Festival Media

Podcast Appearances

Fall for the Book Podcasts with Mason Out Loud

A Lucky Man: Stories author Jamel Brinkley – Spring 2019

Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives author Jane Brox – Spring 2019

Deaf Republic author Ilya Kaminsky – Spring 2019

God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America author Lyz Lenz – Spring 2019

The Great Believers author Rebecca Makkai on writing untold stories, and the AIDS crisis – Spring 2019

Call Me When You Talk About The Tombstones author Cynthia Marie Hoffman on genealogy and poetry – Fall 2018

Paris by the Book author Liam Callanan – Fall 2018

The Immortalists author Chloe Benjamin on life, death, and immortality – April 2018

Historical and speculative YA fiction with L.M. Elliott and Caroline Tung Richmond – February 2018

Fall for the Book Originals

Searching for Answers in South Korea – A Transcontinental Web Event at the 2019 Festival. 

Fall for the Book’s Year In Review 2019 

Slavery In Northern Virginia Exhibit – Presented by Osher Lifelong Learning Institute & Fall for the Book – 2017 Festival

GMU TV Videos

2019 Festival

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and President Anne Holton, We Should All Be Feminists – October 11, 2019

Art Taylor and Sarah Weinman, Uncovering the Real Lolita – October 12, 2019

Governor Terry McAuliffe and Steve Kettmann, Let’s Get in Formation: Preventing Future Charlottesvilles – October 12, 2019

Heath Hardage Lee, A League To Bring Their Husbands Home – October 12, 2019

Zach Powers and Erika Swyler, Surreal Space Age Stories – October 12, 2019

James Donovan, One Giant Leap for Mankind- October 12, 2019

C-SPAN Book TV Videos

2018 Festival

Michael D. Leinbach and Jonathan Ward, Bringing Columbia Home – October 13, 2018

Stephen Farnsworth and Bill Schneider, U.S. Presidents: The Election and the Message – October 13, 2018

Deborah Baker, Tricks of Perspective: Reimagining the WWII Narrative – October 13, 2018

General Michael V. Hayden, The Assault on American Security – October 13, 2018

Jennifer and Benjamin Percy, Out of Darkness: Prose from the Percy Siblings – October 13, 2018

2017 Festival

Yasutsune “Tony” Hirashiki and Terry Irving, On the Frontlines of the Television War – October 12, 2017

Jeffrey Stewart and MaryLouise Patterson, Harlem Renaissance writers Alain Locke and Langston Hughes – Friday, October 13, 2017

2016 Festival

Molly McCartney, America’s War Machine – September 26, 2016

Robin Hanson , The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth – September 27, 2016

Sandra Cisneros, A House of My Own – September 30, 2016

2015 Festival

Claudia Kalb, Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder – September 28, 2016

Robert Poole, Section 60:Arlington National Cemetery, Where the War Comes Home. – September 28, 2015.

Kenneth Walsh, Celebrity in Chief – September 30, 2016

Cesar Brioso, Havana Hardball – October 2, 2015

2014 Festival

Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Inoculation – September 12, 2014

2012 Festival

Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane – September 28, 2012

Alice Walker, The Color Purple – October 4, 2012

2011 Festival

Stephen King, Preview of Doctor Sleep – September 23, 2011

2010 Festival

Greg Mortenson, Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace… One School At A Time – September 24, 2010

2005 Festival

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner – September 20, 2005