Veteran of the publishing world. I worked for harper is a Senior Editor and Vice President for many years and went on to work at Simon Schuster as well. So i have been around the block. Im a bit of a veteran in all fields, but we have learned so many things in this conference so far. It such a delight, such a pleasure to the wonderful keynote speech about the importance of words and the report from the frontlines of so many countries, south africa and russia, marvelous and to learn that the First Encounter between europe and the new world, between the conquistadors and the quinta was over a book and on and on with the heritage of Thomas Jefferson and the wonderful discussions that you just heard. At such a vibrant discussion. And wonderful to know that it will go on on in the sum of as we go forward around the world. Now what we have learned in the whole process is that the book culture is changing, although we all know i think in our hearts that the world of books which we have known
Orders and sales in italy, orders flat on the month, down. 2 on the month for sales and down nearly 5 on the year. So confirming some of the weakness that we know weve seen previously in the italian economy. Meanwhile, another gauge perhaps for the euro as we look to the strength of it lately. Thats the current counselor plus which in october was an adjusted 3. 9 billion euros, up quite a bit from the 2. 5 billion reported for september. Now that also comes after a day after the European Unions report suggesting that in fact the European Union would have to run a surplus, given its poor demographics over the next couple of years. Now lets get a quick preview of the news. For that we head to patricia, awaiting the results. What do we expect to see . Reporter were expecting the second consecutive month to the upside for the Business Sentiment next year in germany. November was a surprise after six months to the downside. We expect december to book in a little increase again, but importan
Nonfiction account of his trip across the country with his dog. Iran were reading it when i was 15. It would probably i remember reading it when i was 15. I remember being kind of disappointed that on his great trek he did come through pittsburgh. The place closest he came was eerie erie. I have a vague recollection of reading it, but it made no impression on me. Steinbeck himself, i had to read of mice and men. Grapes of wrath. I did not have to read his other major work, cannery row, in high school. But they say are springsteens life was changed when he read grapes of wrath. It gave him a social conscience and he wanted to do work on the working man. It had no effect on me. I was a goldwater boy. Hillary clinton was a goldwater girl in chicago. Almost the same age as i am. It set me off in a whole different direction than bruce springsteen. The book, travels with charley, when did the trip happen for him . On september 23, 1960, after a great deal of preparation, he left his summer h
Disappointed that on his great trek he didnt come through pittsburgh. The closest he came was erie. I have a vague recollection of reading it, but it made no impression on me. Steinbeck himself, i had to read of mice and men, grapes of wrath. I did not have to read his other major work, cannery row, in high school. But they say are springsteens life was changed when he read grapes of wrath. It gave him a social conscience and he wanted to do work on the working man. It had no effect on me. I was a goldwater boy. Hillary clinton was a goldwater girl in chicago. Almost the same age as i am. It set me off in a whole different direction than bruce springsteen. The book, travels with charley, when did the trip happen for him . On september 23, 1960, after a great deal of preparation, he left his summer home in sag harbor, new york, on long island. The european end of long island. He and charlie set off in his camper van, a pickup truck with a camper almost like a sailboat cabin or a boat ca
A great deal of preparation, he left his summer home in sag harbor, new york, on long island. The european end of long island. He and charlie set off in his camper van, a pickup truck with a camper almost like a sailboat cabin or a boat cabin on top, set into the bed of the pickup truck. We will show it in a minute. He took off on september 23 and headed north the message uses and visited his kid at school near deerfield. Then he made his way up to the top of maine. For some strange reason he thought he had to touch the top of maine first. He found out how big maine is. He worked his way he went to bangor and up to port kent, the top of maine, and drops down. How many days was he on the road . 75, maybe 77 at the most. No one knows for sure. He kept no notes. There were no records, no expense reports i can find or that anybody had. I know when he started Thomas September 23, 1960. I know he was he mailed something from tallahatchie, mississippi december 1960. He was pushing hard to get