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[close] 2015. Graeme Macrae Burnet reads from his second novel His Bloody Project at the launch in Waterstones Argyle St, Glasgow on November 5th 2015.

[close] 2012. Shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and now the BBC International Short Story Award, Deborah Levy spoke to us at Waterstones Piccadilly about her story, Black Vodka, and novel, Swimming Home.



[close] 2015. In his fourth novel, Beatty, who is also a poet and the editor of Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor, deploys deft satire as he follows an anonymous young man grappling with the recent shooting death of his father, a sociologist who in fact was not writing the magnum opus he had claimed, and the state’s threat to wipe his town, Dickens, off the California map. Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics & Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics & Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online. Visit them on the web at http://www.politics-prose.com/

[close] 2016. In English and Dutch. In Filmhuis Studio A the festival's guest writers present their favourite literary texts and explain why a particular poem, novel excerpt, or song lyric influenced their life and work. Which memory, what feeling does this text call up for them? A continuous interview programme, in which the audience also talks with the writers. Hosted by Arjan Peters. In English.

[close] 2014. From the widely praised author of "Secret Son" and "Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits" comes a stunning piece of historical fiction. "The Moor’s Account" is an imagined memoir of the New World’s first explorer of African descent, a Moroccan slave known as Estebanico. Join Laila Lalami for a reading and conversation with Gina Frangello, author of "A Life in Men" and Sunday editor at the Rumpus. This program was recorded on October 26, 2014 as part of the 25th Anniversary Chicago Humanities Festival, Journeys: http://chf.to/2014Journeys

[close] 2013. An interview with Ruth Ozeki about her wonderful and wise novel A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING. For more information visit www.canongate.tv/timebeing.

[close] 2011. Author Patrick DeWitt presentation at the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/CBCSubscribe Watch CBC: http://bit.ly/CBCFullShows About CBC: Welcome to the official YouTube channel for CBC, Canada’s public broadcaster. CBC is dedicated to creating content with original voices that inspire and entertain. Watch sneak peeks and trailers, behind the scenes footage, original web series, digital-exclusives and more.

[close] 2015. David Mitchell is the acclaimed author of the novels Black Swan Green, which was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by Time; Cloud Atlas, which was a Man Booker Prize finalist; Number9Dream, which was short-listed for the Man Booker as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; and Ghostwritten, awarded the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for best book by a writer under thirty-five and short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award. He chats to Booktopia's Andrew Cattanach.

[close] 2015. Presented as part of The Literary Mews - a festival within the PEN World Voices Festival. Award-winning translator Ann Goldstein (The New Yorker) and NYU professor Rebecca Falkoff will discuss the anonymous Italian author, whose devastatingly honest novels—particularly the epic Neapolitan tetralogy—have moved readers to a rare and visceral passion. Their dialogue will reflect upon the powerful emotions narrated and elicited by the novels. Ann Goldstein will speak about her work as a translator, and about the ways in which the novels foreground translation through references to dialect. Rebecca Falkoff will talk about the cultural context of Ferrante's work, and the different reception of the Neapolitan novels in Italy and the United States. Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò New York University May 8, 2015

[close] 2015. Korean with English subtitles. LTI Korea (Literature Translation Institute of Korea) asks the author: What is life? What is death? Who am I? Writing means embracing these ever resilient questions as you move forward.

[close] 2015. Caryl Phillips is a British Caribbean writer, winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and Lannan Literary Award, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

[close] 2016. Author Virginia Reeves discusses the historical background of her debut novel.