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Ilan Stavans talked about his book A Most Imperfect Union: A Contrarian History of the United States. He spoke in the C-SPAN 2/BookTV tent at the 2014 Texas Book Festival. The festival wa…

Ilan Stavans talked about his book Dictionary Days, published by Graywolf Press. He described his obsession with words and gave a history of several languages including English, French, Span…

Author Ilan Stavans talked about his book, Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language, published by RAYO. The author writes that Spanglish, a combination of the English and Spanish la…

Richard Rodriguez talked about his book “Brown: The Last Discovery of America,” published by Viking Penguin. In it, the author explores what “the browning of America” means for our society. …

Mr. Kurlansky read from his book The White Man in the Tree and Other Stories, published by Washington Square Press. This book has a novella and eight short stories about cultural misundersta…