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Luc Sante on Folk Photography
Writer and critic Luc Sante explains how he started collecting postcards thirty years ago and reads the introduction to his book, Folk Photography: The American Real-Photo Postcard, 1905–1930.
Program or Be Programmed by Douglas Rushkoff
The debate over whether the Net is good or bad for us fills the airwaves and the blogosphere. But for all the heat of claim and counter-claim, the argument is essentially beside the point: it's here; it's everywhere. The real question is, do we direct technology, or do we let ourselves be directed by it and those who have mastered it?
Authors and Audiences
A writer spends considerable time envisaging his or her readers. But as a manuscript makes its way across the editorial labyrinth—through the hands of editors, agents, publishers and booksellers—the imagined readers become elusive. Editor and author Albert Mobilio leads a fascinating panel discussion exploring the wide gulf between a writer’s desired audience and the readers they ultimately find.
Kristin Hersh
Musician and writer Kristin Hersh talks about her memoir, Rat Girl, based on a diary she kept as a teenager.
Steve Coll on the bin Laden Family
The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars: The Secret History of CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, Steve Coll discusses his most recent book, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century.
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.
The Googlization of Everything
Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, discusses his book The Googlization of Everything (and Why We Should Worry) at South by Southwest.
The Free World
David Bezmozgis read the first chapter of his new novel, The Free World, the story of a family of Jewish refugees in late-70s Rome.
Dale Peck interviews Abdellah Taïa
From the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival, Dale Peck interviews Abdellah Taïa, one of Morocco's most talented writers. They discuss identity, gender, and sexuality in the vastly different sociopolitical contexts of contemporary New York City and Morocco.
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.
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.
Everything and More: The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
From the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, a discussion about David Foster Wallace's unfinished novel, The Pale King.
The Next Decade in Book Culture
From the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature: A conversation about the new power of the book review and the emergence of a unique reader experience in the age of the digital revolution, featuring Morris Dickstein, Carsten Jensen, Cynthia Ozick, and Hervé Le Tellier; moderated by Jane Ciabattari.
"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.
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.

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