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Film, VideoClaudia Rankine, Phillip B. Williams and Kevin Young: National Book Festival 2021 Claudia Rankine, author of "Just Us: An American Conversation" (Graywolf), and Phillip B. Williams, author of "Mutiny" (Penguin), discuss their new books with Kevin Young, editor of "African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song" (Library of America). Young is director of the National Museum of African American History & Culture.- Contributor: Williams, Phillip B. - Young, Kevin - Rankine, Claudia
- Date: 2021-09-26
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Film, VideoQ&A with Dan Gutman: National Book Festival 2021 Dan Gutman, author of "Houdini and Me" (Holiday House), answers your questions. Don't forget to check out Dan Gutman's video where he discusses his book.- Contributor: Gutman, Dan
- Date: 2021-09-26
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Film, VideoQ&A with Mindy Thomas: National Book Festival 2021 Mindy Thomas, co-author of "Wow in the World: The How and Wow of the Human Body: From Your Tongue to Your Toes and All the Guts in Between" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), answers your questions. Don't forget to check out Mindy Thomas' video where she discusses her book with co-author Guy Raz.- Contributor: Thomas, Mindy
- Date: 2021-09-26
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Film, VideoQ&A with Jerry Pinkney: National Book Festival 2021 Jerry Pinkney, author of "The Little Mermaid" (Little, Brown), answers your questions. Don't forget to check out Jerry Pinkney's video where he discusses his book in conversation with Meg Medina.- Contributor: Pinkney, Jerry
- Date: 2021-09-26
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Film, VideoQ&A with Rep. Sharice Davids: National Book Festival 2021 Rep. Sharice Davids, author of "Sharice's Big Voice: A Native Kid Becomes a Congresswoman" (HarperCollins Kids), answers your questions. Don't forget to check out Rep. Sharice Davids' video where she discusses her book.- Contributor: Davids, Sharice
- Date: 2021-09-26
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Film, VideoQ&A with Derrick Barnes: National Book Festival 2021 Derrick Barnes, author of "I Am Every Good Thing" (Nancy Paulsen), answers your questions. Don't forget to check out Derrick Barnes' video where he discusses his book.- Contributor: Barnes, Derrick
- Date: 2021-09-26
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Film, VideoNikki Giovanni: National Book Festival 2021 Nikki Giovanni discusses her new collection, "Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose" (William Morrow), with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.- Contributor: Giovanni, Nikki
- Date: 2021-09-25
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Film, VideoP. Djèlí Clark: National Book Festival 2021 P. Djèlí Clark discusses "A Master of Djinn" (Tor) and "Ring Shout" (Tor) with Amal El-Mohtar, science fiction and fantasy columnist for The New York Times.- Contributor: Clark, P. Djèlí
- Date: 2021-09-25
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Film, VideoMargot Livesey and Sue Miller: National Book Festival 2021 Margot Livesey, author of "The Boy in the Field" (Harper), and Sue Miller, author of "Monogamy" (Harper), discuss their new books with New York Times Book Review editor Elisabeth Egan.- Contributor: Livesey, Margot - Miller, Sue
- Date: 2021-09-25
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Film, VideoQ&A with Traci Chee: National Book Festival 2021 Traci Chee, author of "We Are Not Free" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), answers your questions. Don't forget to check out Traci Chee's video where she discusses her book.- Contributor: Chee, Traci
- Date: 2021-09-25
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Film, VideoQ&A with Tahereh Mafi: National Book Festival 2021 Tahereh Mafi, author of "An Emotion of Great Delight" (HarperCollins), answers your questions. Don't forget to check out Tahereh Mafi's video where she discusses her book.- Contributor: Mafi, Tahereh
- Date: 2021-09-25
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Film, VideoQ&A with Trung Le Nguyen: National Book Festival 2021 Trung Le Nguyen, author of "The Magic Fish" (Random House), answers your questions. Don't forget to check out Trung Le Nguyen's video where he discusses his book.- Contributor: Le Nguyen, Trung
- Date: 2021-09-25
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Film, VideoQ&A with Kekla Magoon: National Book Festival 2021 Kekla Magoon, author of "Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People" (Candlewick), answers your questions. Don't forget to check out Kekla Magoon's video where she discusses her book.- Contributor: Magoon, Kekla
- Date: 2021-09-25
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Film, Videofrancine j. harris and Patrick Rosal: National Book Festival 2021 francine j. harris, author of "Here Is the Sweet Hand" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), and Patrick Rosal, author of "The Last Thing: New & Selected Poems" (Persea), discuss their new works with Ydalmi Noriega, director of programs and community engagement at the Poetry Foundation.- Contributor: Rosal, Patrick - Harris, Francine J.
- Date: 2021-09-24
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Film, VideoAlice McDermott and George Saunders: National Book Festival 2021 Alice McDermott, author of "What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), and George Saunders, author of "A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life" (Random House), discuss their new books with Washington Post book critic Ron Charles.- Contributor: Saunders, George - McDermott, Alice
- Date: 2021-09-24
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Film, VideoDavid Nasaw and Sonia Shah: National Book Festival 2021 David Nasaw, author of "The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War" (Penguin), and Sonia Shah, author of "The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move" (Bloomsbury), discuss their new books with CBS News' "60 Minutes+" correspondent Enrique Acevedo.- Contributor: Shah, Sonia - Nasaw, David
- Date: 2021-09-24
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Film, VideoJulia Sweig and Karen Tumulty: National Book Festival 2021 Julia Sweig, author of "Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight" (Random House), and Karen Tumulty, author of "The Triumph of Nancy Reagan" (Simon & Schuster), discuss their new books with Colleen Shogan, a senior vice president and the director of the David Rubenstein Center for White House History at the White House Historical Association.- Contributor: Tumulty, Karen - Sweig, Julia
- Date: 2021-09-24
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Film, VideoNavigating Unexpected Genealogical Finds: National Book Festival 2021 Genealogy is a popular topic, and more people than ever want to find their roots. However, many do not think about the emotional fallout from learning or exposing family history. Explore resources you can use to deal with what happens when you discover unexpected information about ancestors. This session goes beyond how to discover who your ancestors are and focuses on the aftermath of...- Contributor: Buchanan, Candice - Budge, Sheree - Schreiber-Byers, Elizabeth
- Date: 2021-09-24
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Film, VideoThe Spider-Man Origin Story in Art & Comic Books: National Book Festival 2021 Before Spider-Man leaped off the pages of comic books into the movies, Steve Ditko, a cartoonist, and Stan Lee, a scriptwriter, sat down at their desks and invented him. The Library of Congress possesses the original drawings for their collaboration, which appeared in the August 1962 issue of "Amazing Fantasy." Together we look at the moment the radioactive spider bit Peter Parker, turning him...- Contributor: Halsband, Megan - Duke, Sara W. - Schreiber-Byers, Elizabeth
- Date: 2021-09-23
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Film, VideoRodney Scott and Trisha Yearwood: National Book Festival 2021 Rodney Scott, author of "Rodney Scott's World of BBQ: Every Day Is a Good Day" (Clarkson Potter), and Trisha Yearwood, author of "Trisha's Kitchen: Easy Comfort Food for Friends and Family" (Mariner), discuss their new books, cooking and community with Jummy Olabanji, co-anchor of NBC4's "News4 Today" morning news show.- Contributor: Yearwood, Trisha - Scott, Rodney
- Date: 2021-09-23
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Film, VideoPeter Godfrey-Smith: National Book Festival 2021 Peter Godfrey-Smith discusses his new book, "Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), with New York Times Book Review writer and editor Gal Beckerman.- Contributor: Godfrey-Smith, Peter
- Date: 2021-09-23
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Film, VideoHonorée Fanonne Jeffers and Deesha Philyaw: National Book Festival 2021 Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of "The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois" (Harper), and Deesha Philyaw, author of "The Secret Lives of Church Ladies"(West Virginia University), discuss their new books with Karen Grigsby Bates, senior correspondent for NPR's "Code Switch."- Contributor: Philyaw, Deesha - Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne
- Date: 2021-09-23
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Film, VideoHawa Hassan and Marcus Samuelsson: National Book Festival 2021 Hawa Hassan, author of "In Bibi's Kitchen: The Recipes and Stories of Grandmothers from the Eight African Countries that Touch the Indian Ocean" (Ten Speed), and Marcus Samuelsson, author of "The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food" (Voracious), discuss their new cookbooks with Robin Givhan, senior critic-at-large at The Washington Post.- Contributor: Samuelsson, Marcus - Hassan, Hawa
- Date: 2021-09-23
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Film, VideoAvi 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
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Film, VideoCreative 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