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Greetings can you hear me . Is that okay . Hi, melissa taylor, delighted to be appear creative director of the festival and National Book review. Really happy to be here. Welcome, it is the 35th annual printers row lit fest. It is presented by the near south planning board. I would like to give a special thank you to all of our sponsors for their support this year. It has been an amazing year, people really stepped up. Especially wintrust, our sponsor, they mccormick foundation, alpha wood foundation, tribune, Chicago Tribune. 3l real estate and of course cspan s booktv. Todays program will be broadcast live on cspan2s booktv. And if there is time at the end of the q a, we encourage you to use the microphone over there in the center so the home viewing audience will be able to hear your questions. Also, as a reminder, we request that you silence cell phones and turn off those camera flashes. And im so thrilled to be here. Its really, it is an honor to be here in conversation. So, the q