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lawyers and literature
a video & audio tour of the world evoked by a course of reading 
How Are We to Read?
 Salman Rushdie on Reading [5:35 min.]
Reading Short Stories [5:23 min.]
Martin Scorsese on Story vs. Plot [2:18 min.]
Reading the Characters We Find in Fiction
Salman Rushdie on Lives of Fictional Characters [4:05 min.]
Michael Blumenthal on the Characters We Find in Literature [3:45 min.]
Thinking About Reading & Literature
David Foster Wallace on Literature [2:52 min.]
Responding as Readers [56:46 min.] [Part2][10:40 min.]
Harold Bloom [interviewed by Brian Lamb, CSpan]: How to Read and Why [9:37 min.] [Part2][9:14 min.] [Part3][7:54 min.] [Part4][9:46 min.] [Part5][4:42 min.] [Part6] [3:50 min.]
"Reading is Bread": Cynthia Ozick [22:49 min.] [short version] [8:28 min.]
Martha Nussbaum with Bill Moyers: The Fragility of Humanity [5:48 min.]
[Bill Moyers Talks with Martha Nussbaum: the complete interview] [27:41 min.]
Iris Murdoch on Philosophy and Literature [10:18 min.]
[Iris Murdoch and Frank Kermode] [Murdoch & Kermode--Part2]
Why Read Literature? An Examined|Meaningful Life
Sheldon Solomon on Identity Crisis [2:56 min.]
Alain de Botton on Career Crisis [16:52 min.]
Sam Keen on Being Lost [1:32 min.]
[On Work][1:38 min.]
Sam Keen on Minor Epiphanies [0:28 min.]
Sam Keen on the Meaning of Life [1:24 min.]
On Being Lost: Finding Ourselves in Reading & Writing
Sam Keen on Being Lost [1:32 min.] [On Work][1:38 min.]
Michael Blumenthal on Writing [7:34 min.]
"Forgetfulness": A Poem by Billy Collins [1:41 min.]
Talking with Each Other About What We Read
A Juror Wants to Talk and Not Rush to Judgment: "12 Angry Men" [2:21 min.]
Ian McEwan & Steven Pinker: A Conversation About Conversation [9:56 min.]
[Part 2][ 9:50 min.] [Part3][9:50 min.] [Part4][9:41 min.] [Part5][9:45 min.] [Part6][4:48 min.]
Kafka's "Before the Law"
Orson Wells Reads the Parable [2:53 min.]
Alon Levi Film Adaptation of the Parable [8:56 min.]
So You Want to Go to Law School [4:31 min.]
[animation
created using Xtranormal Movie Maker]
Franz Kafka Mini Documentary [5:33 min.]
Lowell B. Komie, a Lawyer/Writer and His Stories
Lowell Komie Talking About a Trip to The Netherlands [3:23 mins.]
[Komie Talking About Paris & Amerstdam] [3:42 min.]
Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
Bartleby: Eine Geschichte der Wall Street [10:00 min.]
Experimentalfilm von Andreas Honneth, 2009
Bartleby, the Subversive [3:28 min.]
Leslie Hall Pinder, On Double Tracks
Leslie Hall Pinder Interview [14:46 min.] [Part2][6:13 min.] [Part3] [7:40 min.]
Discussing Her New Book, Bring Me One of Everything
Margaret Atwood, "Weight"
Turning Pages: The Life and Literature of Margaret Atwood [3:21 min.]
Margaret Atwood's Creative Process [4:57 min.]
Tolstoy, "The Death of Ivan Ilych"
Professor Andrew W. Kaufman Lectures on "The Death of Ivan Ilych" [7:06 min.]
Sheldon Solomon on His Mortality [2:62 min.]
[Sheldon Solomon is a Professor of Psychology at Skidmore College] [Sheldon Solomon on Why We Fear Death][3:04 min.]
Robert Jay Lifton on 9/11 and His Own Death Anxiety [3:14 min.]
Sam Keen on Ernest Becker [the author of The Denial of Death] [4:41 min.]
Some Passing Ways of Thinking About Poetry
Garrison Keillor Reading Billy Collins: "An Introduction to Poetry" [1:12 min.]
"Poetry" by Marianne Moore [1:52 min.]
Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" [3:23 min.]
sung|music by Paul Finnican [Robert Frost reads "The Road Not Taken"] [Frost Reads "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"]
"Poets and Lawyers" sung by Nadi Sahi [3:24 min.]
Lawyer|Poets
Richard Krech In Chambers [9:25 min.] [Krech reading Travel Poems][7:23 min.] [Krech Reading More of His Poems] [5:29 min.]
Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish reading "Ars Poetica" [1:19 min.]
Wallace Stevens
"The Man with the Blue Guitar" [1:08 min.]
"The Idea of Order at Key West" [3:29 min.]
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" [2:17 min.]
"The Emperor of Ice-Cream" [1:03 min.]
"Sunday Morning" [6:54 min.]
Wallace Stevens reads "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour" [2:03 min.]
Wallace Stevens reads "So & So Reclining on Her Couch" [2:12 min.]
Harold Bloom reciting Wallace Stevens' "Tea at the Palace of Hoon" [1:43 min.]
Wallace Stevens: Voices and Visions [9:51 min.] [Part2][9:11 min.]
Wallace Stevens Lecture [5:24 min.]
Edgar Lee Masters
"The Hill" [2:06 min.]
Charles Reznikoff
"Beggar Woman" [0.20 min.]
Poet|Lawyers
Michael Blumenthal Reads His Poetry at West Virginia University [3:12 min.] [Michael Blumenthal Reading][59:50 min.]
On Writing a Creative Essay for the Course
Junot Díaz Discusses the Writing Process [3:56 min.]
Martin Amis: Writing Advice [2:31 min.]
Christopher Hitchens Advice for Writers [2:07 min.]
John Irving on The Thrill of the Blank Page [1:00 min.]
Three Tips for Young Writers [1:55 min.]
How To Write Better Almost Instantly [1:09 min.]
Misc.: Lawyer Writers
An Interview with John Grisham [6:20 min.]
An Endnote: Liberal Arts Education
Bennington President Liz Coleman's Call to Reinvent Liberal Arts Education [18:39 min.]
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