And the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature Goes To …

in Literature, Video - Arts & Culture | October 9th, 2008

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Now and Then: More Poetry in Motion

in Literature, Video - Arts & Culture | October 1st, 2008

Bil­ly Collins, for­mer US Poet Lau­re­ate and one of Amer­i­ca’s best-sell­ing poets, reads his poem “Now and Then” with ani­ma­tion by Eun-ha Paek of Milky Ele­phant. (Yup, it’s added to our YouTube playlist and also see the pre­vi­ous ani­mat­ed Bil­ly Collins poem.)

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Dave Eggers in Conversation with Chris Elliott

in Comedy, Literature, Video - Arts & Culture | September 30th, 2008

“Come­di­an, actor and satirist Chris Elliott has made a career of blur­ring truth and absur­di­ty. Elliott wrote and per­formed for Late Night With David Let­ter­man, and went on to per­form in oth­er tele­vi­sion pro­grams, includ­ing Sat­ur­day Night Live.” Here he is in con­ver­sa­tion with writer Dave Eggers (A Heart­break­ing Work of Stag­ger­ing Genius). The video is cour­tesy of Fora.TV, and you can watch it here.

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Jonathan Franzen Reads

in Audio Books, Literature, Video - Arts & Culture | September 29th, 2008

In a quick three min­utes, you can watch the some­times cocky author of The Cor­rec­tions read from an essay on bird watch­ing, cour­tesy of BigThink.com, where you can also find more videos with intel­lec­tu­al heft.

For more thought­ful video, also see our YouTube playlist and the relat­ed col­lec­tion: Intel­li­gent Life at YouTube: 70 Edu­ca­tion­al Video Col­lec­tions.

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George Orwell’s 1984: Download Free Audio Book Version

in Audio Books, Literature | September 28th, 2008

I first post­ed this one dur­ing the dead of sum­mer, so it seemed worth revis­it­ing this now that we’re all a bit more focused .…

Over at the Inter­net Archive, you can find George Orwell’s clas­sic, 1984, avail­able as a free audio book. As you’ll see, the record­ing is pro­fes­sion­al­ly done. You can down­load the full zip file here. Or alter­na­tive­ly you can get the indi­vid­ual mp3 files, or stream them, from this page. On a more per­ma­nent basis, you can find Orwell’s 1949 work housed in our Free Audio Book Col­lec­tion along with lots of oth­er free texts. Or see it on our list of Life Chang­ing Books.

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New Fiction in Five Parts

in Literature | September 28th, 2008

This post is a twofer. First, I get to tell you about FiveChapters.com, a web site that posts new fic­tion in kind of a nov­el way. Almost a throw­back to the 19th cen­tu­ry, FiveChap­ters pub­lish­es short fic­tion in ser­i­al for­mat. Each week, they present a sto­ry in five parts, and you can fol­low along as the week unfolds. Now (and here’s the sec­ond part), let me men­tion that FiveChap­ters show­cased last week a sto­ry from Scott Hutchins, a good writer and col­league of mine. It’s called $30,000. Here it goes.

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Animated Poetry by US Poet Laureate

in Literature, Video - Arts & Culture | September 13th, 2008

Bil­ly Collins, for­mer US Poet Lau­re­ate and one of Amer­i­ca’s best-sell­ing poets, reads his poem “The Dead” with ani­ma­tion by Juan Del­can of Spon­ta­neous. Take it away:

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Ani­mat­ed Ver­sion of Howard Zinn’s His­to­ry of the Amer­i­can Empire

An Ani­mat­ed His­to­ry of Evil

The Sto­ry of Stuff in 20 Ani­mat­ed Min­utes

Ani­mat­ed New York­er Car­toons: A Fun­ny Twist on Einstein’s Rel­a­tiv­i­ty

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The 50 Greatest Arts Videos on YouTube

in Art, Literature, Music, Video - Arts & Culture, YouTube | September 1st, 2008

One of our British read­ers turned us on to this post by the Guardian, not­ing that they took a page from our gen­er­al play­book. The post fea­tures 50 of the best YouTube clips from across the arts, some of which we’ve fea­tured here in the past. Among the videos, you’ll find vin­tage per­for­mances by John Coltrane and Bil­lie Hol­i­day, read­ings by Jack Ker­ouac, an inter­view with Eugène Ionesco, clips of Nir­vana rehears­ing in a garage, Vladimir Nabokov talk­ing about Loli­ta, Jack­son Pol­lock drip­ping paint out­side his home, and Mar­lon Bran­do doing a screen test for Rebel With­out a Cause. We have post­ed the Bran­do clip below. There are some def­i­nite gems here. Now dive in. And don’t for­get to work through our YouTube playlist and our piece 70 Signs of Intel­li­gent Life at YouTube, where you’ll find enrich­ing video col­lec­tions.

Thanks Stephen for the tip. And read­ers, keep the good rec­om­men­da­tions com­ing!

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