Relations under the Trump Administration, and economic prospects for the future. Panelists also speculate whether President Trump will change the Obama Administration cuban normalization policies. Good afternoon everyone. Thank you all for being here. A special thanks to our audience in the cspan world for joining us. This event is being recorded by cspan. Thank you for being here and for the audience for joining us. My name is frank moore. I am the director of the kimberly green Caribbean Center here at Florida University. Our friends at cspan, we are here located at the biscayne bay campus of Florida University here in miami. We have another campus where the center is located in west dade. The center that i direct is one of the institutes and programs or centers at the Steven J Green school of International Affairs and university. We are absolutely delighted to be hosting or cohosting this event. I want to thank the dean of the Chaplain School of hospitality and tourism management, m
Hospital, the chief of staff who so generously allowed us to broadcast from the harlem atrium. Its a wonderful place. It was important because while we usually broadcast from schaumburg it was important to introduce another harlem institution and interestingly enough to have a more literally the harlem hospital live, the schaumburg in another way but i wanted you to just know that harlem is a vibrant community, a community that in many ways sustains not only those who live here but is the idea of harlem and what it represents it sustains us all. So i wanted wanted to thank harlem hospitals. I wanted to thank christopher from the Public Affairs department who i have called too many times and i know he has answered the phone to many times. So thank you christopher. With all that is going on in the nation, i think it is important to begin the harlem book fair with an opening remark and that is, we know what is. My question is, what is the alternative and for me the alternative is for us t
To. A book i am rereading. I am also reading a book at the National Gallery a week or so ago called the accidental masterpiece. It is about how you see art and to me i am a great lover of art, every day objects, everywhere you look. An interesting book i picked up. You see by my office, i do my own art. And keep my day job here. Reading, i want to mention, is foundational. I was not born in this country. English is not my first language. I credit a library and in Elementary School who awakened my love of reading and i remember the book, those who sit at her feet at the library and she read is mary poppins. That brought the love of reading for me which was foundational. You should be a reader. I am a pretty voracious reader. Anything else you are reading this summer . I picked up i read as a new yorker compilation, short stories on the ipad, those are things i can read and when i have time, as i said, i have a number of those books on my ipad. The other thing i want to mention is often
Its known in the United States for publishing a lot of fiction. So i think it is a good counterbalance. [inaudible] so just picking it up and moving it over, i still have the same staff and books in the same boss. So it was a minimally traumatic as a bio can be. Host imer it is the publisher basic books, you can look for some of their titles this fall, this, this is a book tv on cspan2. [inaudible] thank you for being here, i want to thank market he said it we began collaborating maybe 20 years ago when we were each 12 years old. When i was doing the National Black writers conference in max join me, he is a good friend, my mentor, john oliver cofounded the conference with me, used to talk about longdistance runners. He would say, you could make a sprint but who is the guy who can go all the way . And and max is a longdistance runner. He is a visionary, he is remains focused on his goals. And as he said this is the 18th time he is doing this book festival and has plans for many other ev
He is a friend and im proud to have him at this table. Welcome. It is good to have you here. Why did you decide and what was the point for this particular book . Was it one you always knew you had to write because it was your life and it involved the ideas of writing and the people, writers, that you care most about . Terry it felt like i would always write this book but it didnt at the beginning. When i was leaving time inc. , i went through files i had carried with me of 13 different magazines. I thought i traveled light. I found all kinds of stories, photographs of the relationship i had with these various writers and i thought the best way for me to show my own writing would probably be to write about these writers. I started telling those stories and then i started adding in things about the Media Business from the peak of the new journalism all the way to now, which made it a little bit about money so it became about that and what you have to do to be a writer but funnily, it tur