but publishing is changing dramatically. even my own magazine, which as many print magazines are these days, facing a difficult business climate as print magazines and particularly treat her magazines have, we had then in the last two years actually was kind of issued a turnaround. i was choking ratio that hopefully pjb you is an indicator in some ways that the book business than the print i do that as well. but the digital side of it has been incredibly important actually in the pjb rebounding. digital side and actually new owner who acquired a in 2010, moved us to new offices and transferred has transformed us from a small part of a gigantic national public operation to really a small startup, really focus on the book publishing industry and focused on how we can reinvent the magazine for the 21st century. before our panel today, and being sold or selling ourselves, black writers in the marketplace. we have a terrific panel and i am going to start off right now. i ve got a
but the first thing i want to talk a little about and introduce our panel and then i want to just a little bit about the market wherein. i work for publishers weekly and i worked there for quite a few years as the people out there who know me, we are in and amazing. right now. but publishing is changing dramatically. even my own magazine, which as many print magazines are these days, facing a difficult business climate as print magazines and particularly treat her magazines have, we had then in the last two years actually was kind of issued a turnaround. i was choking ratio that hopefully pjb you is an indicator in some ways that the book business than the print i do that as well. but the digital side of it has been incredibly important actually in the pjb rebounding. digital side and actually new owner who acquired a in 2010, moved us to new offices and transferred has transformed us from a small part of a gigantic national public operation to really a small startup, really
i m going to introduce my panelists, and somebody give me a sign when he have 15 minutes for question and answer. and what s our time frame here? an hour total. so, at about 4:00 5 we ll break for questions 4:15, we ll break for questions. so if you hold for them the end, if we have a lot of people dying to speak, we ll start earlier to my far right is my friend, bob weil, the executive editor for norton. he works with annett gordon reid, jg ballard and patricia high something, and hey has been in publishing in one form or another since we both got out of college many decades ago. to my immediate right is johnny temple, a small publisher in brooklyn, new york. the publish urban literary fission fiction and political nonfiction. immediately to my left is kim robinson, who is the regional director of the university of california press regional publisher, formerly at oxford university press. she has been a music editor and a head of reference, which is interesting, bec
things, the whole issue of the weapons of the resistance, which is this which is this thing that hamas constantly wields, it is whole theory of occupying the territory is what they say. hezbollah with responsible governments and a hezbollah that does not have pretext of the farms of lebanese territory to be liberated is a different hezbollah. i would argue that the case of hamas is much more difficult because the occupation is not going away anytime soon. i, unfortunately, don t hear our secretary of state. i, unfortunately, don t hear high policymakers talking about our being in the 42nd year in occupation. the third generation of palestinians is growing up underneath it. it is something that, obviously, is creating lots of problems. occupation engenders resistance. you may not like the means. those means may be violation of international law but occupation engenders resistance. there s no such thing as a benign resistance and buying off to sweeten the occupation. people d
and people are especially grown-ups, especially middle-aged grown-ups. this book if it is skewed in one direction it s probably more male than female but it s also fairly old. the youngest person is probably now 40. so there s not a young people because it starts in 1965 and i wanted these characters all the way through. but by the time people are 50 they are full of all kind of disappointments and contradictions and, you know, interesting stuff to write about which is not as a people your age are not full of interesting complications. what i am saying is you start asking people really intimate questions, really get down you start on the easy stuff and then start getting down, great stuff comes up, great stuff. it s like throwing dynamite in a pond. this is really fun work. i feel privileged to do it and to come and talk to you about it. thank you very much for coming. [applause] dan baum formerly staff writer for the new yorker and reporter for the wall street journal