Postscripts

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BNTV

B&N.com recently created BNTV (www.barnesandnoble.com/community/bntv/), a "programming concept" that makes intriguing bedfellows of authors and the Web. The first incarnation of the new programming is "bookVideos," three-minute short films that can be viewed at the site and are "designed to do for books what music videos did for music," as the site explains. Later this year, BNTV will introduce "Behind the Word," a series of author interviews. At press time, BNTV had Linda Greenlaw, a hero of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, talking a bit about her book The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey. "The sea was calm and visibility excellent -- a great day to start the trip," she begins, as the sun rises over the surface of the ocean. She talks a bit about how commercial fishing is "the most dangerous occupation" and about her initial intention to merely attempt commercial fishing for one year before heading off to law school. Eighteen years later, she's still doing it because, she says, "it's what I like to do." We all have our quirks. I like to spend my time charitably, so I've come up with a list of ideas for three-minute short films for BNTV starring characters from recently published books: