# Tana French: National Book Festival 2021

Tana French, author of "The Searcher" (Viking), discusses her new mystery novel with Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR's "Fresh Air." French speaks on her approach to the mystery genre, what it's like to be an outsider in a new place and why she reread Agatha Christie's books during quarantine. Bonus content: The Library's Manuscript Division is home to the papers of many writers, including poets, novelists, philosophers and theorists. Historian Barbara Bair reveals letters to crime writer Raymond Chandler, Joan Crawford and others that can be found in the papers of hard-boiled crime fiction writer James M. Cain.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2021
- By: Library Of Congress
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697635/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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