First a discussion on the late author and active audra lorde, following by eddie glaude on james baldwin. Welcome to the Shomberg Center book festival. We had to reimagine a block long multistaged outdoor philadelphia as a viral one with your favorite write centers opportunity to discover more books. This we we have 35 authors and midraters sharing narratives from the u. S. And uk to west africa and jamaica, each night we go between the past and present like the Shomberg Centers archives and programs. Tonights program, audra lordo features writers roxanne gay, tracy. Something i and mahogany browne. Im the associate director of Public Programs and exhibitions at the Shomberg Center for research in black culture. Were celebrating 95 years of one of the world residents leading cultural institutions devoted to research, preservation and exhibition. Our are care has 11 million ims at that time illuminate the richness of black history and culture and we have met some items v8 digitally. Vis
Saturday, 12 and 9 p. M. On sunday, and 12 a. M. On monday. You can also watch after words online youre kind of booktv. Org and click on after words in the booktv series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. Welcome today to a booktvs live coverage of the 2014 texas book festival held in austin, the state capital. Over the next six hours will hear from nine authors on such topics as social change an instant, the Death Penalty, the global history of train travel. Author and professor ilan stavans starts off with a discussion about his latest book, a most imperfect union a contrarian history of the United States. Hello and welcome. Happy sunday morning, everybody. I name is nathan. Im here with ilan stavans, professor of latin american latino studies at amherst college, author of last time i counted about 10,000 books. The latest of which is a most imperfect union a contrarian history of the United States. It is do you call it a graphic novel if its nonfiction . We have in
Welcome today to a booktvs live coverage of the 2014 texas book festival held in austin, the state capital. Over the next six hours will hear from nine authors on such topics as social change an instant, the Death Penalty, the global history of train travel. Author and professor ilan stavans starts off with a discussion about his latest book, a most imperfect union a contrarian history of the United States. Hello and welcome. Happy sunday morning, everybody. I name is nathan. Im here with ilan stavans, professor of latin american latino studies at amherst college, author of last time i counted about 10,000 books. The latest of which is a most imperfect union a contrarian history of the United States. It is do you call it a graphic novel if its nonfiction . We have in English Limited lexicon to address the growing genre of the graphic novels, graphic books. When hes a graphic book you really would have two meanings. It is illustrated or too violent and sexual. We need to nonfiction book
Lets start with china, because in the past few hours the worlds second biggest economy has just released its latest Economic Data. The countrys economy grew by 6. 5 in the Fourth Quarter compared to a year ago. That was slightly higher than many analysts had been predicting, with the markets forecasting that figure to be around 6 . And for the whole of 2020, the chinese economy grew by 2. 3 , which is its slowest pace since 1976. However very few countries are expected to show any signs of growth at all, given the damaging effects of covid 19. Were nowjoined by beijing by yue su whos an economist at the Economist Intelligence unit. This intelligence unit. Figure, will it be seen as success , this figure, will it be seen as success, relief, disappointment . Success, relief, disauointment . , disappointment . You ust mentioned i disappointment . You ust mentioned that i disappointment . You ust mentioned that this h disappointment . You just | mentioned that this figure disappointment .
The university of North Carolina, press hell be our guest unc press is celebrating. Its 100th anniversary. But first some news from the publishing world. Well the publisher simon and schuster is currently in the midst of an unusual free book giveaway. Its an effort to help bridge the growing divides facing america today. The book publisher is giving away the digital audiobook and ebook editions of amanda. Ripleys book high conflict why we get trapped and how we get out and anna sales. Lets talk about the hard things the lifechanging conversations that connect us. In discussing this giveaway simon and schuster ceo. Jonathan karp said quote perhaps if we all get a little bit better at having those Difficult Conversations will begin to find more common ground. He added that the Supreme Court decision on roe versus wade along with debates on guns the 2020 election, january 6th Climate Change and immigration were on his mind as well in coming up with the idea of the giveaway. And speaking o