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Posted by: Neely Tucker
The 2020 National Book Festival will be entirely online this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Two of the Library's Junior Fellows worked in the Signature Programs Office this summer to put previous events online, too.
Posted in: National Book Festival, New Online
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library begins a new blog for families and children, Minerva's Kaleidoscope.
Posted in: Kids, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, National Book Festival
Posted by: Neely Tucker
In a National Book Festival Presents conversation that premieres tonight (June 5), Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Lonnie Bunch discuss the national protests that have roiled the nation after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.
Posted in: African American History, Civil Rights, Crime and Punishment, National Book Festival, News
Posted by: Neely Tucker
John Hessler, a specialist in the Library's Geography and Map Division, is tracking the COVID-19 pandemic with computational geography and geographic information science.
Posted in: Influeza/Covid-19, Maps, National Book Festival
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Horror writer Stephen King is featured in this talk from the 2016 National Book Festival.
Posted in: National Book Festival
Posted by: Neely Tucker
This is a guest post by Marie Arana, the Library’s Literary Director. In it, she explains how the National Book Festival blog will be featuring an author talk from our archives each day during the current public health crisis. We’ll be featuring one or two per week on this blog as well, given the level …
Posted in: National Book Festival, Writers
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
Cokie Roberts, the longtime Washington journalist, author and broadcaster, has died at age 75. She was a devoted supporter of the LIbrary.
Posted in: National Book Festival, News, Women's History
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