I shot a few short videos of some of the authors I caught at yesterday’s National Book Festival. Not especially competently, I’m afraid—I’m working with a two-year-old personal digital camera. But the sound is better than I’d expected, and everybody here gets off a good line or two.
Neil Gaiman, responding to a question about whether his ego ever gets in the way of his work (1:36):
Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, reading her poem “Composition” (0:52):
James McBride, discussing one of the obvious models for his first novel, Miracle at St. Anna (2:12):
Geraldine Brooks, discussing the books that first got her interested in reading (2:21):
(The camera conked out before she got to the punchline. She was able to name the emotion she felt; it’s lust.)
Richard Price on writing for The Wire: (0:30):
Richard Price on writing dialogue (0:45):
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[...] record the action from authors other than Dionne Warwick or Cokie Roberts. Check out his site for short videos from the fest, including sneak previews of two writers featured at next week’s Litquake, Neil Gaiman and Kay [...]