Eli blog whether are are are it are [inaudible conversations] there, ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the 35th annual printer row litfest presented be near south Planning Board if want to give a special thank you to our sponsors for the generous support this year, especially win trust as our programming sponsor the robert r. Mccormick foundation, alpha food wings, the tribune, three l real estate and cspan booktv. Todays program will be broadcast live on cspan2s booktv which he are live now. If theres time at the end of the discussion, for q awith the author issue ask you to line up at the microphone and speak speak microphone. And finally i ask that anyone here that is just got with us, please silence your cellphones. Nobody wants to be that person and then if youre going to take a photo, please turn off the flash. As a courtesy to the presenters please welcome daniel green, professor of history at northwestern university, and curator of americans and the holocaust, an exhi
Legitimate travelers so in response to what the police has been doing is searching anyone the suspected of not being at the airport with a valid reason to be at the airport and theyve also set up checkpoints at various tunnels and highways and train stations that would take people to the airports and conducted searches there anyone they suspect of being a protester they turned away in the news ahead brazil celebrates its Independence Day but the countrys president is facing pressure over the amazon fire. Insults an exhibition of nazi designs opens in the netherlands. Hello again its good to have you back well we are seeing plenty of so. And over here across parts of eastern china that has been the trend over the last few days and fortunately you can be seeing that as we go through the rest of the weekend as well so here on sunday for shanghai 31. 00 degrees all the way down towards hong kong you may pick up a shower or 2 but we dont expect it to be heavy at all over here towards for jo
Left of the airport terminal again weve just arrived when youre flying in you can really get a sense of the devastation theres a conifer forests all around has acres and acres of trees literally split in half it sounds cliche to say this but it but it looks as though a bomb went off here if you were to drive in that direction now that the waters have subsided you arrive at marsh harbor there are thousands of people who live there the latest estimates that we heard were somewhere around 13000 homes that were practically leveled by by this hurricane theres no electricity theres no Cell Phone Service or dozens of people here effectively. Of effectively homeless waiting for evacuation waiting for supplies that again is another concern the potential shortage of food shortage of water and shortage of medicine the United Nations on tuesday evening had already said that this is a crisis that can only be made worse if there isnt immediate action by the international community. Stephen much andr
And asked him if he would help me with this project in 1994. But i had wanted to write about ellisons work for a long time. And finally, in 1977, i wrote an essay on ellison, called the historical frequencies of ralph waldo ellison, and in this piece, i try to make the case that ellisons essays, and at that time, many others, some of them werent published at all, and many of the most compelling essays hadnt made it into shadow and act. Ralph says he used to say, society and morality in a novel, tell it like it is, baby, really unbelievably superb in original essays, were rejected for inclusion in shadow and act if you can believe it and i tracked these down and tried to make the case that invisible man his essays rather not only , provided a way to read invisible man but also more broadly provided a way to read American Literature as a continuing kind of engagement with the imperfect union of the declaration of independence, and the constitution and the sacred documents of abraham linc
Hello, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. Im fredericka witfield. The southwestern u. S. Is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as hurricane hilary churns off the pacific. We just learned moments ago that the storm has weakened just a bit to a category 3 storm with 125 mile an hour winds. Its lashing mexico with strong winds and high waves right now. Forecasters warn it could dump more than a years worth of rain across parts of california, nevada and arizona. The storm is expected to weaken as it moves north, but the threat is so severe, a Tropical Storm watch has been issued for california, the first ever for that state. People there are trying to prepare as best they can. Cnn meteorologist Allison Chinchar is joining us. A new advisory has just been issued. While it may have been downgraded a little bit, thats still very threatening. Right. Keep in mind the weakening was forecast. We knew as it slid into cooler waters, this was going to happen. In terms of the fore