To come back to southern texas and realized he could no longer live there he and thousands and we followed him as the unofficial detective as he reveals what life was like in parts of los angeles that havent been talked about. How did you come up with the name . A voice was speaking first person and how he was trying to raise money to pay his rent and then woman he was in love with of adam made that she is in love with mouse and mouse looks at the person who is talking and thats what he came from. Why voices he supposed to represent . Its interesting because how the africanamerican voice is the choir of america. Did you set out as a vehicle for social commentary . Any good novel that talks about any character talks about how they are incurred and the society and culture and politics. Then you dont have a real character. It seems that everybody does that. Not a lot of people were doing that with black mail he rose to become a Strong Social commentary not because that was my intention bu
Welcome to booktvs fiction edition. Youve written 50 fiction books. Lets start with devil in a blue dress, the book that launched a series who is easy rawlins . Guest a kind of every man for the black community in the middle of the twentieth century. His whole view of himself has changed. He came back to southern texas and realized he could no longer live there because of what he has learned and he and thousands of others, from texas and louisiana moved to los angeles. What we do is follow him as a kind of unofficial detective. What he does is reveals what life was like in parts of los angeles that havent been talked about. Host how did you come up with the name . Guest i was writing a story and there was a voice speaking firstperson talking about a party he was given and how he was trying to raise money to pay his rent and a woman he was in love with who was in love with another guy and mouse comes in and looks at the person who is talking and says hey, e the, how are you doing . That
Reporter the power came bac p. M. , many businesses here telling us they have had to close hours early in the midst of the pandemic when they are trying survive. For example, soul food was supposed to be open, and you can see the doors is are saying the frustrated on over the lack on communication. Thousands left in the dark all across the bay area tonight. No notification and then a all of a sudden we dont have power and its 105 degrees. Reporter Ashley Stephens is one of many of the customers that were without power for hours. Had what about the people who are like on oxygen tanks and have like, food in the freezer and the fridge. Its just, unreal. Reporter many Small Businesses struggling to stay afloat during this pandemic pushed to close the doors hours early. We tried our best to sell what we had available. Stuff that was already cooked so we can sell it out and not have to spoil it. And we tried to push it with our registers but the moment that the system crashed we could no lon
Compliments of some of the daytime heating off to the spine of the sierra 64. For antioch right now 56 for livermore 58 conquered with 50s up to the north bay we got 64 oakland. Also matching in san jose later on today, well see those winds again uptick theyre going to be in the typical type spot we tend to see them also spilling out over here to the north bay as well and on to the valleys of a far eastern contra costa county. Thats a nice little insulation from temperatures as hot as they will be cousin were looking for numbers again to reach an air. 100 or so so the breakdown for you today after take care of these morning clouds inland sunny about to 61 at 81 at 8 oclock season, 1175. I got to take on much what i want to cause. So as we approach around the noon hour. So well start to get into some of those 80s going on here the high temperatures today tomorrow wont be as high as what were expecting by this weekend were going to call the little minor heat spike developing by this week
Today people will be gathering to remember those who were killed in the gilroy garlic festival mass shooting. It happened one year ago today. The event called rising together will honor victims and heroes, its being held exactly one year after a 19 yearold man used an Assault Rifle to fire into the festivals crowd. 3 people were killed including a 6 yearold boy 19 other people were injured before Gilroy Police officer shot the gunman. The fbis domestic terrorism investigation still ongoing. And well have a lot more details coming up in a live report coming up at 5. 30 this morning. Well to the south bay now woman caught on camera spewing racial slurs at a postal worker has gone viral. Take a listen. What im doing. Well the video was shared on social media and it shows a woman calling an Asian American worker a derogatory term and upsetting the off the customers inside Tyler Brumfield is a man heard off camera condemning the womans rant. A woman is also heard again cursing and repeating