People to you. The first is roger rosenblatt, whose work has been published in 14 languages. He has three best sellers, kayak morning, the boy detective and another that was in the new yorker. The story i am, came out april and cold moon, live, love and responsibility will be out in october. Rogers written seven off broadway play, the one person free speech in america that he performed at the american place theater and which was named one of times of the times best plays of 1991. Last spring at bay theater in sag harbor, he performed and his play lives in the basement, does nothing will go to the center for arts at stony brook and a theater in new york next year. He also wrote the screen play for his best selling novel which which is currently in production. Roger is a professor of english and writing. Creative writing at harvard where he high school his ph. D. And among honors, george 0 polk award, and a peabody on Time Magazine and pbs. In ireland he played on an International Basket
Remind you, a lot goes into this kind of an event and many people have worked very, very hard, harder than ive worked, to put all of this together. One of the people who could not be here was frank cogliano, because he got stuck in newark. Hell be here later this evening. His cochair is here and shes going to say a few words. Thank you. [applause] welcome. Im sorry that frank isnt here to join me for this further welcome. Just to say how wonderful it is to see everyone here and to work with such an Amazing Group of people. I especially want to thank annette and frank, my cochair, robin, without whom we would sees to function, and also to the Wonderful Program committee, one of whose members is sitting there many are in the audience tonight and they generously of time an talent to put this program together to go through the many proposals that we had. Weir looking forward to what is an exciting, interesting, varied diverse sheer with a lot of different panels and topics. Its a pleasure
Its my honor to introduce three people to you this evening. First is Roger Rosenblatt whose work has been published in 14 languages. Roger is the author of five New York Times notable books of the year and three times bestseller. The story the story i am mad about the writing life came out in april and a cool moon a life love and responsibility will be in october. Rogers written seven off broadway plays notably the one person free speech in america that he performed at the American Theater which was the times 10 best plays of 1991. Last spring he performed them play piano in his play living in the basement is nothing which would go to the Stoller Center for the arts at stony brook and the theater in new york next year. He also wrote the screenplay for a bestselling novel rapid rising which is currently in production. Roger is distinguished repressor at english and writing at stony brook. He formerly held the copeland appointment to creative writing at harvard where he got his ph. D. Am
Decide what kind we are dealing with i wish we could say we always know how to respond but the early days of the decline, well, theyre never easy to navigate first, lets borrow a line from the fabulous Anna Karenina all happy rallies are alike. Each sell off is unhappy in its own way. Its so true bull market sent stocks higher and everyone thinks theyre a genius for participating in them big declines much harder they would be the start of a bear market or a glinch. Thats why i want to use history to try to identify some of the common qualities so you can figure out how to handle the inevitable moments of weakness without panicking. First let me offer some historically constructive words of relief, sanity and real, not phony, but real assurance. Theres only been two truly horrendous sell offs since i started investing in 1979. The one day crash of 1987 and the rolling crash of 20072009 i could have down the nasdaq crash but the s p held up well lets deal with these two big ones head on
We are going to bring you todays market moving news from all around the world, from london to brussels, istanbul and washington. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We want to begin in turkey. The country has agreed to tip a rarely halt its military offensive in northern syria, but it is not withdrawing its forces. The lifting of sanctions may come with a permanent ceasefire. Theence with implementation of a ceasefire, the United States will not impose any further sanctions on turkeys, and once a permanent ceasefire is in effect, the president has agreed to withdraw the economic sanctions that were imposed. Joins usimin demokan from istanbul. How does this play out over the next 24 hours . Simikin turkey is expecting the kurdish fighters to withdraw from the areas. President erdogan said he expects to create a safe zone once those kurdish militants have left the area, and the safe zone will be 444 kalama theres long. 444 kilometers we also expect turk