Kurt Vonnegut on Story Shapes (Video)

I’d seen the diagrams, which I’ve used in the classroom for a few years now (along with Margaret Atwood’s excellent short short “Happy Endings”) but never seen this video (metaphorical hat tip to ‘klept reader ccllyyddee, who says he saw it at Curiosity Counts—cheers!).

Edward Albee Talks About Carson McCullers (Video)

Sonny Sharrock on Magic Guitar Jams with Keith Haring on Magic Marker

Barry Hannah Interview (Video)

“Nothing but Misery, Nothing but Monsters” — Henry Miller Walks Around New York, Talking About His Childhood

“Art Makes People Aware of What They Know and Don’t Know That They Know” — William S. Burroughs Talks About Creative Thinking

“We Are the Origin of Evil” — Carl Jung on Death, Nihilism, and Humanity

Harold Bloom Talks About Blood Meridian (Video)

David Foster Wallace Describes the Reading Process

“I’m Not a Good Reader” — Witold Gombrowicz

“Very Few of the Things That I Start I Finish” — David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace on the Economy of Comfort

David Mitchell Discusses The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

David Mitchell talks about the inspiration behind his novel The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. (Read our review).

William Burroughs’s Advice to Young People

Aldous Huxley Talks About Drugs, TV, and Threats to American Freedom

Mike Wallace interviews Aldous Huxley (1958)—

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“Toolin’ Around” — Barry Hannah’s Tuscaloosa

Barry Hannah takes John Oliver Hodges on a tour of Tuscaloosa and shows him the shack where he wrote Ray; he also shares some wild stories from his alcoholic past. Read more at the Oxford American.

Don DeLillo Reads from Mao II