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The 13th annual savannah book festival presented by georgia power, bob, david and nancy, the philip e and answered be foundation. We are especially grateful to our sponsors for this glorious menu, the Trinity United Methodist church and we would also like to welcome our litter artery numbers and individual donors today. It is through your support that we are able to make Successful Events free to the public. 90 percent of our revenue comes from our donors and members and we thank you. This years festival is full of great events and authors and we dont want to miss any of the fun. So, download the new book savannah book festival 2020 app on your phone. And you can be in the know. About everything we have going this year. If you need more info about downloading this app, you can find in the back of your program. Before we get started i have a couple of housekeeping notes. Robert wilson will be signing festival purchased copies of his book in the square immediately following the presentat
Preservation and the literary editor of civilization a former book editor and odcolumnist and former editor at the Washington Post. His essays and reviews of fiction have appeared in numerous publications including americann scholar , american short fiction the Atlantic Monthly the new republic and the smithsonian and Washington Post magazine and on the atbat one oped open in pages the New York Times and usa today and the Washington Post he lives in virginia please give a warm welcome to robert wilson. [applause] thank you. I appreciate your introduction work i hope your app works better than the iowa caucuses. [laughter] thank you to all of you for coming this morning on this cold morning its good to see so many of youou here and i want to thank cspan for all it does to support but culture in america. I would be tempted to say normally its very easy to be optimistic about the state of books. I love being here in savannah. We live outside of washington dc with a place on panhandle of f
Cheryl veronica . I hosted so im ready to be done. We have a lot of news coming up this morning. Our top story this hour was, well, it was christmas, americans spending more money online for the Holiday Season, ecommerce sales jumped more than 18 compared to last year overall. Holiday retail sales excluding cars rising more than 3 . Thanksgiving did fall later this year which pushed a lot of retailers to start sales earlier. President trump touted the news, heres what he tweeted. 2019 Holiday Retail sales were up 3. 4 from last year. Biggest number in u. S. History, congratulations, america. Veronica, your reaction in the middle of all this political abusinesabyss thats happening , you have an economy and consumer thats on fire and we have numbers to prove it. It sounds like youre trying to get away from washington but this is great for the party of washington, for republicans, for the president. This is a great economy for him to be going into 2020 with. Theres a ton of devi divisiven