Don’t forget – Gordon Korman, best-selling children’s author, will present his new book Masterminds at the Takoma Park Library, Maryland. The event will be from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. on February 4th. Admission is free.
Below is Parts 1 and 2 of his talk at the Neehan Public Library a couple years ago —
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Part 2 –
Best-selling children’s author Gordon Korman will present his newest book Masterminds at the Takoma Park Library, Maryland, on February 4th from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. Politics & Prose Bookstore will be selling Korman’s books, but no purchase is required to attend this free event.
Below is a video from YouTube of Mr. Korman giving a talk at the 2011 National Book Festival at the Library of Congress –
Maureen Corrigan reads from So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why it Endures, at the Writer’s Center this Sunday from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. She is a book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air and a critic-in-residence and lecturer at Georgetown University. Admission is free. The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing.
Below is a video from YouTube on a great interview Ms. Corrigan gave a few months ago about her book at the Miami Book Fair International 2014 —
Don’t forget – Naomi Ruth Barber King, the sister-in-law of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., will discuss her new book, A.D. and M. L. King: Two Brothers Who Dared To Dream at the Hyattsville Public Library this Saturday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. Admission is free. There will be a book sale following her presentation.
Kate Samworth, author and artist of Aviary Wonders, Inc., will talk about her work at the Takoma Park Library on January 22nd from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. Admission is free.
I found an interesting video on YouTube of her first attempt at stop-motion animation. Please enjoy –
Fiction writers Emily Lyons Flamm, Tara Campbell, and Mark Willen will read at the Inner Loop: Happy Loop Year event on January 21st from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. at Johnny Pistolas on 2333 18th Street, NW, DC.