Welcome everyone to the brooklyn book festival. Tonight is the seventh day of an eightday festival where we have presented over 100 programs and almost 300 authors. It has been a tremendous week of literary celebration as were very grateful to have his of the wilkerson and Michael Eric Dyson with us tonight. I would like to say one thing, show the love by purchasing their books in the link below. They are authors with books after all and going to turn over now to both of them to continue the conversation. Thank you very much. Thank you very kindly. Im honored to be here today with a woman who is among the 304 greatest writers in america, arguably the finest writer in america today. I am going to make that argument. So it is an extraordinary honor to be with you, ms. Isabel wilkerson, and to have this opportunity to chat with you. Theyre calling it a a conversation but im just going to fan boy out and as as a sayn the hood, ask you some questions. And see if we can stimulate the convers
And im a marketing director of the book stores. We have two become stored. Started in 1961 and in 2019 they became the first not for profit book stored Whose Mission is book selling. The kill tour mission work allows us to keep over 100,000 books on our shelfs and work live likemind cultural partner is leak the center for effective government. Testimony ices re vent is mold rated by Karen Tumulty. The winner for excellence in political reporting, joined the Washington Post in 2019 after with time. During her 15 years at time she wrote or coriot three dozen stores and helped with the white house correspondent, karen is on the board of institutes of politics at the university of chicago and hopes to create the university of texas and Harvard Business school and now turn it over to Karen Tumulty to introduce tonights authors. Good evening and duso much for being with us tonight. The only thing that makes me sad about this is i cant actually be at the university of chicago, which is a plac
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