Our guest author this evening is lisa selin davis. She is originally from right here in fairfield new yorkand shes been a great friend for the bookstore. Really since the bookstore openseven years ago and possibly even before that with trips to manchester. She is the author of the young adult novel lost stars and is an essayist and journalist whos written for publicationsincluding the new york times, wall street journal and others and shes with us tonight to celebrate the release just yesterday of her book tom boy. Please join me in welcoming her. Thank you. Hello lisa. This is going to be a unique experience for the both of us. I have never ever interviewed my author so i am so excited about this fun exchange that were going to have. I dont get to talk to my authors about their books in this way. Usually we are hammering it out editorially through the beginning pages of the process but never in this way can we go back in and talk about it together so this is a great experience for me
Open several years ago and i thinkpossibly even before that. She is the author of the young adult novel lost scars and is an essayist and journalist was written for major publications including the wall street journal, guardian and many others and shes with us tonight to celebrate the release just yesterday of her book tomboy. Please join me in welcoming her. Hello, lisa. This is going to be a very unique experience for the both of us. I have never ever interviewed my author so i am so psyched and excited about this fun exchange that were going to have. I dont get to talk to my authors about their books in this way. Usually where hammering it out editorially through the beginning pages of the process but never in this way can we go back in and talk about it together so this is a great experience for me and thank you forhaving me. Im so happy to be here everyone. So yeah, i wanted to start out i think maybe we should start out by saying how tomboy, this beautiful wonderful book that you
Around the world and trying to figure out why young man get attracted. Thank you very much. I would start off with what was the impetus for this book . Like the rest of the world i observed National Terrorist attack in paris organized by a few young men who had grown up in europe mostly belgium and france and turned against europe and european men decided they wanted to join a foreign enemy and attack their own hometown so 500 people and i saw this but i never thought about jihadist or violence before but i just saw these young guys and i thought they grew up and not very different from me newcomers and secondgeneration european. In and out of criminal lifestyles and have seen their friends go through drama. And very much people i could have grown up with but then they wind up in this place i have a hard time understanding so i wanted to know i saw a lot of emotion and frustration from all sorts of different backgrounds and i wanted to write a book that would explain what we might lear
Across from you and talk about your book why young men. Thoroughly enjoyable. Im going to say i read this book in one sitting and it was so fascinating to read about your journey from growing up in a segregated neighborhood being very close to the edge of becoming a criminal, being deemed illiterate, good colleges and university, Yale Law School and becoming sort of this youth activist in traveling around the world and really about your journey of trying to figure out why young men get attracted to violence to keep the violence i found it fascinating. Congratulations. But im going to ask i guess i want to start off with this wealth was the impetus for this book if you could tell me. Like most of the rest of the world i had observed this pair is attacking 2015 organized by a few young men whod grown up europe mostly belgium and france and they turned against europe, these were european men who decided they wanted to join a foreign enemy which was the Islamic State o of crisis and attack
Were back with this dramatic video of Good Samaritans rescuing a man trapped inside a burning car in oklahoma. Police say his car crossed the center line and crashed into another vehicle. You can hear the anguish of a woman pleading for help. In the name of jesus you hear pops. After struggling, that man was pulled to safety, taken to the hospital with leg injuries. Two people in the other vehicle died. Just incredible video there. Again, you see that man being dragged out of the car. Just lucky to be alive this morning. Theres a new development in the search for that missing College Student in utah. She disappeared more than a week ago after taking a rideshare from the airport. Now police are questioning a person of interest. Heres abcs clayton sandell. Reporter a tendayold case that seemed to go cold heating up. Detectives serving search warrants in the case of missing 23yearold College Senior Mackenzie Lueck, carrying out bags of evidence five miles from the park where lueck was dro