Cart prizes, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant and fellowships from the mcdowell colony, the tunyan review and the wisconsin state for creative site for creative writing. She lives in miami beach with her partner. Please give a warm savannah well only to jaquira diaz. Ms. [applause] hi. Thank you so much. Im so happy to be here. And its wonderful to see all you book lovers here, and thank you, savannah, for your southern hospitality. I also want to thank the savannah book festival and everyone who made this event possiblene including sponsors, bookellers. Lets give booksellers. Lets give it up for the indie booksellers in the room. I love yall. Thank you for all you do, for loving books, for supporting ordinary girls. Because of you im here, so thank you. I want to open with just a little piece that opens the book, ordinary girls. It functions kind of like a prologue but not really. Its just a very short. Girlhood. We were the girls who strolled onto the blacktop on long summer days
School will look to each other for support after losing one of their classmates. More students are adding gifts to a memorial to their friend 17 yearold Kyra Connolly a Castle View High School senior was killed in a crash near the school yesterday morning. Students left notes and rememberances. While Castle Rock Police collected evidence nearby. Police say connolly was driving on the wrong side of the road, sideswiped a car. And collided head truck. Castle rock police say the driver of the delivery truck was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and was released. Investigators are still trying to figure out what caused connolly to cross over to the wrong side of the road. A 71 year old woman was just trying to help some teenagers out. In return she got a beating and nearly died. Boulder county deputies say the woman picked up some teenage hitchhikers monday night. She offered them a place to stay in jamestown for the night. Police say one of the boys attacked her. The woman is in t
Investigators think happened . Amanda the amtrak train, 98, board and was heading from miami to new york when the crew says it struck a person who appeared to lay his head down on the track. There is another amtrak train passing through right now. The train came to a stop. Emergency responders were called and the person who was hit was there s no information indicating anyone on board the train was harmed and as is usually the case, the train and the passengers remained here while the investigation took place. They were stopped for over 3 hours. It finally departed about 10 minutes ago. One woman who was scheduled to catch the next amtrak train came to the scene to see what the delay was and was saddened to learn what had happened. It s sad, it s really unfortunate, i don t know the details about this but if somebody did this on purpose i feel awful for everybody, especially the crew. Amanda we don t yet know the identity of the person killed. This incident did impact traffic here down
Excited about having this conversation with him and then drawing you into that conversation. One of the delights about his book is his disclosing something of his own spiritual practice, particularly during the holy season of ramadan. He had many when he said that prior to entering the day he would get up, have a small breakfast, and then have a time with [inaudible] one of my favorite poets. And i thought it was really wonderful if we all could have kind of a moment of censuring around eboo reading one of his favorite poems. How does that sound . All right. Thank you for the invitation to thank you all for being here. So, this is a poem that actually first heard where rumi is buried in turkey. Come, come whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of reading but it doesnt matter. House is not a caravan of despair. No, even if you broken your vows, a thousand times. Come yet again, come, come. A couple reasons that this is meaningful to me, its actually in the book trying to an say whe
Month. Journalists taking heat and even the fans that watch. Were seeing the good, bad, and down right ugly that comes with this struggle. In a second well talk about the unrest weve seen in st. Louis after the exoneration of former st. Louis Police Officer jason stockily and the 2011 shooting death of suspect Anthony Lamar smith following a high speed chase. Protests started immediately after the friday morning verdict and have continued over the weekend leaving ten Law Enforcement officers injured and more than three dozen people arrested. But first, lets pivot to the governments role in policing. Because earlier this year attorney general Jeff Sessions demanded that all existing Consent Decrees agreements between the forecast government and local Police Departments to reduce misconduct would be reviewed by the trump Justice Department. The move was interpreted by some as giving leeway to embattled urban Police Departments, a prime example being the city of chicago which was sued las