[applause] now our guest rebecca is the author of more than 20 books including a field guide to getting lost, the faraway nearby, paradise built in hell, river shadows and wonder love, a history of walking, she is also the author of men explain things to me on feminism activism and social change, hope and also the crime it crisis. A product is a California Public Education System from can get into graduate school, shes a regular contributor to the guardian. Leslie jamison is the author of the New York Times bestseller recovery and empathy stands inis the novel. Shes a good tubing writer for New York Times magazine and her work has appeared in publications including in the quarterly review. She directs the graduate Nonfiction Program at columbiaa university. Please help me welcome rebecca and leslie jamison. [applause] before i started im not doing the book signings because its a more Perfect Technology for what people to handle objects and for all the people to handle all the objects a
Send three to four emails. Month. Tonight we welcome for contributors to the anthology reckoning, going to see if i get this right, tony harkins, meredith mccarroll, bob hudson, and iv bashir. This is a diverse response to hillbilly allergy. Shares a little bit about eat these for contributors and then ill turn the floor over to them. Tony harkins is the author of hillbilly a cultural history of an american icon. Meredith mccarroll is a directive writing and rhetoric at Bowdoin College he is an author. Bob hudson teaches at the university of tennessee and knoxville and is an author. And iv bashirs transition kumar data for Community Economic development in kentucky. Welcome tonight, thank you guys for coming. Im going to turn the floor over to you. So thank you for helping organize this, and thanks for having us. And thanks all for being here. Can you hear all right . Okay. I also want to thank West Virginia University Press who is the publisher for this book. Who sought this kind of w
So think you guys for coming out tonight my name is ginger and a part of the team here. If you will do me a favor and check your cell phones and make sure they are turned to vibrate. We have had it author who has had his phone go off. We do about 300 events around town each year. If you are not on our mailing list and want to know what else is coming up, you should sign up for mailing list at the front. We will not spam you we will send three to four emails. Month. Tonight we welcome for contributors to the anthology reckoning, going to see if i get this right, tony harkins, meredith mccarroll, bob hudson, and iv bashir. This is a diverse response to hillbilly allergy. Shares a little bit about eat these for contributors and then ill turn the floor over to them. Tony harkins is the author of hillbilly a cultural history of an american icon. Meredith mccarroll is a directive writing and rhetoric at Bowdoin College he is an author. Bob hudson teaches at the university of tennessee and kn
Everybody has to move. Thank you for coming out. Im ginger, part of the event team. If you will do me a favor and check your cell phones and make sure they are turned to vibrate. We do 300 events around town each year. If you are not on our mailing list you can set up for our mailing list at the front. We send 3 or 4 emails a month. Tonight we welcome four contributors to the anthology appalachian reckoning. Anthony harkins, meredith mccarroll, bob hutton and ivy brashear. This is a diverse, complex and the management of response to hillbilly elegy a memoir of family and culture in crisis. I will turn the floor over to them. Anthony harkins is professor of history, the author of hillbilly, a cultural history of an american icon. Meredith mccarroll is director of writing and rhetoric, the author of race and film. T. R. C. Hutton teaches american studies at the university of tennessee and is the author of it is i will say this wrong. Blood he blessed. Politics and violence published to t
Just a few minutes ago we hit another record low. The nasdaq of course is obviously under stress as well, down triple digits. Then of course, the Dow Jones Industrials completely lower by 1,862 points, although i would point out the low of the session is a loss of 2,096. Let me take you back to four minutes after the open. Stocks fell so aggressively that the First Circuit breaker as its called, the level, level 1, to halt trading kicked in and that exact trigger would be the s p 500 hitting level 1, a loss of about 7 at that time. Now, after 15 minutes, this is what the dow was doing earlier on the new york Stock Exchange, after 15 minutes of the halt, stocks then reopened and thats when the dow promptly fell 2,046 points. At its low, 9 50 a. M. Eastern time exactly, coming within 200 points of a bear market level. In the last 15 minutes, the dow hit another new intraday low so we can change that 2,158, 2,158. Lets talk about oils response to this deadly Coronavirus Impact on the glob