Book Club: Clear your schedule — the National Book Festival starts NOW

/ Personal / By Mary Daniels Brown / September 17, 2021 / National Book Festival

This issue of our newsletter is devoted to the Library of Congress National Book Festival, which begins in less than an hour! It all kicks off at 11 a.m. with Michael J. Fox talking about his new memoir, “No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality,” and then U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo will talk about her new memoir, “Poet Warrior.”

Source: Book Club: Clear your schedule — the National Book Festival starts NOW

Ron Charles, book critic for the Washington Post, dedicates today’s edition of his weekly Book Club newsletter to the Library of Congress’s National Book Festival, which started this morning in Washington, D.C. This post is chock full of information, including the schedule of presentations and directions for viewing them online.

Charles’s newsletter arrives every Friday, and it’s one of the emails I most look forward to all week. It’s free, and you’ll find a link to subscribe at the top left of this page. I encourage you to click it, and I guarantee you won’t regret signing up.

And now I’m off to peruse my print-out of the Festival schedule and circle the events that I want to watch . . .

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Mary Daniels Brown

My mother always insisted that, as soon as I was old enough to sit up, she’d find me in my crib after my nap babbling away, with a Little Golden Book on my lap. I’ve had my nose in a book ever since. I grew up in a small town, with the tiny town library literally in my backyard. As an only child in an unhappy home, I found comfort and companionship in books. As an adult I wanted to be Harry Potter, although I admit I’m more Hermione. My life has been a series of research projects. Reading has taught me that human lives are deliciously messy and that “it’s complicated” isn’t a punchline.