On how to use technology and other initiatives at the library and that is my friend who claims to have a day job but i doubt it ed slotsberg but i doubt it. I thank ed. [applause] and you will be happy to know, ed, mike barnacle, seconded the idea. We thank him for that. We have so much to celebrate tonight including president and ms. Kennedys deep appreciation for the arts. Our next guest is a multiple grammy award winner whose songs are among the great pillars of american music. His music spans generations and his songs have provided the soundtrack across decades of our lives providing a source of warmth and wisdom and beauty in a changing world. James taylors music embodies the art of songwriting in its most personal and universal forms. In a career that spans almost half a century, he has sold over 100 million albums and has received countless honors including the National Medal of the arts, and the president ial medal of freedom from president barack obama. [applause] and through
Please silence your cell phones if you would. In terms of books which i know you all want to make sure you get the books you are going to be hearing about this morning outside the Capitol Building on mississippi st. There are number of sellers who will have looks and adjacent to the industry as the signing tent. In the back page of your brochure you will see this fantastic schedule. Authors will not necessarily be on immediately after the panel so just check the other name and the time in the brochure. We are delighted to have cspan broadcasting live this morning so welcome to jackson. The panel will also be shown on october so if you want to review it again. Thank you for the state legislature for the use of this facility today and i want to thank the authors and the moderators for being here with us this morning. The first panel is sponsored by the university of southern mississippi friends of the University Library so we are grateful for their support and now i will introduce jesmyn
You will see the fantastic schedule. Authors will not necessarily be on immediately after the Panel Suggests check the author name and time on the brochure. We are delighted to have cspan broadcasting live this morning so welcome to jackson. The panel will also be shown at october so if you want to review it again. Thank you for the state legislature for the use of the facilities today and also the authors and moderators for being with us this morning. The first panel was sponsored by the university of mississippi friends of the university library. Now i will introduce the Panel Moderator this morning from mississippi who received her ba from Stanford University and from the university of michigan. She served as the resident in mississippi and was the author of the novel where the line we goboth won the National Book awd for fiction. Shes also the editor of this new book just out this month. We are at work as the associate professor writing at Tulane University she lives in mississippi
Studies and culture at the university of virginia and a visiting scholar for Public Knowledge of writes about culture and the arts, and is currently at work on a book about walking and garnett is at the end, im reading these out of order. [applause] honoring the jeffers who is rite next to garnett, is a poet and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts and the foundation to the library of congress. She is the author of four books of poetry is at work on a fifth and exploration of the life and times, of phyllis weekly. [applause] keep na jones has been published, in pr, crash magazine, and she has received fellow shps from penn center, usa, and, is currently a candidate in fiction and rodney jack school lar, in the program for writers. [applause] fugely, a i so yet professor of english and African Studies and a resent writer, at the university of mississippi. He is the author of the novel long division. How to slowly kill yourself and others in america and a for
In afternoon, i am tom putnam director of the library and museum, on behalf of heather, ceo of the Kennedy Library foundation and all of my library and Library Foundation collects, i think you for coming. Welcome those watching on cspan and acknowledge the generous underwriters of the Kennedy Library the lead sponsor bank of america, the vole institute, the Boston Foundation and art media sponsors, the boston globe, infinity and w dr. In reading the new book, rosemary, the hidden kennedy daughter. I was struck by an observation from sr. Margaret and, one of ann, one of the caregivers in the later years in wisconsin, that rosemary had a magnetic personality. As others before us we too are drawn to the story, perhaps like greeks attending a theatrical tragedy, tragedy, we know in advance the tragic ending to come and we watch the actions of two protagonists. First, roads kennedy and her retailers effort to protect her eldest daughter and later joe, the patriarch, in his unending search f