Hollywood. Theres gingerbread syrup in our lattes. Theres fake snow in our outdoor shopping malls. Tiny chihuahuas in santa hats are peeking out of our Louis Vuitton bags. Its really a wonderful time of the year. It can get a little depressing being in l. A. You can feel very alone during the holidays. Sometimes, i hope you dont mind me sharing this, but sometimes i feel like im the only one still celebrating kwanzaa. [ laughter ] the important thing is that metal ka is here tonight. [ cheers and applause ] look at all those people, the streets are jam packed. Oh, this is a weird one. This is a real item that was posted for sale on amazon. Yesterday, i think. These are leggings for toddlers and children. As you can see, marijuana leaf printed repeatedly. I dont know how somebody happened upon this. But they did. Then they complained. A lot of people complained, pe of a dog that is also clearly stoned out of her mind. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] millie, i had a dog named milley
And you can watch full programs on our website, booktv. Org. Welcome back everybody. Lets get started. Imdealer kites, your room host of the day. Were a little weary by this time but im glad to be here. Im also chair of the brick 11 literary society. Turn your cell phones off, thank you all for coming. Lets thank our sponsors, we need to do that in every session because they are so important to the success of the fair so thanks to knight foundation, poway gel, or a gain of construction, bachelor foundation, the degroot foundation. As always, thank you to all the friends of the book fair. We hope everybody who is in this room will be a friend by next year so you can enjoy all the activities that are available for friends during here. We thank our volunteers, we thank the staff of the book fair and super big thanks to miamidade college. Thanks to all. [applause] we have a big crowd for a mighty important author to let me start by introducing his introducer. Marcia dunn is a longtime miam
About the fragile and chaotic nature of the freedom and enduring dignity of the people who secured it. W join me in welcoming chandra manning. [applause] thank you. Thank you very minute to all of you for coming today. Im a tiny bit surprised to see anybody. With an election just three days ago and an outcome that we know is going to make history going y forward, im i wasnt quite sure if anybody would show up ay but im glad you did. He its a story of refugee see center of American History and skis do ash story about page asking defining citizenship as a day in and dayout basis. Want to talk about how thisf particular book came about, how i came to write it. Ill give you a glimpse into what it says and then id like to end with what i hope this book achieves. Wayne to start by being if any of you have ever been to a. Psychorama, an enormous painting, a sicker already th sicker you walk into thee middle of it and every inch is painted. Y inch in intricate, elaborate detail. Thats a sick l
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