In our age of the Internet and instant gratification, we can pretty much just go to youtube, search for our favorite authors, and be rewarded with a video (of varying quality, granted) of said author reading their work. This is wonderful! However, before youtube and the Internet people had to actually go to whichever bookstore or library the author was reading at, sit in uncomfortable folding chairs packed too closely into the small floor space, and strain to hear the author’s recitation. Not that author-readings weren’t, and still aren’t, wonderfully intimate gatherings that are rewarding in their own right, but what if you couldn’t make it to the reading? Well, they used to broadcast these readings on TV, so you could enjoy the sound of writers reading their own words from the comfort of your living room. In the Boston TV News Digital Library, we have many readings by nationally recognized and local writers, preserved on tape or film, and with your help we can choose which ones we’d like to digitize and stream online, so everyone may once again enjoy these readings from their living rooms (or wherever you can get an Internet connection, really). more
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