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AGA Sizzle - Exploring AI with the Attorneys General

10m 9s
Exploring Bipartisanship with the Attorney General Alliance, hosted by business journalist Michal Lev Ram, delves into the collaborative work of Attorneys General from across the United States, united in their commitment to shaping the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) policy. This program explores how bipartisan cooperation is essential in addressing the complex challenges posed by AI.
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Extended Readers Club | Tana French

1h 14m
Bestselling Irish crime fiction writer Tana French, “one of the greatest crime novelists writing today” (VOX), discusses her spellbinding new thriller "The Hunter" with the Readers Club hosts. Stick around for more dazzling details as Tana reveals details behind her writing process and the complex and thrilling stories that have solidified her as a defining writer of our generation.
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Extended Readers Club | Rachel Khong

53m 32s
Dive deeper into "Real Americans" by Rachel Khong. A profound tale of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance—a story of trust, forgiveness, and finally coming home. Exuberant and explosive, Real Americans is a social novel par excellence that asks: Are we destined, or made? And if we are made, who gets to do the making? Can our genetic past be overcome?
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Extended Readers Club | Allison Pataki

1h 14m
Watch the full conversation as we chat with New York Times bestselling author Allison Pataki about her latest book “Finding Margaret Fuller.” In this virtual discussion we’ll dive into this fascinating historical fiction read about the adventures of Margaret Fuller, a renowned writer, journalist, and trailblazing women’s rights advocate whose story has too often gone untold.
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Reframing Diversity with Dr. Derrick Gay | MLA Conference

8m 37s
A renowned educational consultant, Dr. Derrick Gay is a strong advocate for the importance of students learning cultural competency and empathy if they are to successfully navigate an increasingly diverse, globalized and multicultural society. At the annual conference of the Michigan Library Association in Novi, he discusses the role of libraries in this crucial cause, in his closing keynote.
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Richard Ford | 2019 National Book Festival

16m 8s
Richard Ford, author of The Sportswriter and its sequels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Independence Day. Remarked by literary reviewers as a modern-day Hemingway or Faulkner, Ford's works are distinguished by a focus on the perseverance of family and community through turbulent circumstances.
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Jarrett J. Krosoczka | 2019 National Book Festival

17m 23s
Krosoczka is the creator of the popular Lunch Lady graphic novel series for young readers, which has won the Children's Book Choice Award. Along with the popular Star Wars Jedi Academy Series (also for grade-school age readers), Krosoczka just released an illustrated memoir about his experiences as a young adult.
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Lalia Lalami | 2019 National Book Festival

16m 8s
Author Laila Lalami's 'The Moor's Account’ won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Lalami joins PBS Books in D.C. at the National Book Festival to talk about her writing, which includes the most recent 2019 novel 'The Other Americans,' a hybrid of family saga, murder mystery, and love story.
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Marie Arana | 2019 National Book Festival

16m 52s
Peruvian-American author Marie Arana is not only senior advisor to the U.S. Librarian of Congress, but also the director of the National Book Festival. Her latest, Silver, Sword & Stone tells the stories of three contemporary Latin Americans embodying the forces of exploration, violence, and religion across thousands of years of vivid history.
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Jericho Brown | 2019 National Book Festival

18m 41s
Guggenheim Fellow and National Book Award winner Jericho Brown. This Shreveport-raised poet and professor has been published in the New Yorker, The New Republic, and is the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University. His latest, The Tradition, eloquently raises alarms to a society accustomed to terror.
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Markus Zusak | 2019 National Book Festival

15m 40s
Born in Sydney Australia, author Markus Zusak's 2005 young-adult World War II novel 'The Book Thief' won Publishers Weekly's Best Children's Book of the Year and was recently adapted into a film. Last autumn, he published 'Bridge of Clay,' the story of five brothers discovering the secret behind their father's disappearance. He has written six novels.
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