With the team, the brain trust behind the industries leading trade magazine for indy books, publishers in particular selfawareness. And they are janet risko is the cofounder and publisher. John better who is the other cofounder and he is the editorinchief and bob gray he was an editor and a columnist. So you have no doubt read his columns, hes basically a bookstore correspond at the bookstore correspondent if you like you are in americas great indy bookstores and see was going on in the meantime. So welcome guys really an honor and pleasure to see you all. To seal all work in the same as last time i saw it which i think was at the institute. Yeah january. Seems like a lifetime ago doesnt it . But its good to see everybody and i have to say, it seems to me has to become even more important publication than it was before. Really kind of a lifeline for indy booksellers in particular to see who is making it, how they are making it, to hear their stories. Some really great work going on. Bu
Discussion or save them for the q a at the end of the event, so i just want everyone to know that before we get started. So as i said, this, of course, could not be a more important or more timely conversation that we are going to have today since the death of george floyd in Police Custody last night. We have seen nationwide unrests, we have seen protests not only here in america but internationally. Weve also seen a certain narrative take hold. It start with the assumption that the only way to properly view George Floyds death is through racial lens. In fact, all of encounters between police and black suspects are increasingly view this way. Its a narrative of Derek Chauvin and that george floyd is every black man in america. That blacks essentially leave the house each day worried about having a violent encounter with police. The media has run with this narrative which faces very little pushback, very little skepticism and it leaves with us with the impression that the biggest probl
Policy to the director of the office of management and budget during the Obama Administration discusses his book which country has the worlds best healthcare . Watch booktv on cspan2 this weekend. Good evening everybody and welcome to. Stretching from union square, from an original 48 stores until after over 93 years the sole survivor. Now ran by third generation. We want to thank all of you for your support, authors, book lovers and friends, without you, we would not be here today. We are excited to have a woman celebrating the release of her new book. Tara is a contributing editor, the columnist and former staff religion reporter at fox. Com. She has written on religion through national geographic, the washington post, the New York Times and more. She holds a doctorate in theology from oxford. Also a novel social creature. Joining tara to discuss her new book is ross. Ross is a columnist for the New York Times oped page. The author to change a church and a privilege. Coauthor of bran
The cia came back to him and his publisher and said theres 339 passages here you have to delete because they are revealing National Security information. They went to court, they fought over, cia cut that number from 339 down to 168. In that the end of the day, 30. The publisher put out the book with white spaces for the 30, bold face for the 160 they caved on, and italic for the other. So theres an object lesson how subjective this can be. Thats the formal start of a review board process inside the intelligence community. But he did go through the review process . He did submit it before publishing the book . Guest rights. The case and went all way to the Supreme Court was a man named frank who did not submit his book. Thats what the judge is referring to the bolton case when he said hes risking losing his royalties. In 1980 the Supreme Court upheld the seizure of all of his royalties. His book advance, all of his royalty income. Because he did not give the book to the cia for review.
Committee chairman, the meeting with white house chief of staff mark meadows and Steve Mnuchin over the course of this week there is a deal in principle on a deal for another Coronavirus Relief package, not quite as big as the cares act passed in march but negotiators are saying it could be 1 trillion or more and this bill would tackle many things left out of the cares package. 5 billion at this point, more money for contact tracing, testing a major republican priority and liability protection, businesses and schools the reopen. This is an agreement in principle. Weve not seen the bill text with a expect to drop starting monday. That was first stage negotiation, nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer and negotiations will get underway. Where are Senate Republicans on not only the bill itself but suggestions for spending . They are split. A number of republicans are concerned about spending. The deficit continues to rise, 3. 6 trillion spent to address the coronavirus pandemic at half of that h