anthony: some time ago something crawled, or slithered, or grew like a fungus. something that started small, got bigger, lurched like a swamp thing out of the mud and moist earth and humid nights of the delta. then, it took over the world. so next time some smart ass foreigner, horrified by our latest ham-fisted foreign policy blunder wonders out loud, what good is america? well, you can always pipe up that the blues, rock n roll, r&b, and soul all came out of this place one state mississippi. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la geno: right now we re in the middle of downtown jackson. farish street. anthony: it is a street with a lot of history. what did it used to be like back in the day? geno: the street was packed with folks. folks all over, they
florida, and it could be the most expensive natural disaster unlike anything that anyone alive today has ever experienced. top of the hour. hello, everybody. i m cade ballian in for pamela brown and you re live in the cnn newsroom. tonight growing concerns and calls for more answers over what the fbi recovered during their search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago resort. people want a congressional briefing and damage assessment now after the justice department remained eleven sets of classified documents including materials marked with one of the highest levels of classification. some of those document were marked top secret, sensitive compartmented information and that s among the heist designation in terms of the extremely grave damage to national security that could be done if it were to be disclosed so the fact that they are in an unsecure place, guarded with nothing more than a padlock or whatever security that they had in the hotel is deeply alarmin
On booktv we are live from jackson, mississippi, the home of the first annual mississippi book festival. All day long bringing events from the Mississippi State capitol including otter panels, civil rights, the civil war and more. First up today is of panel on harper lee whose book go set a watchman written and 1915s was released this past july. This is live coverage of the inaugural mississippi book festival in jackson, mississippi. [inaudible conversations] good morning, ladies and gentlemen. We welcome you to the mississippi book festival, to our harper lee panel. The rules the we have up in here, there will be no beverages allowed in here. If you have beverages we ask you to go to a garbage can and placed in the garbage can. Second thing, please silence yourself phones. We need everyone to please silence yourself funds. Again we would like to thank you and i would like to introduce the moderator, amanda nelson, editor of the largest book site in north america. He is also a judge of
Have enough spare can sees but havent released books. Released this past july. This is live coverage of the inaugural mississippi book festival in jackson, mississippi. [inaudible conversations] good morning, ladies and gentlemen. We welcome you to the mississippi book festival, to our harper lee panel. The rules the we have up in esre, there will be no if you actually made it in youe. With beverages and would like ty ask you to go to a garbage can and places in the garbage can. The next thing, please everyone silence your cell phones. Hones. We need everyone at this particular moment to please silence your cell phones. I would like to introduce the moderator amanda nelson. She is the managing editor of a riot the largest book site ink north america. Shes also a judge of theal 2016th translated book award and is an expert on the topic she is about to lead on thehe discussion discussion. Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the harper lee panel. Ea [applause] thank you. Id like being called
A signature feature of booktv is our allday coverage of book fairs and festival is from across the country with top nonfiction authors. Heres ore schedule from the first ever mississippi book festival that took place in august, a Panel Discussion on harper lee and the publication of go set a watchman. It starts now [applause] thank you. I like being called an expert on something. Thats very nice. So, like crow shed, im ammann amanda wilson. Welcome to the mississippi bob festival. Im going to quickly intro does my panelists and then well jump flight and the last ten minutes is for audience questions is it my panel. First is sterling plumpp, a poet and essayist, the author of 14 books. The editor of two anthologies. Professor emary tis at the university of illinois chicago where the served in the english department. Most lieutenant he served as a visiting prefer in the master of fine arts the rye sendent recipient awards. The 2014 american book award for literature. He is writer in resi