We are grateful to all of you for being here and for valuing the past, present and future of thoughtful reading and writing. The story that history can teach us a lot about how to live in the present and plan for the future. And perhaps no error in our history is more instructive to us right now than 1981 contagion ravage the world shuttering schools, closing businesses, and killing hundreds of thousands. Here to talk with us about what became as known as 102 years ago is the spanish flu is Kathryn Arnold who poured over years of eyewitness accounts from eyewitnesses in the early beginning at places like a military base in kansas to its number of prominent american writers like John Steinbeck and kathryn and portauprince she read english at the university of cambridge and holds a further degree in psychology shes the author of several books about the history of london and she was published by Simon Schuster in 2015 shes joining us today from the uk, welcome. Welcome thank you for being
Here to talk with us about what we became known 102 years ago as spanish flu is Catherine Arnold who poured over eyewitness accounts of the illness from its early beginnings at places like a military base in kansas to its effects on a number of american writers like John Steinbeck. She read english at the university of cambridge and holds a further degree in psychology and is the author of several books about the history oflondon and her book globe, the world of shakespeares london published by simon and schuster in 2015 and shes joining us today from the uk. Welcome catherine. Thank you for being here with us. In telling the story of this disease you focus on firstperson accounts from doctors, nurses and children all over the world. Did you choose to take such a personal view of the pandemic . I wanted to write a book that people can relate to but theres the story about where people can read it and find characters like themselves. It was almost like a disaster movie. Weve got people o
Concerns. Pres. Trump because of all we have done, the risk to the American People remains very low. We have the greatest experts in the world really come in the world right here. We are ready to adapt and we are ready to do whatever we have to as the disease spreads, if it spreads. Amy as trump spokeke up it was reported a person was diagnosed with the coronavirus in california, who had not traveled to any of the affected regions of the world nor had known contact with anyone who did. It is called community spread. We will speak with Pulitzer Prize winning Science Writer Laurie Garrett who says trump has sabotaged americas coronavirus response. We will also talk to science investigative journalist sonia shah about the connection between coronavirus and climate change. Her book pandemic tracking contagion from cholera to ebola and beyond. Then as trump leaves india, the death toll from antimuslim violence in new delhi has risen to at least 34. 20 to 25 people started beating me. The re
Hello, everyone. Can anyone hear me . Sounds good here awesome. Thank you all for coming out tonight and supporting your local independent and Employee Owned bookstore. [applause] before we begin tonight speaking with Holly Jackson, american radicals, to mention other Great Program it coming up later this week we have romance writer here with boston globe love letters columnists Meredith Goldstein on thursday. Next week on tuesday we are hosting former poet laureate Robert Pinsky along with a few contributors for the new anthology, the mind. Next wednesday where hosting nancy for the atlas of boston history. We have many more events coming up and you can find more information on our website and in the brochures by the registers when to pick up your copy of the book tonight. Tonight were so glad to be hosting Holly Jackson for her new book american radicals how nineteenthcentury counterculture shaped the nation. Book page magazine calls the book magnificent saying this incisive and well
Concerns. Pres. Trump because of all we have done, the risk to the American People remains very low. We have the greatest experts in the world really come in the world right here. We are ready to adapt and we are ready to do whatever we have to as the disease spreads, if it spreads. Amy as trump spokeke up it was reported a person was diagnosed with the coronavirus in california, who had not traveled to any of the affected regions of the world nor had known contact with anyone who did. It is called community spread. We will speak with Pulitzer Prize winning Science Writer Laurie Garrett who says trump has sabotaged americas coronavirus response. We will also talk to science investigative journalist sonia shah about the connection between coronavirus and climate change. Her book pandemic tracking contagion from cholera to ebola and beyond. Then as trump leaves india, the death toll from antimuslim violence in new delhi has risen to at least 34. 20 to 25 people started beating me. The re