Tag Archive: interview
Remembering Maurice Sendak, 1928-2012
May 8, 2012(via Letters of Note) Remembering Maurice Sendak… Wired – Neil Gaiman on Sendak, “…what I always responded to, was the feeling that Sendak owed nothing to anyone in the books that he made. His only obligation was to the book, to make it true.” The… Read More →
On This Day (1994): Remembering Ralph Ellison
April 16, 2012We remember Ralph Ellison, who passed away on this day in 1994. In an interview for The Paris Review in the summer of 1954, Ellison was asked why he gave up music and began writing. He responded, “I didn’t give up music, but I became… Read More →
On This Day (1997): Remembering Allen Ginsberg
April 5, 2012“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” BBC Face To Face Interview – aired January, 1995 Read “Howl” here Obit… Read More →
Toni Morrison talks Song of Solomon
January 11, 2012On this date in 1978, Song of Solomon by Nobel and Pulitzer-prize winning novelist, Toni Morrison, wins the National Book Critics Circle Award. In the video above, Morrison talks about her motivation behind writing Song of Solomon. She explains how this story she had always… Read More →
Nabokov discusses ‘Lolita’
August 18, 2011On this date in 1958, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is published. In the below videos, Nabokov discusses Lolita on the CBC show Close Up.
10 Questions: Katie, the Out of Print Intern
August 4, 2011We are starting a new segment on this blog entitled “10 Questions”. We will interview all kinds of people in the literary world and ask them questions about their job, their books and their view on the ever-changing reading landscape. Our first “10 Questions” is… Read More →
“the Books” – an Exclusive Interview
November 12, 2010On Saturday night, November 13th, the band the Books will return home to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Described by singer/guitarist Nick Zammuto as “collage music”, the Books do an amazing job of combining the spoken word with a variety of visual… Read More →
Weekend Reading: Labor Day edition
September 3, 2010Each one of the 12 million immigrants arriving at Ellis Island had a story to tell. And the National Park Service has been doing a great job collecting these oral histories over the years. However, the only way to listen to them was by traveling… Read More →
To Kill A Mockingbird turns 50
July 11, 2010“You see, I never expected any sort of success with Mockingbird. I didn’t expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of reviewers, but at the same time I sort of hoped… Read More →
Great interview with a great storyteller: Ira Glass
June 15, 2010Slate recently published a really nice interview with “This American Life” host Ira Glass. Since part of our mission is to “celebrate great stories” it seems fitting to share it. One thing that stood out to us as a great message we should all take… Read More →
