Makes him tick. The book is already earned praise from among the leading speakers. And we are fortunate that they will spend the next at work with us breaking down what we need to know about how they operate and who they are and what is going on in north korea these days. The bring a wealth of knowledge to this conversation. The both are former intelligence analysts and represent the very best of the previous profession. Each are tremendous callings while in government and their tremendous friends now. And in addition to be deeply informed and formed kind and deadly smart. Theyre also a ton of fun. So before turn it over to them i do want to note that we are in a collective and that many questions and will commute. You can do so, by sending email to events at brookings. Edu or via twitter, and becoming kim. With that is my dog to turn it over now. It one of spend a few minutes talking about what it is like to cover a country like north korea. Your book begins with you talking about ana
Celebrate these wonderful awards. In the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation, certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around, and probably among the folks being honored tonight. What we are going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than they ceremony since zoom is not a great place to exchange awards and the like. So were going to have a series of conversations with our four winners, and then ill when were done well take your questions in chat. And well try to wrap up in an hour, following the zoom practice not leaving you in front of your computer screen for to long especially this time of day. As we get started, for those who may be knew to the awards and to the legacy that they honor, we have a short video about J Anthony Luka ss prizes. People talk but book writing, they almost always talk but the process of writing. Sitting there by the keyboard, and writing it dont and it is in many resp
Leading eye with the intellectuals and colonists and tv commentators and authors. His new book is tonight. How may people have read this book . How many people are goingan to read it after this is over . How many people are going to get autographed copy from david brooks today . So david, thanks for doing th. Before we go into this book, the Second Mountain which have read and its a very good book, will go through it id like to go through about your background. You grew up in new york . Lower side of new york. About, hippies would go just to be. And one of the things they did was they threw their they put the garage can garbage can on fire, i saw 5dollar bill in garbage can and i reached in the fire and grabbed money and ran away. That was my first step to the right. At age 8i read a book calling paddington the bear and decided that i wanted to become a writer and ive been writing pretty much every day since and in high school i wanted to date a woman named bernice and she wanted to da
Charles Ives turns 150 this year. In honor of him, the New England Conservatory is hosting a series of events highlighting his work. The NEC's Stephen Drury joins The Culture Show to talk about the event.