Video: Utopia / Dystopia

This panel explored the horrific and idyllic worlds that science fiction writers create in their works. Writers Anna North, Charles Yu, and Kathleen Ann Goonan with moderator DongWon Song discussed the universes of science and slipstream fiction. If you didn't make it to The Center for Fiction's recent celebration of genre literature, check out these videos.

Video: Why Fantasy Matters

Acclaimed authors Kelly Link, Felix Gilman, Naomi Novik, and Lev Grossman took a look at why fantasy matters in our lives and imaginations. This panel, moderated by Laura Miller, dove into the genre beyond the subject of elves and wizards. If you didn't make it to The Center for Fiction's recent celebration of genre literature, check out these videos.

Video: Kids Read

Sarah Beth Durst talks to the students of Harlem Village Academies about writing YA fantasy fiction as part of the Center for Fiction's KidsRead program. If you didn't make it to The Center for Fiction's recent celebration of genre literature, check out these videos.

Video: Sci-Fi and the Human Imagination

At our keynote event for the Big Read at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, award-winning author Margaret Atwood discussed her new book, In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagaination, and the impact that science fiction has had on her life as a reader and a writer. If you didn't make it to The Center for Fiction's recent celebration of genre literature, check out these videos.

Panel: The Moral Distance Between the Author and the Work

This panel discussion, "The Moral Distance Between the Author and the Work," was recorded Saturday at the World Fantasy Convention (2010) in Columbus Ohio by a friend of Scott Edelman. The panel includes Scott Edelman, Eric Flint, Nancy Kress, Paul Witcover. Kathryn Cramer, and Jack Skillingstead. The panel is described in the program:

What do we make of good art by bad people, or at least people of whom we disapprove? Richard Wagner was a particularly vile anti-Semite, but he still wrote "Kill Da Wabbit!" and other great music. Should we listen? The official Nazi film industry made one very good fantasy film (BARON MUNCHAUSEN, to which the Terry Gilliam version owes a good deal). Should we watch this? What about an author who is a convicted child molester? Should we read his novel? CAN we read it for itself? Is it possible to truly experience any form of art as a thing until itself, rather than the product of its creator?