As that lucky guy because today i get to meet Abraham Verghese and him to you and just a quick aside this i hadnt planned and met dr. Verghese this morning and you know ive been doing these events for about six years now and i met darcy and it kind of embarrassing because i started crying. I cant explain the effect that hes had me as a doctor and a reader. So its just a little bit. But dr. Verghese, his book, the covenant of water has spent nine months on the New York Times bestseller list, which is incredible for two reasons. Number one, it came out nine months ago, and number two, its 715 pages long and know and we live in america in 2024. Were not in russia in 100 years ago. So at 750 page book to be on the vessel, it is pretty, pretty cool. And you know, aside from being a literary luminary, hes a thought leader. The world of medicine, as you know, hes chair professor, vice chair of of the school of medicine at that place up the road. The road, stanford. So before we talk about the
My name is is joe vogel. Im a state delegate here representing, the great city of gaithersburg. And it is my pleasure to introduce all of you to the city of gaithersburg. I am so thrilled this morning to be introducing ari shapiro as he his book, the best stranger in the world stories from a life spent listening. When i first saw that this book would be presented at the book festival and before i was given the honor of introducing the session, i took note of the book i screenshotted the cover of it to add it to my reading list. Not only because i am an occasional listener, of all things considered, but also because of my own interest in listening to strangers for as long as i can remember, i have been fascinated by strangers. The very idea of a stranger. Right . What is a stranger . Its. Its pretty wild to me. And while others shy away meetings, speaking with and listening, strangers like ari, i aim to, whenever possible, do the now as a state legislator listening to strangers, turning
And him to you and just a quick aside this i hadnt planned and met dr. Verghese this morning and you know ive been doing these events for about six years now and i met darcy and it kind of embarrassing because i started crying. I cant explain the effect that hes had me as a doctor and a reader. So its just a little bit. But dr. Verghese, his book, the covenant of water has spent nine months on the New York Times bestseller list, which is incredible for two reasons. Number one, it came out nine months ago, and number two, its 715 pages long and know and we live in america in 2024. Were not in russia in 100 years ago. So at 750 page book to be on the vessel, it is pretty, pretty cool. And you know, aside from being a literary luminary, hes a thought leader. The world of medicine, as you know, hes chair professor, vice chair of of the school of medicine at that place up the road. The road, stanford. So before we talk about the governance of water, just like you to share a little bit how t
My name is is joe vogel. Im a state delegate here representing, the great city of gaithersburg. And it is my pleasure to introduce all of you to the city of gaithersburg. I am so thrilled this morning to be introducing ari shapiro as he his book, the best stranger in the world stories from a life spent listening. When i first saw that this book would be presented at the book festival and before i was given the honor of introducing the session, i took note of the book i screenshotted the cover of it to add it to my reading list. Not only because i am an occasional listener, of all things considered, but also because of my own interest in listening to strangers for as long as i can remember, i have been fascinated by strangers. The very idea of a stranger. Right . What is a stranger . Its. Its pretty wild to me. And while others shy away meetings, speaking with and listening, strangers like ari, i aim to, whenever possible, do the now as a state legislator listening to strangers, turning
The world stories from a life spent listening. When i first saw that this book would be presented at the book festival and before i was given the honor of introducing the session, i took note of the book i screenshotted the cover of it to add it to my reading list. Not only because i am an occasional listener, of all things considered, but also because of my own interest in listening to strangers for as long as i can remember, i have been fascinated by strangers. The very idea of a stranger. Right . What is a stranger . Its. Its pretty wild to me. And while others shy away meetings, speaking with and listening, strangers like ari, i aim to, whenever possible, do the now as a state legislator listening to strangers, turning strangers into is quite literally my job. But my intriguing strangers has deeper roots than politics. And i found myself reflecting on the origin of this while reading aris book, just like ari, i grew up as a gay jewish teen living in the suburbs. Of course, they mad