Author interview videos

The acceptable caliber of online video and improved capabilities of the hardware used to view it are escalating the number of websites making author interview programs available. On the Web, the videos are at hand when the viewer chooses to watch, a considerable advantage over television’s programming schedules, which require audiences to sort through TV stations’ timetables.

Because author interview videos are proliferating online, only a few examples are listed here. Some are the Web counterparts of familiar television programs and some are the efforts of booksellers, publishers, and video production companies.

Interview collections and programs

Author
[Updated on December 16, 2008]

AuthorViews

BOA Editions
(audio podcast and video formats)

Barnes & Noble Studio
(audio podcast and video formats)

Book TV on C-SPAN2 and its archive, Booknotes

BookShorts Profiles

BookVideos.tv

Bookwrap Podcast
(audio podcast and video formats)

Expanded Books
(audio podcast and video formats)
[Updated on May 18, 2008]

FORA.tv
(If this link doesn’t work, enter “book” or “books” in the search box on the site.)

LiteraryVideoTV
[Updated on May 14, 2008]

LiveWriter
[Updated on June 10, 2008]

RECtv Author Interviews

Strand TV

Titlepage.tv

Writing Out Loud
[Updated on March 20, 2009]

Individual interviews

On Today: Lily Koppel and Florence Wolfson
(author and subject of The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life through the Pages of a Lost Journal)

Waterstone’s Books Quarterly: J.G. Ballard

Bernard Pivot’s Apostrophes: Vladimir Nabokov

Not an interview, per se, but a TED talk by one of my favorite authors, Amy Tan: “Where does creativity hide?”
[Updated on April 28, 2008]

Please feel free to leave a link to anything I’ve overlooked.

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