Categories: Creativity Tags: interviews · video
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Louis C.K. on cell phones
Categories: Odds & Ends Tags: cell phones · comedy · Louis C.K. · video
Video of the Day
Time-lapse video of European cities by Dominic Boudreault. Watch it full-screen.
Categories: Odds & Ends Tags: Europe · video
Best Book Trailer Ever
The trailer for my friend John Kenney’s wonderful new debut novel, Truth in Advertising (available January 22). Best book trailer ever.
Categories: Books Tags: book trailers · publicity · video
Valediction
Maurice Sendak’s final interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air, in September 2011, animated by Christoph Niemann. Sendak died seven months later. (via The Dish)
Categories: Writers Tags: Fresh Air · interviews · Maurice Sendak · video
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Creativity, happiness and flow
Categories: Productivity · Writing Tags: flow · happiness · Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · TED talks · video
Louis C.K. on Twitter
Categories: Internet Tags: comedy · Louis C.K. · Twitter · video
Gay Talese
Gay Talese gives a tour of his office and discusses his writing habits.
I save everything. I think that I’m a person of record… It’s a whole process of giving worth to every moment of your day. I’ve seen things. I’ve interviewed hundreds and hundreds of people over many years. By saving it, I’m not just being a collector of stuff — I’m a documentarian of what it is that I do, who I know, what I see. This stuff is never dead because stories never die. Stories are never over.
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Ray Bradbury: Story of a Writer (1963)
Categories: Writers · Writing Tags: Ray Bradbury · video
Homer votes
Categories: Odds & Ends Tags: comedy · politics · The Simpsons · TV · video
Elmore Leonard on bad movies and good writing
Elmore Leonard interviewed by James Parker of The Atlantic.
Categories: Writers · Writing Tags: books · Elmore Leonard · video
Defending Jacob on the Today Show
A nice mention for Defending Jacob on this morning’s Today Show. Thank you, Charlaine Harris. (This is just a brief 60-second clip. You can watch the whole segment here.)
Also this week, Amazon included Defending Jacob on its list of the best books of 2012 so far. Not a bad week.
Categories: My Books Tags: Defending Jacob · video
John Fox on ball games
Book trailer for The Ball: Discovering the Object of the Game by my friend John Fox (on sale May 14). The footage shows the Kirkwell Ba’, an ancient “folk football” game played twice a year, on Christmas and New Years Day, in the streets of Kirkwall, a tiny coastal town in Orkney, northern Scotland.
Categories: Books · Sports Tags: book trailers · video
In case you missed it
On this morning’s “Anderson,” Anderson Cooper’s new talk show, Nicholas Sparks named Defending Jacob his #1 recommendation for summer reading. I’m floored. Thank you, Nicholas Sparks, wherever you are!
Categories: My Books Tags: Defending Jacob · Nicholas Sparks · video
Do schools kill creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson: “Do schools kill creativity?” Still the best TED talk ever.
Categories: Odds & Ends Tags: education · Ken Robinson · TED talks · video