EVENTS at the Library of Congress
sponsored by the Center for the Book
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Events are open to the public and reservations or
tickets are usually not required. Unless otherwise
indicated, events take place in a location in the James
Madison Memorial Building (Madison), 101 Independence
Ave.,SE. or the Thomas Jefferson Building (Jefferson),
First St. SE between East Capitol St. and Independence
Ave., SE. For further information, phone: 202-707-5221
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2008
SEPTEMBER 16 (Tuesday), 6 p.m., Montpelier Room, Madison
Building
Books & Beyond program. Matt Weiland, Jacki Lyden, Joshua
Clark and Edward P. Jones will discuss and sign State
By State: A Panoramic Portrait of America -- 50 Writers on
50 States (HarperCollins, 2008)
SEPTEMBER 27 (Saturday), 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., The National
Mall
National Book Festival
OCTOBER 4 (Saturday),10.00 a.m., Mumford Room, Madison
Building
The Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature
will be presented to Pat Mora (author) and Rafael Lopez (illustrator)
and author Laura Resau. Cosponsored with the Hispanic Division
and the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP).
OCTOBER 7 (Tuesday), 6 p.m., Montpelier Room, Madison
Building
Books & Beyond program with mystery bookstore owners Barbara
Peters and Robert Rosenwald. Cosponsored with Mystery Writers
of America.
OCTOBER 16 (Thursday), 12 noon, Mumford Room, Madison
Building
"Ansel Adams and His Books: Photographs In Ink," a talk by American scholar,
Anne Hammond. Cosponsored with the Prints and Photographs Division.
OCTOBER 16 (Thursday), 6 p.m., Montpelier Room, Madison
Building
Books & Beyond program. Prize winning author and New York
Times writer Timothy Egan will discuss and sign three new
books in the "Field of Vision" series, The Photographs
of Russell Lee, The Photographs of Marion Post Wolcott,
and The Photographs of Ben Shahn -- edited by Amy
Pastan with photographs from the Farm Security Administration,
1937-1942. The Worst Hard Time: the Untold Story of Those
Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy
Egan (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will also be available for
signing. Cosponsored with the American Folklife Center and
the Publishing Office.
OCTOBER 29 (Wednesday), 12 noon, Mumford Room, Madison
Building
Books & Beyond program. Children's literature historian Leonard
Marcus will discuss and sign his new book Minders of Make
Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American
Children's Literature (Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008)
NOVEMBER 3 (Monday), 6:00 p.m., Montpelier Room, Madison
Building
Books & Beyond program honoring Nigerian author Chinua Achebe
who will discuss and sign the 50th anniversary edition of
his book, Things Fall Apart (Anchor Books, 2008).
Cosponsored with the African Section, African and Middle Eastern
Division and TransAfrica Forum.
NOVEMBER 7 (Friday), 12 noon, West Dining Room,
Madison Building
Books & Beyond program. Prize-winning journalist and
author Tom Gjelten will discuss and sign his new book, Bacardi
and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause (Viking
Penguin, 2008). Cosponsored with the Library's Hispanic
Division and the Humanities and Social Sciences Division.
NOVEMBER 18 (Tuesday), 12 noon, Whittall Pavilion,
Jefferson Building
Poetry at Noon. "Celebrating Kentucky Poets." Kentucky
State Poet Laureate Jane Gentry Vance and three Yale Series
of Younger Poets Awards winners from Kentucky will read from
their works. Cosponsored with the Library's Poetry
and Literature Center
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