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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."
Posted in: Authors, Books, National Book Festival Highlights, Programs
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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Posted by: Guy Lamolinara
America has been founded not once, but twice, according to Eric Foner, one of the nation’s foremost historians. At this year's festival he discusses his newest book, "The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution."
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Posted by: Guy Lamolinara
John Grisham is America's most popular writer of legal thrillers. "The Guardians" is his hair-raising thriller about wrongful convictions, and "Camino Winds" is a light-hearted novel about a murder investigation undertaken by a bookseller.
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Posted by: Guy Lamolinara
Chelsea Clinton discusses her new book, "She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game," which features women athletes who overcame odds and inspired the world.
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Posted by: Guy Lamolinara
N.K. Jemisin's newest fantasy novel, “The City We Became,” is very much a New York story. The author notes in her festival video that, despite being an enormous city spread out over five boroughs, “New Yorkers look out for each other.”
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Posted by: Guy Lamolinara
James McBride discusses his newest novel, "Deacon King Kong," in which the author "wanted to create a world that most people only see from behind the wheel of a tightly locked car… to let the wider world see how people in the projects live."
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