Good evening everyone and thank you so much for joining us. My name is bennett and im a bookseller and Events Coordinator and im going to be your host tonight for literati featuring myles harvey. Lets get underway and i want to extend a thank you for your support of ourVirtual Events programming. We feel lucky that were able to continue to offer Virtual Events and we wouldnt be able to do that and hear about the king of confidence if it wasnt for you all showing up so thank you for doing that. Id like to quickly go over our policy for tonights event. We ask you keep your a video feed disabled throughout the duration of the that event and if you dont we will disable it for you and if you enable it a second time we will have toreview you from the event we appreciate your cooperation. I just wanted to briefly go over our plan for tonight, a reading by both miles and after myles reads from the king of confidence which was published this last tuesday and donovan reads from his book publishe
We feel incredibly lucky were able to offer virtual events, and we wouldnt be able to do that and gather and hear about the king of confidence if it wasnt for you all showing up. So thank you for doing that. Id like to quickly go over our zoom policies for tonights event. We do ask that you keep your video feed disabled for the duration of the event. If you do enable it, well kindly disable it for you. If you enable it a second time, we will regretfully have to disconnect. We appreciate your cooperation. Were going to have a reading by both miles and donovan to start us off. After miles reads from the king of confidence which was actually published this past tuesday and donovan reads from the inner coast which was published early last month, in june, were going to hear an extended conversation between the two of them for about 3035 minutes, and were also going to have a few slides here and there if needed to add some supplemental images, and once were done with that, were going to wrap
Close, the dow down 57 points and the s p 500 down 2 and the nasdaq snapping a sevenday win streak so whats the take on the Market Action guy adami, made it in like under the wire, your box slid in there, appeared, bam, there you are. Sweet hi, mels hi, guy how are you so we talked about books we read in college last night. This is going somewhere, by the way, and last night i mentioned 100 years of solitude. I had to read the moby dick you might herman melville, remember that one . Yeah, of course its about 570 pages and someone like me you sort of skim it, but every once in a while you get to a page that seems important so you bookmark it, you know what im talking about . Someone like you that has the highlighters no, i didnt defile the books. Fair enough i defiled, but todays one of the days you want to bookmark and its for a number of reasons and i have no idea yet market reversed today, but the market reversed today and look at three stocks in particular look at the move in apple
Oh, this is a filmed interview the sun always rises . No, i did it again. [ laughter ] donald did tom clancy love hunt for red october . Some international news. I mean, it is more a question in yesterday, iran claimed to have a question, you know created a replica of an american its more about a life philosophy drone they captured three years ago. I mean, yeah, it was all right, apparently, its such a it was good, it was great, it was fine realistic copy that when they turned it on, it immediately its more like, how can we make bombed iran. [ laughter ] ourselves better as people so jokes on them. How can we learn from this situation tonight . This is crazy. [ laughter ] seth gotcha. And thats what im happy ohio police are investigating about. Who broke into president i felt like we were teaching people we werent, like, showing a james garfields tomb to steal a sketch we were teaching people. We were growing and, you know, set of commemorative spoons. This is a template for i dont kno
Up next its booktv is monthly in Depth Program with author and Princeton University professor imani perry. Our books on race and africanamerican history include prophets of the hood, may we forever stand, and the recently published breathe a letter to my sons. Its a letter. Its a series of letters to my son, but of course, its also a letter to the larger world, both about, you know, the reality of the terror and anxiety and worries that comes along with being a parent of black children, and particularly black boys in the United States at this moment, but its also filled with my desire for them to lead a life of beauty and joy and excellence and selfregard. Much of which, i think, one finds a lessons for in an extraordinary tradition that we have to draw from. Where did you come up with the idea to write your sons a letter . Well, so, i actually have written them letters privately for years, but my editor, at beacon press said, is this something youd be interested in doing . In large pa