Discusses her all day a year of love and survival teaching incarcerated kids at Rikers Island this program contains language that some might find offensive. Good evening folks. Welcome to Greenlight Bookstore i am Jessica Bagnulo one of the owners. We are happy to host Liza Peterson. You can give her a round of applause now. [applause] her new book is all day a year of love and survival teaching incarcerated kids at Rikers Island. And she is going to be speaking tonight with Flores Forbes so you are in for an excellent evening. Maybe another round of applause. [applause] before turn things over just a couple of housekeeping thing. If you have a cell phone or something that might make noise now is the time to turn it off work silence it. There we have copies of Liza Petersons book and Flores Forbess book for sale. This will have flyers for Upcoming Events at the register. Hope you can check those out to more great events in may. When you buy a bucket agreement you would not only get a g
I said and i will call you right back because they had the feeling he pacified want cnn the satisfaction to tell though world they had informed the white house of they sent me the email to let me know that he had died. Now we have the fee and in the york city. There is one . [laughter] [applause] from jasper it has his picture and to view that we ask you do you miss me . That is the results of greta that we get another dog after henry passed one night greg gutfeld said she was mad because proper route to taking pictures of her job she said you are known to fly into a rage i said no i want everyone to share my dog he can be americas dog and he is. [laughter] [applause] and the good news is. All of you have the book go to the lobby they will sign or they are for sale. The Richard Nixon president ial library. God bless america. [inaudible conversations]. Guest kathy is my mother and in the course of thinking about this book i realized that person that i grew up knowing which was such an o
Especially in thinking about the kinds of freedoms that you are eager for and individuation that still happening actively at that time. It made me hungry for a kind of distance from the person i had been as a child or my mothers child at home and some have poetry love me to take different kinds of steps into a sense of who i was and what was important to me. Do you ever surprise yourself by writing up. Guest yeah. Ideally thats the goal for any poem. If it doesnt happen i feel like maybe the poem isnt done yet or the poem isnt ready to be written. My last book of poems was thinking a lot about my father who passed away about seven years ago and i didnt know what i was after. I just knew that i sat down to write and i wanted to be able to dwell on aspects of our relationship and my memory that would make me feel closer to her. And one thing that i discovered an probably this is connected to some of the things i discovered in writing this memoir was that i was looking for a version of go
jessica, not jennifer. we re 14 minutes into the show, i got one person who wasn t arrested saying was arrested. what was your take away from the walmart action? i honestly think it s inspiring. we were talking about this a moment ago. i think like the occupy movement, even if it s a sort of a symbolic moment, it allows people to imagine a different kind of a world. and i think that s where all big things start. the idea of opening an independent bookstore, a lot of people were like, oh, that s a nice slightly crazy thing to do. you kind of have to be an optimist to make anything happen. and now we re real, 3-year-old $1.5 million a year business. you have an independent bookstore in brooklyn that you open. and when we talk about retail on the role it plays in america. i think there s this trend toward consolidation and bigness. and that has ways in which it affects business, in ways it affects independent retailers as
[ female announcer ] swiffer. now with the scrubbing power of mr. clean magic eraser. we are talking about black friday and its sort of cultural significance in america and the role of retail and the future of retail. and you made this interesting point, jessica as a small business owner, about you re not, you know, you re fine with people with there being big options for people and small options for people, like your own. of course. you want a level playing field. and this is one of my favorite phrases in american politics, but what does that mean to you? everyone being asked to follow the same rules and a certain level of bigness not exempting you from rules like paying sales tax in your state, undergoing the amount of scrutiny, and standards, and having the same deals from your vendors and offering the same deals to your customers, i think all of that, you know, needs to be equal. amazon is the elephant in the