The 40th annual american book awards. I say it is very appropriate that we are holding this ceremony on the day of the dead. In San Francisco. And in california, and at the end of the west. Not just geographically mind you, you go any further west, you are in the east. Far east. So just this last month, afghanistan turned 18. I say its you say is going to vote . Congressional budget for every 24 hours the war cost hundred and 74 million. So in a city named for st. Francis, who city fathers and mothers now treated citizens as if they were merely detritus of capitalism, is trying these big two. And if state named for a black lesbian amazon clean of the islamic faith took up on that, but these are just the names that we know right now. Because there are monday names for this place became long before any of us were here and there will be monday names to come. In fact the origin of those names came from a group of people who arrived from youre up are increasingly starting to up here within
Ambiguous, given that tens of thousands of civilians died there, while the states are calling on israel to act with more restraint, and also, according to press reports, to postpone the ground operation against hamas radicals for at least a week. Our own correspondent, valentin bogdanov, on a view of the conflict from the United States. Turtle swims postponed until next time season, on the beach in delaware vetrino and biden warmed up with his wife, autumn of the patriarch of the new world order, which is increasingly looking like a castle in the sand, does not hold up, is collapsing, mr. President , have you heard anything about american hostages, the us president seems to be waving , but america is confident that it is brushing aside both problems and fellow citizens in trouble. We have problems on the border, there is a war between hamas and israel, we have inflation, and what is he doing . Our people are hostage, what is he doing . Hes back on the beach in delaware, no does its job
By cochair susan tourial and im pleased to welcome me to the book festival awardwinning afternoon featuring journalist dan ephron in conversation with nancy updike, producer for this American Life. And her second journalist, mike kelly, Senior Executive producer at georgia public broadcasting. We are also happy to welcome cspan booktv to a book festival programming this afternoon. On behalf of the book festival we are truly grateful for the support of barbara, this years presenting sponsors greenberg and wells fargo. In addition to our over 25 valued sponsors who support our book festival year after year. We are also a proud affiliate of the Jewish Federation of greater atlanta. Please check your playbill for the lineup of our calendar events for the rest of the book festival. Tickets for all book festival events are available in three different ways. You can purchase them online, by telephone or in person at our box office or any other Customer Service desks. The format for todays pre
Youre on with blake and melanie. Caller hi, good morning. The issue that i have is photo 2r56k tickets. I have a photo traffic ticket and i failed to appear, and then they suspended my license and jeopardized my livelihood to get to work. And both tickets are unconstitutional because theres no officer that can vouch in court that you violated a traffic violation. So if i can get you to explain how a City Government can coordinate with the dmv to suspend my license for a traffic ticket thats unconstitutional, because no officers were there present when the photo was taken. You want to take a photo traffic ticket . This is a great story to bring up we have heard this from a lot of the people we talked to they go into the dmv and they cant get their license renewed because they have these outstanding tickets, a lot of people we talk to, they see the picture that was taken and one guy named john wright said that he was sent a picture of a bmw, and said that he ran some toll or got a parkin
Achievement award to Toni Morrison and announcement of winners in several categories including general nonfiction awarded to David Ryan Davis author of the Nonfiction Book the problem of slavery in the age of emancipation. [applause] thanks louise and good evening to all of you. Its my pleasure to welcome you here tonight to the book Critics Award ceremony for the publishing year 2014. Where id have you join us this evening is now the most outstanding work of the past year in six categories, fiction and nonfiction biography poetry autobiography and criticism. Like i said in a gratitude to the others whove joined us here tonight as well as the editors editors publishers agents and publicists to help bring their work her attention to the National Book critics circle awards were founded in 1974 out of a conversation that took place at the out walk when hotel by grupo critters who want to establish a set of awards granted given by critics and sell them like other Literary Works are books t