Each year the National Book critics circles awards are presented to the best books published in the United States as voted on by 600 literary critics. Heres this years Award Ceremony from the new school in new york city. Its 90 minutes. Hello, everyone. Good evening and welcome. Im the director of the creative writing and we are happy to welcome back our friends. For over 15 years we have been honored to host this award in the auditorium. For the fifth year from the Creative Writing Program interviewed the finalists in a series of interviews can you hear me . Okay, the interview is posted on the blog and the website. You can check them out on book critics. Org. Organizing and posting over 30 interviews over a threeweek period is a huge job and one that couldnt have been job without kelly stewart, student interviewers and the others. Thank you to the Board Members and sylvan simon for all of their efforts and a huge thank you for the board i wonder if we can get a round of applause to t
Each year the National Book critics circles awards are presented to the best books published in the United States as voted on by 600 literary critics. Heres this years Award Ceremony from the new school in new york city. Its 90 minutes. Hello, everyone. Good evening and welcome. Im the director of the creative writing and we are happy to welcome back our friends. For over 15 years we have been honored to host this award in the auditorium. For the fifth year from the Creative Writing Program interviewed the finalists in a series of interviews can you hear me . Okay, the interview is posted on the blog and the website. You can check them out on book critics. Org. Organizing and posting over 30 interviews over a threeweek period is a huge job and one that couldnt have been job without kelly stewart, student interviewers and the others. Thank you to the Board Members and sylvan simon for all of their efforts and a huge thank you for the board i wonder if we can get a round of applause to t
And im katy zachry. Lets get to crystkrystal klei our neighborhood weather. Temperatures are great outside. Were going to be looking at changes as we go through your Morning Hours here. In fact you can already see theyre coming from the west. Those showers are going to start picking up, looks like about 7 00 a. M. Is when they should move into our area. Light rain starting out a little before that. You see some moves into Chester County right now. And what were looking at with the rain is warm air thats in place. Temperatures are higher than typical for this time of the year and this point in the morning. Were at 56 degrees in philadelphia, 55 in wilmington. Atlantic city sits at 58 degrees and millville at 54. If we move farther north were going to say areas like mount pocono at 43 degrees. Huge difference from the low 20s we were seeing yesterday. Here are the current wind speeds on top of the rain moving in, the warmer temperatures, were breezy to windy. Notice the winds are coming
Pensions wretched up between canada and india off the ottawa refuses to stop. Canadian seeks conducting a referendum for separative seek homeland in the western indian state of couldnt job with the 8 be im now here at moscow, we appreciate you joining us here in a few International Special coverage. Todays referendums on whether or not to join russia, the voting has been getting underway, old day to day in dawn bass, and in the regions beyond. As we understand, at this very moment, the polling stations are closing. Ah no right with a map i can show you the referendum is being held in for regions 1st and foremost, that done yet and against peoples republics, right there. Now basically they had already declared themselves independent back in 2014. That was after the government in keith was overthrown. But also though people have been casting their ballots in the upper orgy region and the heart of san region as well. Now the voting comes off the days of intensified shelling of residential
Shops. As the police and the army were moving through, they would either discover people or they would sense help had arrived and they would flood out oh. You would get moments of silence and moments of big streams of people they were trying to get out as quickly as possible. Everywhere we went, more people came out of the woodwork. In one sense it seemed abandoned. The music that plays in the Shopping Mall was still playing on the intercom. It was this eerie silence with music interrupted occasionally by gunfire. Terrified people were crying, screaming, running for their lives. I never thought i would encounter this kind of tragedy in a public place like this where completely innocent civilians were just gunned down and murdered. It is not like a conventional war where you would expect combatants to get hurt or expect there to be Collateral Damage in those situations. This is just a Suicide Mission and murder. Prizewinning New York Times photographer tyler hicks in his own words for u