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Literature & writing craft Videos Recommended on Hacker News (43)
Literature & writing craft is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 43 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 121 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Writing and books: authors, Stephen King, George R.R. Martin, writing advice, poetry, book discussions, science fiction, storytelling technique, publishing, author interviews.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on LEADERSHIP LAB: The Craft of Writing Effectively: “it's a masterclass in understanding what writing actually is, and what it does for you” — an HN commenter, 2024.
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14 mo on HNLEADERSHIP LAB: The Craft of Writing Effectively
UChicago Social Sciences
15 HN recommender · 2019–2026
7 mo on HNThe Egg - A Short Story
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
7 HN recommender · 2020–2024
6 mo on HNDOUGLAS ADAMS: Parrots, the Universe and Everything
University of California Television (UCTV)
5 HN recommender · 2014–2025
7 mo on HNIra Glass on Storytelling 3
warphotography
7 HN recommender · 2018–2026
6 mo on HNLEADERSHIP LAB: Writing Beyond the Academy 1.23.15
UChicago Social Sciences
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
6 mo on HNKurt Vonnegut, Shape of Stories (subtitulos castellano)
Eva CollinsAlonso
6 HN recommender · 2019–2024
5 mo on HNKurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories
David Comberg
5 HN recommender · 2012–2022
5 mo on HNAlexander Pope Wrote a 35-Page Takedown of a Historian
CGP Grey
5 HN recommender · 2021–2025
5 mo on HNNeuromancer (BBC radio play adaptation ) William Gibson
Michael McGrath
3 HN recommender · 2018–2025
4 mo on HNEmacs For Writers
thoughtbot
3 HN recommender · 2016–2024
5 mo on HNHow To Be Alone
Andrea Dorfman
6 HN recommender · 2010–2026
4 mo on HN34C3 - Dude, you broke the Future!
media.ccc.de
4 HN recommender · 2018–2024
3 mo on HNJorge Luis Borges: This Craft of Verse Lectures - thepostarchive
thepostarchive
3 HN recommender · 2019–2022
3 mo on HNCouldn't Care Less. Cormac McCarthy in conversation with David Krakauer
Karol Jałochowski
3 HN recommender · 2023–2025
3 mo on HNBOOKSTORES: How to Read More Books in the Golden Age of Content
Max Joseph
3 HN recommender · 2023–2026
3 mo on HNWhat nobody tells you about documentation
PyCon AU
3 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNIra Glass on the Creative Process (www.getoutthebox.org)
Getoutthebox1
3 HN recommender · 2012–2015
2 mo on HNSolaris | SCIENCE FICTION | FULL MOVIE | directed by Tarkovsky
Mosfilm
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
3 mo on HNShakespeare: Original pronunciation (The Open University)
OpenLearn from The Open University
4 HN recommender · 2013–2025
2 mo on HNBrave New World vs Nineteen Eighty-Four featuring Adam Gopnik and Will Self
Intelligence Squared
2 HN recommender · 2018–2022
2 mo on HNBlade Runner 2049 | "Cells Interlinked" and Pale Fire (LITERALLY ME! INCELS INTERLINKED)
Fallopium Films
2 HN recommender · 2024–2026
2 mo on HNThey're Made Out Of Meat
Stephen O'Regan
2 HN recommender · 2023–2026
2 mo on HNGeorge RR Martin asks Stephen King: "How do you write so Fast?!"
Aegon Targaryen
2 HN recommender · 2018–2025
2 mo on HNGaiman on Copyright Piracy and the Web
OpenRightsGroup
2 HN recommender · 2011–2014
2 mo on HNDavid Foster Wallace reads "Consider the Lobster" (on the 2003 Maine Lobster Festival)
Manufacturing Intellect
2 HN recommender · 2018–2020
2 mo on HNCities Without People
Jacob Geller
2 HN recommender · 2021–2025
2 mo on HNAldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace : 1958 (Full)
someoddstuff
2 HN recommender · 2019–2025
2 mo on HNIllustrating Crafting Interpreters
Bob Nystrom
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HNBabel Fish - The Oddest Thing In The Universe - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - BBC
BBC Studios
1 HN recommend · 2020–2025
1 mo on HNThey're Made Out of Meat
niccollsdp
1 HN recommend · 2014–2023
1 mo on HNYour elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert
TED
2 HN recommender · 2011–2021
1 mo on HNBlindsight Sci-fi Short Film
Danil Krivoruchko
1 HN recommend · 2021–2026
1 mo on HNAnathem | Neal Stephenson | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
1 HN recommend · 2008–2024
1 mo on HNHarlan Ellison -- Pay the Writer
Nicholas Horton
1 HN recommend · 2013–2021
1 mo on HNOriginal Pronunciation - Hamlet | To Be, or not to be... | Ben Crystal
Shakespeare on Toast
1 HN recommend · 2018–2025
1 mo on HNxkcd | Randall Munroe | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
1 HN recommend · 2008–2026