[inaudible conversations] good morning. We have a few coming in the back. There we go. My name is linda, and we are delighted to have you participate in the tenth annual savannah be book festival presented by Georgia Power and the Sheehan Family foundation. We are blessed to host such celebrated authors in the Trinity United Methodist church today which has been made possible by the generous generosity of kurt and linda anderson. Wed like to extend a special thanks to our literatety members and individual donors who have made and continue to make Saturdays Free festival events possible. Before we get started, theres always housekeeping. Immediately following the presentation, Terry Mcdonnell will be signing festivalpurchased copies of his book in the square. We have a new policy this year. If youre planning to stay for the next author presentation, please move forward into the venue so that the ushers can count the number of Seats Available for people coming in for it. Please, please t
Anderson. Wed like to extend a special thanks to our literatety members and individual donors who have made and continue to make Saturdays Free festival events possible. Before we get started, theres always housekeeping. Immediately following the presentation, Terry Mcdonnell will be signing festivalpurchased copies of his book in the square. We have a new policy this year. If youre planning to stay for the next author presentation, please move forward into the venue so that the ushers can count the number of Seats Available for people coming in for it. Please, please take a moment to turn off your cell phones, and we also ask that you do not use flash photography. And for the questionandanswer portion of todays session, its a little bit different than its been in years past. Please raise your hands, and an usher will bring a microphone to you. Terry mcdonnell is with us today courtesy of robert and diane levy and bill and nina wheel. Terry mcdonnell has won numerous awards for his edi
Columbia journalism review. The wave runner at the New York Times says he writes winningly about his regrets and evokes the magazine world payday of lavishv offices, drink in the evening and hedonism. Nism. Mcdonnell, the accidental life is the saddest fact of the team from the. He help when an amazon i spoke alloys and 2610. Please give a warm stefania oldschool welcome to terry mcdonell. [applause] thank you. This is my first boat. I cant imagine a better place to be right now in this Beautiful Church in this fine, fine city. My book is about writers and their work and working with them. It is an editors notes on writing and writers in the subhead. When i am honest about this book, and i say that out of a a kind of vanity, i want to show myself as a writer. I thought the best way to dote t that with the too bright about the great writers that i edited and what i learned editing them. Not just about writing, but thet writing life. Dating site couch and salts attacked about being a fig
Courted and fell in love with a woman and married a second time. He wrote thousands of passionate love letters to each of these women. This was a real living breathing human being and i dont think we have seen that about woodrow wilson. Next Diane Mcwhorter on her look carry me home birmingham, alabama the climactic battle of the civil rights revolution. She focuses on the 1963 bombing of the 16th st. Church that killed four young girls in times when the police try to disperse young demonstrators with fire hoses and dogs. This is an outward. Cspan the last lion under acknowledgments as i think my father for delivering me as Robert Renoir wrote out of the history into history and the awful responsibility of time. What are you getting out there . Guest at the last line from all the kings men which was an inspiration for this book because as you recall in that book the main character is able to tie his own history to characters he thought had nothing to do with him when he was growing up
We still find that people in those communities are saying thats an old case. We dont need to revive it. Why bring up the past . Lets let it go. Lets let god take care of it. And i answer did not god give us a mind . Did not god give us the strength . Why are we depending on that . That can bring closure, i feel, to all of these negatives that still float around in the air, whether they be in mississippi or whether it be in other parts of this country. It was the same thing that was told to me. Years and years i searched for evidence that would help us get a third trial with medgars assassin. People said youre crazy, youre living in the past. Youve got to move away from it. I cant help you. I wont help you. And this one word, one word that medgar had and i had, and i hope all of us want to make positive changes will have, and thats perseverance. A believing in something, a being determined, having that vision. Being determined of seeing that vision comes into being. And assessing whatev