Our guest author this evening is lisa selin davis. She is originally from right here in fairfield new yorkand shes been a great friend for the bookstore. Really since the bookstore openseven years ago and possibly even before that with trips to manchester. She is the author of the young adult novel lost stars and is an essayist and journalist whos written for publicationsincluding the new york times, wall street journal and others and shes with us tonight to celebrate the release just yesterday of her book tom boy. Please join me in welcoming her. Thank you. Hello lisa. This is going to be a unique experience for the both of us. I have never ever interviewed my author so i am so excited about this fun exchange that were going to have. I dont get to talk to my authors about their books in this way. Usually we are hammering it out editorially through the beginning pages of the process but never in this way can we go back in and talk about it together so this is a great experience for me
Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers, America Ferrera, author and host ina garten editor of the new yorker, David Remnick, featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now seth meyers. Seth good evening im seth meyers and this is late night. We hope youre all doing well. Lets get to the news. According to a new report, some white house Staff Members are concerned about President Trumps behavior has changed because of a steroid hes taken to treat the coronavirus, which can cause mood swings, a false level of energy and a sense of euphoria and it may have been a mistake to start giving it to him in 2015. President trump announced yesterday he will attend next weeks president ial debate in person unless, of course, they decide to hold the debate at the top of the stairs. [ heavy breathing you guys, go ahead without me. President trump announced yesterday he has ended negotiations for the next Coronavirus Relief package until after the election dude, you yourself just got covid.
Open several years ago and i thinkpossibly even before that. She is the author of the young adult novel lost scars and is an essayist and journalist was written for major publications including the wall street journal, guardian and many others and shes with us tonight to celebrate the release just yesterday of her book tomboy. Please join me in welcoming her. Hello, lisa. This is going to be a very unique experience for the both of us. I have never ever interviewed my author so i am so psyched and excited about this fun exchange that were going to have. I dont get to talk to my authors about their books in this way. Usually where hammering it out editorially through the beginning pages of the process but never in this way can we go back in and talk about it together so this is a great experience for me and thank you forhaving me. Im so happy to be here everyone. So yeah, i wanted to start out i think maybe we should start out by saying how tomboy, this beautiful wonderful book that you
Streak that sauz the shanghai rise 16 yeah shanghai was down by 2 today. Lets see whats happening in the treasury market right now. Yields back down below 0. 6 . We havent seen that for awhile. And joe, still chuckling a little bit about football and why we care this time around not the ivies . No. But anything i see this morning it was eric chemi. I realize out on the cliffs they have that full size cardboard cutout of me so then i was thinking, you know, next week if i dont have like being here some day, i might just put it right here just have something on a loop. Less taxes, less government, more you know a welcome respite plus they got sound theyre going to pipe in sounds like the tesla, you know, the motors i saw that. Theyre going to pipe in fans cheering and i read this stuff and we go, okay i want a cutout this makes sense. Put an entire stadium full of cardboard cutouts. Yes and we all go, yeah, that makes sense. But people would do it. Because i was thinking the camera would
They all seem haunted by masculinity and sexuality. When casey wrote that a young man was critical of the classic markers of masculinity but he aspired to them. It felt like there was a ghost of masculinity and sexuality following these young men around and i was wondering if you could talk about that. Is almost as if theyd layered these new expectations on top of the old ones that are really challenging or eliminating the conflict in on one hand you a guy see women as deserving of their place in the classroom and deserving of their praise on the Playing Field and deserving of being cleared as they are and thats all in the public arena and in their private lives they are still being encouraged to be the marker of manhood, the man being a sexual conquest had hooking up as i say without feeling with as many partners as possible and not treating those partners very well and thats what presented to them as a status and has fun. When you are in the locker room talking they say, when they ar