Lets have a big round of applause for the National Book festival. [applause]. Show your love. Excellent. [applause]. And a little tip you need to check out their amazing website, National Book. Org. I have been there, it is exciting, it is addictive. I have have made it my homepage. I start every day at National Book data work. If you go there you can literally spend all day on the faqs, because you know all of those questions that you have frequently asked about the National Book foundation . They are answered at last. For example, one question i have found myself asking frequently is what is the National Book foundation . If you do not know. You just applauded for them and you do not know who they are. Do not lie to me National Book award audience, you are better than that really. Okay so i went to National Book. Org faqs and heres what i found. In 1986, the Publishing Community establish the National Book foundation, a notforprofit notforprofit organization to oversee the awards, di
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live tonight with red carpet interviews as well as the ceremony. there are finalists in the nonfiction category. fiction is also a category where they give an award for national book award, along with young on group young authors or young people s authors, and poetry. those are the for all boards that are given, plus a literary award is being given to ms. kaplan, the founder of the miami book fair international which is this weekend in miami. book tv will be live from miami as well, but in just a few minutes this room will start to fill up. we will broadcast live from the red carpet here. we will be talking with several of the authors who were nominated about their books, and then we will be bringing you on teefifteen, the entire ceremony live on our website. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] author walter mosley. i am going to enter this mix kaplan who is getting an award for, you know, his service to the community through literature and literary endeav