[inaudible conversations] hello, everyone. My name is anne. Welcome to the 13th annual savannah book festival. The festival is presented by georgia power, bob faircloth, david and nancy seven terror and the phillip e. And nancy b. Bigman foundation. We are especially grateful to jack and mary romano who are our sponsors for this beautiful venue. Wed also like to welcome our literati members and individual donors today. It is through your support that we are able to make todays festival events free to the public. 90 of our revenue comes from our donors and literati members, and we thank you. Before we get started, i have some housekeeping notes. Kent garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth will be signing festivalpurchased copies of their book at Telfair Square following their presentation. If youre planning to stay for the next author, edward j. Larson, after this presentation please move forward to fill seats as the venue empties. This will help the ushers get people seated for the next session.
And sextuplets black is the author of several books for children. Including the awardwinning trio on board im sad and im worried. And the and a parity a childs first book of trump. His books were adults include the essay collection of my custom van black also coauthored with Megan Mccarthy mccain. Im mccarthy. Sorry mccain america, you sexy now i got to know more about that. I really do. As a standup comedian michael regularly tours the country and he has released several comedy albums his podcasts include mike and tom eat snacks. With tom cavanagh topics with Michael Showalter how to be amazing and obscure now, which please help me. Welcome Michael Ian Black this is my first time behind a pulpit. I like it. Thank you for that warm introduction. So nice to be here in at the beautiful Trinity Church here in savannah. I am not just a visitor to savannah i moved here. About six months ago from the wilds of connecticut where i was residing for the previous 20 years. But my children who you
First book of trump. His books were adults include the essay collection of my custom van black also coauthored with Megan Mccarthy mccain. Im mccarthy. Sorry mccain america, you sexy now i got to know more about that. I really do. As a standup comedian michael regularly tours the country and he has released several comedy albums his podcasts include mike and tom eat snacks. With tom cavanagh topics with Michael Showalter how to be amazing and obscure now, which please help me. Welcome Michael Ian Black this is my first time behind a pulpit. I like it. Thank you for that warm introduction. So nice to be here in at the beautiful Trinity Church here in savannah. I am not just a visitor to savannah i moved here. About six months ago from the wilds of connecticut where i was residing for the previous 20 years. But my children who you will hear more about were getting older. Showbiz had shut down because of covid. I wasnt making any money. And we thought maybe its a good time to sell our hou
Us marine deploying to the mediterranean. East africa in iraq, he grew up on military bases from the east coast of the United States to japan. He currently lives in new york city, but calls atlanta home. Please give a warm savannah. Welcome to jared alexander. Good morning. Wow, give me one sec here. Okay . First thanks for having me. I its been a hard year for facetoface interactions with books and her two years i suppose and just being here is a real honor. Actually, im was really happy to be invited and speak to you guys about my book and about some of the stuff that sort of influenced it. And thats kind of what i want to talk about actually is i i just when i thought about what i was going to come up here and talk about i kept thinking about other works and other works that sort of but maybe as a kid and as an adult sort of moved me into writing about war the way that i did and so i thought i took a little take a little time to do that. And i i guess first off i want to start by ta
Alexander has written for esquire Rolling Stone the nation narrative. I knew id get this one now narratively. And elsewhere he holds an mfa in literary reportage from the New York University Arthur L Carter school of journalism. From 1998 to 2006 he served as a us marine deploying to the mediterranean. East africa in iraq, he grew up on military bases from the east coast of the United States to japan. He currently lives in new york city, but calls atlanta home. Please give a warm savannah. Welcome to jared alexander. Good morning. Wow, give me one sec here. Okay . First thanks for having me. I its been a hard year for facetoface interactions with books and her two years i suppose and just being here is a real honor. Actually, im was really happy to be invited and speak to you guys about my book and about some of the stuff that sort of influenced it. And thats kind of what i want to talk about actually is i i just when i thought about what i was going to come up here and talk about i ke