The 2013 National Book Festival was held on Saturday, September 21 and Sunday, September 22, 2013, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Our podcast series features one-on-one chats with some of this year's featured authors.
2013 National Book Festival
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Audio RecordingShiela Corley: 2013 National Book Festival Jennifer Gavin from the Library of Congress speaks with Shiela Corley, president of the Junior League of Washington, a key volunteer support group for the 2013 National Book Festival on September 21-22, 2013, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.BiographyShiela Corley joined the Junior League of Washington in 2003, and her first experience was volunteering at the National Book Festival where she worked the…
- Contributor: Shiela Corley - Jennifer Gavin
- Date: 2013-09-20
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Audio RecordingJoyce Carol Oates: 2013 National Book Festival Jennifer Gavin from the Library of Congress speaks with Joyce Carol Oates, who will appear at the 2013 National Book Festival on September 22, 2013, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.BiographyNational Book Award winner (for “them,” 1970) Joyce Carol Oates has published more than 40 novels as well as plays, short stories, novellas, poetry and nonfiction. She writes for approximately eight hours every…
- Contributor: Jennifer Gavin - Joyce Carol Oates
- Date: 2013-09-19
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Audio RecordingMarie Arana: 2013 National Book Festival Francisco Macias from the Library of Congress speaks with Marie Arana, who will appear at the 2013 National Book Festival on September 21, 2013, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.BiographyThe daughter of a Peruvian father and an American mother, Marie Arana was born in Lima, Peru, and when she was 9, she moved to New Jersey. Arana is a former editor of The…
- Contributor: Marie Arana - Francisco Macias
- Date: 2013-09-17
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Audio RecordingJuan Felipe Herrera: 2013 National Book Festival (English) Francisco Macias from the Library of Congress speaks with Juan Felipe Herrera, who will appear at the 2013 National Book Festival on September 22, 2013, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.BiographyJuan Felipe Herrera is the Poet Laureate of California. He is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for “Half the World in Light” (2008) and has received fellowships from the…
- Contributor: Juan Felipe Herrera - Francisco Macias
- Date: 2013-09-10
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Audio RecordingJuan Felipe Herrera: 2013 National Book Festival (Spanish) Francisco Macias from the Library of Congress speaks with Juan Felipe Herrera, who will appear at the 2013 National Book Festival on September 22, 2013, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.BiographyJuan Felipe Herrera is the Poet Laureate of California. He is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for “Half the World in Light” (2008) and has received fellowships from the…
- Contributor: Juan Felipe Herrera - Francisco Macias
- Date: 2013-09-10
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Audio RecordingWilliam P. Jones: 2013 National Book Festival Sheryl Cannady from the Library of Congress speaks with William P. Jones, who will appear at the 2013 National Book Festival on September 22, 2013, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.BiographyWilliam P. Jones is an associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is the author of “The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim…
- Contributor: William P. Jones - Sheryl Cannady
- Date: 2013-09-10
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Audio RecordingSheila Miyoshi Jager: 2013 National Book Festival Guy Lamolinara from the Library of Congress speaks with Sheila Miyoshi Jager, who will appear at the 2013 National Book Festival on September 22, 2013, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.BiographySheila Miyoshi Jager is chair of the Department of East Asian Studies at Oberlin College. Her first book on Korean nationalism was “Narratives of Nation Building in Korea: A Genealogy of Patriotism. She…
- Contributor: Guy Lamolinara - Sheila Miyoshi Jager
- Date: 2013-09-05
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Audio RecordingJon Scieszka: 2013 National Book Festival Sheryl Cannady from the Library of Congress speaks with Jon Scieszka, who will appear at the 2013 National Book Festival on September 22, 2013, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.BiographyJon Scieszka was the first National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, a program sponsored by the Library of Congress Center for the Book and the Children’s Book Council. His zany, somewhat subversive sense of…
- Contributor: Jon Scieszka - Sheryl Cannady
- Date: 2013-09-03