Avi Loeb: National Book Festival 2021
Avi Loeb discusses "Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) with science journalist Sarah Scoles.
Contributor:
Loeb, Avi
Date:2021-09-22
Film, Video
Art, Literature and Poetry: Creative Collaborations at the Library of Congress: National Book Festival 2021
Many modern and contemporary artists have found singular joy in illustrating, interpreting and reimagining the legend, symbol and sentiment within literature and poetry. Beginning with early 20th-century livres d'artiste and concluding with contemporary graphic and book artists, Library of Congress curators discuss the many different creative unions between art and the written word over the past century.
Contributor:
Dimunation, Mark - Stillo, Stephanie - Blood, Katherine - Schreiber-Byers, Elizabeth
Date:2021-09-22
Film, Video
Olivia Campbell and Janice P. Nimura: National Book Festival 2021
Olivia Campbell, author of "Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine" (Park Row), and Janice P. Nimura, author of "The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine" (Norton), discuss their new books with journalist Melody Schreiber, editor of "What We Didn't Expect: Personal Stories About Premature Birth."
Contributor:
Nimura, Janice P. - Campbell, Olivia
Date:2021-09-22
Film, Video
Kai Bird, James Oakes and David O. Stewart: National Book Festival 2021
Kai Bird, author of "The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter" (Crown); James Oakes, author of "The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution" (Norton); and David O. Stewart, author of "George Washington: The Political Rise of America's Founding Father" (Dutton), discuss their presidential biographies with Nancy Cordes, chief White House correspondent for CBS News.
Contributor:
Stewart, David O. - Oakes, James - Bird, Kai
Date:2021-09-22
Film, Video
Brit Bennett and Robert Jones Jr.: National Book Festival 2021
Brit Bennett, author of "The Vanishing Half" (Riverhead), and Robert Jones Jr., author of "The Prophets" (Putnam's), discuss their new books with Lauren Christensen, senior staff editor for The New York Times Book Review.
Contributor:
Bennett, Brit - Jones Jr., Robert
Date:2021-09-22
Film, Video
Simon Winchester: National Book Festival 2021
Simon Winchester discusses "Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World" (Harper) with Osita Nwanevu, a contributing editor at The New Republic.
Copyright: The Engine of Free Expression: 2021 National Book Festival
You are an owner of copyright-protected material. Learn how writing a story, creating a work of art, composing or recording music, or simply taking a picture engages with copyright. Find out more about how this automatic right affects your work and what it covers. Learn about the U.S. Copyright Office and the work it does to encourage creativity.
Contributor:
Saint Amour, John
Date:2021-09-21
Film, Video
Adrienne Raphel and Will Shortz: National Book Festival 2021
Crossword puzzle enthusiast Adrienne Raphel, author of "Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them" (Penguin), and puzzlemaster Will Shortz, author of "The New York Times Hardest Crosswords Volume 8: 50 Friday and Saturday Puzzles to Challenge Your Brain" (St. Martin's Griffin) and "The New York Times Super Sunday Crosswords Volume 10: 50 Sunday Puzzles External"...
Contributor:
Shortz, Will - Raphel, Adrienne
Date:2021-09-21
Film, Video
Danielle Evans and Charles Yu: National Book Festival 2021
Danielle Evans, author of "The Office of Historical Corrections" (Riverhead), and Charles Yu, author of "Interior Chinatown" (Pantheon), discuss their new books with Amy Stolls, director of Literary Arts at the National Endowment for the Arts.
Contributor:
Evans, Danielle - Yu, Charles
Date:2021-09-21
Film, Video
The Visible Book: A Look Inside at Book Construction, Historic to Modern: 2021 National Book Festival
Look inside the covers and learn how books are constructed. The Library's Conservation Division shows you how to identify the influences of historic book structures in the modern bindings of today. From papyrus to parchment to paper, from Gutenberg's Bible to the pulp paperback, we'll show you - with models and examples from the Library's collections - how bookbinding has evolved through the centuries....
Contributor:
Sweitzer-Lamme, Jon - Smith, Shelly - Robb, Andrew - Parks, Amelia
Date:2021-09-20
Film, Video
Lawrence Wright: National Book Festival 2021
Lawrence Wright discusses "The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID" (Knopf) with philanthropist and National Book Festival co-chairman David M. Rubenstein.
Noé Álvarez and Maria Hinojosa: National Book Festival 2021
Noé Álvarez, author of "Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land" (Catapult), and Maria Hinojosa, author of "Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America" (Atria), discuss their new books with Maria Elena Salinas, journalist and principal of MES Multi-Media LLC.
Jennifer Ackerman and David Allen Sibley: National Book Festival 2021
Jennifer Ackerman, author of "The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent and Think" (Penguin), and David Allen Sibley, author of "What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing - What Birds Are Doing, and Why" (Knopf), discuss their new books with Joel Achenbach, science writer for The Washington Post.
Contributor:
Ackerman, Jennifer - Sibley, David Allen
Date:2021-09-19
Film, Video
Joseph J. Ellis: National Book Festival 2021
Joseph J. Ellis discusses "The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783" (Liveright) with philanthropist and National Book Festival co-chairman David M. Rubenstein.
Contributor:
Ellis, Joseph J.
Date:2021-09-19
Film, Video
Matt Parker: National Book Festival 2021
Matt Parker discusses his new book, "Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World" (Riverhead), with Roswell Encina, chief communications officer at the Library of Congress.
Contributor:
Parker, Matt
Date:2021-09-19
Film, Video
Yiyun Li and Douglas Stuart: National Book Festival 2021
Yiyun Li, author of "Must I Go" (Random House), and Douglas Stuart, author of "Shuggie Bain" (Grove), discuss their new books with Alexander Chee, author and contributing editor at The New Republic.
Contributor:
Stuart, Douglas - LI, Yiyun
Date:2021-09-19
Film, Video
Katherine May: National Book Festival 2021
Katherine May, author of "Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times" (Riverhead), discusses her new book about coping with circumstances beyond your control with 7News On Your Side anchor Alison Starling.
Contributor:
May, Katherine
Date:2021-09-19
Film, Video
Jason Reynolds: National Book Festival 2021
Jason Reynolds, Library of Congress National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, discusses his ambassador platform, GRAB THE MIC: Tell Your Story, and his award-winning book "Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks" (Atheneum), with teen interviewers Courtney Kim and Brandon Marshall.
Contributor:
Reynolds, Jason
Date:2021-09-18
Film, Video
Heather McGhee: National Book Festival 2021
Heather McGhee discusses her new book, "The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together" (One World), with Errin Haines, editor-at-large of The 19th and a contributor at MSNBC.
Contributor:
McGhee, Heather
Date:2021-09-18
Film, Video
Patricia Engel and Rivka Galchen: National Book Festival 2021
Patricia Engel, author of "Infinite Country External" (Avid Reader), and Rivka Galchen, author of "Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), discuss their new books with Kevin Larimer, editor-in-chief of Poets & Writers.
Contributor:
Galchen, Rivka - Engel, Patricia
Date:2021-09-18
Film, Video
Mary Roach and Suzanne Simard: National Book Festival 2021
Mary Roach, author of "Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law" (Norton), and Suzanne Simard, author of "Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest" (Knopf), discuss their new books with Sarah Kaplan, climate reporter for The Washington Post.
Contributor:
Simard, Suzanne - Roach, Mary
Date:2021-09-18
Film, Video
Catherine Belton and Joshua Yaffa: National Book Festival 2021
Catherine Belton, author of "Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), and Joshua Yaffa, author of "Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition and Compromise in Putin's Russia" (Tim Duggan), discuss their new books with Jeff Pegues, chief justice and homeland security correspondent for CBS News.
