Sarah E. Moffett

By now, almost every one has heard the story that author Patricia MacLachlan recounted at the White House this past Saturday that unofficially kicked off the 2007 National Book Festival.  (Yes, I’m still writing about it. Deal.)  For those of you that missed it, enjoy.  And if you’ve been under a rock for the past seven years, the […]

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This weekend I visited the Twilight Zone. It was suppose to be the National Book Festival, but I must have made a wrong turn off Constitution Avenue. Instead of stumbling onto a somber, sparsely attended book fair, I found the Mall overtaken by the masses, who were beaten back from overrunning authors by platoons of […]

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Don’t I and a billion other readers wish.
The list of authors for Saturday’s Bibliophile-Rumble (a/k/a National Book Festival) is impressive, but I’m confused. Where is youth favorite Stephenie Meyer? Virginia’s own legal thriller producer John Grisham? New York Times darling Khaled Hosseini of Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns fame? Gritty and terrifying Cormac […]

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So I could ask him what in the world he was thinking with The Man Within.
The self-described “novelist who happened to be Catholic” and I have had a love affair dating back to my introduction to his End of the Affair. No puns intended. Since then, I’ve steadily worked my way through his English views […]

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Hear ye, hear ye, the 2007 National Paper Cut Conglomeration will take place next week on Target One in the Emerald City with the Wizard’s wife presiding.
In other words, the 2007 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by First Lady Laura Bush will be held on Saturday, Sept. […]

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