2022 Festival Videos

Presenters included Jesmyn Ward, Leslie Jordan, Nick Offerman, Nyle DiMarco, Geraldine Brooks, Sabaa Tahir, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, David Maraniss, Candice Millard, Kelly Lytle Hernández, Holly Black, Mitch Albom and more.

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    Great Reads from Great Places: Central I (Young Readers) Introduced by Suzanne Walker, Director of the Indiana Center for the Book, this video features Baptiste and Miranda Paul, authors of "Peace" (chosen by the Wisconsin Center for the Book); Clayton Anderson, author of "Letters from Space" (chosen by the Nebraska Center for the Book); Carol Boston Weatherford, author of "R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul" (chosen by the Michigan Center for the...
    • Contributor: Paul, Baptiste - Subisak, Tracy - Wohnoutka, Mike - Walker, Suzanne - Weatherford, Carol Boston - Larochelle, David - Paul, Miranda - Anderson, Clayton - Boozer, Don
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    Great Reads from Great Places: Central I (Books for Teens) Introduced by Suzanne Walker, Director of the Indiana Center for the Book, this video features Joelle Charbonneau, author of "Verify" (chosen by the Illinois Center for the Book); and Leah Johnson, author of "You Should See Me In A Crown" (chosen by the Indiana Center for the Book), responding to a series of questions about their work and how it fits into the theme...
    • Contributor: Charbonneau, Joelle - Johnson, Leah - Walker, Suzanne
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    Library Unbound: Xander Harcourt Library of Congress Unbound a video series aiming to highlight the 2022 National Book Festival theme: Books Bring Us Together. We hope the series allows us to shed light on individuals across the library and emphasize the power storytelling, literature, and books have in forging connections between us all.
    • Contributor: Reyes, Cesar - Harcourt, Xander
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    Library Unbound: Tamara Rorie Library of Congress Unbound a video series aiming to highlight the 2022 National Book Festival theme: Books Bring Us Together. We hope the series allows us to shed light on individuals across the library and emphasize the power storytelling, literature, and books have in forging connections between us all.
    • Contributor: Robertson, Drew - Rorie, Tamara
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    Great Reads from Great Places: Western Region I Western Region I features Sara Peté, director of the Washington Center for the Book, in conversation with Cindy Lou Aillaud, author of "Recess at 20 Below" (chosen by the Alaska Center for the Book); Gayle Forman, author of "Frankie and Bug" (chosen by the California Center for the Book); Greg Bowman and Alan Suemori, authors of "Leilani: Blessed and Grateful" (chosen by the Hawaii...
    • Contributor: Aillaud, Cindy Lou - Higley, Danielle - Oh, Axie - Pet&eacute, Sara - Forman, Gayle - Higuera, Donna Barba - Suemori, Alan - Bowman, Greg
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    Great Reads from Great Places: Central Region II (Books for Young Readers) Introduction by Michael Pearce, director of the Alabama Center for the Book, and featuring Karen M. Greenwald, author of "A Vote for Susanna: The First Woman Mayor" (chosen by Kansas Center for the Book); Brittany J. Thurman, author of "Fly" (chosen by Kentucky Center for the Book); Gayle Webre, author of "When I Was an Alligator" (chosen by Louisiana Center for the Book); Dan...
    • Contributor: Burkhardt, Dan and Connie - Webre, Gayle - Greenwald, Karen M. - Pearce, Michael - Thurman, Brittany J. - Llanos, Mariana
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    Library Unbound: Jennifer Evers Library of Congress Unbound a video series aiming to highlight the 2022 National Book Festival theme: Books Bring Us Together. We hope the series allows us to shed light on individuals across the library and emphasize the power storytelling, literature, and books have in forging connections between us all.
    • Contributor: Reyes, Cesar - Evers, Jennifer
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    Great Reads from Great Places: Stories from Eastern States Great Reads from Great Places: Stories from Eastern States features Rocco Staino, director of the Empire State Center for the Book, in conversation with Lisa Rose, author of "The Singer & the Scientist" (chosen by the New Jersey Center for the Book); Mary Wagley Copp, author and Munir D. Mohammed, illustrator of "Wherever I Go" (chosen by the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Centers for...
    • Contributor: Staino, Rocco - Hirsch, Rebecca E. - Bruchac, Joseph - Mohammed, Munir D. - Copp, Mary Wagley - Rose, Lisa
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    Great Reads from Great Places: Eastern Region I (Stories Bring Us Together) This video features Lizz Sinclair, of Maine's Center for the Book, in conversation with authors and illustrators of books selected by 4 states from the Eastern region, including: Lizzy Rockwell, author & illustrator of "All-Together Quilt" (chosen by the Connecticut Center for the Book); Marek Bennett, cartoonist and co-editor of "The Most Costly Journey" (El Viaje Mas Caro): Stories of Migrant Farmworkers in Vermont...
    • Contributor: Rockwell, Lizzy - Bennett, Marek - Minter, Daniel - Sinclair, Lizz
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    Library Unbound: Sasha Dowdy Library of Congress Unbound a video series aiming to highlight the 2022 National Book Festival theme: Books Bring Us Together. We hope the series allows us to shed light on individuals across the library and emphasize the power storytelling, literature, and books have in forging connections between us all.
    • Contributor: Robertson, Drew - Dowdy, Sasha
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    Great Reads from Great Places: Central II (Books for Teens) Introduction by Michael Pearce, director of the Alabama Center for the Book, and featuring Charles Waters and Irene Latham, author of "African Town" (chosen by Alabama Center for the Book); Ayana Gray, author of "Beasts of Prey" (chosen by Arkansas Center for the Book); Andrea Davis Pinkney, author of "Loretta Little Looks Back: Three Voices Tell It" (chosen by Mississippi Center for the Book);...
    • Contributor: Latham, Irene - Watts, Julia - Pinkney, Andrea Davis - Gray, Ayana - Pearce, Michael - Waters, Charles
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    Library Unbound: Amal Morsey Library of Congress Unbound a video series aiming to highlight the 2022 National Book Festival theme: Books Bring Us Together. We hope the series allows us to shed light on individuals across the library and emphasize the power storytelling, literature, and books have in forging connections between us all.
    • Contributor: Morsey, Amal - Reyes, Cesar
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    Library Unbound: Jarrod MacNeil Library of Congress Unbound a video series aiming to highlight the 2022 National Book Festival theme: Books Bring Us Together. We hope the series allows us to shed light on individuals across the library and emphasize the power storytelling, literature, and books have in forging connections between us all.
    • Contributor: Macneil, Jarrod - Robertson, Drew
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    Great Reads from Great Places: Eastern Region II Roadmap To Reading: Great Reads from Great Places: Region II-East, which includes states and territories from the Allegheny Plateau, and the misty Blue Ridge Mountains, to the azure blue waters of the Caribbean Sea. Our speakers were invited by the Affiliate Centers for the Book from Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Virginia, the US Virgin Islands, and Virginia. Joe Davich, director...
    • Contributor: McDaniel, Breanna J. - O'Connor, Barbara - Aldamuy Denise, Anika - Liu, Sylvia - Monroe, Mary Alice - Weatherford, Carole Boston - Bryan, Angela Golden - Davich, Joe
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    Great Reads from Great Places: Hear the Authors Discuss Their Work. Western II (Author Stories) Great Reads from Great Places: Western Region II features Lucas Fralick, coordinator of the Wyoming Center for the Book, in conversation with Dusti Bowling, author of "Across the Desert" (chosen by the Arizona Center for the Book); Gregory Barrington, author of "Cow Boy Is Not a Cowboy" (chosen by the Colorado Center for the Book); Anna Harber Freeman and Barbara Gonzales, authors of "Shaped...
    • Contributor: Barrington, Gregory - Bowling, Dusti - Fralick, Lucas - Browne, Meghan P. - Rogers, Tyler - Freeman, Anna Harber - Heidicke, Christian McKay - Gonzales, Barbara - Lyon, Julia
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    Great Reads from Great Places: Western II (Untold Stories) Great Reads from Great Places: Western Region II features Jennifer Widman, director of the South Dakota Center for the Book, in conversation with Kali Fajardo-Anstine, author of "Woman of Light: A Novel" (chosen by the Colorado Center for the Book); Sarah Vogel, author of "The Farmer's Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm" (chosen by the North Dakota...
    • Contributor: Vogel, Sarah - Fajardo-Anstine, Kali - Bailey, Jonathan T. - Estes, Nick - Widman, Jennifer
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    Library Unbound: John Cole Library of Congress Unbound a video series aiming to highlight the 2022 National Book Festival theme: Books Bring Us Together. We hope the series allows us to shed light on individuals across the library and emphasize the power storytelling, literature, and books have in forging connections between us all.
    • Contributor: Robertson, Drew - Cole, John - Reyes, Cesar
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    2022 National Book Festival: Kelly Lytle Hernández on the Mexican Revolution The Mexican Revolution happened over a century ago, but its impact continues to resonate beyond its borders. Historian and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Kelly Lytle Hernández's book "Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire and Revolution in the Borderland" details this history in compelling and often harrowing ways. Hernández discusses the book with moderator Rafael Ulloa.
    • Contributor: Hernández, Kelly Lytle - Ulloa, Rafael
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    2022 National Book Festival: Shine Bright: A Personal History of Black Women in Pop with Danyel Smith With a career in media and journalism spanning nearly three decades, Danyel Smith - host of the music podcast Black Girl Songbook - masterfully chronicles formerly unrecognized stories of Black women who shaped America's music scene. Sidney Madden will join Smith to discuss "Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop."
    • Contributor: Smith, Danyel - Madden, Sidney
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    2022 National Book Festival: At the Heart of Modernity with Howard W. French What happens when you consider the origins of modernity and center Africa rather than Europe? Howard W. French's book, "Born in Blackness," explores that very question as he investigates the forgotten history of how Africa and its relations to the Western world played an integral role in the development of the modern world. Moderated by Lanisa Kitchiner.
    • Contributor: French, Howard W. - Kitchiner, Lanisa
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    2022 National Book Festival: D.C. Reads Writer Clint Smith In this collaboration with D.C. Public Library, Clint Smith talks about his book "How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America," the latest D.C. Reads selection. "How the Word Is Passed" was named a Best Book of 2021 by The New York Times, among other media outlets. Moderated by Frederick Wherry.
    • Contributor: Wherry, Frederick - Smith, Clint
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    2022 National Book Festival: The Bald Eagle with Jack E. Davis Strength. Resolution. Freedom. The bald eagle is among the most enduring American symbols, but there is a complicated history beneath that worship. David M. Rubenstein joins Pulitzer Prize-winning environmentalist and author Jack E. Davis to discuss Davis' new book, "The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird," to give a fuller picture of our relationship to the national bird.
    • Contributor: Rubenstein, David M. - Davis, Jack E.
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    2022 National Book Festival: Women Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement with Tomiko Brown-Nagin and Kate Clifford Larson Constance Baker Motley and Fannie Lou Hamer were two crucial figures in the civil rights movement. Tomiko Brown-Nagin's book "Civil Rights Queen" tells Motley's story as an activist lawyer who became the first Black woman appointed to the federal judiciary. Kate Clifford Larson's book "Walk with Me" covers the life of Hamer, containing new interviews and materials about her life. Moderated by Neda Ulaby.
    • Contributor: Brown-Nagin, Tomiko - Larson, Kate Clifford - Ulaby, Neda
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    2022 National Book Festival: Geraldine Brooks Talks About Her New Novel, "Horse" A discarded painting, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: From these strands, Pulitzer winner Geraldine Brooks braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession and injustice across American history in "Horse." Based on the true story of the thoroughbred Lexington, "Horse" is a novel of art, science and love and our unfinished reckoning with racism. Moderated by Marie Arana.
    • Contributor: Arana, Marie - Brooks, Geraldine
    • Date: 2022-09-03
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    2022 National Book Festival: Inspire Learning with the Library of Congress The Library of Congress supports K-16 teachers with primary source-inspired programs, classroom materials, fellowships and grants. The videos introduces a sampling of these opportunities.
    • Contributor: Potter, Lee Ann
    • Date: 2022-09-03