PickVidsBest Literature & writing craft Videos
The 43 Literature & writing craft videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 0 intermediate, 41 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a video. What they share is that the subject is shared, but the approach changes from title to title. Channels you will keep seeing include UChicago Social Sciences, Manufacturing Intellect, Talks at Google.
LEADERSHIP LAB: The Craft of Writing Effectively
Larry McEnerney of the University of Chicago Writing Program gives a graduate-student session on writing effectively.
The Egg - A Short Story
Kurzgesagt animates Andy Weir's short story The Egg, in which a person learns that they are every human who has ever lived.
DOUGLAS ADAMS: Parrots, the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams gives a talk at UCSB, recorded shortly before his death, about the odd lives of animals and what they suggest about humanity's future.
Ira Glass on Storytelling 3
A five-minute clip of Ira Glass on the gap between good taste and early creative work.
LEADERSHIP LAB: Writing Beyond the Academy 1.23.15
Larry McEnerney of the University of Chicago Writing Program argues that good writing is defined by what readers value, not by rules or the writer's own ideas.
Kurt Vonnegut, Shape of Stories (subtitulos castellano)
Kurt Vonnegut's 2004 Case College lecture, with Spanish subtitles, in which he sketches the shapes of stories on a blackboard.
Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories
A short lecture in which Kurt Vonnegut graphs the simple shapes of stories, such as Man in Hole and Boy Gets Girl.
Alexander Pope Wrote a 35-Page Takedown of a Historian
CGP Grey tells the story of Alexander Pope's long takedown of a historian, Thomas Hearne, framed around the quirks of library books and archival research.
Neuromancer (BBC radio play adaptation ) William Gibson
The BBC radio play adaptation of William Gibson's cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, running about two hours.
Emacs For Writers
Science writer Jay Dixit explains how he uses Emacs as a non-programmer to write, edit and research more productively.
How To Be Alone
An animated short film of Tanya Davis's spoken-word poem 'How To Be Alone', illustrated by Andrea Dorfman.
34C3 - Dude, you broke the Future!
Charles Stross's 34C3 talk on how science fiction gets the future wrong.
Jorge Luis Borges: This Craft of Verse Lectures - thepostarchive
The six Norton Lectures Jorge Luis Borges gave in 1967-68, titled This Craft of Verse, on topics including the riddle of poetry, metaphor, storytelling, translation and a poet's creed.
Couldn't Care Less. Cormac McCarthy in conversation with David Krakauer
A 2017 documentary filmed at the Santa Fe Institute in which novelist Cormac McCarthy talks with SFI's David Krakauer.
BOOKSTORES: How to Read More Books in the Golden Age of Content
A short film by Max Joseph about his anxiety in bookstores and how to read more books amid constant streaming, social media and news.
What nobody tells you about documentation
Daniele Procida's PyCon AU 2017 talk presents a system that divides documentation into four kinds, usually drawn as four quadrants.
Ira Glass on the Creative Process (www.getoutthebox.org)
A two-minute video of Ira Glass on the creative process, describing the gap between taste and skill when starting out and urging you to keep producing until your work matches your taste.
Solaris | SCIENCE FICTION | FULL MOVIE | directed by Tarkovsky
Andrei Tarkovsky's 1972 film Solaris, in which a psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet with an alien intelligence and meets his dead wife there.
Shakespeare: Original pronunciation (The Open University)
David and Ben Crystal introduce the Original Pronunciation production of Shakespeare and show what it reveals about the history of English, including puns and rhymes lost in modern speech.
Brave New World vs Nineteen Eighty-Four featuring Adam Gopnik and Will Self
An Intelligence Squared debate in which Will Self argues for Brave New World and Adam Gopnik for Nineteen Eighty-Four as the better dystopian warning.
Blade Runner 2049 | "Cells Interlinked" and Pale Fire (LITERALLY ME! INCELS INTERLINKED)
A film-analysis video essay linking Blade Runner 2049's Cells Interlinked sequence to Nabokov's Pale Fire.
They're Made Out Of Meat
A 2004 short film adaptation of Terry Bisson's story "They're Made Out of Meat", in which aliens discuss the astonishing discovery of meat-based intelligent life.
We Are The Art | Brandon Sanderson’s Keynote Speech
Brandon Sanderson's keynote on AI-generated art, arguing that the artistic process and the journey matter more than the finished product.
George RR Martin asks Stephen King: "How do you write so Fast?!"
A short clip of George R.R.