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[geekchick]

Ooh.  I didn't go to this last year, too lame to trek downtown.  This year I might need to though.

http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/
http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/04/authors/index.html

Neil Gaiman, Neal Stephenson, Lois McMaster Bujold, Connie Willis, Joyce Carol Oates, Nicholas Sparks...

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[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Waaaaaaaaaaah! I have a photo shoot here that day. *whimper*

:-)

[curiousangel.livejournal.com]

If it'll help make the decision easier, I will allow my arm to be twisted into joining you there. :)

[geekchick]

I specifically included Lois McMaster Bujold in the hope of just such a thing. ;)

[amylgam.livejournal.com]

*drool*

[winterbadger]

And David Macaulay! and Robert Parker! and OMG the Keno brothers--Chris is going to die of orgasm overload (and this after she explained the other night to a bookseller that her purchase of a large glossy treatise on early American material culture was "furniture porn." I gathered from Melissa that the clerk's eyebrows disappeared into his hairline...)

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Connie Willis.... ooooooh. Not to mention E.L. Konigsburg, author of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

[geekchick]

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

Never read it, actually.

I've also never read anything by Connie Willis, I mostly added that because I know at least one person who really likes her. =)

[kmusser]

Connie Willis is awesome - I highly recommend To Say Nothing of the Dog

[amylgam.livejournal.com]

Connie Willis is great. I love her sense of humor (which pervades even her serious books). Saw her at Archon a couple of years ago. My first thought upon seeing her was that she was somebody's grandmother, waiting to pick up their wayward grandchildren at the con.