Joining, there are three different ways to join. You can watch for free on the Library Facebook page and you can purchase a copy of the book for ten dollars and pick it up at your local branch after the release page or as is tonights case you can purchase the enhanced experience and receive a copy of the book and have dinner from a local restaurant delivered to your door the night of the program and watch. You can read about all of those menus on the website and while you are there you will see in the coming weeks we welcome sonja as many of you may remember from sesame street. And on october 202nd we welcome american poet and civil rights activist. There are a lot more. All of these events with the enhanced experience where you get a special meal delivered to your home. I would be remiss if i didnt mention none of this would be possible without the generous Financial Support of the Library Legacy foundation to host programs like tonights conversation and countless other programs and s
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We feel incredibly lucky were able to offer virtual events, and we wouldnt be able to do that and gather and hear about the king of confidence if it wasnt for you all showing up. So thank you for doing that. Id like to quickly go over our zoom policies for tonights event. We do ask that you keep your video feed disabled for the duration of the event. If you do enable it, well kindly disable it for you. If you enable it a second time, we will regretfully have to disconnect. We appreciate your cooperation. Were going to have a reading by both miles and donovan to start us off. After miles reads from the king of confidence which was actually published this past tuesday and donovan reads from the inner coast which was published early last month, in june, were going to hear an extended conversation between the two of them for about 3035 minutes, and were also going to have a few slides here and there if needed to add some supplemental images, and once were done with that, were going to wrap