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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Library of Congress National Book Festival Author Talk: Viet Thanh Nguyen
DESCRIPTION: \nThursday\, September 2nd at 8:00 PM ET | 5:00 PM PT: PBS Books presents this Author Talk with Viet Thanh Nguyen about his book The Sympathizer. \nIn collaboration with SoCal PBS and KCTS\, PBS Books is honored to host this virtual engagement event with author Viet Thanh Nguyen on September 2 as part of our dynamic\, sequel partnership with The Library of Congress for the 2021 Library of Congress National Book Festival “Open a Book\, Open the World.” \nAfter a successful partnership with The Library of Congress last year\, this second series of virtual author talks with legendary authors of our time will center on this year’s theme: “Open a Book\, Open the World.” The 2021 LOC Festival will be a 10-day event\, held from September 17-26\, 2021. Programming includes a 60-minute PBS Books special\, exploring the many worlds authors create\, investigate\, and share. Hosted by LeVar Burton\, the special will premiere on Sunday\, September 12\, from 6-7pm ET (Check your local listing). Additional PBS feed dates are Saturday\, September 18 at 7pm ET\, and Sunday\, September 19 at 1:30pm ET (more details to follow). Expect diverse discussions from incredible guests like Angie Thomas\, Tana French\, Viet Thanh Nguyen\, and Michael J. Fox. \nThroughout the months of August and September\, PBS Books is hosting ten events to celebrate several authors who are part of this thrilling special. These intimate\, moderated Q&As will be moments to learn about the care and curiosity that generates great writing. The events will provide insights into the upcoming festival and will be targeted to particular national regions. As always\, this PBS Books content will be accessible to all audiences. \nAbout the Author  \nViet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. He is the author of The Sympathizer \, which was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction alongside six other prizes. He is also the author of the short story collection The Refugees\, the nonfiction book Nothing Ever Dies\, a finalist for the National Book Award\, and is the editor of an anthology of refugee writing\, The Displaced. He is the Aerol Arnold
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Library of Congress National Book Festival Author Talk: Christopher Paolini
DESCRIPTION: \nWednesday\, September 8th at 8:00 PM ET | 5:00 PM PT: PBS Books presents this Author Talk with Christopher Paolini about his book To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. \nIn collaboration with Kansas City PBS and Kansas City Public Library\, PBS Books is honored to host this virtual engagement event with author Christopher Paolini on September 8 as part of our dynamic\, sequel partnership with The Library of Congress for the 2021 Library of Congress National Book Festival “Open a Book\, Open the World.” \nAfter a successful partnership with The Library of Congress last year\, this second series of virtual author talks with legendary authors of our time will center on this year’s theme: “Open a Book\, Open the World.” The 2021 LOC Festival will be a 10-day event\, held from September 17-26\, 2021. Programming includes a 60-minute PBS Books special\, exploring the many worlds authors create\, investigate\, and share. Hosted by LeVar Burton\, the special will premiere on Sunday\, September 12\, from 6-7pm ET (Check your local listing). Additional PBS feed dates are Saturday\, September 18 at 7pm ET\, and Sunday\, September 19 at 1:30pm ET (more details to follow). Expect diverse discussions from incredible guests like Angie Thomas\, Tana French\, Viet Thanh Nguyen\, and Michael J. Fox. \nThroughout the months of August and September\, PBS Books is hosting ten events to celebrate several authors who are part of this thrilling special. These intimate\, moderated Q&As will be moments to learn about the care and curiosity that generates great writing. The events will provide insights into the upcoming festival and will be targeted to particular national regions. As always\, this PBS Books content will be accessible to all audiences. \nAbout the Author  \nChristopher Paolini was born in Southern California and has lived most his life in Paradise Valley\, Montana. He published his first novel\, Eragon\, in 2003 at age nineteen\, and quickly became a publishing phenomenon. His Inheritance Cycle—Eragon and its three sequels—have sold nearly 40 million copies worldwide. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is his first adult novel.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/celebrating-the-library-of-congress-national-book-festival-author-talk-christopher-paolini/
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Library of Congress National Book Festival: Author Talk: Annette Gordon-Reed
DESCRIPTION: \nMonday\, September 13th at 8:00 PM ET | 5:00 PM PT: PBS Books presents this Author Talk with Annette Gordon-Reed about her book On Juneteenth. \nIn collaboration with WETA\, PBS Books is honored to host this virtual engagement event with author Annette Gordon-Reed on September 13th as part of our dynamic\, sequel partnership with The Library of Congress for the 2021 Library of Congress National Book Festival “Open a Book\, Open the World.” \nAfter a successful partnership with The Library of Congress last year\, this second series of virtual author talks with legendary authors of our time will center on this year’s theme: “Open a Book\, Open the World.” The 2021 LOC Festival will be a 10-day event\, held from September 17-26\, 2021. Programming includes a 60-minute PBS Books special\, exploring the many worlds authors create\, investigate\, and share. Hosted by LeVar Burton\, the special will premiere on Sunday\, September 12\, from 6-7pm ET (Check your local listing). Additional PBS feed dates are Saturday\, September 18 at 7pm ET\, and Sunday\, September 19 at 1:30pm ET (more details to follow). Expect diverse discussions from incredible guests like Angie Thomas\, Tana French\, Viet Thanh Nguyen\, and Michael J. Fox. \nThroughout the months of August and September\, PBS Books is hosting ten events to celebrate several authors who are part of this thrilling special. These intimate\, moderated Q&As will be moments to learn about the care and curiosity that generates great writing. The events will provide insights into the upcoming festival and will be targeted to particular national regions. As always\, this PBS Books content will be accessible to all audiences. \nAbout the Author  \nAnnette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard. Gordon-Reed won sixteen book prizes\, including the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009 and the National Book Award in 2008\, for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton\, 2008). In addition to articles and reviews\, her other works include Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy(UVA Press\, 1997)\, Vernon Can Read! A Memoir\, a collaboration with Vernon Jordan (PublicAffairs\, 2001)\, Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History (Oxford University Press\, 2002)\, a volume of essays that she edited\, Andrew Johnson (Times Books/Henry Holt\, 2010) and\, with Peter S. Onuf\, “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination (Liveright Publishing\, 2016). Her most recent book is On Juneteenth (Liveright Publishing\, 2021). Gordon-Reed was the Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford (Queens College) 2014-2015. Between 2010 and 2015\, she was the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.  She was the 2018-2019 President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. She is the current President of the Ames Foundation.  A selected list of her honors includes a fellowship from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library\, a Guggenheim Fellowship in the humanities\, a MacArthur Fellowship\, the National Humanities Medal\, the National Book Award\, the Frederick Douglass Book Prize\, the George Washington Book Prize\, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Gordon-Reed served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College from 2010 to 2018.  She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011 and was a member of the Academy’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2019\, she was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society.
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Library of Congress National Book Festival Author Talk: Tana French
DESCRIPTION: \nWednesday\, September 15th at 6:00 PM ET | 3:00 PM PT: PBS Books presents this Author Talk with Tana French about her book The Searcher. \nIn collaboration with GBH\, PBS Books is honored to host this virtual engagement event with author Tana French on September 15th as part of our dynamic\, sequel partnership with The Library of Congress for the 2021 Library of Congress National Book Festival “Open a Book\, Open the World.” The moderator for the conversation will be GBH Celtic Sojourn Host Brian O’Donovan. \nAfter a successful partnership with The Library of Congress last year\, this second series of virtual author talks with legendary authors of our time will center on this year’s theme: “Open a Book\, Open the World.” The 2021 LOC Festival will be a 10-day event\, held from September 17-26\, 2021. Programming includes a 60-minute PBS Books special\, exploring the many worlds authors create\, investigate\, and share. Hosted by LeVar Burton\, the special will premiere on Sunday\, September 12\, from 6-7pm ET (Check your local listing). Additional PBS feed dates are Saturday\, September 18 at 7pm ET\, and Sunday\, September 19 at 1:30pm ET (more details to follow). Expect diverse discussions from incredible guests like Angie Thomas\, Tana French\, Viet Thanh Nguyen\, and Michael J. Fox. \nThroughout the months of August and September\, PBS Books is hosting ten events to celebrate several authors who are part of this thrilling special. These intimate\, moderated Q&As will be moments to learn about the care and curiosity that generates great writing. The events will provide insights into the upcoming festival and will be targeted to particular national regions. As always\, this PBS Books content will be accessible to all audiences. \nAbout the Author  \nTana French is the author of seven previous books\, including In the Woods\, The Likeness\, and The Witch Elm. Her novels have sold over three million copies and won numerous awards\, including the Edgar\, Anthony\, Macavity and Barry Awards\, the Los Angeles Times Award for Best Mystery/Thriller\, and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction. She lives in Dublin with her family.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/celebrating-the-library-of-congress-national-book-festival-author-talk-tana-french/
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Library of Congress National Book Festival: Author Talk: Maria Hinojosa
DESCRIPTION: \nThursday\, September 16th at 8:00 PM ET | 5:00 PM PT: PBS Books presents this Author Talk with Maria Hinojosa about her book Once I Was You. \nIn collaboration with Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB)\, PBS Books is honored to host this virtual engagement event with author Maria Hinojosa on September 16th as part of our dynamic\, sequel partnership with The Library of Congress for the 2021 Library of Congress National Book Festival “Open a Book\, Open the World.” \nAfter a successful partnership with The Library of Congress last year\, this second series of virtual author talks with legendary authors of our time will center on this year’s theme: “Open a Book\, Open the World.” The 2021 LOC Festival will be a 10-day event\, held from September 17-26\, 2021. Programming includes a 60-minute PBS Books special\, exploring the many worlds authors create\, investigate\, and share. Hosted by LeVar Burton\, the special will premiere on Sunday\, September 12\, from 6-7pm ET (Check your local listing). Additional PBS feed dates are Saturday\, September 18 at 7pm ET\, and Sunday\, September 19 at 1:30pm ET (more details to follow). Expect diverse discussions from incredible guests like Angie Thomas\, Tana French\, Viet Thanh Nguyen\, and Michael J. Fox. \nThroughout the months of August and September\, PBS Books is hosting ten events to celebrate several authors who are part of this thrilling special. These intimate\, moderated Q&As will be moments to learn about the care and curiosity that generates great writing. The events will provide insights into the upcoming festival and will be targeted to particular national regions. As always\, this PBS Books content will be accessible to all audiences. \nAbout the Author  \nMaria Hinojosa’s nearly thirty-year career as a journalist includes reporting for PBS\, CBS\, WGBH\, WNBC\, CNN\, NPR\, and anchoring and executive producing the Peabody Award–winning show Latino USA\, distributed by Futuro Media and PRX. She is a frequent guest on MSNBC\, and has won several awards\, including four Emmys\, the Studs Terkel Community Media Award\, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards\, and the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club. In 2010\, she founded Futuro Media\, an independent nonprofit organization with the mission of producing multimedia content from a POC perspective. Through the breadth of her work and as the founding co-anchor of the political podcast In The Thick\, Hinojosa has informed millions about the changing cultural and political landscape in America and abroad. She lives with her family in Harlem in New York City. Follow Maria on Twitter at @Maria_Hinojosa and Facebook at Maria.Hinojosa.718.
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SUMMARY:How to Make Your Earnings Work For You – Through Retirement
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin PBS Books for the upcoming episode in our virtual series about financial and investor protection all about making earnings WORK FOR YOU. Whether you are grinding away as a newbie in your career\, or slowing down as you gear up for retirement – making sure the money you earn today will cover your expenses later in life\, is an important conversation to have. \nListen as financial experts discuss when to make adjustments to retirement accounts\, how to cash in on credit card rewards\, and the best way to explore a passive income stream – then engage with the panelists yourself by asking questions live – via Facebook Live. \nTune in on September 17th at 1pm ET on the PBS Books Facebook page.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/how-to-make-your-earnings-work-for-you-through-retirement/
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Muhammad Ali: Performance and Talk with Kwame Alexander\, Author of Becoming Muhammad Ali
DESCRIPTION:\nOn Tuesday\, September 21 at 5:30pm ET | 4:30pm CT\,  Join WTTW and PBS Books via Facebook Live for a Performance and Talk with Kwame Alexander\, author of Becoming Muhammad Ali. Brandis Friedman\, co-anchor and correspondent for WTTW’s flagship nightly newsmagazine Chicago Tonight and host of Chicago Tonight: Black Voices\, will moderate the conversation. \nKwame Alexander is a poet\, educator\, publisher\, and New York Times bestselling author of 35 books\, notably Swing; Becoming Muhammad Ali\, co-authored with James Patterson; Booked\, longlisted for the National Book Award; Rebound\, shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal (UK); The Undefeated\, a picture book illustrated by Kadir Nelson that won the Caldecott and Newbery Medals; and his Newbery Medal-winning novel The Crossover.  \nBefore he was a household name\, Cassius Clay was a kid with struggles like any other. Kwame Alexander and James Patterson join forces to vividly depict his life up to age seventeen in both prose and verse. We meet his family\, neighbors\, and childhood friends\, and follow his struggles in school\, the racism he faced\, and his discovery of boxing.  \nYou will learn about Cassius’ childhood in Louisville\, Kentucky\, and how\, after a thief stole his bike\, Cassius began training as an amateur boxer at age twelve. Just three years later\, he won his first Golden Gloves bout and began his transformation into the unrivaled Muhammad Ali. 
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/celebrating-muhammad-ali-performance-and-talk-with-kwame-alexander-author-of-becoming-muhammad-ali/
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