To feel the Nervous Energy of the finalists and the champagne would be flowing. The kirkus prize isnt what you may imagine when you think of literary award ceremonies. There is no formal banquet or assigned seating. It is a Cocktail Party with a glamour and energy all on its own. Last year when Entertainment Weekly wrote about the major literary awards they referred to the kirkus prize as golden globes, fun and unpredictable and tonight we want to share that energy with you at home and give you a glimpse of what it is like to attend the ceremony in person. To that end our editor at large, megan, caught up with some of this years finalists so we could connect with them as as we were all at a party together. You can view the full conversations on kirkus. Com, but here is a sneak peek. A typical year we would all be gathered at the Austin Public Library for the ceremony, a Cocktail Party beforehand, everybody mingling. I wanted to ask whe could we find you as a finalis before the award ce
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The federal Bar Association, Northern District of california chapter and the American Constitution Society bay area chapter. I looked welcome cspan which is broadcasting the discussion. In 10 years or so but i have been putting on that i have been putting on programs like this, cspan is here so i have made it. It is some of the most awful programming on television when congress is out of session. Onthoughtful programming television when congress is out of session. The next on january 28 is on settling cases in the ninth circuit. We are going to save time at the end of the program for questions. If any of her to you, howard panelists areour discussing, write them down so you dont forget. ,o my left is Leondra Kruger associate justice of the California Supreme Court since 2014. Prior to her tenure, she served in the u. S. Department of justice and before that she was the acting deputy solicitor general for president obama. She argued 12 cases in the United States Supreme Court and twice
You received from your aunt. Tell the audience what it was. When i was a boy in new orleans in the late 1960s, i had an aunt named maude who was an elderly retired schoolteacher. She was a family historian and my mothers family. She was the keeper among others of our clansmen. She had some papers and files and she had a way of speaking about our Family History that was like this. The one to remember is our clansmen, my grandfather. He was a redeemer. The redemption returned in new orleans after they had been dislodged. And if you had not battled liberty place, we would not be here today. When she died, her papers went to my mother. This is now decades later her files came to me. This is how i rediscovered the story of our clansmen and wrote about it. You remember your aunt mod. You have emulated her well. It sounds like she spoke of [inaudible] constant, he was a french carpenter. He spoke french. Is it fair to say that he was heroic . He was heroic for 100 years. As were the clans peo