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Us by Michael Kimball
Luca Dipierro's beautiful and heartbreaking animation — based on a single sentence from Michael Kimball's novel, Us.
"Jersey Shore" as written by Oscar Wilde
What if the characters of Broadway's "The Importance of Being Earnest" traveled through a time warp and woke up on the beach with Snooki, The Situation and the rest of the gang of MTV's "Jersey Shore"? In an video series created for Playbill by "Earnest" stars Santino Fontana and David Furr, the Roundabout Theatre Company cast puts "Jersey" in the mouths of Oscar Wilde's famed Britons.
Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carre
The unrivaled master of spy fiction returns with a taut and suspenseful tale of dirty money and dirtier politics.
Out of the Vinyl Deeps by Ellen Willis
Out of the Vinyl Deeps reintroduces Ellen Willis's singular approach and style—her use of music to comment on broader social and political issues, critical acuity, vivid prose, against-the-grain opinions, and distinctly female (and feminist) perspective—to a new generation of readers.
On Being Wrong
Kathryn Schulz, author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error gives a TED 2011 talk on why being wrong has never felt so right; making a compelling case for not just admitting, but embracing, our fallibility.
Authors@Google: Evgeny Morozov
Evgeny Morozov, author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, discusses the idea that perhaps the Net does not necessarily mean a tecno-Utopia for all at the Googleplex, the techno-Utopian's ground zero.
A Next-generation Digital Book
From TED 2011, Mike Matas demonstrates the first full-length interactive book for the iPad—with clever, swipeable video and graphics, and some cool data visualizations.
PEN World Voices: What Went Wrong?
The Moth storytelling series presents "What Went Wrong?" at the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival, featuring Jonathan Franzen, Warren Macdonald, Jenny Allen, Edgar Oliver, and Elif Shafa.
The Broken Word by Adam Foulds
The Broken Word is a delicate and powerful poetic sequence that charts a young man's progress through a dark period in British colonial history—the Mau Mau uprisings in Kenya.
Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia
The Swamplandia author explains what influenced her to write a book about alligator wrestlers, ghosts, and theme parks in Florida.
Authors@Google: James Gleick
James Gleick spoke to Googlers in Mountain View, CA, in March 2011 about his latest book The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood.
Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History by Carmela Ciuraru
George Eliot, Fernando Pessoa, Claire Morgan, and others are profiled and analyzed in Carmela Ciuraru's entertaining new biographical study of writers who used pseudonyms.
Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz discusses his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in 2007.
William Deresiewicz on A Jane Austen Education
In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within. With humor and candor, Deresiewicz employs his own experiences to demonstrate the enduring power of Austen's teachings. Progressing from his days as an immature student to a happily married man, Deresiewicz's A Jane Austen Education is the story of one man's discovery of the world outside himself.
Harold Bloom: From the Anxiety to the Anatomy of Influence
On the closing day of the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival, Yale University's Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom joins Paul Holdengräber for a discussion LIVE from the NYPL.

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