# Marie Arana
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marie arana (born Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian American author, editor, journalist, critic, and the inaugural Literary Director of the Library of Congress.
== Personal life ==
marie arana was born in Lima, Peru, the daughter of Jorge Enrique Arana Cisneros, a Peruvian-born civil engineer, and Marie Elverine Clapp Campbell, an American from Kansas and Boston, whose family has deep roots in the United States. She moved with her parents to Summit, New Jersey, at the age of nine.
Episode 30: "So What?"
In Episode 30, DDSWTNP once again use the occasion of the Nobel Prize (which on October 9, 2025, was awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai) to talk about a prize Don DeLillo did win: the 2013 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. We dig into the award presentation and an interv…
Christmas Book Gift Recommendations 2025
This week, The Boys unwrap their favorite book picks for the holiday season — from globe-trotting history to wild presidential tales to the secret life of gas stations in the American South. They also dig into new national park surcharges for foreign visitors.
The Books:
"Lafayette in the Somewh…
No King.
The No Kings rallies fanned out across the United States in protest of Donald Trump’s increasingly dangerous, erratic and autocratic regime. Cuba remains in darkness, the war in Iran has already turned into a quagmire, the economy is cratering and Americans are feeling powerless in the face of Trum…
National Poetry Month and Remembering Book World
Our staffers Bob, Mishy, Sayan, and Claire read from some of their favorite poems for National Poetry Month.
Plus, a tribute to the late Book World section of the Washington Post- featuring Marie Arana, Rita Dove, Michael Dirda, and Ron Charles.
All featured poems are in the public domain.
Musi…
David Streitfeld — Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry - with Marie Arana
By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the legendary author and screenwriter of Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, and Brokeback Mountain, who transformed our vision of the West.
Before Larry McMurtry became one of the most cel…
Viva la revolución: Spain's Role in American Military Conflicts
Spain’s involvement in early American history might feel limited, but Spanish people and their descendants have been involved in American military conflicts, both through direct fighting and the supply of weapons and funds, since the American Revolution, through the Civil War, both World Wars, and …
Omnibus (07-23-26).
Max and 99 are back for another round of Omnibus. They hit headlines on the Trump administration restricting visas for foreign journalists, tribes suing to block the gutting of the Endangered Species Act, SpaceX’s massive share unlock, and a defense of reading books in an era of mass literary aband…
Sebastian Barry — The Newer World - with Marie Arana
From “one of the best writers in the English language” (The Washington Post), a sweeping yet intimate novel about one man’s life in the aftermath of the Civil War“I knew as I made my way home that there was no home. All the old things...were gone forever.”Born into bondage in Union-leaning northwes…
Nadia Murad — I Choose My Beginning: A Story of Courage and Activism - with Marie Arana
In a lyrical and profoundly moving memoir, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad reclaims her extraordinary journey from the embers of devastation to a fight for freedom—and for what comes next when a young girl’s flame cannot be extinguished. In 2014, Nadia Murad was living in northern Iraq when …
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