Events sponsored by the Center for the Book

Author discussions, symposia and other events are an important part of the programming of the Center for the Book. The long-running Books & Beyond author series has attracted writers from across the country to discuss their books and the writing life, and to talk about how they have used the resources of the Library of Congress in their work. Most of these presentations are filmed for later webcasting.

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2013

FEBRUARY 5 (Tuesday) 12 noon, West Dining Room, Madison Building

Books & Beyond program.  Paul Farber will discuss his new book This Is the Day: The March on Washington, a photo-essay by photographer Leonard Freed, Foreward by Julian Bond, Introduction by Michael Eric Dyson and Afterwords by scholar Paul Farber. (Getty Publications, 2013). Cosponsored with the Prints and Photographs Division.Contact 202-707-1519.

FEBRUARY 7 (Thursday) 12 noon, Dining Room A, Madison Building

Books & Beyond program.  Dainel Stashower will discuss and sigh his new book The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War (St. Martin's Press, 2013). Contact 202-707-1519.

FEBRUARY 20 (Wednesday) 12 noon, Montpelier Room, Madison Building

Books & Beyond program.  Tom Piazza will discuss and sign his new book The Southern Journey of Alan Lomas: Words, Photographs, and Music (W.W. Norton, 2012). Introduction by William Ferris. Cosponsored with the Publishing Office.Contact 202-707-1519.

MARCH 7(Thursday) 7 p.m., Library of Congress location to be decided

Kislak lecture. Charles C. Mann will discuss and sign his new book 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012). Cosponsored with the Rare Book and Special Collections and Hispanic divisions. Contact 202-707-5221.

MARCH 12 (Tuesday) 12 noon, Montpelier Room, Madison Building

Books & Beyond program.  Margaret E. Wagner will discuss and sign her new book The Library of Congress Unlimited Timeline of the Civil War (Little, Brown & Company, 2011). Cosponsored with the Publishing Office and in cooperation with the Interpretive Programs Office. Contact 202-707-1519.

MARCH 20 (Wednesday) 12 noon, Pickford Theater, Madison Building

Books & Beyond program. Stephen Hess will discuss his new book. Whaterver Happened to the Washington Reporters, 1978-2012 (Brookins Institution Press, 2012). Contact 202-707-1519 

APRIL 4 (Thursday) 12 noon, Pickford Theater, Madison Building

Books & Beyond program.  Professor Gil Troy: Moynihan's Moment: America's Fight Against Zionism as Racism (Oxford University Press, 2012). Contact 202-5221.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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