Each year the National Book critics circles awards are presented to the best books published in the United States as voted on by 600 literary critics. Heres this years Award Ceremony from the new school in new york city. Its 90 minutes. Hello, everyone. Good evening and welcome. Im the director of the creative writing and we are happy to welcome back our friends. For over 15 years we have been honored to host this award in the auditorium. For the fifth year from the Creative Writing Program interviewed the finalists in a series of interviews can you hear me . Okay, the interview is posted on the blog and the website. You can check them out on book critics. Org. Organizing and posting over 30 interviews over a threeweek period is a huge job and one that couldnt have been job without kelly stewart, student interviewers and the others. Thank you to the Board Members and sylvan simon for all of their efforts and a huge thank you for the board i wonder if we can get a round of applause to t
Each year the National Book critics circles awards are presented to the best books published in the United States as voted on by 600 literary critics. Heres this years Award Ceremony from the new school in new york city. Its 90 minutes. Hello, everyone. Good evening and welcome. Im the director of the creative writing and we are happy to welcome back our friends. For over 15 years we have been honored to host this award in the auditorium. For the fifth year from the Creative Writing Program interviewed the finalists in a series of interviews can you hear me . Okay, the interview is posted on the blog and the website. You can check them out on book critics. Org. Organizing and posting over 30 interviews over a threeweek period is a huge job and one that couldnt have been job without kelly stewart, student interviewers and the others. Thank you to the Board Members and sylvan simon for all of their efforts and a huge thank you for the board i wonder if we can get a round of applause to t
The nbcc. Weve been honored to host this awards ceremony right here in this auditorium. The series of interviews that i have posted. They are posted on our blog and on the nbcc website. Thirty interviews over a threeweek time is a huge job and one that could not be done without that many editors who gave their help. Thank you to the Board Members. A few more thanks. In the huge thank you. I wonder if we can give up round of applause for the board. They make mention this also. With the enterprise. I think today they have it preaching to the choir. I think they will need that. [applause]. We can also mention that. I dont want that. Mention other things the arts and great organizations. To support them. Now its my pleasure to turn the evening over. The books editor. Its nice to see sony people here tonight. I am the president of the National Book critics circle. For the publishing year 2016. We are delighted to have you join us. With six categories fiction, nonfiction, biography, autobiog
10th annual san antonio book festival, and thank you to Central Library for helping us present this amazing day and to the hon holt family for sponsoring this venue. I want to remind you that. 15 minutes after this session ends. Julie will be signing books in the nowhere bookshop tent which is outside in the festival marketplace where you see all those tents out there. Please take this time to silence your cell phones. And were going to talk for a little bit and then well open it up for some. Questions from the audience, okay. So first im going to read. The description from the back of this book because i think it gives you a very good overview of what is in here. But this is what it looks like in hardcover. So go and buy that its gorgeous. So coral reefs are microcosm of our planet extraordinarily diverse deeply deeply interconnected and full of wonders. When theyre thriving these fairy gardens hidden beneath the oceans surface burst with color in life. They sustain entire ecosystems
Is outside in the festival marketplace where you see all those tents out there. Please take this time to silence your cell phones. And were going to talk for a little bit and then well open it up for some. Questions from the audience, okay. So first im going to read. The description from the back of this book because i think it gives you a very good overview of what is in here. But this is what it looks like in hardcover. So go and buy that its gorgeous. So coral reefs are microcosm of our planet extraordinarily diverse deeply deeply interconnected and full of wonders. When theyre thriving these fairy gardens hidden beneath the oceans surface burst with color in life. They sustain entire ecosystems and protect valuable coasts. But corals across the planet are in the middle of an unprecedented dieoff. Be set by warming oceans pollution damage by humans and a devastating pandemic. Julie burwald travels the world to find the scientists and activists desperately fighting to prevent their l