Senior news editor of publishers weekly, editor of pws online coverage of comics and graphic, and im also a cohost on more to come, pws weekly podcast, and aim also placed to welcome you to the 2020 brooklyn book festival online, a little different platform this year but still exciting and still doing what he brooklyn book fair does so well, to bring artists together to talk about their work. Were here today with a great trio of artists and start with dave chisolm, and emei butell and joe sacco. Theres a blinky you, purchase the books so please indulge. I want to tell you but the panel. Its called makers of the road, writing Hidden History and were league to book at three authors skillfully use the graphics medium to investigate the culture of different personalities, creative graphic nonfiction at it best. Lets tart with dave chisolm, chasing the bird, Charlie Parker in california, groundbreaking book that looks into the life and music of really one of the most revered and influencal
Journalists and Science Fiction novelist discusses his book and activism. After a day of social distancing, get close to a good book tonight printed book tv from cspan2. Kathryn good evening everyone and welcome to book passage. Thank you for coming up tonight on a tuesday night. There are so many things that you could be doing. You made a really good decision coming here, this is a smart crowded pretty you will be mesmerized and just fascinated by the program we have for you tonight in the vein we ask that you turn your cell phones off because you will not need them. Do not look at your cell phone for the next hour. I guarantee it. You will be completely mesmerized by our authors. We are so proud to bring you today. So thank you for supporting book passage and we are an independent bookstore, one of the very few remaining independent bookstores. [applause]. Thank you and we are very proud of that fact. Thanks for comingan to our location here. We also have a beautiful store in the ser
Coming here. Its a smart crowd. You are going to be mesmerized and just fascinated by the program we have for you tonight. And we ask that you turn off your cell phones because they wontr need them. Youre not going to look at your cell phone for the next hour i guarantee it. You will be completely mesmerized by our author and we are so proud to bring you today. Thank you for supporting the passage. We are an independent bookstore one of the few remaining and bookstores. These are very very proud of that fact. Thank you for coming to our location we also have a a beautiful store in the building in San Francisco and if youve never been there its a beautiful store. Buy a few books and then go have dinner in the city. Its a wonderful way to spend your evening. Remember book passage is so much more than just a bookstore. We bring to you probably thousand author readings every year if you can believe that. And in addition, we have all kinds of classes, and which, writing, book groups, childr
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I am erin. I am a neighbor of the project. I live directly next door. I wonder if you can just i can show you. Please speak into the microphone. Sorry. I am short. That is my house and the red dot is their house. I live directly next door which i think is fairly relevant here because i want to share my enthusiastic support for the project and the people next door share my view. It is a good project for the community. It will make it easier for the mcgraths to raise kids in San Francisco which is hard enough. Third reason many of my neighbors are in support of it. I have taken a look at the plans, and, of course, i will be impacted by construction and the building itself. Thank you, maam, your time is up. Sorry the opposition got five minutes and the rest of us did not. That is not fair. Next speaker, please. I am pat. 2008 my partner and myself bought two rundown units on ord and fixed them up. One historic. We didnt need to make it huge. The last 10 years is the block to make huge hou