Poets & Writers Theater
Every day we share a new clip of interest to creative writers—author readings, book trailers, publishing panels, craft talks, and more. So grab some popcorn, filter the theater tags by keyword or genre, and explore our sizable archive of literary videos.
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“They say time turns hawkish, that you feel it like a wing crossing over you.” In this Single Sentence Animation for Electric Literature, a sentence from Jenny Offill’s short story “The Tunnel” is animated by Luca DiPierro.
Tags: Fiction | Jenny Offill | The Tunnel | short story | Electric Literature | Single Sentence Animation | 2010 -
“Sing of disappointments more repeated than the batter of the sea....” At the Lannan Foundation in 1998, William Gass reads from his second novel, The Tunnel (Knopf, 1995), which took twenty-six years to write and earned him the 1996 American Book Award. Gass died on December 6, 2017 at the age of ninety-three.
Tags: Fiction | William Gass | reading | The Tunnel | Knopf | 1995 | American Book Award | Lannan Foundation | in memoriam