Behalf of all the great folks here at the auditorium, welcome, thank you so much for coming. We have been partnering for a number of years now sponsoring these author talks and we are very grateful to have access to such a spacious and convenient facility here in the center of washington. We are also grateful for the support from all of you. We know you have choices on where to buy books these days and we would like to thank you for choosing to shop with a local independent bookstore. [applause] [cheering] it is especially exciting to be hosting this evening. Hes here of course to talk about his new book and its been two years since roman writing in the new yorker and jodi kantor and megan writing in the New York Times and the two years since they published their separate exposes of Sexual Assault and harassment allegations against movie producer those stories encouraged many other women around the world to come forward with allegations against other powerful privileged and previously