Welcome to the 2020 National Book festival. And our conversation with two distinguished guests who join us in honor of the centennial celebrations of american author and space age visionary rate bradberry a master storyteller whose legacy exemplifies the festivals theme of american ingenuity. I am john, director of the center for bradberry studies at Indiana University school of liberal arts. Red berries encouragement led to the creation of the center will re preserve his entire home office, a lifetime of words and mementos of the papers correspondence and working library that remained in his home at the time of his passing in 2012 part his remarkable career spans seven decades. He grew up in the great depression. His family, his father had to take the family all the way from illinois to los angeles to find work in rate bradberry was never able to go to college. He developed a great style, his own unique lyric, metaphor rich style. In his own kind of subjects writing fantasy, weird tal
Please welcome doctor hayden. [applause] i have to start. I am carl hayden, library of congress. I just want to thank jamie and angel and the readers for allowing me to be with someone who has elevated libraries to such an extent. Let me just say there have been patron saints in carnegie and things like this. I finally smacked down andrew carnegie. How does it feel to be the patron saint . When i started this book i couldnt have anticipated that part of it. I was drawn to this story because i wanted to understand what happened in 1986, this epic fire that closed the la library for twee 7 years but more importantly i wanted to understand why i cared about it so much. I often said if someone said to me city hall burns down i would have thought that is too bad and i assume they will rebuild it but hearing the library had burned felt like a deep, profoundly personal loss and i felt why do we feel such a connection to books . Why do we feel such a connection to libraries that the idea of on
Well, i have to start by thanking the library of congress and i want to thank jamie and helene and the angels. Readers, for allowing me to be with someone who has elevated libraries to such an extent. [applause] let me just say there have been patron saints of the library at the carnegie and thingslike that but you are now number one. I finally smacked down andrew carnegie. Like that. Greats how does itfeel to be the patron saint of libraries . When i started this book i couldnt have anticipatedthat part of it. I was drawn in to the story because i really wanted to understand what happened in 1986 that this epic fire that closed the la library for seven years but more importantly, i wanted to understand why icared about it so much. Ive often said if someone had said to me city hall burn down i would have thought thats too bad and i assume they willrebuild it , but hearing that the library had burned felt like this the, profoundly personal loss. And i thought, why do we feel such a conn
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