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Film, Video Roxane Gay: National Book Festival 2021

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Title

  • Roxane Gay: National Book Festival 2021

Summary

  • Roxane Gay, co-author of "The Sacrifice of Darkness" (Archaia), discusses her approach as a black feminist, her endeavor to write across genre and her path to become a professional writer, with Everdeen Mason, editorial director of New York Times Games. Bonus content: Megan Halsband, reference librarian in the Serial & Government Publications Division, reflects on the origins of graphic novels and the source material that inspires them in her work at the Library of Congress with one of the largest comic book and graphic novel collections in the world.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • National Book Festival (U.S.), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2021-09-17.

Notes

  • -  Group name: 2021 National Book Festival: Fiction. 2
  • -  Everdeen Mason, Megan Halsband, LeVar Burton, Roxane Gay.
  • -  Recorded on 2021-09-17.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024697625

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Library Of Congress, and U.S National Book Festival. Roxane Gay: National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-17, 2021. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697625/.

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Library Of Congress & National Book Festival, U. S. (2021) Roxane Gay: National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-17. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697625/.

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Library Of Congress, and U.S National Book Festival. Roxane Gay: National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-17, 2021. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024697625/>.