Events
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EventLive! at the Library: An Evening with Simon Schama and Atul Gawande Writer, surgeon, and public health leader Atul Gawande joins writer and public intellectual Simon Schama to discuss Schama’s latest book, “Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations.” The conversation will explore the complex and surprising history of pandemics in the 18th and 19th centuries—and its relevance to our current struggles with Covid-19 today.- Date: 2023-11-16
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EventLive! at the Library: Pick Your Poison—Mystery Night Pick Your Poison—Mystery Night at the Library of Congress celebrates mystery novels in all their confounding glory. Hear Louise Penny in conversation with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. A panel of mystery writers will discuss the perfect murder. Get lost in a real-life mystery in our scavenger hunt! And guess who did it at Erick Acuña Productions’ improv murder mystery show.- Date: 2023-10-26
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EventLive! at the Library: Pick Your Poison—A Conversation with Louise Penny Louise Penny, author of the award-winning “Armand Gamache” series of murder mysteries, discusses the habitants of “Three Pines” with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.- Date: 2023-10-26
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EventFamily Mystery Day at the Library of Congress Can You Solve It?: Family Mystery Day at the Library celebrates mystery stories in all their spine-tingling, curious forms. Enjoy two author events (for middle-grade readers in the morning and young adult book readers in the afternoon), a mystery writing workshop, activities and a scavenger hunt.- Date: 2023-10-21
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EventAn Evening with Ann Patchett and Kate DiCamillo Writers Ann Patchett and Kate DiCamillo are major fans of one another’s books, so much so that Patchett wrote an essay in "The New York Times" in 2020 declaring that although she initially meant to read just one of DiCamillo’s books, “in the end I read them all because I wanted to keep the genius of Kate DiCamillo in my head.”- Date: 2023-10-19
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EventMeet Meg Medina: Family Office Hours with the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Young readers and families, Meg Medina, 8th National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, invites you to join special one-on-one sessions as part of her Cuéntame!: Let’s Talk Books platform.- Date: 2023-10-07