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The Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A with Toi Derricotte
Poet Toi Derricotte talks about her craft. Photo: Orlando Luis Pardo. The Writer’s Block is an ongoing video series of interviews with visiting writers at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh. In these Q&A’s,...
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The Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A with Cornelius Eady
Cornelius Eady on poetry. Photo: Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo The Writer’s Block is an ongoing video series of interviews with visiting writers at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh. In these Q&A’s, conducted on...
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The Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A With Harryette Mullen
Poet Harryette Mullen. Photo: Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo The Writer’s Block is an ongoing video series of interviews with visiting writers at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh. In these Q&A’s, conducted on...
View ArticleIranian Art in Exile: An Interview with Nicky Nodjoumi
An interview with Iranian painter-in-exile Nicky Nodjoumi, whose work is on display in New York until January 5. Video: PBS Newshour via YouTube. Iranian painter Nicky Nodjoumi left his country in...
View Article“China’s Spielberg” Feng Xiaogang On Censorship
“I believe that 1942 is the closest that you can get to an Oscar-level film for China because of the censorship.” In this interview, The Hollywood Reporter‘s Scott Feinberg had a chance to ask the...
View ArticleGirl Rising
A film about the power of education to change a girl – and the world. From Academy Award-nominated director Richard E. Robbins, award-winning Documentary Group, Vulcan Productions, and Intel...
View ArticlePadre Melo and the Struggle for Human Rights in Honduras
Jesuit priest, Ismael Moreno, popularly known as Padre Melo, talks about campesino farmers, indigenous groups, human rights defenders, and journalists all struggling against the assassinations,...
View ArticleVideo: Impunity Prevails in Mexico’s Drug War
Covering crime and corruption in Mexico may be the most dangerous job for journalists. On average, 10 journalists have been killed every year since 2006. Attacks on the media have increased since...
View ArticleVideo: Remembering Doris Lessing
The Nobel-prize winning novelist Doris Lessing passed away on [November 17] in London at the age of 94. In this 2003 interview, Bill Moyers spoke with Lessing about what she called her “compulsive”...
View ArticleVideo: Publisher and New Press Founder André Schiffrin Dies at 78
In this interview from 2007 André Schiffrin discusses his political and economic split with Random House, the experience of starting The New Press, and working with writers like Studs Terkel....
View ArticleHis Day Is Done: A Tribute Poem for Nelson Mandela by Maya Angelou
Message delivered by Dr. Maya Angelou on behalf of the American people in memory of Nelson Mandela. Video: U.S. Department of State via YouTube. Click here to view this video with captions in...
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The Writer’s Block: A Video Q & A with Hamdy El-Gazzar
In this segment of The Writer’s Block, Hamdy El-Gazzar discusses writing poetry, incorporating sex as a theme in his work, and the importance of letting the spirit of a text live in translation. Photo:...
View ArticleA Video Conversation With Alice Munro: The Nobel Prize Lecture in Literature
“Stories were so important in the world, and I wanted to make up some of these stories, I wanted to keep on doing this, and it didn’t have to do with other people, I didn’t need to tell anybody, and...
View ArticleVideo: Who’s Afraid of Free Speech?
Video: PEN America via YouTube. On December 4, 2013, PEN PRESENTS: “Who’s Afraid of Free Speech?” brought together writers David Simon, E.L. Doctorow, Masha Gessen, Azar Nafisi, and moderator James...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A with Ivo Victoria
In this segment of The Writer’s Block, Ivo Victoria discusses how becoming a writer has made him a reader, how music is his biggest stylistic influence, and how he plays the “game between fact and...
View ArticleEgypt’s Poet of the Poor: 2013 Prince Claus Laureate Ahmed Fouad Negm
Film on the Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad Negm by AROMA Pictures, directed by Ahmed Manawishi, for the Prince Claus Award, 2013. Video: PrinceClausFund via YouTube. Ahmed Fouad Negm (1929-2013) was a...
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Infographic: Iran’s Censorship of Wikipedia
Using proxy servers in Iran, researchers Collin Anderson and Nima Nazeri scanned 800,000 Persian language Wikipedia articles. Every blocked article was identified and blocked pages were divided into...
View Article10 Most-Watched Writer’s Block Video Q&A’s of 2013
The Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A with Chris Abani http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Chris_Abani_Video_pic2.jpg Chris Abani is a recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship in...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A with Laurent Binet
In this segment of The Writer’s Block, Laurent Binet discusses his relationship with his editors, the risks of mixing history and fiction, and why he doesn’t make a distinction between author and...
View ArticleFilm: Ai Weiwei – The Fake Case
Ai WeiWei – The Fake Case trailer. Video: rosforth via YouTube. Ai Weiwei – The Fake Case is a new documentary produced and directed by Danish filmmaker Andreas Johnsen. Chronicling Chinese dissident...
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