Appreciate you all being here. Tonight we are featuring an acclaimed journalist in new york author Janice Kaplan in her fascinating book. She will be in conversation with kelly the ceo the women spawned of central ohio and this is going to be an illuminating evening. I will tell you that right now. I want to thank our partner, and our Wonderful Community partners who have the school for girls. I will introduce janice and kelly just a moment the first just one ask you to silence your phones or any other noisemakers you might have read. [laughter]. So we can just hear everything. I hope many of you have visited what we mentioned. We are right in the street and we would like any of you and invite you to come and see us and him and browse. Women open for just over three years and with hosted 300 events. [applause]. Besides being a fullservice independent bookstore, we want to connect the community. Thats exactly what were doing tonight and you receive the program when he came it in order q
This location and all of our other locations. Please fit us it was at coconut grove. Another one worth mentioning down at the art center we have on january 26 at 630 isabella will be joining us. You could buy tickets online for that if there any still available. Any number of wonderful events you can visit us here. We do farm and table dinners. We do podcasts with a lot of authors. Owner and founder. You can only do that by accessing the webpage so please visit us there. We have mr. Christopher knowlton and the florida boom of the 1920s and bringing on the Great Depression. It is our fault, right . I thought there is Something Else involved. Christopher knowlton is a former staff writer for fortune magazine. He has spent 15 years in the investment business. His previous book was cattle kingdom. Please give him a nice warm welcome. [applause] thank you, steve moss. Appreciate that. Good evening, everybody. Really appreciate your company. Its nice to be back in coral gables. Seems like j
Thanks, everyone. Good day. Im delighted to be here in San Francisco, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Particularly to talk about jesse and John Freemont who had so much to do with the creation of california as we know it and so much to do with the creation of San Francisco as we know it. I got in to San Francisco about 2 30 a. M. On a delayed flight from los angeles, got a couple of hours of sleep at an Airport Hotel and then woke up again because i was to be picked up by a car and driven up the highway into San Francisco to do alive radio thing on to do a live radio thing on kqed. The thing about live radio is it begins at an exact time. The thing about going through San Francisco traffic is that youre really not going to make your exact time. And so i was supposed to be 8 00 a. M. Pacific time that i would be there for this National Radio hit, and at 8 00 a. M. , im still on the road, in the back of this car, creeping up the freeway at, i dont know, 7, 9 milesanhour, w
Black National Anthem followed by novelist jody pico including her novel a spark of light. In journalist 6 novelist corey doctorow discussing his books and activism. After social distancing get close to a good book tonight, booktv on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] thanks for coming out. My name is travis cohen, i will do some quick housekeeping and jump right in. Quick second to remind everyone to silence your cell phones. We are recording video and audio. When it comes time for the q and a portion, we ask you speak to it and keep your question to a question and following everything we have all the books on sale behind the Cash Register at the front of the store so if you want to get those, keep your chairs in place, we would greatly appreciate that. Many of you know we host a lot of events and if you need any help keeping track of those we have the calendars at our info desk and check your website, it is the best we get the information we can. We have the pleasure of hosting matthe
Glad to start by carla library of congress and i just want to thank jamie and the angels and the readers for allowing me to be with someone who has elevated libraries to such an extent. [applause]. Let me just say, there have been saints in the library. You are now number one. I finally smacked down andrew carnegie. Susan you have. So how does it feel to be the patron of all of the librarian. When i started this book, i could not have anticipated that part of it. Susan i was drawn into the story because really, wanted to understand what happened in 1986 that this epic fire the close the la library for seven years, but more importantly, i wanted to understand why cared about it so much. I have often said that if someone had said to me, city hall burned down i wouldve thought, thats too bad. And i assume they will rebuild it. But hearing the library had burned, felt like this deep profoundly personal loss. And i thought, why do we feel such a connection to books. Why do we feel such a co