Library of Congress. National Book Festival (U.S.), sponsoring body. moving image eng Dark Star trilogy novelist Marlon James, "Black Leopard, Red Wolf" (Riverhead), talks with sci-fi/fantasy author Jeff VanderMeer, "A Peculiar Peril" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). In the first novel in James's Dark Star trilogy, he explores what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child; VanderMeer's new novel is a head-spinning epic quest revolving around portals to an alternate Earth called Aurora, a surreal world filled with talking animals and vegetables. Moderated by Everdeen Mason of The Washington Post. Group name: 2020 National Book Festival: Fiction. Marlon James, Jeff VanderMeer. Recorded on 2020-09-26. 2020 National Book Festival: Hearing Black Voices. https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcwebcasts.s070_a092_a093_James_Vandermeer_Final