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A new children’s book about Dr. Anthony Fauci, who County Executive Marc Elrich dubbed on Twitter, ‘the most famous employee in Montgomery County,” will debut June 29. Written by Kate Messner, whose award winning books include “All the Answers,” “Breakout” and “Tracking Pythons, the book is entitled “Dr. Fauci: How a Boy From Brooklyn Became […]

Literature about the Black experience is having a moment and Montgomery County Public Libraries is making more anti-racist books available to the community. Now on the app Overdrive, Montgomery County’s digital eLibrary consortium, several e-books and audiobooks about the Black experience have been made available without any wait time. Antiracist Books Available on Overdrive with […]

Award-winning author Amy Tan will be honored at the 23rd Annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival in Rockville on Oct. 12. The literary festival was started in 1996 to honor the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald — who’s buried in a small Rockville cemetery with his wife, Zelda Fitzgerald — and other influential American literary […]

Some of the biggest authors are coming from around the world to attend the 10th annual Gaithersburg Book Festival on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The night before the big event, authors are invited to mingle with one another at a VIP Authors Reception. Local politicians came up for the pre-festival celebration, including Gaithersburg […]

There’s no one more excited for the 10th annual Gaithersburg Book Festival than the city’s mayor, Jud Ashman. More than 140 authors will be at the festival — here’s what Ashman had to say about these authors: Some of the biggest names at the festival, according to Ashman, include Kwame Onwuachi, author of “Notes From […]

Silver Spring Library’s Surprise Letter from Toronto Remember the last time you returned your library books and they were a couple of weeks late? Remember the guilt? How would you feel if you returned a book that was 73 years late? Well, the Silver Spring Library has been reunited with a children’s book borrowed in […]

A featured author at the Gaithersburg Book Festival, Maureen Corrigan tells us what’s next for her in this MyMCMedia Extra video. Corrigan is the author of “So We Read On.” She was a featured presenter at the Gaithersburg Book Festival on May 16. Related:

The author of So We Read On, Maureen Corrigan tell us about her new book about The Great Gatsby on location at the Gaithersburg Book Festival. Related:

The author of “So We Read On,” Maureen Corrigan attended the Gaithersburg Book Festival on May 16. In this MyMCMedia Extra video, she shares her thoughts on the burial plot of author F. Scott Fitzgerald in Rockville. Related:

So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came To Be and Why It Endures author Maureen Corrigan was a featured author at the Gaithersburg Book Festival May 16. What would she ask F. Scott Fitzgerald today? Related: