Service to the American Literary community will go to ms. Zimmer we will learn more about that this evening. This is the booktv coverage of the red carpet of the National Book awards in new york city. After this you will see the actual board sarah ray. Awards ceremony. Good to see you. [inaudible conversations] spec on the red carpet right now is one of the finalists. Shes having her picture taken. Hopefully we can talk to her in just a minute as a cartoonist of the new yorker. Joining us now on their red carpet is David Steinberger president and ceo of Perseus Publishing Group and also chairman of the National Book foundation and. What is that . The National Book foundation is committed to increase the impact of culture what we are best known for is a National Book awards it is great to see her up there it is the first graphic novel or the first graphic works ever to win it is for her amazing book. Host did we just hear your vote . I dont have the vote we have judges we fly in from ar
He is selling and signing copies of his work. I encourage you to do that. And in addition to the bar is open after we leave. Thank you for coming and good night. [ applause ] [inaudible conversations] basic books is one of the imprint of the Perseus Group publishers. Lahar is the publisher of basic books. Lara heimert, what type of books to publish . Inequity nonfiction most by academics and experts in the range, not a broad range, history, biography, science, psychology, this is an economics. What did you get started in the Publishing Industry . I started as an Internet Yale University press in 1997 after i dropped out of graduate cool. From their . I stayed an unpaid intern for a long time and they went on briefly to work in the Publicity Department can i realistically that was not the job for me. Ended up back at yale press where he worked for seven years refers as an assistant editor and became eventually publisher for the trade commission reformulate to basic works as an executive
Guest my books are dot complicated for adults and dot for children. I spent the last eight years working for facebook and build my own company in silicon valley. Theres a whole world people are fascinated in, entrepreneurship, technology, and someone needs to demystify it for everyone else. So dotcomplicated take a look at the crazytech obsessed world we live in and how its changing our careers, lives, and feaments. Host how do you go that . [laughter] guest its interesting. I talk a lot about finding techlife balance. Theres been a lot of talk on worklife balance. If you go home from work and youre still buried in your cell phone. If youre sitting on your laptop next to your husband at home. Youre still working. You havent really found the worklife balance. I talk a lot about how to find techlife balance in your home, in your job, in your love life, in kind of all areas of communication. Host are you saying turn off your devices, go off facebook . Guest you know what . I think theres
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