Ron Charles

Flynn will appear next week in the new Hill Center Poetry Series, co-sponsored by the Library of Congress and The Washington Post.

A new ‘wiki’ aims to honor or preserve the poetic history of the nation’s capital.

Two brothers from Calcutta follow very different paths.

Party for 110 authors kicks off National Book Festival on the Mall this weekend

Hay-Adams’s general manager, Hans Bruland, said the festival will be moved to the D.C. Convention Center in 2014.

Washington writer has received rave reviews for her new novel this month.

Alice McDermott, Jhumpa Lahiri and Thomas Pynchon are among 10 finalists for $10,000 prize.

New Yorker writers and works about America dominate this year’s finalists for the $10,000 prize.

BOOK WORLD | Kate Manning’s rousing historical novel is about an abortion provider New York City.

Let the Book World Select-o-matic help you choose which of the 110 authors to see at the Library of Congress’s National Book Festival.

NPR’s Andrei Codrescu among 10 finalists

For the first time, 10 finalists make the foundation’s new “long list.“

New window expected some time this week.

A family of communists in Queens struggles on against obsolescence.

Don DeLillo to receive first-ever Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction

Her novel about a woman and her son imprisoned in a garden shed was a phenomenal bestseller in 2010.