Would greatly appreciate that. Okay thank you all, thank you alsouch. Hope you will stay in touch with each other. Okay byebye. And we wrap up our coverage of the recent brooklyn book festival and author discussion on multiethnic representation and publishing. Hi, i am suzanne im the ceo of penn america delighted to welcome you beyond prepositional politics and publishing. Assist in moderating this important discussion. We believe that the historic exclusion of certain people invoices from publishing is very much a Free Expression issue. Something that we can and must tackle as an organization with a mission to defend free speech. We work to up lift lesser heard voices those of the incarcerated, incarcerated, unseen in our program and we also bring together wide ring of stakeholders authors, publishers, editors need executives to discuss boundaries and how to break them down. So we have long been engaged in the debate concerning diversity and equity and publishing. And now, as the Unit
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It is an honor to welcome everyone to the 71st National Book awards. I am Jason Reynolds coming to you live from washington dc go this is overnight but there is so much going on in the world this is our night and it is a big deal. It is so much of a big deal i woke up this morning anxious and nervous as usual. I always, mother and i am anxious. It is 7 00 oclock in the morning and she says oh no i said i am feeling anxious about tonight have to hope the National Book awards am calling you to see if you have advice for your child go she said that she always has been to make the call. Let me ask you something, son. What did i make you say every single night before you got into bed when you were little boy . I said i dont want to do this right now she said no dont know what did i. C. E. Make you say every night when you got into bed . I said you made me say i can do anything. Exactly you can do anything. You tell me this all the time on. But i never asked
Hi kathie. So nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too. I enjoyed your book. Thank you. I would like to start this interview by talking a little bit about you. I also would like the audience to hear the story which honestly which really offended me. Which is in your introduction. You got a note from a professor claiming he would never be a political scientist. Can you say little bit about that . Speech i put that in the book because when i was in college i struggled with what i wanted to major in. I wanted about going into science, humanities or social science. And i finally decided on social science because i found those questions much more interesting comment engaging in urgent for me. My First Political science course we read all of the great political philosophers from plato on up. They were all asking the question, what is justice . What is Good Government . How can you organize a government and organize society to make life better for people. Particularly to make justice. So, i end
Interviewing senator mack in 1982 cermak left a successful banking career to the senate where he served three terms in the u. S. Senate. He then served two terms before reelection so with that i will hand it over keep an eye on your chat feature. Thank you very much it is great to have this conversation with a man i admire so much in the New York Times today had an article about independent bookstores that i think is worth mentioning because i am a kindle guy but every time i read a book i by ten to send to friends its important to focus on the fact that as a nation we need to be literate and supporting authors across the spectrum. Im a big fan of yours and a big supporter i read it on the Amazon Kindle and if you have a chance to do it i would suggest you do that the independent bookstore especially during the pandemic so theres enough for my announcement. There are four independent bookstores participating. Thats why i brought it up. [laughter] we should name who they are the midtown
David davis provides the history of the first Wheelchair Basketball Team comprise a world war ii veterans. Its a great honor to be at bromance. I spent many evenings on the second floor listening to local authors speak about their the o really appreciate the invitation. What to say hi to everybody out there who i havent i have beeo see facetoface in person, so thank you for tuning in. Obviously doubly honored ron kovic has agreed to speak with me tonight about the book. Ron kovic, not kovac. Not go back. We were introduced by tom hobart, sports need a writer and ron has been very encouraging and helped me quite a bit with this book in terms of background and research and so forth. Ron of course was a vietnam veteran. Most of the book that i wrote is about world war ii veterans are just want to give you a little background before we start speaking. Before world war ii if you are paralyzed you were pretty much a dead ender, and no hope or as they were called. The average life span was a