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").
This week we highlight programs from the 2021 Festival that feature cooking and community, including conversations with Rodney Scott ("Rodney Scott's World of BBQ") and Trisha Yearwood ("Trisha's Kitchen"), and Hawa Hassan ("In Bibi's Kitchen") and Marcus Samuelsson ("The Rise").
This week we highlight programs from the 2021 Festival that feature Native writers, including conversations with Kelli Jo Ford ("Crooked Hallelujah") and Toni Jensen ("Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land"), Rep. Sharice Davids ("Sharice's Big Voice: A Native Kid Becomes a Congresswoman") and Joy Harjo ("Poet Warrior").
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.
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."
