Preparation for the event tonight and they said that is the new faulkner biography. I said well, you got the faulkner part right. The best way i can describe this book is equal parts military history, social commentary, and literary criticism. And i think it will appeal equally to fans of any of those subjects. What the book really did for me is force me to give some serious thought to where faulkner stands at a time when we are asking ourselves some difficult and longoverdue questions about our countrys historic difficulties when it comes to matters of race. Was he something of a pioneer on those issues or was he or another white writer profiting off of racist caricatures of black americans . Dr. Michael gorra, as you might imagine, has some thoughts on that. He is a professor of English Literature at Smith College in massachusetts. He is the author of several books including portrait of a novel, the making of an american masterpiece, which was a finalist for the pool surprise and bio
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Demonstrators were killed during saturdays rally by ana sanchez has more from lima. A protesters were angry of the removal of the previous president , monson of iscar up last week. People feel that this is accorded top and now they are on the streets, many of them celebrating, but many of them through the social media. You can see and you can read that they may, they keep themselves vigilant to what will happen because now they say that they do not want any one of the 105 congressmen who voted for the impeachment to be near the presidency of congress to become the next president of peru, they also are saying that the next president of the country has to have a clean slate. Now gunmen of killed at least 34. 00 people in an attack on a passenger bus. And western ethiopia happened at nih in the Western Region of benish gunas as no no link with the conflict in the northern region. Over the leader of ethiopias to grey region is confirmed as forces 5 rockets at the airport in eritreas capita
Bridge toll plaza. It is. Metering lights are on and we are starting to see a back up. You see traffic stacking up a bit as you work out of the east bay into the city via bay bridge. Once you pass this, it looks better across upper deck into San Francisco. A couple hot spots to look for, if you are taking bart, we are dealing with bart delays on the richmond lines. This is due to an equipment problem on the tracks. Do plan ahead if you are taking bart. South 880 is pretty busy. We are seeing brake lights away from 92. There is a crash not far from the connector and theyre just clearing it out of lanes. Reporter we are getting new information in now on this Apartment Fire in San Francisco. This is video from the citizen app from earlier this morning. You see the flames shooting out of the window. Thats on the 11th floor of this high rise on davis court. A total of 22 apartments were significantly damaged by this fire and five people were injured, escaping the building. When firefighters