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The 2022 Festival Schedule is Live!

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 …

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Help us Bring the National Book Festival Near You!

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 …

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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").

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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").