Animating today. Host what is the focus of one one world . S. Cosell, similar to the books i published across my career, books focus on social justice issues. Really there is fiction and nonfiction and how fast i understand the path in different ways and blaze trails back into the past. We understand our history more and crises better through storytelling and also help us imagine new futures. It is a book about i think the most essential conversations we are having today in new ways of thinking. New approaches from perspectives that are outside of what we consider to be the mainstream. Whether thats people coming from different, you know, racial and national backgrounds, what other are people of political ideas outside of the mainstream. I use the term mainstream loosely. I really mean people who are outside of the mainstream and probably in the center of american life. Host what are some of the books he published in the past that fix that . I published between the world in me came out
Theyre more comfortable to perceived to want to help them create great work that has great integrity i feel the best books we have talked about already and over my list the ones that work the best is where the writer is able to express himself and tell their stories with integrity so i feel what the publish and distribute as whole or what the culture can do is set of letting the writer express their ideas and their kraft, tries to make them fit into a category or a box and to appeal to a perceived reader that is the ideal reader for the industry that they have identified as their primary reader who looks like a lot of the people the court directed the Publishing Industry so i do feel that it is to help people get access to that machinery has random house but without sacrificing the integrity. Are you a unique face in publishing . I do think there are a number of people not just to think differently but they bring new ideas and energy into the industry but also there is people of color
Librarians are people who help people. And information rich world. A question i did not follow up on it is your dad still alive . No. So did he have brothers and sisters. Guest no. Im an only child. Its interesting when you say is your dad still with us, some of his image that he liked jazz and he was also a studio musician so he still talks music and everything but he also is a studio musician. So sometimes a minimal and i can hear my dad playing background on a song and that is quite a feeling. Who is your favorite jazz musician . Guest miles davis. I think its because i actually met him and he was pretty cool back then ands i have always felt that there was something about him and as an eight or 9yearold to have a person, i didnt know how cool he was then but he was nice to me. So you probably are not old enough to have been to mr. Kellys or the house in chicago . I knew about the london house. My dad played there. That was a group that they took in so you can still hear their music
You are thinking about records and things like that, has any of you do any research on that concern . That is always been something really pressing to met to know where im from in termss of africa. I know it is difficult because of the fact that the history of being enslaved you were dispersed children and adults and such. So has any of you historians ever address that concern . Will isis stood researchers for 35 years. About. T. About 70 were working on family history. Family history is a big part of what the archives staff assist patrons with. So if you have not asked for help, go ask for help. Of course youre going to find the records of enslaved people. You have to realize that you have to search the white records. He had. You have to search the deeds, the wills and very honestly, sometimes theyre not there. County courthouse bern, family got rid of the plantation records. It amazes me when i go see a pilgrimage a pilgrimage home. A lot of times the family home they still have the
So what i was finding the necessary format to this . Is there a half hour reading and q a . We will do some q a and not as many of these in the past, the q a seems to stretch out a long time. The reading i did in the city, my brain still works so i can write to facebook as i speak. The best passages that most wanted to be read, and and it gets shot down, the famous sexist paragraph that will go on my tombstone, and quoted in every review completely out of context and what surprised me was the facebook by guy, weird mafia boss ill meeting and the story where i. Up the plumbing. Any other seen somebody wants a reading . Some characters in the book are standing here by the way. The last reading, british trader was there, my kids were there, chose not to out themselves. The israeli with a face like that sheet of plywood. He interviewed me at facebook and made the decision, i got hired. Anyone else have a passage you really want me to read and willing to raise your hand and say i want you t