Look for them to air in the near future. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] thank you for coming. My name is doug sands. Dash my greatgrandmother. The historian ive known for almost 20 years. Become a very good request. A professor at the university of richmond also a good friend and are going to talk tonight about his new book. Without further ado welcome and thank you. Thank you. [applause] i want to thank doug and always wonderful people. Im also excited about being in conversations with jim down who i met. All these social apps werent there. So it was an intellectual interaction. It was in case any of you are thinking about it. Very committed to participation. And they had an opportunity to talk. And part of that history has been accrued. Anything that happened before is really part of an archive the very few have had an opportunity to investigate which is part of why it is important to me as well as for those of you have not read the book, and those of you who hav
We will start here. I never the first one to start. My name is oksana marafiotti i have one book so far called american gypsy about the experience growing up in the soviet union in a family of tutsi and iranian descent living to United States at age 15, specifically hollywood. To read this drastic change you do not expect as a kid. My favorite when i was seven writing amazing poetry [laughter] had i become more censored. I have a wendy ortiz author of two books called excavation. With the period of time and i was in a sexual relationship with my junior high teacher and this took place in the sanford ando valley in the late 80s so blessed to this is very much a character in this book by other is called hollywood notebook i college dash uprose or fragments moving the way i did it feel like hell when i return to immediately so those are my two books. And my first book was the cold war and my last book is about being bipolar culturally. I. M. Bert ashe progress read universal american stud
[inaudible] i said i would not talk about the late moderator, a panel on race. [inaudible] its also quite an inconvenience, talk about my people. So we actually are going to have a great conversation i have questions and of course we want to leave time for your questions, we have a multinational panel, so what i have plans in my mind is i will have each of the distinguished authors introduce themselves and maybe a few of the favorite things they have written, some of you have written a lot of things, then i will have a few questions, hopefully well bounce back and forth with questions and answers and well have time for you to jump in the conversation. So we will start the. Im never the first one to start. Im my name is marse anna, i am an author of an only book so far, its called american gypsy, its about the experience of growing up in the soviet union in a family of romany witches gypsy in armenian dissent and moving to the United States at age 15, specifically to hollywood. Its abou
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