As a collection, make it scream, make it burn and they are so smart, so nuanced and its fascinating to hear about and to read about the ethical complications of being a writer. Theres tension between making art making beauty and exporting the people you write about. Thats one of the recurring themes, all of these essays. Theres also a lot else as well so its great to have the here. Its wonderful to be here. One thing that so striking to me about this collection is this a very different kinds of answers. Some are journalism, summer what i would callst criticism and thn you very personalal essays, revealing essays. Arere you equally comfortable wh all those different kinds of writing or do you have a favorite type ofu essay . Best way to start answer the question would be to say that i am differently uncomfortable with all three forms of writing. I think its usually a bad sign if im feeling too comfortable about a a project or peace and working on but i find, and suddenly and discovered
A couple of notes for you, please silence your cell phones as always. Also, if youd like to ask the question this evening, right over here in front of the wisconsin book festival banner there is a microphone, we are joined across the nation on cspan booktv today so please ask your question from the microphone. Also as a special treat, artist will santino is here and will be graphic recording throughout the event. Writing down things they discussed, questions we ask and then his piece of art will be on display after stop here is Angela Batista from a [applause] abi want to give a big thank you to Madison Public Library, the Madison Public Library foundation and all our amazing sponsors for making this whole thing possible. Thank you. And thank you for coming out to the wisconsin book festival to hear adam rippon talk about his new book beautiful on the outside i dont think he needs an intro, everybody in this room probably knows him. If you dont, get a tv. [laughter] check your internet
Welcome to hannity. Welcome to our Live Audience show. These are this is the these are the only normal people inrk all new york, the whole state. Theyre right here in studio. Thank you all for coming. Great to have you at home. It has been an extremely busy newsweek up not just because of all the chaos on capitol hill. New former President Trump is been stuck in court. Ev, wile there for months thanks to what is an absolutely obscene civil suit brought on by a devout trump hater that ran on ap platform to get one man, one organization, one family, the trump family. Thats not. But thats not what the rule of law should be about. Anyway, the Attorney General of new york, meanwhile , zero experience. Multimillionaire hunter a new biden with a newly shaved head thatll look good in prison, was arraignelyd Felony Gun Charges in delaware. And we will introduce to you all of that and give you the details on it. Also the latest woke campaign from the Biden White House tonight. And by the way, th
We are without the United States. President s day in the u. S. That means a lot of participants stateside but we also see reduced trading over the Asian Session as well. We saw the asian equities session with the nikkei moving higher, 1. 8 . A little higher a little harder to make any headway. More will get to more that. Our focus on what we are doing in europe because without the United States and the chinese and hong kong markets are closed. Thats get the first word news update. President trump spent the weekend criticizing everyone but russia for meddling. He tweeted 14 times over 24 hours criticizing the fbi, democrats and special counsel Robert Muellers investigation. They came after his sweeping indictment of 13 russians for allegedly leading social media efforts to attack trump rival, hillary clinton. In florida, students at the high school where 17 people were shot and killed are speaking out or gun control. They plan to organize antigun violence marches for next month. In the
It chronicles what happened to his own family after his brother was shot dead by a white man in long island, new york, in 1992. The killer, never charged. Plus, we hear from oscarnominee, the musician and actor, common. The day that women took over, let it take over. Now women get paid as much as men do. Dr. Angelo looking from heavens window, telling young girls phenomenal woman is in you, body is a temple. Mother earth saying, its ok. Toilet seats down, that is a nobrainer. Monuments in washington of fannie lou hamer. Amy comment also stars in the film here at sundance that has had its World Premiere about sexual abuse gold detail. Then hale county this morning, this evening. A new documentary captures life in the black belt of alabama. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In switzerland, thousands of protesters took to the streets of zurich tuesday to protest against the World Economic forum in davos an