Albuquerque Dialogues Picking up Steam

Check out this video of the very first discussion at the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Public Library's South Broadway library, on Louise Erdrich's Plague of Doves.

Video: Junot Diaz Discusses Oscar Wao

Is there anything that plagues the human animal more than love? Junot Diaz tackles that question and more in this interview about The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

Louise Erdrich on Native American Heritage

Joyce Carol Oates: Creating Characters

Joyce Carol Oates' characters are sometimes so vivid they live with you long after you've closed the book covers. Watch this video to learn how she approaches this work.

John Cheever reads "The Swimmer"

As one commenter says, get a load of that upper crusty voice!

Rememory & Scarification in Beloved

What did Sethe mean when she talks about rememory? Is she talking about memory or something slightly different?

In this discussion of Toni Morrison's Beloved,  Jason Campbell makes a powerful argument that "rememory," though a painful process, allows for healing through collective sympathy.
read Campbell's paper here