Jared w. Alexander is with us today courtesy of Bob Faircloth and tim and Fran Lindgren Jared Alexander has written for esquire Rolling Stone the nation narrative. I knew id get this one now narratively. And elsewhere he holds an mfa in literary reportage from the New York University Arthur L Carter school of journalism. From 1998 to 2006 he served as a us marine deploying to the mediterranean. East africa in iraq, he grew up on military bases from the east coast of the United States to japan. He currently lives in new york city, but calls atlanta home. Please give a warm savannah. Welcome to Jared Alexander. Good morning. Wow, give me one sec here. Okay . First thanks for having me. I its been a hard year for facetoface interactions with books and her two years i suppose and just being here is a real honor. Actually, im was really happy to be invited and speak to you guys about my book and about some of the stuff that sort of influenced it. And thats kind of what i want to talk about
Buckeye broadband along with these Television Companies supports cspan2 as a public service. Jerad alexander is with us, he has written for esquire,rolling stone , the nation, narrative. I do i get this wrong. Narrative that he and elsewhere. He holds an mfa in literary reportage from the new york universityarthur l Carter School of journalism. From 1998 to 2006 he served as a us marine deployed to the mediterranean east africa and iraq. He grew up on military bases from the east coast of the United States. He currently lives in new york city but calls atlanta home. Please give a warm savanna welcome to jerad alexander. [applause] good morning. Give me one second here. First thanks for having me. Its been awful hard year for facetoface interactions with books for a few years i suppose and just being here is a real honor actually. I was happy to be invited. To you guys about my book and some of the stuff thats written in it and thats what i wanted to talk aboutt. I thought about what i
Road to gonzo. Its published by our friends at university of california, press focusing on honduras thompsons influences development and his unique model of authorship mr. Richardson archughes that thompsons literary formation was largely a San Francisco story and indeed those of us at city lights across paths within whilst. He passed through the bay area kenneth test to this thompson was a regular atasca cafe just across the street from city lights. So wed see him on a pretty regular basis. His life was intertwined with north beach culture and awesome. See him walking down the street either Warren Hinkle from editor of ramparts or Jeanette Etheridge former owner of tosca. So Peter Richardson is not a stellar job. He seem together the trace elements of thompsons literary influences and a really compelling. It so were thrilled. He can grace our halls Peter Richardson has written critically acclaimed books about the iconic rock band the grateful dead also ramparts magazine legendary muck
1970. So they subsisted by drawing on each other. The book is more than a study of just how david started by one tribe. It is also a personal story about women and family relationships. It is about women in leadership, about building communities, about trying to save an indigenous colter on the brink of being lost and about making sacrifices for others. I would say that what they did was heroic and they say they were just trying to do it for the sake of taking care of the kids and the elders of the community. Alma was the educator of the tribe. At that time i was assistant director of our new civic our new civic center and i worked under sunny team. When we got that building, who is a gym with a kitchen and ate office says and we needed to have a needed to happen in common at that time there was no way to make an income to pay the bills for the infrastructure of that building. So, here played bingo in her younger days in michigan. When her and i would talk about how we were going to pa
When we acquired that book Jonathan Karp down here, and ask if there was anything we could do for the ebook specifically and we brainstorm and some ideas and talked about when the right time to act on those ideas might be but we were thinking of that as a Digital Product from the very beginning. My role is National Media in partnership with the communications team. What is an effective Media Campaign . Where do you go . Depends on what the book is and it depends on what the potential for the book is. There is what i think the best topdown campaigns which are campaigns like Hillary Clintons which begin with National Media and breakout from there. A few big hits generate a number of things that create themselves. My role with the clinton title has been to work on the marketing side of that which involved a website for the book dedicated to the book, Facebook Page, production of promotional videos, the release of content on the web. At my role up to now has been the Digital Marketing role