In debt. They started off incredibly well. They published grants memoirs, enormous success, and huckleberry finn. And twain expected to pay himself fat royalties. He wound up receiving no royalties. This is their final list of titles, and i dont know if you can see from there, but any publisher thats going to go out with stories from the rabbis [laughter] is probably going to be in a little trouble. [laughter] so headlines, and it was deeply humiliating, headlines in the newspaper said mark twain fails. I mean, it was brutal. Failure of mark twain, failure of humanist. And hes humorist. And hes this literary superstar, deeply embarrassed, and he gets two main advisers. One of the wealthiest men in america, the righthand man to john k. Rockefeller, standard oil. His nickname was hell hound, and this robberbaron wants to play hardball with the creditors. He wants to offer ten cents on the dollar. Twains other adviser is his wife, libby. She has absolutely no business experience. She writ
Making abrupt turns and dropping rapidly before it vanished. Civilian radar doesnt show that. It just shows the jet stopping at 37,000 feet. Flight 804 disappeared around 2 45 egypt time. Thats last night for those of us on east coast. About 20 minutes from landing in cairo and just entered egyptian air space. It took off from charles de gualle airport with no reported problems. More than a dozen french passengers, many egyptian passengers and other nationalities onboard. Also children. No americans were on that plane. French president Francois Hollande says no hypothesis about the crash is ruled out or preferred. Prosecutors office in paris is opening an investigation into the incident. Meanwhile, other officials in the city are making sure the families of the victims are getting support. And this is another blow for paris. Just this morning, frances lower house of parliament approved an extension to the state of emergency declared for the deadly terror attacks back in november. It wi
What . Lets ask her to hang out for the empire wrap. I sure hope so. Because i have lots of questions after last nights finale. Im sure you do, too. Lets talk about hair products. You know she has an empire of her own. But speaking of empire finale, question trying to answer this morning who fell off that ledge. Was it rhonda, booboo kitty . Let me know your thoughts. Oh, come on, im getting little tired of the cliff hangers. Very fun. I. Also, singer, you like soap operas. How about this one . How the grammy winner being honored in our city, right here. Oh, we have some star power today. Woe sure do. Karen, are you going to doylestown with us today . Nobody asked me. Why dont you common up. Oh, thats so nice. Ya sure that would be great. We probably need somebody back here to hold down the premises in case whatever they need, im here to help. Such atom player. Love you. So tomorrow, im going to try to do this at 7 00. Lets do it at 7 00. We will be out in doylestown. Come out to see u
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everybody. When martine. Good afternoon. Youve enjoyed the three days weve had here. You know, my Third Straight year of coming and nature they try to offer a great selection of poetry and discussions, film. Thank you so much are coming to join us. The reception last night, the presentation we had the honorary chair last night. The honorees were [inaudible] and woody king junior. Their messages were very inspiring and really got people fired up. I hope you got a chance to see it. Todays the last day of the conference we want to make sure we have a good time today. This is a black literature and the topic we have come in today. My name is patrick oliver. I thought of the readers and writers raised in chicago, illinois. We supported and not of projects, to encourage young people to become the next generation of individuals who may be at the conference monday. Check us out and speak loudly. Com. Its also my pleasure to be
He was definitely an engaging teacher and as you mentioned his experiments influence a lot of people including including you. [inaudible] this is a bit of a followon and im still trying to formulate what is probably a very elementary question but you talk about all the research you did and obviously he mixes in real historical characters with his primary fictional characte characters. Was he primarily using fiction to illuminate history and historical forces or using history to illuminate human nature . Yes and yes. [laughter] i mean thats a huge question. One of the criticisms that this book has received is that tolstoy intentionally distort historical facts for his own purposes so for instance he creates in the character could to save us a far more salt of the earth kind of character than he actually was. He was apparently much more widely, much more questionable in terms of his morals so historians have accused the full story of using history and distorting it for his own ends. I do