I write mostly comic novels. We have written seven or eight of those. This book is a memoir probably the only memoir i will never write. I dont have that much to say. May be going out on thin i. C. E. I dont think i will write another book than this one in part because it is so singular in nature. About two Extraordinary People who provided me with some amazing material for a book. Host what was it like to write the book . I sat down shortly after i buried my father last year i woke up in the morning with no intention of writing a book and started writing a book and i wrote a in 40 days. Was accidental there was no biblical collusion but when i looked at the calendar i saw 40 days had lapsed. I work hard to on my writing. It wrote a lot of it itself but we pretty much poured out. Host were you surprised at what poured out . Yes. I think the first sentence read Something Like im not sure how this book is going to turn out. I was indeed surprised at how it turned out. Host thats exactly
Joining her to discuss the problem with everything is judith shes a critic and journalist and the author of the sabbath world glimpses of a different order of time. Former the editor of lynn walt franco Deputy Editor of new York Magazine and science editor of the new republic shes written for the New York Times book review among numerous others. Thank you to our friends at cspan for joining us to film us conversation for book tv. Without further ado, please join me in welcoming meghan and judas. [applause]abmeghan and judith. Am always really relieved when people show up. I love coming to the strand and i love seeing people very early in my career, not that early actually but earlier i was on a book tour and i was in minneapolis, i was in st. Paul, it turned out to be the same night that David Sedaris was doing a reading at the university and minneapolis and in like a stadium basically. Anybody who was anybody who cared about those things went to see David Sedaris except for one young
Full. This model has been open for five hours. The line started at about 4 00 a. M. As the morning progresses, it is is certainly getting busier. The line started to get people into the mall. Giving out these free gift cards that drew the traffic. It is an outlet. 60 off off the entire store. You have to boys. I am sure they like sneakers. Look at this line for the nike store. The entire store 30 off. Because it is an outlet, you can walk out of here with sneakers as low as 20 bucks. A lot of action has in here today. It is black friday. This is what i will say. People are showing up. They are showing up for the experience. A lot of young kids, college students, gently. A College Reunion earlier in the day. Now there are a lot of families. As it gets later on, you will see more the baby boomers. Different generations making their way through. Brickandmortar is not dead, but online is really booming at the same time. If you have an experience like this one has, it will get crowded. I am
Obama finds no easy answers and plenty of contradictions and the problems of our time. But his other books include the breakthrough essay collection, my misspent youth and the unspeakable, which won the penn center usa award for creative nonfiction. Shes also received fellowships from the guggenheim and National Endowment for the arts fellowships and she teaches in the mfa writing program at columbia university. Thank you all for coming out. Im always really relieved when people show up. I love coming to the strand and i love seeing people very early in my career, not that really, actually earlier i was on a book tour i was in minneapolis, in st. Paul and it turned out to be the same night that David Sedaris was doing a reading at the university in minneapolis and in like a stadium basically. Anybody who was anybody who cared about this went to see david who did errors except for one young woman who showed up at my event and she had driven 100 miles from her parents farm to come see me
Passenger plane to make a risky landing in the middle of a corn field. The split second decision by the pilot that saved hundreds of lives. All that, plus free fall. The markets post their worst drop all year as worries about a recession get real, and trumps trade war has no end in sight. On the same team. I think we passed craigs there as jayz and nfl commissioner Roger Goodell make their first joint appearance. And modern family, two male penguins and the adorable adoption story making headlines all around the world, thursday, august 15th, 2019. News this announcer from nbc news this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody, good morning, welcome to today on a thursday morning. Nice to have you with us, real overnight developments in that terrifying situation in philadelphia. Its ended. Theres been a surrender of the gunman who opened fire on police in philly ending a tense standoff and a hostage situation that gripped the