[applause]. [applause] thank you for coming its great to be back one of the greatest independent bookstores in the entire country. [applause] i spent many a day and night looking at my books with my daughter back there. You can buy as many books as you want. Makes an excellent gift item. You could write out all of your Holiday Shopping tonight. [applause]. Its not just a book about housing i think its not an exaggeration to call this a manuscript. And then with the housing crisis and then it begins and then it ends up the author of sb 50 and may be coming back. Take us back to the great migration and the movement west and with the singlefamily home. And with the barbecue a backyard. And the california living. And some of the early history of how california grew and the role housing has played. It is a journalism book with history in it. So what it is like to be a rich society in america. And then the house with an orange tree in our backyard. People really thought of it as an instructi
American housing crisis. Give them a warm welcome. [applause] thank you for coming, its always nice to be back at romans, one of the best independent bookstores in the entire country. [applause] i was just browsing the childrens section, i spent many a day and night looking with my daughter atbooks. And tonight you get to buy books. As many as you want. Theyre stacked up hereand there are more than that available. It makes an excellent gift item. Whatever holidays might be coming up for you, you can wipe out all of your Holiday Shopping tonight. Take the rest of the year all. It is a wonderful book and its not just i should say its not just a book about housing. Its, i think its not an exaggeration to call this a manuscript, a great manuscript of california history. So you will be getting a lot of policy in here but its also brilliantly driven by characters. You will get to know quite a few people involved in the history of californias housing crisis and the activists and all the other
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Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us. My name is tashib graham, and i am outreach librarian at vanderbilt library. Im so excited to chat with saeed jones about how we fight for our lives. He is also the author of preruled to bruise prelude to bruise, 2015 stonewall Barbara Giddings literature award. Also a finalist for the 2015 National Book critics circle award as well as awards from lambda literary and the publishing triangle in 2015. Saeed serves as cohost to buzzfeeds morning show and also as lgbt and culture editor. He was born in tennessee and grew up in texas. He earned a ba at Western Kentucky University and an msa at rutgers universitynewark. He lives in new york city. Thank you for being here, saeed. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. [applause] u so as a side note, as a sie note, the southern festival of books remai
Will commute this afternoon i am live in alexander i am chair of humanities tennessee board of directors. We are very glad we are here at this festival today. The festival is free but it depends on donations from people like you to keep it that way. If you know enjoying the festival, and you enjoy the session and you have a chance, if you look at our website, our facebook page, the app or go by the tenth in the plaza, we would love to have you help support the festival. After the session, paul will be signing books at the signing tent that is on the plaza and the books are for sale at the parnassus tent and a portion of those to sales go directly to the festival. We are here today, to hear paul talk about his latest book. He has published numerous works of fiction. In 1991, he was awarded the james black memorial prize. This was for his work the Mosquito Coast which was adapted into a movie in 1986. After moving to london in 1972, he said often in epic journey by train from Great Brita