C-SPAN’s Book TV: Live Festival Coverage and Tote Bags
Posted by: Brett Zongker
Preview of coverage by C-SPAN’s Book TV of the 2022 Library of Congress National Book Festival. Plus tote bags.
Posted in: Live Stream, Programs, TV Coverage
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Posted by: Brett Zongker
Preview of coverage by C-SPAN’s Book TV of the 2022 Library of Congress National Book Festival. Plus tote bags.
Posted in: Live Stream, Programs, TV Coverage
Posted by: Leah Knobel
We are so excited to be just a little more than a week away from the 2022 National Book Festival. On Saturday, Sept. 3 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., join us at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in downtown D.C. for events featuring more than 120 authors, writers and poets, book signings and …
Posted by: Guy Lamolinara
The National Book Festival is supported by a series of Centers for the Book in the U.S. states and territories.
Posted in: Books, Programs, Volunteers
Posted by: Leah Knobel
Big news! The full schedule of author presentations and book signings for the 2022 National Book Festival on Saturday, Sept. 3 is live! You can check out the complete schedule on the National Book Festival website: loc.gov/bookfest. With more than 120 authors, writers and poets, this year’s festival has something for every reader. Plus, we’ve …
Posted in: Live Stream, Programs
Posted by: Leah Knobel
A real benefit to the mostly virtual National Book Festivals of the past two years was reaching and engaging with audiences from across the country and world. While the National Book Festival is back in person this year at the Washington Convention Center on Sept. 3, you don’t need to be in Washington, DC to …
Posted in: Live Stream, Programs
Posted by: Anne Holmes
We close our series of 2021 Festival highlights with LeVar Burton, host of “Open a Book, Open the World: The Library of Congress National Book Festival." And we look forward to seeing you at the Washington Convention Center for the 2022 National Book Festival!
Posted in: Authors, Books, National Book Festival Highlights, Programs
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").
Posted in: Authors, Books, National Book Festival Highlights, Poetry, Programs
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").
Posted in: Authors, Books, National Book Festival Highlights, Programs
Posted by: Anne Holmes
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").
Posted in: Authors, Books, National Book Festival Highlights, Programs