Videos

David McCullough discussed his book, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge, published by Simon and Schuster. The book describes the 1869 to 1883 project…

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…

As part of an ongoing series on American writers, first lady Laura Bush hosted the White House Symposium on Harlem Renaissance Writers. Contemporary authors read from their work and talked a…

Ms. Allende discussed her life and career with Ms. Arana. Ms. Allende is the author of ten books including The Infinite Plan, Paula, Stories of Eva Luna, and Portrait in Sepia. She talked a…

Ms. Arana is the author of American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood. Mr. Yardley is the author of Ring: A Biography of Ring Lardner.

David James Duncan was a National Book Awards Finalist and he gave a speech explaining parts of his book entitled “My Story As Told By Water.”

Book TV previewed books from the fall 2001 season. Guests were Nora Rawlinson, Editor in Chief of Publishers Weekly; Marie Arana, Editor in Chief of the Washington Post Book World and the au…

Marie Arana discussed her book American Chica at the National Book Festival in Washington D.C.

Winners for the publishing year 2000, announced during this program, were: Ted Conover, author of Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, for General Nonfiction; Cynthia Ozick, author of Quarrel and Qu…

At the second annual Fall for the Book festival editors from the Washington Post Book World talked about their work as book reviewers and their approach to critiquing books. After their rema…