Author of four books and many articles essays and reviews. Her current book is Betty Friedan and magnificent disruptor. She teaches at the Theater School at Depaul University and our moderator is. Gioia diliberto the author of seven books, three historical novels and four biographies and a play. Her writing, which focuses on womens, has been praised for combining rich storytelling and literary grace with deep research to provide to bring alive worlds as varied as jazz, age, paris and century chicago ballet epic paris and disco manhattan. Her books have been translated into several languages and. She has been a judge for prominent literary contests as a journalist, georgia has written for many publications, including New York Times, the wall street journal, the chicago tribune, the los angeles times, the smithsonian and town and country and excuse me, rachels book be available for purchase outside the black curtains afterward. And we will have a signing right behind us. So turn the rest
Gilroy area. You will notice some light showers. Also around the delta were seeing spotty showers, oakley, out to bethel island. The showers are falling right now. This storm was a soaker. Look at these totals. 4. 78 in ben lomond. Almost two inches in observing. Not far behind concord. Livermore 1. 08. On the storm impact scale this is a level one through tonight. Expect scattered light showers, an additional third of an inch with low visibility. Im going to time this all out for you through the rest of tonight and let you know if there are any more storms coming as we head to the holiday coming up. Dan and kristen . The rain pounded the south bay especially the santa cruz mountains. Driving on highway 17 was no picn picnic. Janine de la vega joins us live with more. Reporter kristen, it is gray, it is dreary, and it is wet. We are here at the summit and its hard to predict when slides are going to happen along here. Those who drive highway 17 know the dangers of the santa cruz mounta
Police are looking for the two men who robbed a Popular Center city restaurant tria early this morning and the thieves got away with thousands of dollars. David henry live outside that restaurant at 12th and spruce with more on the investigation today. David. Reporter yeah, brian the robbery has gelled residents of this neighborhoods of townhouses, apartments and corner shops. It happened early this morning at closing time around 1 15. Outside of tria which is a busy corner got robbed. I guess go for something that you wouldnt expect. Reporter it was business as usual for the tria cafe after a terrifying ordeal for one of the employees early this morning. The cafe had closed and the night manager was in the Basement Office countering money. Police say the two robbers walked into the office and forced the manager to the floor. One of them placed a hard object to the back of his head and threatened to shoot him. They then forced him to open the safe and hand over the cash. They got about
Exonerations by five exonerations by dna, every one of those stories would make a great book, the book should be written, every Wrongful Conviction is a story from the point of view about plot, the suffering, the drama, the deceit , the fact that the rapist is still out there raping when someone else is savoring his time. These are fantastic stories but the system is broken i would have written all of him but i cant do that. To answer your question i would love to be able to write another book of nonfiction, im not sure do it. It would take so much time away from the novels, the the kids books and other books i enjoy doing. Host thank you for stopping by book tv. Guest my pleasure its always in pleasure talking to. Guest and we are back live on book tv for the firstever mississippi book book festival in jackson. The next panel beginning now is looking at the history of civil rights in america. The moderator for todays panels robbie luckett. Robbie luckett received his ph. D. From the u
Commission. We are being recorded live on cspans booktv so if you have not already please silence your cell phones. If you have not purchased the books, the panels have written you will have an opportunity to do that after outside. The authors will also be signing immediately after this panel in the authors attempt. The moderator for todays panel is robbie luckett. Robbie luckett received his ph. D. From the university offr l georgia with a focus on civilve rights history, the native mississippian he returned home to accept the position ofas associate professor ofci histord and director of the Margaret Wolter center for the study of the africanamerican experiencef at Jackson State University. Look at as a member verse festivals Advisory Board. Thanks chris. Its my great pleasure to moderate this panel on civil rights history that i think its particularly important for two reasons. One is to understand the importance of thisim building ad what it meant particularly for v segregationist