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From a terrific schedule to a chance to pitch your work to agents, our upcoming conference is a great event for readers and writers.
Electoral Dysfunction goes a long way toward explaining why U.S. election practices are so confusing. It’s a fascinating discussion of both big-picture issues and minutiae.
The Independent’s Twitter Coverage of the National Book Festival
by Susana Olague Trapani
by Josh Trapani
Susana and Josh Trapani "live-tweeted" the National Book Festival; check out a timeline of their pictures, tweets, and retweets of others.
Diana Parsell wins the Mayborn Biography Fellowship!
With Natalie Hopkinson’s Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City (Duke University Press), go-go finally gets the serious consideration it deserves.
"At Politics & Prose, employees will soon have to shift from tackling piles of books in the storeroom to tackling the slush pile."
Warmer weather brings out Washington’s blossoms, and also its writers and readers. Mark your calendar for three literary festivals this season.
