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Your Author, Any Bitter Thing. Monica Wood celebrates the publication of her third novel, Any bitter Thing with a reading at Longfellow Books in Portland Maine.

Colson Whitehead gets personal in 'Sag Harbor'. Award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead reads from his self-described autobiographical novel 'Sag Harbor' and talks about his work at the 2009 National Book Festival.

Warren Brown bakes his cake and eats it, too. Famous in the Washington, D.C. area for his cakes, former Federal health care fraud litigator Warren Brown introduces his cookbook, 'CakeLove: How To Bake Cakes From Scratch' at the 2008 National Book Festival.

Mitali Perkins takes the long way home to the land of 'Bamboo People'. Bestselling children's author Mitali Perkins traces her journey through childhood from KolKata (Calcutta, India) to Queens, NY, and the west coast, where her family settled, through books and writing, before returning to her family's lost home in Burma, where she became inspired to write 'Bamboo People.'

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