"Open Book" Video Series

	In 2008, the NYU Creative Writing Program and Slate (www.slatev.com) launched a new online videocast series, "Open Book," filmed in the TV studio of NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Interviews are conducted by NYU’s Deborah Landau and Slate's Meghan O'Rourke, and feature writers discussing their life and craft.
	Jorie Graham talks about her poetry in the newest interview, filmed in May 2009. We also invite you to watch the full-length version of this interview.
	In the April episode of "Open Book", Amy Hempel discusses her fear of writing a bad sentence and other quirks of her writing process.
	Don't Cry: In a recent New York Times Book Review, Kathryn Harrison writes of Mary Gaitskill, “Don’t Cry, her third collection of stories, confirms what made Bad Behavior and Because They Wanted To such idiosyncratic and memorable books." See and hear Gaitskill in her March 2009 interview with Deborah Landau and Meghan O'Rourke. Short version available here, or long version here.
	How a Lost Pearl Became a Poem: In this episode of "Open Book," recent U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic describes how a small event turned into a poem... after 20 years. Simic is the 2008 Lillian Vernon Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the NYU Creative Writing Program.
	The "Open Book" interview featuring Jonathan Safran Foer, who joined the NYU Creative Writing Program faculty this year, has now been launched. Click here to see and hear the author in conversation with O’Rourke and Landau.
	In this episode, acclaimed poet John Ashbery talks about how turns of phrase find their way into his writing.
	Debut Eposiode: Junot Diaz discusses his new Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.