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Judy Blume talked about her career, including how she became a writer and her writing techniques. Topics included her fans and her sometimes controversial children’s books. Her newest book i…

Award winning and bestselling authors opened the 2009 National Book Festival talking about the power and function of books and reading in a democratic and culturally diverse society. The fes…

The National Book Foundation presented the 55th Annual National Book Awards for best book in each of the genres of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people’s literature. Garrison Keillo…

James Gleick talked about his book Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything. He described the effects of technology on everyone’s lives and talked about his experiences watching the…

Author Joyce Maynard talked about her book At Home in the World, published by Picador USA. She focused on her experiences as the former live-in girlfriend of writer J.D. Salinger, and detail…