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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…

A poetry reading, one of several held around the country, was organized as an alternative to a postponed White House poetry symposium on the works of Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes and Wal…

Several immigrant authors talked about immigrant identity and assimilation themes in U.S. literature. The panel was sponsored by HarperCollins Publishing. The panelists spoke about the con…