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Posted by: Matt Raymond
It’s called the “National Book Festival,” so this year we?re doing something a little different to help make it even more truly national. This year we have launched a “Young Readers’ Toolkit” on the NBF website. There we provide a whole set of tools to help you host your very own book festival in your …
Posted in: Books, Education, Events, LC Web site, News
Posted by: Matt Raymond
The 2007 National Book Festival is drawing closer and closer (Sept. 29 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.) People come to the Book Festival for a lot of reasons, but the big draws, of course, are the authors and the opportunity for their readers to interact directly with them. For those who can?t make …
Posted in: Books, Events, News, Washington DC
Posted by: Matt Raymond
James Gurney, creator of the popular ?Dinotopia? series of books, is blogging about what it is like to give an author talk at the Library of Congress: When you give a talk at the Library of Congress, they don?t pay you with money. They reward you something far more valuable. Your compensation is to have …
Posted by: Matt Raymond
If you haven?t checked out the National Book Festival homepage recently, you might have missed that we have begun uploading podcasts with several of the authors who will be attending the festival on Sept. 29. As of this writing, there are now podcasts from David Baldacci, Ken Burns, Carmen Agra Deedy, Dr. Sanjay Gupta and …
Posted in: Books, Events, LC Web site, Podcasts
Posted by: Matt Raymond
I think this is great: For the third year in a row, the Friends of the James V. Brown Library [in Williamsport, Pa.] are sponsoring a bus to take local book-lovers of all ages to the National Book Festival. You might know Williamsport as the birthplace of the Little League World Series. Pardon the awful …
Posted in: Books, Capitol Hill, Events, Washington DC