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Toni Morrison talked about N word, sexism, spitup, and writing in DC

Marsha DubrowSeptember 23, 2011 Toni Morrison | September 23, 2011
Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison told a Washington audience 9/23 that the current “level of cruelty is worse than it...
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National Book Festival presents 100 authors on the National Mall 9/24-25

National Book Festival | September 18, 2011 Marsha DubrowSeptember 18, 2011
The Library of Congress’ free National Book Festival is so popular that it’s expanded to two days, September 24 and 25, and offers more...
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Spanish Embassy Hosts Panel on Spanish-Language Novelists at Busboys & Poets

Books | May 23, 2011 Jada BradleyMay 23, 2011
Like many people who get advanced degrees, I don’t always use mine (a Masters in Spanish Translation) exactly as intended, but I still make...
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Major writers created hilarious 'Indiscretions' at DC's PEN/Faulkner Fiction Award Gala 9/20

Marsha DubrowSeptember 21, 2010 | September 21, 2010
Maxine Hong Kingston, Nicholas Delbanco, and ZZ Packer were among a dozen renowned writers whoconfessed intriguing “Indiscretion(s)”...
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Free events for Library of Congress' National Book Festival 9/25 began 9/20 with Baldacci

| September 20, 2010 Marsha DubrowSeptember 20, 2010
The 10th annual National Book Festival“A Decade of Words and Wonder” began a week of free activitiesSeptember 20with “Hardcover...
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Free National Book Festival 9/25 on the Mall offers 70 top writers

Natioinal Book Festival | September 19, 2010 Marsha DubrowSeptember 19, 2010
Best-selling authors Ken Follett, Scott Turow, Isabelle Allende,and Jonathan Franzen are among more than 70 top writers at the free 10th annual...
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President and First Lady named honorary chairs of 10th annual National Book Festival September 25

| July 15, 2010 Marsha DubrowJuly 15, 2010
Best-selling authors Ken Follett, Scott Turow, Isabelle Allende, Jules Feiffer, and Jonathan Safran Foer are among more than 70 top writersat the...
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Formerly Hot?

July 15, 2010 | July 15, 2010 Lara DiPaola
My Formerly Hot Life: Dispatches From Just The Other Side of Young is both a lighthearted and profoundly revealing offering from author, editor and...
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D.C.-based online book reviewers head to NYC for Book Expo America

Serena Agusto-CoxMay 21, 2010 | May 21, 2010
While D.C. residents are soaking up a mixture of live performances, literature, and art at LitArtlantic (click to see the schedule of events) in...
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It's only temporary: The Good News and the Bad News of Being Alive

| May 8, 2010 Lara DiPaolaMay 08, 2010
Every now and then life reveals little truths. How we come upon them varies as much as their impact upon us. After all, the truth that eating...
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