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March 12, 2015 Last Aired August 16, 2020
2015 National Book Critics Circle Awards

Book TV presented coverage of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Awards from the New School in New York City. This year’s winners included David Brion Davis for The Problem of Slavery in …
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October 27, 2010 Last Aired August 15, 2020
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Angela Davis presented a critical edition of Frederick Douglass' memoir, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave Written by Himself. Ms. Davis explored the abolitioni…
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November 20, 2013 Last Aired June 1, 2014
2013 National Book Awards

The National Book Foundation presented the 2013 National Book Awards at a ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. The Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Lite…
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July 28, 2011 Last Aired July 31, 2011
The Writer's Imagination and the Imagination of the State

In honor of a PEN conference organized by Norman Mailer 25 years ago, writers discussed how governments can work together across national boundaries, as writers do, to improve the world’s tr…
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