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Posted by: Sasha Dowdy
Celebrate the 25th National Book Festival with us! Each week, "Bookmarked" features videos of acclaimed authors from past festivals, as we lead up to the 2025 Festival on September 6th. This week we remember 2010, with featured videos from Orhan Pamuk and Norton Juster.
Posted in: Books, Children and Teens, Intern Blogs, Literary History, National Book Festival
Posted by: Sasha Dowdy
Reveal of the 2025 National Book Festival poster and an interview with the legendary artist, Louise Fili.
Posted in: Books, National Book Festival
Posted by: Robert Casper
To coincide with the Mary Oliver Memorial Reading on May 29th, a guest blog by Historian Barbara Bair on a special display highlighting the Mary Oliver Papers.
Posted in: Library Collections, Mary Oliver, Poetry
Posted by: Sasha Dowdy
Celebrate the 25th National Book Festival with us! Each week, "Bookmarked" features videos of acclaimed authors from past festivals, as we lead up to the 2025 Festival on September 6th. This week we remember 2009, with featured videos from Marilynne Robinson and Kate DiCamillo.
Posted in: Books, Children and Teens, Intern Blogs, Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, Literary History, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, National Book Festival
Posted by: Sasha Dowdy
Celebrate the 25th National Book Festival with us! Each week, "Bookmarked" features videos of acclaimed authors from past festivals, as we lead up to the 2025 Festival on September 6th. This week, we remember 2008, with featured videos from Salman Rushdie and Andrea Davis Pinkney.
Posted in: Books, Children and Teens, Intern Blogs, Literary History, National Book Festival
Posted by: Sasha Dowdy
This is a guest post from Zach Klitzman, writer-editor in the Library of Congress Publishing Office. Earlier this month the Library of Congress published “To Catch a Thief” by David Dodge as the 19th entry in its Crime Classics Series. The book, originally published in 1952, tells the story of John Robie, a retired jewel thief …
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Posted by: Sasha Dowdy
Celebrate the 25th National Book Festival with us! Each week, "Bookmarked" features videos of acclaimed authors from past festivals, as we lead up to the 2025 Festival on September 6th. This week, we remember 2007, with featured videos from Terry Pratchett and Gene Luen Yang.
Posted in: Books, Children and Teens, Intern Blogs, Literary History, National Book Festival