We have been here for over two years and we are very excited to be here on the Upper West Side supporting these great importance works and i am so happy to have Peter Moscowitz here i loved this book and i think you will all love it, too mac. We do not charge admission so we would ask you to keep supporting great people and great work. For those of you that dont know his work, he is a freelance journalist whos covered a wide variety of issues from disasters to the racist urban planning. A former staff writer at Al Jazeera America hes written for the guardian, New York Times, others. He is a graduate at the school of journalism and joining him in moderating the discussion will be the host of the difficult to name reading series that brings together journalists and others. He is a writer and currently working on a novel. If you noticed booktv is here from cspan and they will be recording. After the talking portion if you could wait for me to come and find you and give you a microphone so
Hello everyone, good evening and welcome. Im the director of the Creative Writing Program and we are so happy to welcome our friend for over 15 years weve been honored to host the awards ceremony in this auditorium ended this year from the Creative Writing Program the finalists in the series of interviews can you hear me . Okay. On our blog and on the website and book critics. Org. We will be doing these over a twoweek period and its one that couldnt have been done without the interviewers and editors and publicists. Thank you also to the Board Members. And a huge thank you to the rest of the board. I wonder if we can give a round of applause to the board . [applause] they may mention this also, but it is entirely volunteer. The whole enterprise is a volunteer job, and it is preaching to the choir but we need to remember to call congresspeople and senators after they approved the elimination. [applause] we can also mention other things we might like to have happen. We would like to kee
College professor bradley bircher, former Washington Post reporter Molly Mccartney examines the u. S. Military industrial complex, jack cashin takes a critical look at the crash of flight 800, and booktv visits peoria, illinois. For a complete television schedule, booktv. Org. Booktv on cspan2, its 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, its for serious readers. And now were kicking off this weekend with John Strausbaugh, author of city of sedition. Its about new york city during the civil war. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Good evening. Thank you so much for coming out here to politics prose. Thank you so much for coming out here to politics prose for yet another one of our enlightened and lively author talks. You cant hear me . Okay. Well be quiet. [laughter] and at that cue, please let me please silence all your cell phones at this point, and also let me just go through a few other housekeeping details. So the author will speak for about 20 minutes, 20, 25 minutes, and w
If youre one of those who really enjoyed yesterday, youre going to want to hit rewind on your life. Because michaels here track it. He was updating me just as we were headed into the show. This is going to be an unbelievable difference in such a short amount of time. Mansfield literally within the past three hours went from 6141 degrees. That was within three hours. We are expecting to not get more cold, but also more windy then, of course, the rain moves in. The rain, then transitions to a mix, eventually to a snow. Look at the temperatures right now. 64 is where we were at. 41 where were currently at. Much colder air racing into northeast ohio. 49degrees right now. We will easily fall into the 30s later on this afternoon. Look at the wind right along the lake by the way. Sustained at 30, gusting to with it, as well. If youre waking up with us this morning back towards places like eastern ottawa county, over towards huron, mansfield already seeing the rainfall and even here in clevela
Boyce and debrovsky. They probably sat in here all night chanting it. Crime victims on the worst day of their life, giving statements of items stolen from their home or descriptions of loved ones that went missing or worse. If theyve got to be called douche bag by a bird, you dont think well get complaints . You know, the voice of that sounds an awful lot like you, sipowicz. All right, now youre getting paranoid. Helen stoles apparent suicide. A young girl. Hate to see that. Who found her . Super. Her boss stopped by off her missing two days of work. Wheres the e ss . I got his statement and kicked him. You kicked him . Yeye. [ sighs ] whered she work . St. Lukes hospital, nightshift, clerical job. Boss say shed been depressed lately . He hadnt noticed, but she was never talkative. How long she work there . One year. She got family . Not in town. Boyfriend . He didnt think so. Why . She was a loner. Want me get the boss back . I got his home, cell, pager, height, weight, date of birth,