http://bravenewfilms.org/topics/novel 2008-08-27T16:45:17Z http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/47924-amy-tan-writing-from-personal-experience 2008-08-27T16:45:17Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QishhWj5S10&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QishhWj5S10&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/47924-amy-tan-writing-from-personal-experience"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/57651" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete video at: <a href="http://fora.tv/2008/07/10/On_Writing_Amy_Tan_in_Conversation_with_Roger_Rosenblatt">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Bestselling author Amy Tan discusses the importance of drawing on personal experiences when creating fictional stories and characters, and explains how her own family experiences have influenced her writing.</p> <p>-----</p> <p>Amy Tan speaks as a part of "Roger Rosenblatt and Friends: On Writing" during the 2008 Chautauqua Institution morning lecture series.</p> <p>Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Opposite of Fate, and Saving Fish from Drowning. She has also written two children's books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat. The latter became a children's television series for PBS called "Sagwa." Amy is a member of the literary garage band, The Rock Bottom Remainders, for which she sings the Nancy Sinatra classic, "These Boots Are Made for Walking" to raise money for after-school literacy programs for inner city kids. Tan's rendition of the pop culture classic can be heard on the CD Stranger than Fiction, which benefits the PEN Writers Fund.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/47924-amy-tan-writing-from-personal-experience">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/47903-amy-tan-finding-meaning-through-writing 2008-08-27T12:50:14Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VP5JcUoElt8&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VP5JcUoElt8&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/47903-amy-tan-finding-meaning-through-writing"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/57621" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete video at: <a href="http://fora.tv/2008/07/10/On_Writing_Amy_Tan_in_Conversation_with_Roger_Rosenblatt">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Bestselling author Amy Tan recalls her childhood efforts at writing, and discusses how certain events in life have influenced her as an author.</p> <p>-----</p> <p>Amy Tan speaks as a part of "Roger Rosenblatt and Friends: On Writing" during the 2008 Chautauqua Institution morning lecture series.</p> <p>Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Opposite of Fate, and Saving Fish from Drowning. She has also written two children's books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat. The latter became a children's television series for PBS called "Sagwa." Amy is a member of the literary garage band, The Rock Bottom Remainders, for which she sings the Nancy Sinatra classic, "These Boots Are Made for Walking" to raise money for after-school literacy programs for inner city kids. Tan's rendition of the pop culture classic can be heard on the CD Stranger than Fiction, which benefits the PEN Writers Fund.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/47903-amy-tan-finding-meaning-through-writing">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/45014-riz-khan-twin-success-07-jul-08-part-2 2008-07-13T09:44:01Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vxbJ5poVAu8&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vxbJ5poVAu8&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/45014-riz-khan-twin-success-07-jul-08-part-2"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/51516" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Suresh and Jyoti Guptara, the 17-year-old authors of the critically-acclaimed fantasy novel, 'The Conspiracy of Calaspia', join the show.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/45014-riz-khan-twin-success-07-jul-08-part-2">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/45013-riz-khan-twin-success-07-july-08-part-1 2008-07-13T08:40:15Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uPjXkSfmOoc&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uPjXkSfmOoc&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/45013-riz-khan-twin-success-07-july-08-part-1"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/51515" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Becoming a bestseller author is the dream of every author and one that often involves a lot of rejection and frustration.</p> <p>That was the case for two wrtiters who spent six years reworking the piece they had crafted together before it hit the bookshelves and became an international bestseller.</p> <p>By then the authors, who also happen to be twins were just 17 years old putting them among the youngest bestsellers ever.</p> <p>Suresh and Jyoti Guptara originally finished their fantasy novel the Conspiracy of Calaspia at the tender age of 11 but spent six years rewriting and touting their work around.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/45013-riz-khan-twin-success-07-july-08-part-1">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/44177-authors-google-meg-waite-clayton 2008-08-22T16:53:38Z AtGoogleTalks <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TzQ54itaooo&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TzQ54itaooo&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/44177-authors-google-meg-waite-clayton"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/50533" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>For thirty-five years, Frankie, Linda, Kath, Brett, and Ally have met every Wednesday at the park near their homes in Palo Alto, California. Defined when they first meet by what their husbands do, the young homemakers and mothers are far removed from the Summer of Love that has enveloped most of the Bay Area in 1967. These "Wednesday Sisters" seem to have little in common: Frankie is a timid transplant from Chicago, brutally blunt Linda is a remarkable athlete, Kath is a Kentucky debutante, quiet Ally has a secret, and quirky, ultra-intelligent Brett wears little white gloves with her miniskirts. But they are bonded by a shared love of both literature and the Miss America Pageant, which they watch together every year. As the years roll on and their children grow, the quintet forms a writers circle to express their hopes and dreams through poems, stories, and, eventually, books.</p> <p>Meg Waite Clayton is the author of The Language of Light, a finalist for the Bellwether Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in Runner's World, Writer's Digest, and literary magazines. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She lives in Palo Alto, California, with her husband and their two sons.</p> <p>This event took place on June,27 2008, as a part of the Authors@Google series.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/44177-authors-google-meg-waite-clayton">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/42696-authors-google-ed-park 2008-08-08T12:50:30Z AtGoogleTalks <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uoTdouY6kNs&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uoTdouY6kNs&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/42696-authors-google-ed-park"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/48184" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Ed Park visits Google's San Francisco, CA office to discuss his book "Personal Days." This event took place on June 18, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series.</p> <p>In an unnamed New York-based company, the employees are getting restless as everything around them unravels. There's Pru, the former grad student turned spreadsheet drone; Laars, the hysteric whose work anxiety stalks him in his tooth-grinding dreams; and Jack II, who distributes unwanted backrubs--aka "jackrubs"--to his co-workers. <br />On a Sunday, one of them is called at home. And the Firings begin. Rich with Orwellian doublespeak, filled with sabotage and romance, this astonishing literary debut is at once a comic delight and a narrative tour de force. It's a novel for anyone who has ever worked in an office and wondered: "Where does the time go? Where does the life go? And whose banana is in the fridge?"</p> <p>Ed Park is a founding editor of The Believer and a former editor of the Voice Literary Supplement. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review and many other publications. He lives in Manhattan, where he publishes The New-York Ghost. Visit <a href="http://www.ed-park.com.">www.ed-park.com.</a> </p> </div> <a href="/blog/42696-authors-google-ed-park">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/41423-authors-google-sheldon-siegel 2008-07-16T20:41:03Z AtGoogleTalks <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jlo6JTTRDdY&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jlo6JTTRDdY&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/41423-authors-google-sheldon-siegel"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/46704" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Judgment Day finds ex-spouses Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez tackling their most compelling case yet. Called in at the last minute to try to stop the execution of Nathan Fineman, a former mob lawyer convicted of murdering three people in the backroom of the notorious Golden Dragon Restaurant, Mike and Rosie must race the clock in a desperate attempt to prove their client's innocence--an impossible task, given the wealth of forensic evidence pointing to his guilt.</p> <p>Sheldon Siegel, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, has been a practicing attorney in San Francisco for over twenty-five years. 'Judgement Day' is the sixth novel is his series of critically-acclaimed, best-selling courtroom dramas featuring San Francisco criminal defense lawyers Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez. He lives in Marin County with his wife, Linda, and twin sons, Alan and Stephen.</p> <p>This event took place on June 5, 2008, as a part of the Authors@Google series.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/41423-authors-google-sheldon-siegel">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/41422-authors-google-alan-furst 2008-07-17T16:44:15Z AtGoogleTalks <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ztkfDAZpSWQ&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ztkfDAZpSWQ&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/41422-authors-google-alan-furst"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/46703" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>An autumn evening in 1937. A German engineer arrives at the Warsaw railway station. Tonight, he will be with his Polish mistress; tomorrow, at a workers' bar in the city's factory district, he will meet with the military attaché from the French embassy. Information will be exchanged for money. So begins The Spies of Warsaw, the brilliant new novel by Alan Furst, lauded by The New York Times as "America's preeminent spy novelist."</p> <p>Alan Furst is widely recognized as the master of the historical spy novel. Now translated into seventeen languages, he is the bestselling author of Night Soldiers, Dark Star, The Polish Officer, The World at Night, Red Gold, Kingdom of Shadows, Blood of Victory, Dark Voyage, and The Foreign Correspondent. Born in New York, he now lives in Paris and on Long Island.</p> <p>This event took place on June 5, 2008, as a part of the Authors@Google series.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/41422-authors-google-alan-furst">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/21867-frost-over-the-world-the-kite-runner-14-dec-07 2008-06-13T15:36:33Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3CdqMIKQbqs&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3CdqMIKQbqs&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/21867-frost-over-the-world-the-kite-runner-14-dec-07"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/21621" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Khalid Abdalla, who plays the lead role in the film of the 2003 bestselling novel 'The Kite-Runner', joins Sir David to talk about the film.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/21867-frost-over-the-world-the-kite-runner-14-dec-07">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/19940-authors-google-saira-rao 2008-06-10T15:36:15Z AtGoogleTalks <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ugNllrig84A&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ugNllrig84A&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/19940-authors-google-saira-rao"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/19638" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Saira Rao visits Google's Cambridge, MA office to discuss her book, "Chambermaid: A Novel." This event took place on September 25, 2007 as part of the Authors@Google series.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/19940-authors-google-saira-rao">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/18338-authors-google-gina-nahi 2008-06-14T21:30:19Z AtGoogleTalks <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/47KKNmrcxEY&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/47KKNmrcxEY&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/18338-authors-google-gina-nahi"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/18015" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Gina Nahai visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss her book, "Caspian Rain." This event took place on October 5, 2007 as part of the Authors@Google series.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/18338-authors-google-gina-nahi">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/5737-anna-quindlen-excerpt-from-rise-and-shine 2008-06-07T09:34:10Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ke4yQh-IvPw&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ke4yQh-IvPw&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/5737-anna-quindlen-excerpt-from-rise-and-shine"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/5011" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete program at: <a href="http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=363">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Author and Newsweek columnist Anna Quindlen reads an excerpt from her novel, "Rise and Shine."</p> <p>-----</p> <p>Meghan, host of the highest-rated morning talk show, utters profanity on the air and is suddenly dealing with a halt in her career. It's the end of an era, not only for Meghan, but also for her sister Bridget, who has always lived in Meghan's long shadow. The effect of the on-air truth telling reverberates through both their lives, affecting Meghan's family, friends and fans. -- Book Passage</p> <p>Anna Quindlen is the author of five novels (Blessings, Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue, Rise and Shine), and six nonfiction books (Being Perfect, Loud & Clear, A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Living Out Loud, Thinking Out Loud, How Reading Changed My Life). She has also written two children's books (The Tree That Came to Stay, Happily Ever After). Her New York Times column "Public and Private" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Her column now appears every other week in Newsweek.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/5737-anna-quindlen-excerpt-from-rise-and-shine">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/5730-isaiah-wilner-the-man-time-forgot 2008-06-07T09:34:12Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QvgbUggdi-Q&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QvgbUggdi-Q&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/5730-isaiah-wilner-the-man-time-forgot"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/5004" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete program at: <a href="http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=416">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Author Isaiah Wilner describes the unusual friendship between Britton Hadden and Henry Luce, the two co-founders of Time Magazine.</p> <p>-----</p> <p>Isaiah Wilner explores the controversial, never-before-told story of how Briton Hadden forever changed American media - creating Time Magazine with Henry R. Luce - and how Luce betrayed him in "The Man Time Forgot." Friends, collaborators, and childhood rivals, Hadden and Luce are not yet twenty-five when they start the nation's first newsmagazine at the outset of the Roaring Twenties. Millionaires at thirty, together they lay the foundation for a media empire. But their partnership is explosive and their rivalry ferocious, inspired by envy as well as love. When Hadden dies at the age of thirty-one, Luce begins to bury the legacy of the giant he was never able to best. Wilner paints a fascinating portrait of a man whose mind dreams of everything, from the weekly newsmagazine to Life, Sports Illustrated, and the radio quiz show, traveling from the tomb of Yale's storied secret society, Skull and Bones, to high-society Europe and South America, following the friendship of two brilliant and opposite souls who inspire one another to the pinnacle of earthly success. Hadden's Time -- the magazine his idea -- sets the course for modern journalism into the twenty-first century. The 28-year-old author of "The Man Time Forgot" discovered the story while editing the Yale Daily News, where he worked under a dusty portrait of Briton Hadden, and wondered why so few people had heard of him. The result is this stylish, passionate and provocative debut. </p> <p>Isaiah Wilner grew up in Seattle and was educated at Yale University. He lives in New York. This is his first book.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/5730-isaiah-wilner-the-man-time-forgot">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/5697-jim-lehrer-the-phony-marine 2008-06-07T09:35:02Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PJjT0dSdpgg&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PJjT0dSdpgg&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/5697-jim-lehrer-the-phony-marine"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/4971" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete video at: <a href="http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=524">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Novelist and PBS talk show host Jim Lehrer discusses the protagonist from his latest fiction novel, "The Phony Marine," a story about a man who pretends to be a war hero after buying an authentic Silver Star medal on eBay.</p> <p>-----</p> <p>Jim Lehrer, himself a former Marine, perfectly captures the importance of presentation, or impersonation, in his Washington-based novel "The Phony Marine."</p> <p>Lehrer dives into a highly controversial topic and delivers his most compelling character portrait to date. Late one night, Hugo Marder stumbles upon an online auction for a Silver Star, the medal awarded for bravery in battle. He bids and wins. But it is only after he places the lapel pin on his jacket that he realizes the enormity of his actions - Politics and Prose</p> <p>Lehrer started work with PBS network in 1973, and in 1975 started The MacNeil/Lehrer Report with Robert MacNeil. The show was later renamed The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, and in its most recent incarnation is known as The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/5697-jim-lehrer-the-phony-marine">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/5693-james-ellroy-excerpt-from-bruce-wagner-s-memorial 2008-06-07T09:34:53Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nqI00ZLB5H0&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nqI00ZLB5H0&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/5693-james-ellroy-excerpt-from-bruce-wagner-s-memorial"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/4967" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete video at: <a href="http://www.fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=395">www.fora.tv</a> </p> <p>"The Black Dahlia" author James Ellroy reads an excerpt from his friend Bruce Wagner's fiction novel, "Memorial."</p> <p>-----</p> <p>Mourning Becomes Electric: Bruce Wagner's "Memorial" and James Ellroy's "The Black Dahlia"</p> <p>There are few, if any, American novelists who have received such consistent and high acclaim as Bruce Wagner. Be it the cult classic "Force Majeure," the groundbreaking "Cell Phone Trilogy" (I'm Losing You, I'll Let You Go, and Still Holding), or the Gatsby-like "The Chrysanthemum Palace" (a 2005 PEN Faulkner award finalist), critics and writers, from Michiko Kakutani to John Updike to James Ellroy, have hailed Wagner as our great fiction chronicler of Hollywood and the broken lives of La Vie L.A. With his richly orchestrated new novel "Memorial," Wagner ventures far beyond filmdom's gates, interweaving the stories of four estranged family members coping with their lives in the wake of natural and unnatural global disaster - and creates a breathtaking saga of faith, redemption, and spirituality in the 21st century.</p> <p>Wagner's friend James Ellroy is, of course, the author of "The Black Dahlia," which has just hit the screens in Brian De Palma's movie version of this contemporary classic, as well as the novels "The Big Nowhere," "L.A. Confidential," and "White Jazz," all four of which are known as the L.A. Quartet. He's also the author of "American Tabloid," and the memoir "My Dark Places." - Cody's Books</p> </div> <a href="/blog/5693-james-ellroy-excerpt-from-bruce-wagner-s-memorial">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/5687-siddharth-dhanvant-shangvi-the-last-song-of-dusk 2008-06-07T09:35:20Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DYPAcdPCEvY&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DYPAcdPCEvY&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/5687-siddharth-dhanvant-shangvi-the-last-song-of-dusk"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/4961" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete video at: <a href="http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=230">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Author Siddharth Dhanvant Shangvi an excerpt from his novel, "The Last Song of Dusk."</p> <p>-----</p> <p>Books Inc. welcomes back Siddharth Dhanvant Shangvi reading from his "The Last Song of Dusk."</p> <p>"When the astonishingly lovely Anuradha moves to Bombay to marry Vardhmaan, a charming young doctor, their life together has all the makings of a fairy tale. But when their firstborn son dies in a terrible accident, tragedy transforms their marriage into a bleak landscape. As the pair starts fresh in a heartbroken old villa by the sea, they are joined by Nandini, a dazzling and devious artist with a trace of leopard blood in her veins. While Nandini flamboyantly takes on Bombay’s art scene, the couple attempts to mend their marriage, eventually discovering that real love, mercurial and many-hued, is given and received in silence. Sensuous and electric, achingly moving and wickedly funny, The Last Song of Dusk is a tale of fate that will haunt your heart like an old and beloved song." - Random House</p> </div> <a href="/blog/5687-siddharth-dhanvant-shangvi-the-last-song-of-dusk">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/5651-dinaw-mengestu-the-beautiful-things-that-heaven-bears 2008-07-02T12:30:31Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kvWtGC6UEBM&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kvWtGC6UEBM&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/5651-dinaw-mengestu-the-beautiful-things-that-heaven-bears"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/4925" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete video at: <a href="http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=784">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Ethiopian-born author Dinaw Mengestu reads an excerpt from his novel, "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears."</p> <p>-----</p> <p>Dinaw Mengestu talks about "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears."</p> <p>Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, and immigrated to the US in 1980. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and of Columbia Univesity's MFA program in fiction. A former intern at The New Yorker, he is the recipient of a 2006 fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/5651-dinaw-mengestu-the-beautiful-things-that-heaven-bears">Watch the video</a>