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Posted by: Guy Lamolinara
At the National Book Festival, the names of our stages are quite important and, in some ways, they tell the story of the event’s history.
Posted in: #ThrowbackThursday, Festival History
Posted by: Guy Lamolinara
Poetry & Prose. The name is appropriately alliterative for this long-running stage at the Library of Congress National Book Festival that features some of our most literary writers.
Posted in: #ThrowbackThursday, Authors, Festival History, Programs
Posted by: Guy Lamolinara
A celebration of the National Book Festival's "groupies": the authors, poets and illustrators who have joined us multiple times, in some cases just about every time they publish a book.
Posted in: #ThrowbackThursday, Authors, Books, Festival History, Programs
Posted by: Guy Lamolinara
A look at one of the longest-running stages at the National Book Festival, or “pavilions,” as we used to call them: History. The History stage (now called History & Biography) has, since the very first festival, on Sept. 8, 2001, welcomed the nation’s preeminent historians to Washington.
Posted in: #ThrowbackThursday, Authors, Festival History, Programs
Posted by: Guy Lamolinara
This online series, a continuation of the themes raised in our June 5 program, “Carla Hayden and Lonnie Bunch: Cultural Institutions at Times of Social Unrest,” features Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden in conversation with some of the nation’s great literary figures.
Posted in: Authors, Books, Children & Families, Poetry, Programs, Social Media
Posted by: Guy Lamolinara
In April and May, we offered a series of virtual National Book Festival Presents programs related to the coronavirus pandemic. The series leaves talk of the pandemic behind with its upcoming programs, which celebrate the 50th anniversary of LGBTQ Pride and take an international scope with the June series “Connecting the World with Words.”
Posted in: Authors, Books, Programs, Social Media
Posted by: Guy Lamolinara
The National Book Festival Presents series was created to provide a book festival experience to lovers of the event on a year-round basis. Because these programs can no longer be held at the Library, we are offering a virtual multipart series, with authors who have written books about widespread diseases and the worldwide response to them.
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