Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. President trump said today he believes he has the votes in the Republicancontrolled Congress to pass his tax reform bill calling for what he claims are record tax cuts by the end of the year if not sooner. Itll be the biggest cuts ever in the history of this country. And i think that theres tremendous appetite. Theres tremendous spirit for it, not only by the people were dealing with in congress, but for the people out there that want to see something. Sreenivasan the republican plan proposes tax cuts of up to 6 trillion and is expected to add up t
She lives and works in tempe. Where she is the founder and artistic director of essential theater. She has taught nonfiction classes at her estate universities studio and directed creative writing programs for incarcerated youth and at a federal prison for women outside of phoenix. She has also raised her family here. As a matter of fact her daughter was once a junior staffer in our kids section. She was the darling of the kids not only for her love of looks but also for her personal winning smile much like her mothers. So you can see susan and her family have been one of our regular patrons and readers for many years now and one of our dearest friends. So for many years we have known about the book she has been working on diligently, quietly. The topic is so big and important yet sensitive and heavy hearted and off that it had not been properly dealt with until now upon the 70th Year Anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on sunday. The story had been untold. In nagasaki life
Its people. This was recorded in tempe, arizona in 2015. It is just under one hour. Susan southard is one of this community and thats what makes this event very special. She holds an msa in creative writing from Antioch University in los angeles and was a non she lives and works in tempe, where she is the founder and artistic director of essential theater. She has taught nonfiction classes at Arizona State universities piper studio, and she has directed creative writing programs for incarcerated youth and at a federal prison for women outside of phoenix. She has also raised her family here. As a matter of fact, her daughter was once a junior staffer in our kids section. Let me tell you, she was the darling of the kids book department, not only for her love of books but also for her , personal winning smile much like her mothers. So you can see susan and her family have been one of our regular patrons and readers for many years now and one of our dearest friends. So for many years we ha
Amnesty international is a nobel peace prizewinning organization. The local chapter has been in existence for 30 years, and the peace center has been in existence for 33 years, 34 years. The festival is free of charge, all these events, but theyre not free of cost. So we urge you to remember to go online and give back or pick up a giving envelope from the information desk at the omni and support the festival so that they may sustain it for many years to come. In addition to that, you can support it in another way. Someone in washington recently proposed a budget that defunds the National Endowment for the arts and the National Endowment for the humanities. So you can support the festival with letters, phone calls, signs, common strausss demonstrations, whatever it takes because we know from recent evidence that your Voice Matters in public affairs. Youll see with the ushers who have handed out those green evaluation forms, and we ask you to fill one out. And it helps the festival prepa
If the answer is know, thats dumb thing to say because it makes you look weak and foolish. Or. We welcome you here on behalf of the Virginia Foundation for the humanities, and they are the producers of the virginia festival of the book. And we really greatly appreciate the hard work they go into to present these gatherings. This is my cell phone. And i am checking it right now [laughter] to make sure that it is silenced. And if you will do the same, we will avoid any interruptions. We want to thank our sponsors in addition to the festival of the book, amnesty international, the local group here is one of the sponsors and the Charlottesville Center for peace and justice is another. Amnesty international is a nobel peace prizewinning organization. The local chapter has been in existence for 30 years, and the peace center has been in existence for 33 years, 34 years. The festival is free of charge, all these events, but theyre not free of cost. So we urge you to remember to go online and