1987) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1988.”

Her relationship with the 92Y Poetry Center dates back to 1969, when she won our Discovery (http://bit.ly/9I2mhl) poetry contest.

In tribute to her we are sharing this clip of her reading of Voices on Nov 3, 2008. Clifton reads four poems, Out of Body, Mataoka, Albino, and Cream of Wheat.

Unterberg Poetry Center webcasts and access to our archive are made possible in part by the generous support of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation.

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Christopher Cook asks author Philippa Gregory about writing on witchcraft in her novel The White Queen: