Readings of literature. The eudora welty is a collaborative enterprise is mission is to promote the love of abthis is may pass by generous contributions of martha dowd dowrimple. And also of her mother and grandmother and also by the family of eudora welty. In oapril 1983 eudora welty ga a series of lectures at Harvard University and the lectures were collected as a volume of essays entitled one writers beginnings. Published by the Harvard University press, one writers beginnings stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for almost a year. The s is detailed and inescapable bond between her childhood in her later career as a writer. Have hurt your Early Experiences contributed to her extensive literary voice. Her novels include, which ended up being on broadway as a Tony Award Winning musical. And then she was also awarded a Pulitzer Prize for delta wedding, losing battles and the optimists daughter. Eudora is a master of short stories and her stories are collected in many places but
Stationary store and i spilled coffee on it. I feel like is rotted from within and he started to split at the seam scene delivered, the is starting to fray. Ssa start talk about in which if you like is, unless its up recement on his part perhaps. Do you still record trade absolute. As soon as i finished a book. When i go away i just got back from australia as i read about five or six books when i was gone and its like the first thing i do when i get home as ii get in there and i write down the name of every book. Host what made you begin that process . Guest i was essentially a failed teenage diarist. Select every young girl with ambitions i recorded my thoughts in a journal, in a diary, and it turned out that those entries were awful. I would go back and it would read them and both the content which is about teenage angst like fights with my parents or with friends, and the writing was terrible. There was no anne frank or any joe marcher into being giving into. They were kind of awful
Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie. Details still coming in at this hour about that paragraowerful i in the south pacific. It sounds like it could have been even worse. Two waves, each about fivefeet high hit the west side of the Solomon Islands overnight, following an 8. 0 magnitude earthquake. Well have the latest in a report straight ahead. Closer to home, are we back to the brink in washington . Are those dramatic spending cuts that both sides say they fear closer to going into effect . Well have the latest. A frightening scene the a school in modesto, california, it was all a mock drill. But was it just a little too realistic . Well be talking about that as well. If you couldnt tell from the music at the top, a lot of attention on so muchchisochi, rs morning. The winter Olympic Games kick off in a mere 365 days
Lindsay vonn will be ready for sochi on tuesday. She had a bad crash in austria and needs surgery. What shes saying about her chances of a full recovery in time for the winter games. Let us start this morning with the decision by the Postal Service to end saturday mail delivery. Nbcs tom costello is in a post office in washington, d. C. Good morning. Reporter matt, good morning to you. This was a major move that the Postal Service is undertaking, losing 16 billion a year as it is forced to fund future Retiree Medical benefits. And Congress Still hasnt gotten around to addressing the issue. The Postal Service will act on its own to save money and heres the plan. Starting august 1st, the usps will stop saturday mail delivery and will however continue Package Delivery and we should say medical delivery, in other words, pills and that kind of thing. Mail delivery to post office boxes will continue on saturday. Post offices would remain open on saturday. The estimating savings here is 2 bil
Still not enough. At camp over at camp over something that doesnt repeal of anna karin doesnt fix it. Chris we will ask senator rand paul, one of the biggest critics of the bill what more needs to be done to finally replace obamacare. Plus, Senate Republicans put off a vote this week as one of their own deals with its own health issue. We will ask our sunday panel what happens if the gop keeps the major congress. Hello again for fox news in washington. Senate majority leader has put off the health care of vote while senator john mccain recovers from surgery we will have more on the effort to repeal and replace obamacare a little later. First, our top story. Vermont for months, donald trump and his team have tried to build links between the election behind us. That is now much tougher with a stream of revelations about a meeting donald trump junior and other Campaign Officials held with russian operatives last summer expecting to get damaging information about hillary clinton. How does