Writing Program and Slate Launch "Open Book" Video Series

The Creative Writing Program and the online magazine Slate (www.slate.com) recently launched a new online videocast series, “Open Book: Writers on Writing.” The series features intimate conversations with well-known writers about their craft and appears as video programming on Slate’s site. The goal is to create an extensive video archive of interviews with America’s eminent novelists and poets.
    The series is filmed in the TV studio of the University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. It debuted in July with Junot Díaz, who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Upcoming videos will include interviews with poets John Ashbery and Charles Simic, and novelist Jonathan Safran Foer.  Simic and Foer are currently visiting faculty members in the Creative Writing Program.
    Interviews are conducted by Deborah Landau, Creative Writing Program director, and Slate’s Meghan O’Rourke.

—Barbara Jester