And the readers for allowing me to be who had elevated libraries. [applause] let me just say that you are now a number one. I finally smacked down andrew carnegie. But when i started this book i could not have anticipated that part of it. I was drawn because they wanted to understand that happened in 1986 the epic fire that close the black one the library for seven years but more importantly i wanted to understand why i cared about it so much. I have often said if somebody said to me city hall burned down i would have thought thats too bad. I assume they will rebuild it. But hearing that a library had burned, felt like a deep profoundly personal loss. And i thought why do we feel such a connection to books . And what is so disturbing. And with the investigative curiosity with the overarching question of why do we care so much about libraries. And thats what stirs a lot of people because for many people it was a reminder to them of how much they care about libraries. So the thing that i
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Tonight, join jimmy and his guests Alex Rodriguez kj apa musical guest haim and featuring the legendary roots crew questlove 1221 steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause [ cheers and applause jimmy thank you very much. Hello. Thank you. [ cheers and applause welcome, everybody welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show. This is it youre here. [ cheers and applause fantastic. Well, you guys, it was a a Beautiful Day here in new york, with temperatures hitting 70 degrees [ cheers and applause jimmy it was great new yorkers were outside lathering themselves with sunscreen and purell it was amazing [ light laughter ] but today was nice but i cant wait for tomorrow when everyone shows up with a weird face mask tan. [ laughter ] thats right, these are fun times to do a show right now they really are. Just so everyone knows, in the event someone in the audience lightly coughs, the emergency exits are here, here and here. [ light laughter ] thank you very much. [ cheer