Uasouthern festival of books and its an amazing event that brings authors from all over the country to nashville each fall to be with the thousands of readers and writers from around the region. For those of us would enjoy being here, f were lucky that its a free event so thanks to a lot of the Community Support remember that the festival does depend on individual donations among other sources to remain free so please take the time to donate and what you can to help keepit free and any amount helps. Whatever amount you can spare. You can donate via the website, behalf or in person at the headquarters tends throughout the weekend and any amount is appreciated. Now let me introduce the authors, kendra allen who is the author of when you learn u that alphabet and jennine cap crucet who is the author of my time among the whites. So kendra, i think you said you want to go first. What were going to do is each of the authors is going to read from their book and we will have discussion back an
Over the country to nashville each fall to be with the thousands of readers and writers from around the region. For those of us would enjoy being here, f were lucky that its a free event so thanks to a lot of the Community Support remember that the festival does depend on individual donations among other sources to remain free so please take the time to donate and what you can to help keepit free and any amount helps. Whatever amount you can spare. You can donate via the website, behalf or in person at the headquarters tends throughout the weekend and any amount is appreciated. Now let me introduce the authors, kendra allen who is the author of when you learn u that alphabet and jennine cap crucet who is the author of my time among the whites. So kendra, i think you said you want to go first. What were going to do is each of the authors is going to read from their book and we will have discussion back and forth and talk about the books and about their writing and their lives if they wa
Make myself not do that again. And then i give you a very long reading list because im your professor [laughter] go read all this stuff, and then we come back and you write a great paper and you graduate with honors, and then you write a book and you sit, like, on a panel with a writer. See how useful it can the all be. [laughter] you can all be successful. [laughter] straight line, right . On some days i can let myself go that way. For me one of the first collection of essays that i ever read was entitled how to kill yourself and others in america. Me too. That was the first thing that i ever read that i was, like, so i can be my cup self country is self, i can talk in my slang, i dont have to great grammar, e myself on the page. That was one of my first books. I read it, like, twice a year, its an easy read. That book is my favorite book. And also belle hooks born black. Its a memoir, but the way it was written is very, like, every chapter is no more than two pages, and the way that
Chase. The foreignexchange traders made about 300 million on the day of that. Citigroup barclays and Deutsche Bank all took it on the chin to a tune of about 400 million in combined trading losses. At t says sales grew 4 in the Fourth Quarter but somebody reported a loss of 4 billion due to underfunding the pension. They added subscribers as discount leeward subscribers. We will have more on at t and its plans to expand in mexico later in the show. Google fiber is heading south, not going south, moving business itself. They say they are bringing superfast Internet Service to atlanta charlotte, and raleighdurham along with nearby suburbs. Google fiber brings Internet Speed about 100 times faster than the average u. S. Connection. Its already available in kansas city, austan, and provo, utah. Now to the lee apple does it again. The worlds most valuable company post another recordbreaking quarter. Revenues were 74. 6 billion, a 34 jump over last year. Net income up year over year. Here is
18 billion,. Interest in apple products is at an alltime high with half a billion customer visits in the first quarter. Demand has in shattering our high expectation driven by the unprecedented popularity of iphone 6 and iphone 6 plus. Staggering is right. Iphones are flying off the shelves. Maybe the only negative note was a decline in ipad sales. The Biggest Development is the success apple has seen in china, opening another potential growth area. I asked about the whopping iphone number. I wondered what was the catch, if there was some sort of channel fill in their or some explanation. It just could not be that good of a number. It turns out that it was a clean number, that they did not fill the channel. Even though expectations were for high 60 million. That 74 million number was well above that. I do not know what the right number was, but any way you cut it, it was impressive. We were on live tv and they were talking to somebody else and i saw a number go by. I was waving frantic