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Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's first live event since the COVID-19 restrictions of 2020 took place on Sept. 21, 2021 during the National Book Festival, with a conversation between crossword puzzle gurus Will Shortz and Adrienne Raphel.
Posted in: Events, National Book Festival, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The 2021 National Book Festival will run online from Sept. 17-26, featuring more than 100 novelists, poets, non-fiction authors, chefs and lifestyle gurus.
Posted in: Books, Events, National Book Festival, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
LeVar Burton, fresh from a hosting "Jeopardy," turns his attention to hosting a special edition of the Library's 2021 National Book Festival, a one-hour special on PBS that is studded with some of the world's brightest literary stars.
Posted in: Events, National Book Festival, News, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Of the Library's many Pride Month events is Pride Night Online, in which Megan Metcalf, the Women's Gender and LGBTQIA+ studies librarian and collection specialist, will conduct a free online workshop to researching LGBTQ material in our collections.
Posted in: Events, LGBTQ, Library Work and Employees
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Danielle Allen, winner of the Library's 2020 Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity, will host a series of exciting conversations at the Library to explore the nation's civic life and ways that people from all political beliefs and social causes can build a stronger, more resilient country.
Posted in: Events, Kluge Center
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Edwidge Danticat, the Haitian-born novelist who has become one of America’s most honored authors, told a crowd at the Coolidge Auditorium this week that she first felt the magic of storytelling as a child in Port-au-Prince.
Posted in: Events, National Book Festival
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Neil Patrick Harris helps launch the Library's "National Book Festival Presents" series in grand fashion, drawing an overflow crowd on Sept. 11, 2019.
Posted in: Events, National Book Festival, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Neely Tucker
This is a guest post written by Kate Zwaard, Director of Digital Strategy. A professor from California, an entrepreneur from Boston, an author from New York, and a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire all walk into a library… Sounds like the start of a joke, right? Instead, it’s some exciting news …
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Posted by: Neely Tucker
The LIbrary's Rare Persian Manuscript Collection is now online after a four-year digitization project, anchored by three gorgeous manuscript copies of The Shahnamah, or the Persian Book of Kings, a 1,000-year-old epic that is the foundation for the modern language.
Posted in: Events, Manuscripts