LibGuides: Literature: Introduction: Social Media & Audio/Video

Los Angeles Public Library podcasts

These podcasts are recorded live in Los Angeles Central Library's Mark Taper Auditorium as part of the award-wining ALOUD at Central Library speaker series presented by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. ALOUD podcasts are updated on a weekly basis. Initial funding for ALOUD podcasts was made possible by Arent Fox LLP.

Guernica

Other social media

Besides the blogs, podcasts, online courses and Youtube videos included in this guide, information can also be found in other social media. A number of authors are on Twitter and have their own blogs or FaceBook pages. Topsy.com is a new aggregator for social media - experiment with it using the suggested search terms and see what resources it results in.

Try Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman,

Interesting sites and blogs

Pen International
"PEN was the first worldwide association of writers, and the first organisation to point out that freedom of expression and literature are inseparable"
Los Angeles Review of Books "The Los Angeles Review of Books is a nonprofit, multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine that combines the great American tradition of the serious book review with the evolving technologies of the Web. We are a community of writers, critics, journalists, artists, filmmakers, and scholars dedicated to promoting and disseminating the best that is thought and written, with an enduring commitment to the intellectual rigor, the incisiveness, and the power of the written word."
Arts & Letters Daily Articles, books, essays and opinions culled from a variety of sources world wide
World Literature Today The mission of World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma's bimonthly magazine of international literature and culture, is to serve the international, state, and university communities by achieving excellence as a literary publication, a sponsor of literary prizes, and a cultural center for students.
10 Literary Blogs everyone should read "The new literary generation is here, and it's bored — bored with the New Yorker, bored with the New York Times, bored with the New York Review of Books. We need new literary sustenance. We want writing by people who understand the tremendous attentional effort it requires to read more than three sentences of anything....."