The Democrat Doug Jones has spoken of a new momentum in american politics. His surprise win in the alabama special election is the first time the conservative Southern State has sent a democrat to the senate in 25 years. Mr trump has been distancing himself from the defeated republican candidate, who he endorsed during the campaign, but the loss complicates the president s chances of passing major legislation. Alabamas new senator elect has said he wants to work with politicians from both parties. I want to sit down with folks from both sides of the aisle, both sides of the issue. I think thats where the problem is. I want to talk to people from both sides of the issue, notjust political parties, to learn what they can and make an informed decision. The result hasntjust shifted the Political Landscape in alabama, it might have impact across the country, as the bbcs nick bryant reports. Amidst all the noise and rage of american politics, its worth remembering elections are often decided
The life substance of the companion world in cyberspace. Mind and invasive expedition in the name of commerce or government surveillance. For the use of corporations, and Excited Police departments, you can call it quantify indication. It in the out of we called it reification. Kind of dehumanizing and so it turns out that the story for all of this, oddly enough, is the eviction story from the bronze age telling of the consequences coming from eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. So like all world, it comes with the heaven and the hell. What does u this mean for all of us in this room . We writers and our publishers . We dont want to give up the presumably inconvenient thing we do. Something as old as paginated written narrative. We dont want to lose heart in frank norris, the author of naturalistic works of fiction in the 60s. Norris despaired of the Western Union telegram. Ten words and stop. The twitter of today. He feared it was the end of literary discourse. People could
Were on the red carpet. Finalist in poetry, young adult literature, nonfiction, and fiction books, and of course being booktv, we focus on the nonfiction. We want to let you know who some of the nine fiction finalist are. Domingo martinez, his book is boy kings of texas. His fourth volume on the lbj legacy, and robert caro appeared on q a and at the National Book festival in september. The late Anthony Shadid has been nominated. He died in syria while covering syria for the Washington Post. His wife will be here representing him, and thats nada bachary. Katherine boo has been nominated, behind the beautiful forever, about mumbai, and Anne Applebaum has a book out and is scheduled on our q a show in september. So well be interviewing those authors as we go. Well be watching the red carpet here as some of the authors have their picture taken. Right now we want to talk to the chairman of the National Book foundation, and this is david steinberger. Mr. Steinbergers is also head of the beco
That i am one person, that i will live and die alone, that i will only ever inhabit this one consciousness. I was wrong about this too. To read this poem was to be in conversation with a level deeper than who we are, where we are and what our homely words and thoughts and deeds and lives dont mean. Still, enduring merit, until this summer did i even believe in it . Did i simply believe enduring merit could never be agreed upon, that all things are relative and, therefore, can not be said to have merit and their endurance cannot be predicted . If so, i no longer believe it or even remember believing it. These five radioactive books glowed green and dustless among the others. If they are not still read in 100 years, it will mean the cockroaches only survived whatever happened to vegas. There is always more mystery in a closed box than in an opened box. Nope. When it comes to a box full of poetry, that is not true. Over the summer those boxes turned into a room full of books full of poetr
My definition of a historical novel one that makes literary history. Its quite contemporary. And i always operate under the admonition of the poet who said, make anu. Thats what i try to do. Are you exoited to be here tonight . Its fun. Its great fun. Have you attended this dinner before. Yes. I have won a National Book award. For which book . World fair. It was about 25 years ago. Anyway. Some people may not know after you you are named after edgar allen poe. I think its probably true. My father liked him. Thank you for spending a few minutes on booktv. My pleasure. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] nice to meet you. 3 [inaudible conversations] nice to meet you. I spent an hour with bryan in washington. Yes, on q a. We are covering you down in miami this coming weekend. Youll be live on booktv this weekend. But youre one of the finalist in the nonfiction category. Is this a first time you have been nominated . Yes, it is. Its exciting. Its tremendous. Its an honor. T