Natl Book Festival offers Lynne Cheney, David Brooks, Kay Bailey Hutchison

[Stephanie]

If you haven't yet read this letter to Laura Bush from poet Sharon Olds, you must:

No Place for a Poet at a Banquet of Shame: Poet declines WH invite

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2100952&mesg_id=2100952

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Below are the rest of the "authors" who are scheduled to attend the Laura Bush Book Festival (note the date). I hope we see some more scathing refusal letters from a few of them. What decent person would sit on a panel with Lynne Cheney?

Et tu, John Irving?

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2005 National Book Festival
The Library of Congress Celebrates Creativity

The 2005 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by first lady Laura Bush, will be held on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2005, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., between 7th and 14th streets from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (rain or shine). The festival is free and open to the public. Learn More


http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/authors.html

Authors

Children
Sponsored by AT&T

* Buzz Aldrin & Wendell Minor
* David Baldacci
* Doreen Cronin & Harry Bliss
* Hilary Knight
* Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
* Laura Numeroff
* Mary Pope Osborne & Will Osborne
* Linda Sue Park
* Gloria Jean Pinkney
* Jerry Pinkney
* Sandra Pinkney
* NBA & WNBA

Teens & Children
Sponsored by Target

* Meg Cabot
* Lynne Cheney
* Sharon Creech
* John Feinstein
* Jack Gantos
* Patricia Reilly Giff
* Pat Mora
* Walter Dean Myers
* Dave Pelzer
* René Saldaña
* R.L. Stine
* Letters About Literature

Fiction & Fantasy
Sponsored by The James Madison Council

* E. L. Doctorow
* Richard Paul Evans
* Jonathan Safran Foer
* Diana Gabaldon
* Neil Gaiman
* John Irving
* Gish Jen
* Sue Monk Kidd
* George R. R. Martin
* Bobbie Ann Mason
* Tom Wolfe

Mysteries & Thrillers
Sponsored by The Amend Group

* Nevada Barr
* Sandra Brown
* Jeffery Deaver
* Martha Grimes
* Rupert Holmes
Laura Lippman
* Marcia Muller
* John Sandford
* Karin Slaughter

History & Biography
Sponsored by AARP

* David Brooks
* Andrew Carroll
* Robert L. Carter
* Joseph Ellis
* Thomas Friedman
* Kay Bailey Hutchison
* Robert MacNeil
* David McCullough
* Andrea Mitchell
* Steven V. Roberts

Home & Family
Sponsored by Target

* Giada De Laurentiis
* Myrka Dellanos
* Fernando & Marlene Divina
* Leeza Gibbons
* Jon Kabat-Zinn
* Bob Kinkead
* Chris Madden
* Laurie Smith
* Julie Sussman &
Stephanie Glakas-Tenet
* David Tutera
* Judith Warner

Poetry
Sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts

* Kim Addonizio
* Marisa de los Santos
* Alice Fulton
* Donald Hall
* Andrew Hudgins
* Dana Gioia
* Dolores Kendrick
* David Kirby
* Samuel Menashe
* Mary Jo Salter
* A.E. Stallings
* Christian Wiman
* Al Young

[tularetom]

1. Maybe Lynne can talk about her novel

Hot girl-on-girl action in the west or whatever its called.

[Stephanie]

3. Sisters

http://www.whitehouse.org/administration/sisters.asp

[klook]

5. I'd like to hear E.L. Doctorow do an analysis of that masterwork

Or see Neil Gaiman's graphic novel version.

[Hardrada]

2. Some of those folks should go

and then start a food fight!!

[NYCGirl]

6. Why in the world would an adult want to do that?

To make themselves look bad?

[Hardrada]

11. To give Lynne Cheney

a pie in the face!! Besides how many actual adults will be in attendance??

[Book Lover]

4. Why are the twins from Antiques Roadshow in the picture

on that LOC page?

[speedoo]

7. E. L. Doctorow?

I'm surprised he is attending. He hates the Coward.

[blm]

8. Maybe he and Irving are using the opportunity to LET IT RIP.

.

[Stephanie]

9. did you read Sharon Olds letter?

I hope Doctorow & Irving read it.

[blm]

10. Yes. I'm just expecting they have a greater reason for their attendance.

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