Literary celebration, a combination of lectures, readings, panel discussions, versations, and it began the first years looking at the work of Ernest Deming way and it grew Ernest Hemingway and it grew. There was a seminar devoted to Tennessee Williams and a collection of writers. They look to people like james james merrill. Since that time, over the 30 plus years, the seminar has stuck to that same fourday format. It is an investigation of a particular literary theme. Anyway you can divide contemporary american literature, we have had seminars devoted by biography an autobiography, seminars devoted to poetry as well as in a particular sense the poetry of elizabeth bishop. We have looked at the popular crime fiction genre. We did a seminar called the dark side. A lot of really wonderful bigname crime writers. We delve into nonfiction through a variety of topics. One of the things we like to do is explore how nonfiction writing and fiction talk to one another and how a biographer or his
Takes aim at florida with landfall expected in less than 24 hours. Today, saturday, september 9th, 2017. From nbc news, this is a special edition of today Hurricane Irma. With sheinelle jones, craig melvin, and dylan dreyer. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome back to today on this saturday morning. Im craig melvin. A look there at some of the images that are starting to come in. You can feel it already. Im sheinelle jones. All eyes are on Hurricane Irma this morning. Check out the category4 storm. It is massive. Wider than the state of florida, and bringing top winds of 130 Miles Per Hour. Heres the very latest on the storm. Overnight the path shifted slightly, putting floridas west coast in peril. Of course, storm surge from the east to the west coast is a huge concern this morning. Cuba and the bahamas are feeling irmas effects right now. The storm made landfall in cuba overnight as a category5 storm. Already at least 23 people have been killed in the car
Come on, boots. Others hunkering down. Even in Car Dealerships as they try to ride out this storm. This is the first time the sheriff ever came down our street. To order you out . Yeah. Cities in the path boarded up. The governor warning people to be on guard. This is clearly a lifethreatening situation. The storm surge comes after the strongest winds. More than 1,000 americans rescued from st. Martin, now sharinging their stories. Some abandoned by hotel staff, facing armed robbers. Our david muir and amy robach on the ground in florida. Leading our Team Coverage. This is a special edition of Good Morning America. Hurricane irma, monster storm. Good morning, everyone. As we come on the air, Hurricane Irma is bearing down on the state of florida as a massive category 4 storm. Youre looking at live pictures out of miami. The situation is deteriorating. The situation is worse down south. The storm is making a hit on the florida keys. Look at the fresh images. This is the satellite imager
Rattling. And a flurry of viewer tweets are rolling in. One felt the shaking on the san jose cisco campus. Another says that she felt it on the 4th floor of a building in milpitas. And this tweet, im new to california and i felt the Apartment Building mao move for a few seconds, was very confused. Go to cbssf. Com quake for tips on preparedness and the latest earthquake information. We are following breaking news right now. Chopper 5 is live over oakland where police are investigating a shooting near 40th street and macarthur. The circumstances arent yet clear. But we are told Oakland Police and bart police are involved at this point. We are going to keep you updated. Tight security at uc berkeley right now ahead of todays visit by conservative speaker ben shapiro. Kpix 5s anne makovec is live at cal with how the campus and police are preparing. Reporter the barriers are up. Officers are out in force. This intersection here behind me is the closest you can get right now to the ucberkel
In fort myers with more. Reporter President Trump and the first lady arrived in fort myers to view irmas aftermath. Weve seen the devastation. Were going to see some more of it now unfortunately. Reporter the president will also tour the damage in naples near where irma came ashore for the second time on sunday. Millions of people remain without power across the state. Theyre way ahead of schedule. There are more electrical people in this state ithan ever accumulated anywhere in the world is what i read before. Reporter utility Officials Say it could be another week before power is completely restored to this part of the state because of the significant damage. In broward county, florida, another nursing home was evacuated thursday morning. It comes one day after eight patients died at a nearby facility that lost air conditioning following irma. A criminal investigation is under way. Preliminary results show that they did have electricity at the place but the air conditioning was not w