after sandy hook have emboldened groups to reject the facts and existence of white supremacy covid masking and vaccinations and the validity of our elections. elizabeth williamson is a future writer and former editorial board member from the new york times and she has previously written for the washington post and wall street journal. williamson will be joined in conversation tonight with kara swisher now, please join me in welcoming elizabeth williamson and careless. i like that you have to do the work afterwards. you have to clean up. that s my favorite part of this that introduction. so elizabeth, and i ve been talking a lot over years about this topic. it s a topic that s been sort of i wouldn t say near and dear to my heart, but i have been especially troubled by what s been happening in with online social media particularly and how it s sort of congested weaponized and amplified hate and obviously one of the first instances of this and something i know very well was san
publishing industry experts will also give you updates on current nonfiction authors and books the latest book reviews and we ll talk about the current nonfiction books featured on c-span s book tv. and welcome to the about books podcast and program in this episode. we re going to introduce you to jeff deutsch. he has a new book out. it s called in praise of good bookstores, and he s a director of a bookstore co-op in chicago. but first let s start with this week s publishing news. well recently in congress. there was a hearing about challenged and banned books. the house subcommittee on civil rights and civil liberties heard from students parents librarians and teachers as well as author and civil rights activist ruby bridges. congressman jamie raskin a democrat of maryland is the chair of the subcommittee and here s part of his opening statement. many books are being targeted for censorship these days simply because they address racism or white supremacy as historical or so
nonfiction books featured on c-span s book tv. and welcome to the about books podcast and program in this episode. we re going to introduce you to jeff deutsch. he has a new book out. it s called in praise of good bookstores, and he s a director of a bookstore co-op in chicago. but first let s start with this week s publishing news. well recently in congress. there was a hearing about challenged and banned books. the house subcommittee on civil rights and civil liberties heard from students parents librarians and teachers as well as author and civil rights activist ruby bridges. congressman jamie raskin a democrat of maryland is the chair of the subcommittee and here s part of his opening statement. many books are being targeted for censorship these days simply because they address racism or white supremacy as historical or sociological realities or address human sexuality or lgbtq issues because the protagonist or author is gay or a person of color or for some other allegedl
things together. i mean, did you say, i m going to be a writer, and then all of a sudden you realized that your life was on the internet or.? no, i wrote off-line, in print, for about 12 years almost exclusively, and it s so funny. colson whitehead has this recent piece about writers who complain that twitter and blogging is going to destroy their writing. and it s actually a split that i never really understood much. i love print, and i like blogging and i like tweeting. you know, i like a lot of things. and so it never really struck me as being in contrast or even being a problem or, you know, it being two different worlds or anything like that. it s just writing. hinojosa: you re able to divide up your time so that you can blog at one part of the day and then write long form at another part? uh, i don t even think about it like that. it s very unconscious for me. hinojosa: tell me how you do it. well, i m not good at much else, so that s the first thing, you kn
my name is justin desmangles i of the chair of the foundation celebrating the 41st year. [applause] for decades. i want to and extend my gratitude to an hour founder our founder who was one of the great artists, warriors of our time, ishmael reed is with us today. [applause] i also want to think our friends here the center for being so generous in in particular the director and to fellow board member presently the poet laureate at the center cisco jazz festival san francisco jazz festival. [applause] the american book awards are hosted by the jazz center. jazz has the uniquely american art form the american is a and the thread of telling it like it is to invite openly all cultures to develop and to seek peace with one another. and with that national conversation that is exacerbated by a violent political crisis that has taken hold of the country in the rest of the world and with the viciousness of the american book awards and the before columbus foundation is it midwa