3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (468+ words) NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie, a U.S. citizen for the past decade, is to receive a literary honor reserved for the elite of American writers — a National Book Award medal for lifetime achievement. “Although I lived here for many, many years…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (282+ words) NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky has received a $100,000 lifetime achievement award and poet-children’s author Nikki Grimes has been named the next Young People’s Poet Laureate, the Poetry Foundation announced Wednesday. Pinsky, an acclaimed poet and translator…...

5+ day, 24+ min ago   (313+ words) Audible best-sellers for the week ending September 4: 1. This Is Me by Hayden Panettiere, narrated by the author (Grand Central Publishing) 2. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins, narrated by the author (Audible Studios) 3. Stop Letting Everything Affect You by Daniel…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (822+ words) Meanwhile, a 15-year-old Canadian speaks to a teacher about 13,000 kilometers (8,000 miles) away in Zimbabwe, learning a language her parents feared she would never speak. The scenes capture a new generation of interest and entrepreneurship around African languages once pushed to…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (234+ words) “As I write this, I’m both older than I ever imagined I would become and happier than I ever imagined I could be,” she wrote in the introduction. “I’ve been rewarded with friends who are my chosen family. I have…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (205+ words) Published six years later to instant acclaim and notoriety, “On the Road” may not be the Great American Novel, but Kerouac’s epiphany surely stands as the Great American Manuscript. “It was a once-in-a-lifetime, once-in-a-century achievement. In short, a literary singularity,” says…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (541+ words) Listen to the full story above. Dolly Parton may be best known for her music, movies and larger-than-life personality, but at D.C. Public Library, she has another title. “She’s sort of like a patron saint of early childhood literacy for us…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (244+ words) August 25, 2026, 5:38 AM Follow WTOP’s Matt Kaufax as he explores hidden gems, local landmarks and unique stories across the D.C. area every week. New episodes of WTOP’s “Matt About Town” segment are released each Tuesday and Thursday. The answer to that…...

3+ week, 6+ hour ago   (854+ words) FREEDOM 250 GRAND PRIX: Today's auto race in DC is the latest of President Trump’s celebrations to mark America’s 250th birthday Terik King | [email protected] August 23, 2026, 8:25 AM More than 80,000 people registered for the 26th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival the began Saturday…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (308+ words) August 21, 2026, 10:52 AM The National Book Festival is Saturday at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Northwest D.C. It will, of course, feature dozens of authors discussing their work, as regular attendees have come to expect. But this year, there’s more than…...