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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
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Four great children's books, free, for Children's Book Week.
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Tracy K. Smith concluded her remarkable term as U.S. Poet Laureate with a speech and on-stage conversation at the Library of Congress Monday night, capping two years of travel, podcasts and community conversations across the nation.
Posted in: Books, Events, Thomas Jefferson Building
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Tracy K. Smith, the U.S. Poet Laureate, concludes her two terms in the post with an on-stage conversation with poets from around the nation at the Library of Congress's Coolidge Auditorium on April 15.
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The cast of the Netflix series "Queer Eye" came to the Library for an on-stage conversation with Jonathan Capehart, the Pulitzer-Prize winning Washington Post columnist and MSNBC commentator.
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Posted by: Neely Tucker
Winifred Phillips is a maestro in the world of video game music. She's composed soundtracks for major hits such as Assassin's Creed Liberation and The Da Vinci Code.
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