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2021 National Book Festival Highlights: Poetry

Posted by: Anne Holmes

This week we highlight our poetry programs from the 2021 Festival, including conversations with Nikki Giovanni ("Make Me Rain"); francine j. harris ("Here Is the Sweet Hand") and Patrick Rosal ("The Last Thing"); and Claudia Rankine ("Just Us"), Phillip B. Williams ("Mutiny") and Kevin Young ("African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song").

Dark-haired woman in a gray top, holding a stack of twelve books while she looks down at more books. Several people are behind her

2021 National Book Festival Highlights: Fiction

Posted by: Anne Holmes

This week we highlight just a few of our many standout fiction programs from the 2021 Festival, including conversations with Alice McDermott ("What About the Baby?") and George Saunders ("A Swim in a Pond in the Rain"), P. Djèlí Clark ("A Master of Djinn"), and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers ("The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois") and Deesha Philyaw ("The Secret Lives of Church Ladies").

Dark-haired woman in a gray top, holding a stack of twelve books while she looks down at more books. Several people are behind her

2021 National Book Festival Highlights: Kekla Magoon

Posted by: Anne Holmes

This week we highlight Kekla Magoon discussing her young adult book "Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People" at the 2021 Festival. This post includes prompts for writing and thinking that teens, families and teachers can use to explore the author and the author’s work — recommended for ages 12-17.

Dark-haired woman in a gray top, holding a stack of twelve books while she looks down at more books. Several people are behind her

2021 National Book Festival Highlights: Current Events, Science, and History & Biography

Posted by: Anne Holmes

This week we highlight just a few of our many standout nonfiction programs from this year's Festival, including Heather McGhee on "The Sum of Us," Sarah Frier ("No Filter") and Anna Wiener ("Uncanny Valley") on their new books, and Matt Parker on "Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World."