The author of the New York Times bestseller also a visiting professor at columbia university. Featured in the new yorker, the New York Times, the atlantic, rolling stone, esquire and the guardian among many others. Joining the conversation born and raised in jackson mississippi, professor of english and creative writing at the university and author of the novel Long Division and a collection of essays how to slowly kill your self and others in america. Also the author of the memoir heavy, shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie medal and named one of the best books by the New York Times, publishers weekly, npr, library journal, the washington post, entertainment weekly, the San Francisco chronicle and the New York Times critics. Without further ado please join me in welcoming morgan and kiese laymon. Hello, everyone. Im so excited to talk to you about this book. I wish that we could i really wish we could have done this down south. Guest i know. Two years ago i was in conversation with you
Be here today and we are so appreciative of it. Tonight i am beyond thrilled to have Morgan Jerkins with us to tolerate the release of her new book wandering in strange lands. Morgan jerkins is the author of the New York Times bestseller this will be my undoing quite thoroughly recommended. And the Senior Editor at sora come shes also a visiting professor at columbia university, her short form work has been featured in the new yorker, New York Times, the atlantic, rolling stone, l, esquire and the guardian among many others, she is based in harlem. Joining morgan and conversation is abborn and raised in jackson mississippi professor of english and creative writing at the university of mississippi the author of the long Long Division and the collection of xrays essays, how to slowly kill yourself and others in america. Also author of the men were heavy, shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie medal named one of the best books in 2018 by the young defeated, New York Times novel shows weekly,
Present. Vice chair chiu. Present. Commissioner kopp. Here. Commissioner lee. Here. All right, everyone is here, so lets go to Public Comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. Agenda. Yes. Go ahead and just in order. Hi, im [inaudible] i wanted to add something on behalf of mr. Bush for the record, he wanted me to read the editorial that appeared in the chronicle regarding the last meeting when the commission decided not to send the measure to the board of supervisors pending further work. The editorial was titled osf ethics board fays to tackle money and politics. It appeared september 27th in the conical. It chronicle. It realdz they had a chance to pass a common sense measure to curtail money and politics. It failed. It would have banned the practice of allowing political donors to contribute to the charitable causes of favorable candidates when they have a land decision in front of city officials. Such arrangements are common place and stink to high heaven. As cr
Murdering a federal officer and committing violence at an international airport. The head of the police at lax described the attack. At 9 20 this morning, in individual came into terminal 3 of this airport, pulled an Assault Rifle out of a bag and began to open fire in the terminal. He proceeded up into the screening area where tsa screeners are, and continued shooting. He went past the screeners back. Nto the airport itself personnel officers from airport police, los angeles airport police, responded immediately to the calls. They tracked the individual through the airport and engaged him in gunfire and terminal 3. And were able to successfully take him into custody. The slain victim, gerardo hernandez, was the first tsa agent to dying a line of duty since the agencys creation following the 9 11 attacks. He was a married father of two who had emigrated from el salvador as a teenager. Source, lawenforcement the Southern Poverty Law Center says the gunman was carrying a note making raci
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