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.
Gaiman on Copyright Piracy and the Web
Neil Gaiman tells the Open Rights Group how the internet and piracy affect books and publishing.
David Foster Wallace reads "Consider the Lobster" (on the 2003 Maine Lobster Festival)
A reading of David Foster Wallace's essay Consider the Lobster, about the 2003 Maine Lobster Festival and the ethics of boiling lobsters alive.
Cities Without People
Jacob Geller's video essay on empty cities and what they say about our relationship to places, using games, literature and aerial imagery.
Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace : 1958 (Full)
Mike Wallace interviews Aldous Huxley in 1958 about the warnings in Brave New World, including mass persuasion, overpopulation and voluntary totalitarianism.
Illustrating Crafting Interpreters
Bob Nystrom shows his process for hand-drawing the diagrams in his book Crafting Interpreters, from pencil sketches to tracing and inking.
Babel Fish - The Oddest Thing In The Universe - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - BBC
The BBC TV version of the Babel Fish passage from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with Ford and Arthur aboard a Vogon ship, narrated over the show's hand-drawn animated Guide entry.
They're Made Out of Meat
A short film adaptation of Terry Bisson's story 'They're Made Out of Meat', in which alien explorers discuss with disbelief that humans are sentient beings made of meat.
Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, reflects on the pressure placed on artists to be geniuses.
Blindsight Sci-fi Short Film
A five-minute CG sci-fi short film by Danil Krivoruchko, based on Peter Watts's novel Blindsight.
Anathem | Neal Stephenson | Talks at Google
Neal Stephenson visits Google in 2008 to discuss his novel Anathem as part of the Authors@Google series.
Harlan Ellison -- Pay the Writer
A three-minute rant by Harlan Ellison, excerpted from the documentary Dreams with Sharp Teeth, on why creative professionals should always be paid for their work rather than work for free or 'exposure'.
Original Pronunciation - Hamlet | To Be, or not to be... | Ben Crystal
Ben Crystal performs Hamlet's 'To be, or not to be' in Original Pronunciation, the reconstructed accent of Shakespeare's time, on a London balcony.
xkcd | Randall Munroe | Talks at Google
Randall Munroe, creator of xkcd, gives an Authors@Google talk in 2007 about the webcomic and his background, followed by audience Q&A.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - Ozymandias
Harry Melling recites Shelley's poem Ozymandias in the Ballad of Buster Scruggs segment of the Coen brothers film.
George R. R. Martin Still Uses A DOS Word Processor | CONAN on TBS
A short Conan segment in which George R.
Arthur Vs The Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser
An animated clip from the second radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in which Arthur Dent argues with the Nutrimatic drinks dispenser, which produces something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
David Foster Wallace unedited interview (2003)
The full unedited 2003 ZDF television interview with David Foster Wallace, running about an hour and a half.
Jerry Seinfeld Interview: How to Write a Joke | The New York Times
In a New York Times interview, Jerry Seinfeld describes the anatomy of his Pop-Tart joke, still a work in progress, and shows his longhand writing process.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (7/10) Movie CLIP - The High Water Mark (1998) HD
A movie clip from Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in which Duke recalls the brief magical moment of 1960s San Francisco, the 'high water mark' monologue.