2025 National Book Festival Authors Announced

In prior years, even us bookish folk probably didn’t think too much about the Library of Congress. We got our little classification info on our publisher pages, but that was about it.

This year, the institution has garnered more headlines. So I wonder if it will affect attendance of the National Book Festival, positively or negatively, or if there will be any sort of protests or stunts.

Regardless, the Library announced the author line up this week and it’s great. So many great names. And I’m thrilled to see longtime Slushpile.net favorite Stephen Graham Jones listed. He did one of the earliest Slushpile interviews almost twenty years ago and it remains one of my favorite literary conversations ever. He terrifies and writes and publishes prolifically, like Joyce Carol Oates with an chainsaw.

The event is September 6 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.