He has several other books of note. At the news of his passing president obama tweeted e. L. Doctorow was one of americas greatest novelists. He taught me much and he will be missed. The prizes he won including National Humanities level the saul bellow award for achievement in american fiction, and the National Book Foundation Medal for distinguished contribution to american letters. Joining me now is my great friend, kate medina, she was his editor at random house and knew him well as a writer and as a friend. So we are especially pleased to have her come here this evening and talk about her friend and the man she had the great pleasure to edit, e. L. Doctorow. Welcome. You said in an interesting way through books and characters i will never forget, he showed us americas great flaws and its astonishing promise and our own. So where is his place in American Literature . Kate for me, it is right at the top. It was exhilarating always to read him and one of the things i loved most about
Note. At the news of his passing president obama tweeted e. L. Doctorow was one of americas greatest novelists. He taught me much and he will be missed. The prizes he won include National Humanities level, the saul bellow award for achievement in american fiction, and the National Book Foundation Medal for distinguished contribution to american letters. Joining me now is my great friend, kate medina, she was his editor at random house and knew him well as a writer and as a friend. So we are especially pleased to have her come here this evening and talk about her friend and the man she had the great pleasure to edit, e. L. Doctorow. Welcome. You said in an interesting way through books and characters i will never forget, he showed us americas great flaws and its astonishing promise and our own. So where is his place in American Literature . Kate for me, it is right at the top. It was exhilarating, always to read him and one of the things i loved most about edgar as a writer was he was a
Everything is an embedded device. Connected tv, a car, locomotives, airplanes, drones. Everything around you is pretty much an embedded device. Its a device with a computer inside of it. Everything that runs the world we live in is essential advice with a computer in it. Many of those devices can make to the internet, some talk to each other. We are interested in those interactions. Host what are you finding are the vulnerabilities of embedded devices . Guest ive been doing security for a long time, probably before it was cool, and a lot of the vulnerabilities weve seen from 15, 20 just go with that were extinct, if actually come back in embedded devices. Surprising. To export a modern phone, smartphone or even a computer, takes pretty highlevel sophistication. An example is infusion product i look at a few you to go had no password. You could make it to whatever you want. Try and what you medical device . Guest yes. The device that is controlling the amount of drug the patient is gett
We want to be part of the cultural life there. Were really happy to have those materials and those essences come back to harlan. The focus is africanamerican, or prolife from history to art, everything. We have worldwide black culture related events. We started in 1925 in the Library Fiscal standing on we got named a National Historic landmark in january. We are really coming full circle with these recent acquisitions that point the long history starting in the harlem renaissance of documenting black life in our culture. Both. [inaudible] to see that arc and have them come home has been really great. Prior to schaumburg, what were you doing. I was a professor for 20 years. 20 at emory university. I got into the archive business but im also a poet and a writer. I had one previous Nonfiction Book called the great album. From that i started getting interested in the subject of bunks and hoaxes and liars. Where does the word punk come from. Its a great word. It comes from politics, arguing
Grann here. These were circumstances out of everyones control. His plane was delayed. You may insert your own early joke here. Tonight david grann will talk about his book, 28, the story of the unspeakable historical crime of greed, fear, anger and racial cleansing. It is part crime thriller them apart political history and this is a book that will generate conversation long after david catches his next plane. It is easy to read this book because david tells the story in a riveting detail rich, suspenseful way. It is hard to read this book because it is true and devastating and maddening. David grann is a magnificent storyteller, staff writer for the new yorker and is written for the New York Times magazine on the atlantic, Washington Post, wall street journal, new republic and hollywood. His previous awardwinning book the lost city of the is in movie theaters right now and if you cant take their word or mine, then how about Us Supreme Court Justice Steven breyer. Justice breyer cited