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The National Book Foundation presented the 59th Annual National Book Awards for best book in each of the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people’s literature. Actor, …

Chinua Achebe talked about his novel Things Fall Apart, first published in 1958. This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of his first and most influential novel. The bo…

A Discussion On The Current State of the Economy hosted by The Washington Post.

Three authors with different approaches to the Civil War read selections from their books. They discussed their works with each other, then answered questions from members of the audience. M…

Shelby Coffey moderated a discussion with Marie Arana, Robert Weil, and Deidre Donahue on the current state of the publishing industry and the future of books. Topics included the Amazon Ki…

Tony Horwitz talked about the early European explorers who arrived to the continental U.S.. He spoke on the misconceptions of most Americans in relation to the early explorers, how one can c…

Bob Schieffer talked about his latest book Bob Schieffer’s America, published by Putnam Adult. In this book, Mr. Schieffer collected essays that he had written as commentary on social and po…

Susan Faludi talked about her book The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America, published by Metropolitan Books. She contends that following the attacks of September 11. 2001, th…