Welcome to the 2020 National Book festival. And our conversation with two distinguished guests who join us in honor of the centennial celebrations of american author and space age visionary rate bradberry a master storyteller whose legacy exemplifies the festivals theme of american ingenuity. I am john, director of the center for bradberry studies at Indiana University school of liberal arts. Red berries encouragement led to the creation of the center will re preserve his entire home office, a lifetime of words and mementos of the papers correspondence and working library that remained in his home at the time of his passing in 2012 part his remarkable career spans seven decades. He grew up in the great depression. His family, his father had to take the family all the way from illinois to los angeles to find work in rate bradberry was never able to go to college. He developed a great style, his own unique lyric, metaphor rich style. In his own kind of subjects writing fantasy, weird tal
Guest that is exactly where i went. I went to Public School and go to ccd wednesdays and send that got my confirmation in 1955. Spring training. I would go to spring training to write some sort of article and play around and see the players in a relaxed setting. I wrote an article about his quest for the batting title and turned out to be an extraordinary story because i got close to his sister, his mother, his sister and his family, his sister was a big history buff so she came to concorde, my hometown and i took her around and we became friends as a result and in 1986 the year the red sox almost won the world series we were talking, i mentioned wade boggs had a broken rib and we didnt think the doctor was taking good care of him, we have to get him to another doctor, they said he should go to a different doctor and what happened is the mother called wade boggs, he told her he loved her and then she was killed in a car crash with her mother, his grandmother and mother were gone and fo
You know im going to read some poems im going to think of some poems that america right now because we are the u. S. Dollar we are so we are the empire and you know robert frost said the woods is lovely dark and deep but i have promises to keep in many miles to go before i sleep and of course Emily Dickinson said something along the lines of because i could not stop for death you know i was just too busy i had all these things to do lunch appointments all that sort of stuff he kindly stopped for me the same thing is like were very busy i guess bit busier busier we have all sorts of cultural issues and partisan war and all this sort of stuff going on but if you look calmly around you you see that death has stopped kindly for the us empire and all its debt its easier to pretend our Economic System works and just blow endless asset bubbles yesterday saw the us comprehensively beat china not in any sporting sense and certainly not in any dimension of the current cold war for those who stil
Right now because we are the u. S. Dollar. We are so we are the empire and you know robert frost said the woods is lovely dark and deep but i have promises to keep in many miles to go before i sleep and of course Emily Dickinson said something along the lines of because i could not stop for death you know i was just too busy i had all these things to do lunch appointments all that sort of stuff he kindly stopped for me the same thing as like were very busy i guess bit busier busier we have all sorts of cultural issues and partisan war and all this sort of stuff going on but if you look calmly around you you see that death has stopped kindly for the us empire and all its debt its easier to pretend our Economic System works and just blow endless asset bubbles yesterday saw the us comprehensively beat china not in any sporting sense and certainly not in any dimension of the current cold war for those who still like to think the latter isnt happening just listen to what u. S. Attorney gene
I am actually geyser this is the kaiser of port. Blowing bubbles or who would. You know are blown bubbles you know a lot more about this plus some poetry from what i understand take it away stacy well were going to look at the end of an empire of debt we have had a global. Pile of debt since 1971 and it is blowing up in the says what we have been preparing me for for the past 10 years we believe its here and yet you know im going to read some poems im going to think of some poems that america right now because we are the u. S. Dollar we are so we are the empire and you know robert frost said the woods is lovely dark and deep but i have promises to keep in many miles to go before i sleep and of course Emily Dickinson said something along the lines of because i could not stop for death you know i was just too busy i had all these things to do lunch appointments all that sort of stuff he kindly stopped for me the same thing is like were very busy i guess bit busier busier we have all sort