Panels on publishing affirmed literature’s value, while new poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera reveals his first project, La Casa de Colores, a collaborative poem
The theme of this year’s National Book Festival, which took place on Saturday at the sprawling Walter E Washington Convention Center in downtown Washington DC, was “I cannot live without books”. That’s a quotation by Thomas Jefferson; the festival was also celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Library of Congress’s acquisition of his private library. Thousands turned out to testify to the truth of Jefferson’s phrase.
Panels like Why Literature Matters and the YA-focused Letters About Literature/A Book That Shaped Me quickly filled to capacity. And the significance of indigenous voices was given time in the spotlight, along with a five-panel series on war literature and writings on the future of Earth.
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