Clive Owen & Nicole Kidman Star in Hemingway & Gelhorn Trailer
HBO has released its first trailer for Hemingway & Gelhorn, a film starring Clive Owen as Ernest Hemingway and Nicole Kidman as the journalist Martha Gellhorn.
The film captures the relationship between great novelist and a great war correspondent...
Sh*t Girls Say Creators Land Harlequin Book Deal
Sh*t Girls Say creators Kyle Humphrey and Graydon Sheppard have inked a book deal with Harlequin. A book based on the popular YouTube video series is scheduled for a fall 2012 release.
The first video (embedded above) has already generated more tha...
Free Book Trailer Resources for Writers
Instead of hiring actors or making a Hollywood-style book trailer, novelist Jurgen Fauth had remix artist Ivan Guerrero create a book trailer for his new new novel, Kino.
Guerrero is a video creator who uses public domain footage to make popular “pr...
Ralph Fiennes Reads ‘Sonnet 129′ by William Shakespeare
In honor of National Poetry Month, we’ve dug up a video featuring actor Ralph Fiennes reading William Shakespeare‘s “Sonnet 129.”
While many have come to know Fiennes for playing Harry Potter villain Lord Voldemort, he is also a respected stag...
Why You Should Write Like a Little Kid
If you watch one video today, you should watch the heartwarming video embedded above–a Los Angeles filmmaker visited a cardboard box arcade built by a 9-year-old kid.
The video should remind us all about why we should think like a little kid whe...
Bill Clinton Reads ‘Concord Hymn’ by Ralph Waldo Emerson
In honor of National Poetry Month, we’ve dug up a video of President Bill Clinton reading the poem “Concord Hymn” by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
President Clinton recorded this video for “The Favorite Poem Project” in 1999. This p...
Ernest Hemingway Book Trailer
Fifty years before the book trailer even existed, the great Ernest Hemingway experimented by recording a rambling and possibly intoxicated introduction to Across the River and into the Trees.
Miracle Jones posted the video at the new literary videos s...
Weekend Writing Inspiration: War Robots
Need some writing inspiration this weekend? We’ve collected a series of mind-boggling robot demo videos from Boston Dynamics, a company creating robotic tools for the military.
As you can see by the Sand Flea robot video embedded above, these vi...
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Trailer Released
A new trailer has been released for the adaptation of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, a big screen adaptation of a mash-up novel by Seth Grahame-Smith.
Produced by the great Tim Burton, the film comes out in June–what do you think? Here is a co...
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 Teaser Trailer Unveiled
Summit Entertainment has released the first teaser trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2. We’ve embedded the trailer above–what do you think?
The 15-second clip has drawn more than 116,800 “likes” on Facebook. The...
Reddit Adds Site for Literary Videos
In his ongoing quest to get a “literature” category on YouTube, Miracle Jones has built a new site for literary videos on Reddit.
Check it out:
Poetry videos, short story videos, live readings, spoken work performance, audiobook links, an...
Book Helps to Free Former Death Row Inmate
Former death row inmate Edward Lee Elmore has been released from prison, thanks in part to a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Raymond Bonner.
In the video embedded above, Random House editor Jonathan Segal explained how the nonfiction book helped...
