The 2021 Library of Congress National Book Festival is Sept. 17-26, with live author conversations every day. On Sept. 17 at 10 a.m. ET, 35 video-on-demand programs will become available to watch anytime. This year’s Festival also features interactive presentations with Library of Congress experts, a national television special and related events on PBS, NPR podcasts, and author interviews on Washington Post Live. Check out Festival Near You to discover related events from local organizations.
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Film, Video
Video On-DemandAvailable starting
September 17, 2021
10:00 am EDT Watch videos from 44 of this year’s participating authors, including Kazuo Ishiguro, Roxane Gay, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Michael J. Fox and Angie Thomas. See what they have to say about their latest works at the 2021 National Book Festival.
Friday
September 17, 2021
5:00 pm -
5:30 pm
EDT
Online Only
Eric Eyre, author of “Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic” (Scribner), and Patrick Radden Keefe, author of “Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty” (Doubleday), discuss their new books with Washington Post reporter Sari Horwitz.
Friday
September 17, 2021
6:00 pm -
6:30 pm
EDT
Online Only
Sarah Frier, author of “No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram” (Simon & Schuster), and Anna Wiener, author of “Uncanny Valley” (MCD), discuss their new books with CBS News’ “60 Minutes+” correspondent Laurie Segall.
Saturday
September 18, 2021
2:00 pm -
2:30 pm
EDT
Online Only
Daniel Kahneman and Cass R. Sunstein, co-authors of “Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment” (Little, Brown), discuss their new book with New York Times Book Review writer and editor Gal Beckerman.
Monday
September 20, 2021
2:00 pm -
3:00 pm
EDT
Online Only
As part of a special collaboration between NPR and the 2021 Library of Congress National Book Festival, the Life Kit podcast will feature Eric Garcia, author of “We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation” (Mariner), in conversation with Laine Kaplan-Levenson.
Monday
September 20, 2021
6:00 pm -
6:30 pm
EDT
Online Only
Lawrence Wright discusses “The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID” (Knopf) with philanthropist and National Book Festival co-chairman David M. Rubenstein.
Friday
September 24, 2021
5:00 pm -
5:30 pm
EDT
Online Only
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.