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Posted by: Guy Lamolinara
Mo Willems talks about his recent books, "An Elephant & Piggie Biggie! Volume 3" and "Unlimited Squirrels: I Want to Sleep Under the Stars" during this year's festival.
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Posted by: Guy Lamolinara
National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Jason Reynolds talks about his book, "Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You," during this year's festival.
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Posted by: Guy Lamolinara
Heather Cox Richardson talks about her book, "How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America," during this year's festival.
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Posted by: Guy Lamolinara
Gene Luen Yang, former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, talks about his new books, "Dragon Hoops" and "Superman Smashes the Klan," during this year's festival.
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Posted by: Guy Lamolinara
Jenna Bush Hager, former first daughter and granddaughter, bestselling author and co-anchor of the "Today" show, shares moving, funny stories about her beloved grandparents and the wisdom they passed on to her in her new book, "Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss."
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Posted by: Guy Lamolinara
Dark Star trilogy novelist Marlon James, author of "Black Leopard, Red Wolf," talks with sci-fi/fantasy writer Jeff VanderMeer, author of "A Peculiar Peril," in a conversation titled "Dystopian Worlds."
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Posted by: Guy Lamolinara
Téa Obreht's most recent book, "Inland," is a historical novel set in the drought-ridden Arizona Territory in 1893. Washington Post fiction critic Ron Charles interviewed the author during this year's National Book Festival.
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Posted by: Guy Lamolinara
Colson Whitehead, author of the Pulitzer-winning “The Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel Boys," discusses his work and receives the 2020 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction at this year's National Book Festival.
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Posted by: Guy Lamolinara
Joy Harjo is the 23rd and current United States Poet Laureate — the first Native American to receive the honor. A member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, her most recent poetry collection is "An American Sunrise: Poems," from which she here reads the poem "Running."
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