The. Who was Simon Schuster . Guest well they were max shuster and simon and they were two gentlemen who were friends with one another and we back in 1924 they decided to start a Publishing House on their own. They have been working in Publishing Houses but felt they could begin on themselves so they did. They set out one day and they rented a space and put up a sign that said Simon Schuster publishers. Host would they recognize what you do today . Guest know i think they totally would. Some of what is really interesting when you read through the history is to realize how many things go in circles and what is old becomes new again. They use as an example the reason they would recognize what we do today namely its because the job of the publisher has not changed at all which is defined great work. Depending on what kind of work it is and then to find an audience that commits that audience to buy it. We have always been the conduit between the artist in the consumer and that has not chan
In new york. [inaudible] as most shes a good writer, articles appear regulate in the near times, the wall street journal, the newsweek and many other publications. Her book was published on the cnn website as a source of authoritative information on current Political Developments in russia. Fortunately, or rather unfortunate because [inaudible] the publication of this book is timely. Because of this conflict we are witnessing propaganda. How our government justifies its action in ukraine [inaudible] and how typical russian when people tend to believe, is being criticized. This book explains why all that happen. And guides to russian peoples minds which are still not free from any kind of invisible internal [inaudible] so please welcome to the stage with nina khrushcheva. [applause] thank you very much. The introduction is certainly very much better than much more than i deserve, but thank you. Thank you, all of you, for being here. Is an incredible honor. I was talking to somebody toda
Things. Any book where there is a high advance i am involved in the acquisition and i look over what everyone is doing and offer suggestions but i am there really to make sure that the things the Company Provides the publishers help them do their job better and help them find those audiences and communicate to them. Guest i manage the editors, the publicity, the marketing, foreign rights and oversee the birthing of the books into the world. Host so you have some editorial duties and business side duties, correct . Guest absolutely. The idea is to publish the authors as successfully as possible. Host you publish about a hundred books a year . Guest we are the Flagship Division and publishing 130 this year. It is a range of authors. We have literary novelist and Major Writers like thomas, Hilary Clinton, james web, john mccain. We have got notable personalities and a lot of terrific general nonfiction with biographties from everybody from sally ride to john wane to literary memoirs. Host
And more dearly paid his father, my birth great grandfather, because suddenly in the story the redric of russia today and the reason Nikita Khrushchev, which i think the greatest thing he did was deannounce stallin during the secret speech and later on wi. It is no longer seen as an act of brave. Instead it is dismissed as a simple act of political revenge. And then the story goes because russians love literature and they are great at inventing stories. That is why they are so good at propaganda because all that is is inventing stories. As the story goes today, if it were not my grandfather or family i would say that is a great invention and reads like a good detective novel. And the story goes today that when stalin discovered that khrushchev was a trader and he already died and they are dockments he died an march 11, 1943. And stalin discovered instead of him dying he was actually defective to the nazis. He was a Fighter Pilot and flew soviet fighter jet. So the story goes, the new s
Showing us any problems whatsoever. At mosuls see a cloud or two but rain is gone. We saw quite a bit of rain yesterday. We ended up, with just generally a quarter to maybe almost as much as a half inch of rain in some spots. The not quite as much as a half an inch but close to it. Our temperatures right now are cool, and the wind is out of the north and that makes air mass dry. Any puddles we will see will be drying up and sunshine will help evaporate that. 47 degrees right now. That is up in the poconos in philadelphia, 56 degrees. In Atlantic City 54 degrees. A bit more breezy, wind from eight, nine, 10 miles an hour from north to south. Fiftysix in philadelphia a presently. Fiftytwo in trenton. Fiftyfour in wilmington. Everybody is out of the 40s with the exception of the poconos. We did have have a couple of those temperatures in the 40s this morning and we will find out that same thing tomorrow. What is in the 40s, mostly the dew points. It is a very dry air mass, feels wonderful