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10/9/15

FNV: Jodi Picoult

This installment of Friday Night Videos brings you National Geographic Live with Jodi Picoult.

Delve into the life and mind of one of America's most popular and prolific contemporary writers, Jodi Picoult, as she discusses her latest work, Leaving Time. Picoult reveals the personal experiences that helped shape the story, including her own familial relationships and her trip to Botswana, where she learned about the urgent crisis facing elephants. The National Geographic Live series brings thought-provoking presentations by today’s leading explorers, scientists, photographers, and performing artists right to you. Each presentation is filmed in front of a live audience at National Geographic headquarters in Washington, D.C.

The plan for this series is to point our readers one Friday each month to an online video featuring New Hampshire authors and their work. If you have a suggestion for a video we should include please let us know in the comments.

9/11/15

FNV: James Patrick Kelly

For this month's installment of Friday Night Videos we present an interview with James Patrick Kelly. This episode of the NHPTV program NH Authors originally aired on February 5, 2012.

Rebecca Rule speaks to science fiction writer James Patrick Kelly. His short novel, Burn, won the Science Fiction Writers of America's Nebula Award in 2007. His most recent book, a collection of stories, is entitled The Wreck of the Godspeed. With John Kessel, he has coedited several science fiction anthologies. He teaches tin the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast MFA writing program.

8/14/15

FNV: Charles Simic

In 2007 Charles Simic was appointed the Poet Laureate of the United States. Tonight's video is his 2007 presentation at the National Book Festival. He is introduced by Librarian of Congress James Billington.
Charles Simic at the 2007 National Book Festival.

The plan for this series is to point our readers one Friday each month to an online video featuring New Hampshire authors and their work. If you have a suggestion for a video we should include please let us know in the comments.

7/10/15

FNV: Lita Judge

Author and illustrator Lita Judge tells us about her inspiration for the books Red Hat and Red Sled in the video Red Hat. You might also want to check out the 2007 episode of NH Chronicle that featured Judge and her work.

The plan for this series is to point our readers one Friday each month to an online video featuring New Hampshire authors and their work. If you have a suggestion for a video we should include please let us know in the comments.

6/12/15

FNV: Robert Frost

This installment of Friday Night Videos is a pair of short videos of NH Literary Hall of Fame inductee Robert Frost reading his own poems.

2/13/15

FNV: Joe Hill

In this interview from RT Book Reviews NH author Joe Hill talks about NOS4A2, a novel about "a very bad man with a very bad car."

The plan for this series is to point our readers one Friday each month to an online video featuring New Hampshire authors and their work. If you have a suggestion for a video we should include please let us know in the comments.

12/12/14

FNV: Joe Monninger

For this month's installment of Friday Night Videos we present an interview with Joe Monninger. This episode of the NHPTV program NH Authors originally aired on February 7, 2013.

The award-winning author of 11 novels and three non-fiction books, is interviewed by humorist and author Rebecca Rule.

11/14/14

FNV: John Irving

For this month's installment of Friday Night Videos we present an interview with John Irving from the 2009 National Book Festival. There is an audio issue (the power to the audio system went out) early in the video, but it is sorted out quickly. This is from the video archive at the Library of Congress and requires Real Player (a free video player you can download).

Best-selling author John Irving appears at the National Book Festival.
John Irving is the best-selling author of "The World According to Garp," "The Hotel New Hampshire," "The Cider House Rules" and "A Prayer for Owen Meany," among other novels. Irving's fourth novel, "The World According to Garp," became an international best-seller and later a film starring Robin Williams and Glenn Close. It was also a finalist for the American Book Award for hardcover fiction in 1979. Irving wrote the screenplay for the 1999 film adaptation of "The Cider House Rules" and won an Oscar for his work. His most recent novels include "The Fourth Hand," published in 2001, 2005's "Until I Find You" and "Last Night in Twisted River" (2009). He lives in between New Hampshire and Ontario, Canada.

10/10/14

FNV: Rebecca Rule

For this month's installment of Friday Night Videos we present an interview with Rebecca Rule. This episode of the NHPTV program NH Authors originally aired on May 1, 2012.

For the past six seasons, humorist, book reviewer, and author, Rebecca Rule has hosted the NH Authors Series. This time, friend and colleague Marie Harris guest hosts the program and puts Rule in the hot seat to talk about her quintessentially New England style. Rule explores the state's vernacular in her latest book Headin' for the Rhubarb! A New Hampshire Dictionary (well, kinda).

9/12/14

FNV: Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns

For this month's installment of Friday Night Videos we present Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns speaking at the 2009 National Book Festival. This talk focuses on their National Parks project. This is from the video archive at the Library of Congress and requires Real Player (a free video player you can download).

Award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker and author Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns, producer of groundbreaking documentaries for more than 30 years, appear at the National Book Festival.
Ken Burns may be best known for his monumental documentary "The Civil War," which was viewed by more than 40 million people when it premiered in 1990, but he has been producing groundbreaking documentaries for more than 30 years, including "Baseball," "Jazz" and "The Brooklyn Bridge." He has won 10 Emmy Awards and also been twice-nominated for an Academy Award. His newest project is "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," to be broadcast on PBS in six episodes beginning Sept. 27. His collaborator on the series is Dayton Duncan. Ken Burns lives in New Hampshire.
Dayton Duncan is an award-winning writer and documentary filmmaker and the author of nine books. "Out West: A Journey Through Lewis & Clark's America" (2001) chronicles his retracing of the Lewis and Clark trail; it was a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection and finalist for the Western Writers of America's Spur Award. "Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery" (1997) and "Mark Twain" (2001) are companion books to documentary films he wrote and produced with Ken Burns. Dayton was a consultant on Burns' award-winning series for public television "The Civil War," "Baseball" and "Jazz." He is also Burns' collaborator on "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" book and the documentary of the same name. Duncan lives in New Hampshire.

8/8/14

FNV: Charlotte Bacon

For this month's installment of Friday Night Videos we present an interview with author Charlotte Bacon. This was originally aired in 2005 and is part of Rebecca Rule's NH Author's Interview series. Charlotte Bacon's novel Lost Geography was the first book of the week we featured on this blog.

Charlotte Bacon inspires her students to write from their own experiences. The writing and teaching life of UNH associate professor of English Charlotte Bacon was the focus of Rebecca Rule's conversation with Bacon in 2004. Bacon is the author of three novels and a collection of essays.

7/11/14

FNV: Maxine Kumin and Wes McNair

For this month's installment of Friday Night Videos we present a poetry reading with Maxine Kumin and Wes McNair. This is from the video archive at the Library of Congress and requires Real Player (a free video player you can download).

The Library of Congress 2006 Literary Season continued with poetry readings from poets Maxine Kumin and Wesley McNair, two New England poets, who through the magic of poems, style takes the listener on a joyful ride through non-urban America.

6/13/14

FNV: Eric Pinder

For the first installment of our new monthly series Friday Night Videos we present Rebecca Rule interviewing Eric Pinder on her NHPTV program NH Authors. This episode originally aired on November 4, 2013.

Eric Pinder was born in upstate New York, attended college in western Massachusetts, graduated, and some time later drove to northern New Hampshire in a rusty Chevy Nova packed with a few clothes, almost no furniture, and about a dozen boxes of books. For seven years he lived and worked as a weather observer atop Mount Washington, the “Home of the World’s Worst Weather.”

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