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McCullough, Morrison, Mukherjee, Egan, Banks, Eggers, McMillan, Keillor, Chua Headline 2011 National Book Festival
Jan 5th
(PRWEB) May 24, 2011
World-renowned authors David McCullough, Russell Banks, Dave Eggers, Terry McMillan, Pulitzer Prize-winners Siddhartha Mukherjee and Jennifer Egan, Garrison Keillor, Amy Chua and Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winner Toni Morrison will be among more than 80 writers speaking at the 11th annual National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, on Saturday, Sept. 24 and Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011, between 9th and 14th streets on the National Mall. The event, free and open to the public, will run from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday and from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, rain or shine.
Other authors slated to appear at the festival include Edmund Morris, Louis Bayard, Isabel Wilkerson, pianist Leon Fleisher, former Poet Laureate Rita Dove, Hoda Kotb of the Today show, Gregory Maguire, National Ambassador for Young Peoples Literature Katherine Paterson, television newsman Jim Lehrer, actress/childrens book author Julianne Moore and Esmeralda Santiago.
The 2011 National Book Festival will feature authors, poets and illustrators in several pavilions, including two new genre pavilions: Urban Fiction and Graphic Novels. Festival-goers can meet and hear firsthand from their favorite authors, get books signed, have photos taken with PBS storybook characters and participate in a variety of activities. Some 150,000 book fans attended the 10th-anniversary festival in 2010.
Celebrating the joys of reading aloud will be the theme of this 11th National Book Festival. Details are coming to the website at http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/. The website offers a variety of features, and new material will be added to the website as authors continue to join this years lineup.
We are delighted to expand this joyful event that celebrates the love of books and reading, said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. More is more more authors, more convenience in moving about the grounds and more emphasis on bringing a whole new generation of readers to the world through reading aloud.
Toni Morrison, who has won both the Nobel Prize for her body of work and the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved, most recently has published A Mercy (Vintage). She is the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities Emeritus at Princeton University.
David McCullough, dubbed the citizen chronicler for his meticulously researched and beautifully written history books, has won two Pulitzer prizes for his works Truman and John Adams, as well as the National Book Award for The Path Between the Seas and Mornings on Horseback. His latest book, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (Simon & Schuster) explores the travels of Americans of genius between 1830 and 1900.
Russell Banks, the author of more than a dozen works of fiction, most recently has published The Lost Memory of Skin (Ecco). His novel The Darling is to become a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Cate Blanchett.
Dave Eggers, whose latest book is Zeitoun (Random House), tells of the journey of Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a Syrian-American owner of a painting and contracting firm in New Orleans who traveled the city in a second-hand canoe following Hurricane Katrina, rescuing neighbors, caring for abandoned pets and distributing fresh water.
Terry McMillans latest book is Getting to Happy (Viking), the sequel to Waiting to Exhale, a hit novel that was made into a movie.
Siddhartha Mukherjee, a cancer physician and researcher, was just awarded the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for his book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Scribner). He tells the story of this dreaded disease, from its origins to the global battle to cure, control and conquer it.
Jennifer Egan won this years Pulitzer Prize for fiction for A Visit From the Goon Squad, a collection of linked stories in which she explores, through her characters, the passage of time and its effect on their lives.
Garrison Keillor is the creator of the fictional and beloved town of Lake Wobegon, from which sprang a national radio program, A Prairie Home Companion, and a series of books. Keillor also hosts a daily radio show, The Writers Almanac, and supports the cause of poetry, most recently through his latest book Good Poems, American Places (Viking).
Amy Chua created a sensation with her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Penguin). In it she describes the strict, traditional child-rearing she chose for her two daughters, who were not allowed to watch television, play computer games, or bring home a report card with any grade lower than A, among other restrictions. A law professor at Yale, Chua also has authored two other best-selling books including World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethic Hatred and Global Instability and Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance and Why They Fall.
Other authors and illustrators slated to participate in the National Book Festival include Joel Achenbach, Sherman Alexie, Mary Brigid Barrett, Steve Berry, Harry Bliss, Calef Brown, Cassandra Clare, Susan Cooper, Michael Cunningham, Tomi dePaola, Sarah Dessen, Joshua Foer, Eric Foner, Jack Gantos, Margaret George, Adam Goodheart, Mary Gordon, Jessica Harris, Joe Hayes, Terrance Hayes, Maya Jasanoff, William Joyce, Marc Kaufman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gordon Korman, Uma Krishnaswami, Sam McBratney, Patricia McKissack, John Bemelmans Marciano, Candice Millard, Kristie Miller, Shelia P. Moses, Sylvia Nasar, Kadir Nelson, Sara Paretsky, Linda Pastan, Carla L. Peterson, Allen Say, Gary Schmidt, Elizabeth Hun Schmidt, Brian Selznick, Neal Stephenson, James Swanson, Sarah Vowell, Douglas Waller, Chris Van Dusen, Rita Williams-Garcia and Jonathan Yardley.
Internationally known artist Jon J Muth, who has illustrated several childrens and fantasy books including Zen Shorts, Zen Ties and his most recent book, Zen Ghosts, has created the 2011 National Book Festival poster and will speak at the National Book Festival.
Representatives from the 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories will celebrate their unique literary offerings in the Pavilion of the States. The popular Lets Read America Pavilion will offer reading activities that are fun for the whole family. The Library of Congress Pavilion will showcase the cultural treasures to be found in the Librarys vast online collections and offer information about popular Library programs. The Librarys Gateway to Knowledge truck-based traveling exhibition will return to the National Book Festival after a year of visiting scores of small towns.
The 2011 National Book Festival is made possible through the generous support of National Book Festival Board Co-Chair David M. Rubenstein; Distinguished Corporate Benefactor Target; Charter Sponsors The Washington Post and Wells Fargo; Patrons AT&T, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, The James Madison Council, the National Endowment for the Arts and PBS KIDS; Contributors Barnes & Noble, Digital Bookmobile powered by OverDrive, Penguin Group (USA), ReadAloud.org and Scholastic Inc.; andin the Friends category–the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction; The Hay-Adams and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Thanks also to C-SPAN2s Book TV and The Junior League of Washington.
The Library of Congress, the nations oldest federal cultural institution, is the worlds preeminent reservoir of knowledge, providing unparalleled collections and integrated resources to Congress and the American people. Many of the Librarys rich resources and treasures may be accessed through the Librarys website, http://www.loc.gov, and via interactive exhibitions on myLOC.gov.
Press contact: Audrey Fischer, (202) 707-0022, afis(at)loc(dot)gov
Public Contact: Jennifer Gavin, (202) 707-1940, jgav(at)loc(dot)gov
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Presentation: The Phantom Chilli Pepper
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Presentation: Chilli Pepper Phantom
Ghost Pepper is internationally recognized as one of the five hottest peppers in the world. Since its mention in the Guinness World Records in 2007, the ghost chili taken many names, but most people know that the Bhut Jolokia. Pepper ghost is pretty fickle, often of varying size, the quantity of fruit production and overall development, but as the gods are with you, it’s one of the most fantastic ever peppers delight your taste buds.
Heat is naturally very scale of HUS, but the flavor is incredible, with notes of citrus in the background. Dartmoor Chilli Farm provides packets of dried Bhut Jolokia peppers all that decision should be handled with care! A beautiful reddish color, just a bit of a fire on ghost chillies Salsas and Fajitas, but they are also a great rehydrated in hot water and simmer in a soup of carrots actually coriander. Through trial and error, we came to the conclusion that the ghost chilli best job in the rights of root vegetables rather than light vegetables like peppers and tomatoes. But if you want to avoid the ghost pepper to contact with your bare hands, you can always have a good quality hot sauce using the Bhut Jolokia as the main ingredient, such as Dave St. Pepper sauce. Certainly one of the hottest sauce Dave, there is no pepper extract to find (surprisingly) that is in itself quite an achievement.
One of our favorite hot sauces Bhut Jolokia Pepper uses Chilli Farm is Cambridge St. 10. As the name implies, uses 10 Cambridge Chilli Farm chillies ghosts per bottle mixed with tomatoes and roasted garlic and add a depth that you are weak. We love this mixture into stew meat or even grilled chicken smothered, if you dare! On the sideState, Mad Dog also came with a fantastic, albeit different, hot pepper sauce part ghost famous collection of 357. A few drops only really put your food on fire (and not we love him!). There is a kind of smoke and sweat at the bottom is really great, so if you can bare the heat we decided to go for it!
If you really want everyone to go, just get a hold of Dave Ghost Pepper Private Reserve Limited Edition. Every year during the past 17 years Dave was a very hot sauce Limited Edition for chili chefs and collectors among us, and in 2010 he decided to Bhut Jolokia as the main component of its share of the fiery sauce. The wooden box decorated with a ribbon of caution lies in the sauce makes a great gift to give to friends … or keep for yourself if necessary, the value in the coming year! There are many peppers to choose from here, but the Bhut Jolokia or Ghost Pepper is probably one of our favorites and we can not wait to be able to try a sauce made from our own Hot garden the devil with this hotter than hot pepper. Ivor is the director of the garden of the devil and an all-round geek peppers, he likes everything spicy and hot pepper plants are like children
