Host where do you get your p ideas . Guest i came to live at princeton, and i perceived in the biographies a portrait of a person much different from the m sort of received notion of Woodrow Wilson as this model person. I saw that he had many flaws, and i saw that hismany selfrighteousness, his saw rectitude, his condescension toward negroes, he called black people negroes and toward women, i thought really needed to be examined. Host Joyce Carol Oates, do you have any idea how many books youve sold . Guest no, i dont have idea. Host do you have any idea how many awards youve won . Guest no. I dont sit around counting i them. I dont. Host how do you write . Whats your writing process . Guest i try to write very early in the morning, and ini basically love to write. To me, its very exciting. Rig i feel im organizing thoughts that may be incoherent andt chaotic and funneling them, and i like to create dramatic scenes. That novel has a lot of exposition and history, but basically each cha
Author of big, hot, cheap and right, and what america can learn from the strange genius of texas. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Im glen, the directer of the school of journalism at the university of texas at austin. I welcome you. Theres two superb authors here to morning to talk about the state of the union where we went wrong. We have 45 minutes, but could spend 45 hours on this. We better get rolling. Ill introduce the writers, ask questions, and i turn it over to you. I want to remind you when the session ends, two authors go to the signing tents, and theres a place to buy copies of the books and take them to the tent and have them signed. Follow us out when we leave. To the left, george packer, staff writer for the new yorker magazine, author of asass sins gate, named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times, written two novels and two Nonfiction Books, a play off broadway, and lives this brooklyn, new york, the new book called the unwinding inner hist
The Mondavi Center has unveiled plans for the upcoming 2024-2025 season, which begins in the fall. And you may notice that executive director Jeremy Ganter – who assumed the top