BG's Photo Library: DC -- Natl Book Festival 2004

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Description of Pictures: BOOKM -- Main This has various pictures that I took during the day that weren't part of the author discussion. Many of these were from the author signings or were just scenes from around the event. Authors who you'll see here are (in order): Arthur Billington (Librarian of Congress), Arthur Frommer, Ben Bova, Natasha Trethewey, Marc Brown, Ted Kooser, Holly Black & Tony DiTerlizzi, Frederik Pohl, Lawrence Block, and Joyce Carol Oates.

(1) James Billington is the Librarian of Congress. I've seen him at a number of events.

(2) Arthur Frommer, one of the nation’s foremost travel authorities, is the author of scores of travel books. His Frommer travel series, which he founded, now consists of over 300 yearly titles to every major tourist destination including Frommer’s Washington, D.C. (Wiley, 2004). Forty-six consecutive editions of Europe from $70 a Day (Wiley, 2004) have now been published. In addition to book publishing, he is founder of Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel magazine. He has written countless magazine articles on a wide variety of travel subjects as well as a weekly syndicated column that appears in major newspapers across the nation. Mr. Frommer, who lives in New York City, does weekly travel reports on the radio, has made appearances on the "Today Show" and "Oprah!" and lectures on travel to audiences across America.

(3) Award-winning author Ben Bova, who has been involved in science and advanced technology for many years, is president emeritus of the National Space Society, frequent commentator on radio and television and a widely popular lecturer. He is the author of more than 90 futuristic novels and nonfiction books and a six-time Hugo award winner. His latest book is Faint Echoes, Distant Stars (Morrow, 2004). He lives in Taos, N.M.

(4) Natasha Trethewey is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bunting Fel ...More...
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Description of Subject Matter: The Library of Congress and Laura Bush co-sponsor the National Book Festival. Started in 2001, it's a celebration of books and the joy of reading. According to the site, it "has something for anyone who has ever picked up a book and entered a new world, learned an amazing lesson or discovered a previously unknown fact." It also has a bunch of authors who you can listen to or have books signed by. It's a lot of fun! The official web site is http://www.loc.gov/bookfest
Wikipedia Description: National Book Festival
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The National Book Festival is an American event organized by the Library of Congress annually in Washington, D.C.. Held in early autumn, the festival attracts tens of thousands of people each year (in 2005, 100,000 were in attendance), and invites over fifty nationally published authors, illustrators and poets for book signings and other activities. It also features various child-oriented attractions. First Lady Laura Bush has hosted the festival since 2001. In the past, authors appearing at the festival have included Sue Grafton, Christopher Buckley, R.L. Stine, Bob Schieffer, Clive Cussler, John Irving, Sandra Brown, and Sharon Creech. In addition, librarians from libraries across the country are invited every year to represent each state.
Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. BOOKC_041009_018.JPG: Floyd Cooper.
2. BOOKC_041009_068.JPG: R.L. Stine @ National Book Festival.
3. BOOKFI_041009_001.JPG: Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason. (And don't ask me which is which!)
4. BOOKFI_041009_031.JPG: Jim and Kate Lehrer.
5. BOOKFI_041009_079.JPG: Joyce Carol Oates.
6. BOOKFI_041009_099.JPG: Edward P. Jones.
7. BOOKHB_041009_014.JPG: James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress.
8. BOOKHB_041009_034.JPG: Marie Arana introduced most of the speakers for this tent. She's editor in chief of the Washington Post's "Book World." She is the author of the 2001 National Book Award finalist "American Chica" and editor of the collection "The Writing Life" (2003).
9. BOOKHB_041009_071.JPG: Douglas Brinkley.
10. BOOKHB_041009_097.JPG: John Lewis.
11. BOOKHB_041009_165.JPG: Jabari Asim is a senior editor of The Washington Post's "Book World," a columnist at washingtonpost.com and the author of "The Road to Freedom" (2001) and "Not Guilty" (2002). He handled a few of the introductions.
12. BOOKHB_041009_179.JPG: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
13. BOOKHB_041009_212.JPG: Linton Weeks, writer for The Washington Post's "Style" section, introduced a few speakers too.
14. BOOKHB_041009_235.JPG: Cokie Roberts.
15. BOOKHB_041009_284.JPG: James H. Billington and his wife.
16. BOOKHB_041009_307.JPG: Ron Chernow
17. BOOKHB_041009_480.JPG: Azar Nafisi.
18. BOOKHF_041009_010.JPG: Arthur Frommer.
19. BOOKHF_041009_038.JPG: Anna Quindlen.
20. BOOKHF_041009_090.JPG: Heloise.
21. BOOKHF_041009_134.JPG: Patrick O'Connell.
22. BOOKHF_041009_162.JPG: Kevin O'Connor (left) and Tom Silva of "This Old House"
23. BOOKHF_041009_172.JPG: Leigh and Leslie Keno.
24. BOOKMT_041009_08.JPG: Dana Stabenow.
25. BOOKMT_041009_34.JPG: Daniel Silva (left) who was introduced by Maureen Corrigan (right), mysteries columnist for The Washington Post's "Book World," an English professor at Georgetown University, a literary critic for National Public Radio, and co-author of the Edgar Award winner "Mystery and Suspense Writers" (1998).
26. BOOKMT_041009_71.JPG: Peter Straub.
27. BOOKMT_041009_88.JPG: Lawrence Block.
28. BOOKM_041009_018.JPG: James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress.
29. BOOKM_041009_028.JPG: John Cole, one of the upper echelon at the Library of Congress.
30. BOOKM_041009_048.JPG: The Library of Congress had released a new book on "Voices of War," based on their Veteran's History Project. It's a collection of veteran stories. This was one of the participants in the war whose story was in the book. The next picture was from the editor of the book.
31. BOOKM_041009_070.JPG: Arthur Frommer.
32. BOOKM_041009_108.JPG: Ben Bova.
33. BOOKM_041009_122.JPG: Natasha Trethewey.
34. BOOKM_041009_142.JPG: Marc Brown.
35. BOOKM_041009_193.JPG: David Lehman.
36. BOOKM_041009_209.JPG: Another contributor to "Voices of War."
37. BOOKM_041009_218.JPG: Ted Kooser.
38. BOOKM_041009_247.JPG: Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi.
39. BOOKM_041009_271.JPG: Lawrence Block.
40. BOOKM_041009_272.JPG: Joyce Carol Oates, next to a very unlike-Carol assistant.
41. BOOKP_041009_26.JPG: Linda Pastan.
42. BOOKSF_041009_010.JPG: Neal Stephenson. To the left of him is Michael Dirda, critic and writer for The Washington Post's "Book World" and author of "An Open Book" and the forthcoming "Bound to Please".
43. BOOKSF_041009_032.JPG: Frederik Pohl @ National Book Festival.
44. BOOKSF_041009_043.JPG: Michael Dirda again.
45. BOOKSF_041009_209.JPG: Neil Gaiman @ National Book Festival.
46. BOOKSF_041009_419.JPG: Connie Willis.
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2004 photos: Equipment this year: I bought two Fujifilm S7000 digital cameras. While they produced excellent images, I found all of the retractable-lens Fuji models had a disturbing tendency to get dust inside the lens. Dark blurs would show up on the images and the camera had to be sent back to the shop in order to get it fixed. I returned one of the cameras when the blurs showed up in the first month. I found myself buying extended warranties on cameras. Trips this year: (1) Margot and I went off to Scotland for a few days, my first time overseas. (2) I went to Hawaii on business (such a deal!) and extended it, spending a week in Hawaii and another in California. (3) I went to Tennessee to man a booth and extended it to go to my third Fan Fair country music festival. Photos taken this year: 110,000. User page views this year: 5,064.
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