Recent Videos:

• The Butterfly Circus

  While I passed Water for Elephants at the bookstore several times, I was finally hooked on the idea after viewing this short film set in [...]

• Margaret Atwood: Sci-Fi Speculation Informs Our Choice of Future

  Margaret Atwood is a good interview, and there’s plenty of interviews available. She’s done a whole series on religion on YouTube, and I previewed several [...]

• The Scent of Green Papaya

  After reading The Wind Up Bird Chronicles, I went looking for vids on Haruki Murakami. No such luck. There’s a couple of bootlegs of a [...]

• Johnny Mnemonic: Molly’s Prequel

  William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer features a character, Molly Millions, that he developed for the story Johnny Mnemonic. It was made into a movie starring Keannu [...]

• Animal Farm: Animated in 1954

  Here’s a look at the animated version of Animal Farm produced in 1954. It’s available to watch on YouTube as an eight part series originally [...]

• Augusten Burroughs on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

  I found this hipster-lit vid on YouTube. I will probably soften up on Augusten Burroughs as I read more of his work. At the moment, [...]

• Trailer: Ablutions

  This absurd and compelling animated trailer reminds me of Mike Whiteside’s stories, which all began, ” I was sitting in this bar in Hollywood..” I [...]

• Trailer: Eating Animals

  Jonathan Safran Foer, the novelist best known for Everything is Illuminated has written a new book about meat. Here in the trailer he discusses his [...]