In 2005 he published directions to the beach of the day which received the beyond margins award. His 2012 his 2012 collection of coins titled looking for the gold was how touches on his life as a saturday man between domestic and integrated culture. When he was chose as the fifth poet of the United States for barack obama that cannot duration mr. Blanche go follows in the footsteps of the great alexandra, my angelo and robert frost. He tells the story of that experience for all of us once a day and a nonzero poster name. His latest book the memoir explores his comingofage within two imaginary worlds. His parents nostalgic 1950 cuba and has imagined america, the country he saw on reruns of the brady bunch and leave it to beaver. Richard blancos personal narrative is an account of how he discovered his authentic self and ultimately a deeper understanding of what it means to be an american. Ross chad is a National Book Award Finalist for nonfiction. Her cartoons have been published in man
Stephen hess talks about the relationship between president nixon and his onetime adviser Daniel Patrick moynihan. This is a little under an hour. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Few name is Jonathan Movroydis im director of communications at the Richard Nixon foundation. Welcome to the president ial library on the occasion of the president s 10 2nd birthday. Before we start, i just wanted to say that todays a free admission day, so i encourage you to visit the white house right across the way. Take that in, also visit the memorial sites and visit the galleries to learn about the life of this extraordinary man. Who became president of the United States. Another extraordinary man is stephen heads hess who can our nixon legacy lecturer today. Mr. Hess began his career in the Eisenhower Administration as a speech writer, and he joined president nixon for his 1962 california gubernatorial bid. He returned to the white house in 1969 as the chief of staff of to Daniel Patrick moyni
Its a very useful program. I would like to see it extended to childless dads or dads who are not living with their children so they can have an incentive to work and employers can have an incentive to hire them. We can have more Child Support paid and more families working together. There are some things we can do to try to help this population the middle but its really hard. Its difficult because the factory jobs we saw in baltimore are not coming back. Host labors love lost is the name of the book the rise and fall of the workingclass family in america. Johns hopkins sociologist Andrew Cherlin is the author and here is the cover. Charles blow Richard Blanco discuss their memoirs at the miami book fair. This is about an hour, 15. [applause] good afternoon. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. It is my distinct honor and pleasure to introduce the presenters for this program. Richard blanco says he was making cuba, assembled in spain and imported to the usa. His family fled cuba after t
When i dont, weird things start to happen like, you know, creating spread sheets to figure out multiple times to change the cat litter or Something Like that. It gets crazy. You know, busy hands are happy hands . That applies to my left brain, and i dont want it to start taking it out on my work, because then i start on my poetry, because then i start approaching my writing with this very sort of analytical mind which helps in editing, but not necessarily in the initial phases of work. But ive got to face it, you know, theres been a fork in the road drawn for me. I dont think im going back to engineering at this point in my life. Theres a lot of signs that say keep going this way, so host how long, how many drafts did it take to get to the poem you read at the inaugural . Guest well, i have at home a stack this thing. [laughter] again, with poetry drafts take on a different meaning. That might mean you take two words, and you throw it in the draft pile. But i only had a week. I had to
Prince of los cocuyos a miami childhood comes out in the fall of 2014. Youre watching booktv on cspan2s, television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] next from Bookexpo America Panel Discussion on how technology is affecting publishing content. Bookexpo america is an annual trade show for the Publishing Industry thats features authors events educational panels and information on soontobe published books. This is a little under an hour. [inaudible conversations] thank you all for attending the media is the message. Really appreciate your coming here today and i think youre going to have a great panel that is going to give you some really interesting information about what is going on in our increasingly multimedia world. We are going to start off with. Or Adeena Karasick from Fordham University who is going to be present in a a powerpoint multimedia with vide. Its quite an amazing creation. And adeena is a great expert at putting it together so i will introduce her and we w