Welcome. My name is Vivian Schiller and im the director of aspen digital. Were blunt glad you could be with us today. The New York Times bestseller list can often seem to be a veneer of the National Psyche and this year it seems to reflect a nation going through an awakening on matters of race. Books written by people of color and about matters of race and racism have filled those lists, both fiction and nonfiction. Thats the good news. Sadly the Publishing Industry does not necessarily always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest hashtag publishing pay me exposed the disparity in the industry between black and nonblack authors. There are few people of color who serve as publishing staff or literary agents and even fewer who operate at decisionmaking levels and for those who are published, sometimes the marketing exposure can be sub optimal. This year of National Reckoning on racism were going to take a look at the industry, the book Publishing Industry and whether it can br
Hosting. Good night. And now on cspan2 book tb, more television for serious readers. Hi everybody i am Vivian Schiller and i the aspen institute. Really glad you could be with us today. The near times bestseller list can often be a mirror of the national psyche. As such, this year it seems to reflect the nation going through an awakening on matters of race. Books written by people of color and about matters of race and racism have filled those lists. Both fiction and nonfiction. That is the good news. Sadly the Publishing Industry does not always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest publishing paid me expose a major pay disparity in the industry between black and nonblack authors. Theres a few people of color who served as publishing staff or literary agents. And even fewer who operate at decisionmaking levels. And for those who are published, sometimes the marketing exposure can be suboptimal. And this year of National Reckoning on racism, we are going to take a look at th
Saying february i think i was right. Because it feels like february. Lets get to whatever were talking about. We know about today. But whats. Ahead. The next 4 hours. The snowstorm we thought we would escape all winter long. Now as you take a live look outside dark sunday morning marks light on at the white house. Sun has not risen yet it will 7 24 and will set an hour later this afternoon and evening. So right now bonechilling temperatures is right. These are cold temperatures no matter what the time of year especially for midmarch. Its 27 reagan nationalen 4 dulles and 24 bwi and second morning in a row of a hard freeze and second of several ahead in incredibly cold week that features a significant snowstorm. Also air temperatures in the 20s north and west. Westminster 2 1. Cumberland 19, 28 leonardtown and 8 rikdzburg. Notice snow moving across south carolina. That storm system and another piece of energy coming out of the midwest will combine to become a potent nor Easter Monday ni
Conversational at least among them began to do massive oral history work with people so that you can go online and have innumerable websites with paperwork from survivors of the camps. The other part which is always interesting, the military, everything is done on paper. A lot of political stuff gets destroyed, military stuff doesnt. You could get a couple pictures, one of the heroism of japanese americans before regimental combat teams and also stories of the people who only came to burps with people 30 or 40 years after it did so that it was a thrill to go through that research. Talk about the california environments, there was a man shot in the back by a young sentry, by independence, they were bored out of their minds and always looking for excitement and this guy is yelling, this Young American in a tower, there were americans on both sides of the barbed wire, that is the story but the deaf guy is walking along the fence and soldiers shouting at him to stop and get out of the way.
History work with people so that you can go online and have innumerable websites with paperwork from survivors of the camps. The other part which is always interesting, the military, everything is done on paper. A lot of political stuff gets destroyed, military stuff doesnt. You could get a couple pictures, one of the heroism of japanese americans before regimental combat teams and also stories of the people who only came to burps with people 30 or 40 years after it did so that it was a thrill to go through that research. Talk about the california environments, there was a man shot in the back by a young sentry, by independence, they were bored out of their minds and always looking for excitement and this guy is yelling, this Young American in a tower, there were americans on both sides of the barbed wire, that is the story but the deaf guy is walking along the fence and soldiers shouting at him to stop and get out of the way. The man doesnt here, the sentry shoots him dead. The sentry