Poetry Spotlight: Victoria Chang and Brenda Shaughnessy
In honor of National Poetry Month, poets Victoria Chang and Brenda Shaughnessy discuss their poetry collections, which address issues of loss, fear and the future of the planet.
Contributor:
Shaughnessy, Brenda - Holmes, Anne - Casper, Robert - Chang, Victoria
Date:2021-04-29
Film, Video
Lupita Nyong'o and Carla Hayden
A fascinating conversation for young people with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and Lupita Nyong'o, Oscar-winning actor and author of the number one best-selling children's book "Sulwe."
Contributor:
Nyong'o, Lupita - Hayden, Carla
Date:2021-04-08
Film, Video
War, Combat and the American Soldier
Two of the most prominent historians of war, Margaret MacMillan ("War: How Conflict Shaped Us") and Rick Atkinson ("The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777"), spoke with philanthropist David M. Rubenstein about their work.
Contributor:
Macmillan, Margaret - Rubenstein, David - Atkinson, Rick
Date:2021-03-25
Film, Video
Giants of Racial Justice: Malcolm X & Martin Luther King Jr.
In an event celebrating African American History Month, Peniel E. Joseph ("The Sword and the Shield") and Tamara Payne ("The Dead Are Arising") will discuss their books on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. with NPR television critic Eric Deggans.
Contributor:
Payne, Tamara - Deggans, Eric - Joseph, Peniel E.
Date:2021-02-18
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Timely Topic: Anne Applebaum & Carlos Lozada
Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, Anne Applebaum ("Twilight of Democracy") and Carlos Lozada ("What Were We Thinking"), discuss the current American frame of mind, the tenuous state of democracy and the 2020 presidential election.
Contributor:
Applebaum, Anne - Haskell, John - Lozada, Carlos
N.K. Jemisin: National Book Festival 2020
"The City We Became" (Orbit) is a story of culture, identity, magic and myths in contemporary New York City by Hugo Award winner and bestselling author N.K. Jemisin. In it, five New Yorkers must come together to defend their city from an ancient evil that has citizens in its grip.
Contributor:
Jemisin, N.K.
Date:2020-09-26
Film, Video
Bruce Feiler: National Book Festival 2020
From the bestselling author of "The Secrets of Happy Families" and "The Council of Dads," Bruce Feiler's "Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age" (Penguin) is a pioneering investigation into how the stories we tell ourselves about our lives can imprison or empower us, and a step-by-step guide for how to transform and reinvent ourselves in times of transition.
Contributor:
Feiler, Bruce
Date:2020-09-26
Film, Video
I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar: National Book Festival 2020
Gail Collins, "No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History" (Little, Brown), appears in conversation with Megan Twohey, "She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement" (Penguin). Collins, a columnist and the first woman editorial page editor of The New York Times, gives us a lively, eye-opening look at women and aging in America, while Twohey...
Contributor:
Twohey, Megan - Laymon, Anna - Collins, Gail
Date:2020-09-26
Film, Video
Parenting for Success: National Book Festival 2020
Judith Warner, "And Then They Stopped Talking to Me: Making Sense of Middle School" (Crown), appears in conversation with Esther Wojcicki, "How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Wojcicki, the "Godmother of Silicon Valley," legendary teacher and mother of a "Super Family," shares her tried-and-tested methods for raising happy, healthy, successful children, while Warner reveals why a child's...
Contributor:
Wojcicki, Esther - Warner, Judith - Potter, Lee Ann
Date:2020-09-26
Film, Video
Juan Felipe Herrera: National Book Festival 2020
Juan Felipe Herrera was the 21st United States Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017 and the first Hispanic poet to serve in the position. His newest poetry collection, which is launching at this festival, is "Every Day We Get More Illegal" (City Lights). He reads from it here in the poem "Color Tense (a fracture of power and paradigm)."
Contributor:
Herrera, Juan Felipe
Date:2020-09-26
Film, Video
Emily St. John Mandel: National Book Festival 2020
From the award-winning author of "Station Eleven," Emily St. John Mandel's "The Glass Hotel" (Knopf) is an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events: a massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.
Contributor:
St. John Mandel, Emily
Date:2020-09-26
Film, Video
Robert M. Gates: National Book Festival 2020
From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed bestselling memoir "Duty," Robert M. Gates' "Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World" (Knopf) is a candid, sweeping examination of power in all its manifestations and how it has been exercised, for good and bad, by American presidents in the post-Cold War world. Interview...
Contributor:
Rubenstein, David - Gates, Robert M.
Date:2020-09-26
Film, Video
Mario Livio: National Book Festival 2020
In "Galileo: And the Science Deniers" (Simon & Schuster), astrophysicist and successful popularizer of science and mathematics Mario Livio offers a fresh interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history's great and most fascinating scientists, shedding new light on Galileo's discoveries and recounting the challenges he faced from science deniers.
Contributor:
Livio, Mario
Date:2020-09-26
Film, Video
Poetry on the Air: National Book Festival 2020
Franny Choi, "Soft Science: Poems" (Alice James), joins the youngest-ever winner of the prestigious Forward Prize, Danez Smith, "Homie: Poems" (Graywolf), to give a behind-the-scenes look at their podcast series "Vs." as well as discuss the enduring power of poetry. Moderated by Ydalmi Noriega, community and foundation relations director at the Poetry Foundation.
Contributor:
Choi, Franny - Smith, Danez
Date:2020-09-26
Film, Video
Poetry Out Loud: National Book Festival 2020
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Mary Anne Carter hosts a program celebrating Poetry Out Loud, the popular poetry recitation contest for high school students, which since 2005 has grown to reach more than 4 million students and 65,000 teachers from 16,000 schools. Featuring 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown and poet Adrian Matejka as well as 2019 Poetry Out Loud national winners and...
Contributor:
Brown, Jericho - Matejka, Adrian - Carter, Mary Anne
Date:2020-09-26
Film, Video
Poets Laureate on Connection: National Book Festival 2020
Rita Dove, "Collected Poems: 1974-2004" (Norton) speaks with Joy Harjo, "An American Sunrise: Poems" (Norton). Dove was the first African American Poet Laureate of the United States (1993-1995), and Harjo is the current U.S. Poet Laureate and the first Native American to serve in the position. Here they share remembrances of their time as students together and discuss changes in our culture and literature...
Contributor:
Harjo, Joy - Dove, Rita
Date:2020-09-26
Film, Video
Robert Pinsky: National Book Festival 2020
Robert Pinsky served an unprecedented three terms as the Poet Laureate. Founder of the Favorite Poem Project, he teaches at Boston University and is the editor, most recently, of the anthology "The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling" (Norton). He here reads "Instrument," a poem from his collection "At the Foundling Hospital."
Contributor:
Pinsky, Robert
Date:2020-09-26
Film, Video
Sandra Cisneros: National Book Festival 2020
Sandra Cisneros is one of the most celebrated Latino authors of her generation, best known for her first novel, "The House on Mango Street." A poet, essayist, novelist and Chicana activist, she here speaks about the importance of empathy, a writer's need to have an open heart and the many ways that difficult times have spurred her work and imagination. Her recent book is...
Contributor:
Cisneros, Sandra
Date:2020-09-26
Film, Video
The Examined Self: National Book Festival 2020
Carmen Maria Machado, "In the Dream House: A Memoir" (Graywolf), joins Elizabeth Tallent, "Scratched: A Memoir of Perfectionism" (Harper), in a conversation about their respective memoirs and the experience of delving deep into their pasts to better understand themselves. Machado's memoir is an engrossing and innovative account of a relationship gone bad; Tallent's memoir is equally innovative, dwelling on the ferocious desire for perfection...
Contributor:
Machado, Carmen Maria - Tallent, Elizabeth
Date:2020-09-26
Film, Video
The Virtues of Brevity: National Book Festival 2020
Susan Minot, "Why I Don't Write: And Other Stories" (Knopf), shares experiences with Karen Russell, "Orange World and Other Stories" (Knopf). Two masters of the short story talk about their craft, the ways they work and the enchantments of the briefer form. Minot is the award-winning author of many novels and collections, including "Monkeys," "Lust" and "Thirty Girls." Russell, author of "Vampires in the...
Contributor:
Russell, Karen - Minot, Susan
Date:2020-09-26
Film, Video
Tracy K. Smith: National Book Festival 2020
Tracy K. Smith served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019 and is now chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. A Pulitzer Prize winner for her 2011 collection, "Life on Mars," she here reads "The United States Welcomes You" from her latest collection of poetry, "Wade in the Water: Poems" (Graywolf). Her recent...
Contributor:
Smith, Tracy K.
Date:2020-09-26
Film, Video
Confronting Racism and Bigotry: National Book Festival 2020
From Ibram X. Kendi, the National Book Award-winning author of "How to Be an Antiracist" (One World), comes a groundbreaking approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality. From Saeed Jones, winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize in nonfiction, comes "How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir" (Simon & Schuster), a devastating memoir about power (who has it, how and why we deploy...
Contributor:
Martin, Michel - Jones, Saeed - Kendi, Ibram X.
Date:2020-09-26
Film, Video
Daniel Markovits: National Book Festival 2020
From eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits, "The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class and Devours the Elite" (Penguin) presents a revolutionary new argument attacking the false promise of meritocracy, the axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort.
Contributor:
Markovits, Daniel
Date:2020-09-26
Film, Video
Richard Haass: National Book Festival 2020
"The World: A Brief Introduction" (Penguin) is an invaluable primer from Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, that is meant to help experts and non-experts alike navigate a time in which many of our biggest challenges come from the world beyond our borders. Interview by David Rubenstein.
