America is in the war. And why did that touch you so much. Because we knew that it was going to lose it. What did that mean for you and hungry. I was 18 yes. But with that interview with the late author john lewis. It was born 20 years ago. Over 230 of the leading nonfiction and fiction authors of our time have appeared on in depth. Just to name a few. Over the next three hours our goals is to review the last 20 years of indepth but also to ask you a couple of questions here they are. Who was your favorite indepth gas what book are you reading now and who is your favorite Nonfiction Author. And thats what will be talking about. We will be showing you some video from the last 20 years as well. Heres how you can dial in on the 20th anniversary of indepth. For those of you in the east and central time zones if you live in the mountain and Pacific Pacific time zones. And you can text him what your thoughts are as well. 7488903. Please include your first name in your city if you would. On s
At booktv. Org or consult your program guide. Now its a look at new york city neighborhoods during the coronavirus pandemic with author bill hayes. Welcome to powerhouse arenas virtual event. My names chris, im the events coordinate ifer, and were happy to be hosting the launch for how we live now with bill hayes. You can buy the book at powerhouse bookstores. Com. The link is in the event page, and it is also posted in the chat. Well send out bookplates is that true . Yep, signed bookplates, and if you have any questions, you can use the q a function at the bottom of your screen, and bill will take your questions at the end of the event. Leapt let me introduce roz chast. She has published more than 1,000 cartoons. She wrote and illustrated the number one bestseller, can we talk about something more pleasant, a National Book critics sir cull award and circle. What i ate from az. Bill hayes is the hour of insomniac city among other books, and a forthcoming history of exercise, sweat, to
Controversial issue and one in which frequently theres forward more heat than light and where we frequently see people who seem to be immune to data. But we have experts tonight to talk about this, and it will be moderated by dr. David casarett who is chief of college of care at university of pennsylvania. Im a psychiatrist, and i often think most people including many physicians dont really understand what psychiatry is. Nobody understands what Palliative Care is, and its a wonderful branch of medicine and needs to be better understood. Dr. Casarett launched a book here a year ago that was wonderful. This is his second book hes launching here. No, we do not have royalties on it, but i own two copies of it. So dr. David casarett will come up in a minute. We believe all of you are literate, we print biographies in the program. This is not grand rounds, im not going to sit up here for ten minutes and read every paper that everybody wrote. But dr. Casarett will come up, talk for a while,
And international affairs. And from 2008 to 2009 was president of the association, has won several awards for his work including two awards, at st. Our Journalism Award and american library. Joining an onstage is chris hedges who has spent two decades as Foreign Correspondent in the middle east, africa and the baltics. And has worked for the Christian Science monitor, National Public radio, Dallas Morning News and the new york times. And a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for global terrorism. He is author of several bestselling books including wars of force which gives this meeting and his new book wages of rebellion, the moral imperative. We are here tonight to celebrate the release of teds newest book snowden. Without further ado please welcome ted rall and chris hedges. [applause] thanks for coming. And i will talk about my book. And we will talk about whatever he is going to talk about and we will have a little discussion and throw it out to the audience for q a. If you have any questions o
[inaudible conversations] okay. Hello, everyone. Were going to get started. I hope you can hear me okay. Hello. Good evening, everyone. When you have an event on one of the most miserable days of the year, you get very nervous. But its great to see so many people here tonight on what is a truly awful new york city evening. We didnt really worry too much about it. Can you hear me okay now . A little better . Mic check. Okay. We didnt worry too much about it because we have a great draw today. For those of you who dont know me, my name is eric kleinen berg, professor of sociology here at nyu and also the director of the institute for public knowledge. You are in the kind of annexed space of the institute for public knowledge. Were hosting this evenings event, and we do a lot of events like this. Were the part of nyu that tries to take ideas and intellectuals that might otherwise spend too much time merchandise the ivory tower and project them out into the world. So we really aim to gener