Cart prizes, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant and fellowships from the mcdowell colony, the tunyan review and the wisconsin state for creative site for creative writing. She lives in miami beach with her partner. Please give a warm savannah well only to jaquira diaz. Ms. [applause] hi. Thank you so much. Im so happy to be here. And its wonderful to see all you book lovers here, and thank you, savannah, for your southern hospitality. I also want to thank the savannah book festival and everyone who made this event possiblene including sponsors, bookellers. Lets give booksellers. Lets give it up for the indie booksellers in the room. I love yall. Thank you for all you do, for loving books, for supporting ordinary girls. Because of you im here, so thank you. I want to open with just a little piece that opens the book, ordinary girls. It functions kind of like a prologue but not really. Its just a very short. Girlhood. We were the girls who strolled onto the blacktop on long summer days
and a letter to colleague, speaker of the house nancyhe pelosi gushedsi over what wasen happening, saying we ve been moved by how many have channeled their righteous anger into meaningful actionn. they even got support from the white house. these activists posted a map with the home addresses of supreme court justices.is is that the kind of thingp the president wants to help your side make their point? look, they think the president s viewiew is that there s a lot of passion. deputyf white house press secretary andrew bates tried to kind of clean that upea earlier today tweeting psaki never encouraged people to protest outside p justice s homt and providing a transcript in which he highlights psakidinl saying protests have been t peaceful to date, but he didn t include the whole part. so i knowwpart that there s an outrage right now, i guess,ue about protests that have been peaceful to date and wey certainly continue to encourage that outside judge s home one angle recogni
Things are so bad forfoe is biden that hes in a brawl with the New York Times i behind the scenes, the paper of records relation with the Presiden Scet is reportedly tense, beset by grudges, and a general lack of trust. Trus after Publishing A Slewblishi Of Piecengs on joe bidens age and his son hunter biden, world is calling the reporterse at the times arrogant and stubborn for trying too for. O be impartialti stubbor in other words, up to me more. Some reporters say theyve been cut off by their white house. Sources completely thin bk about it. The democrat president is icing out the times over negativeat presi coverage. The times hasnt even covered uncle boosie, but Times Publisher sulzberger sees in a different way its retribution for Breakinga Diff Tradition Ant giving the paper of record an interview. Say. The New York Times had this to say, quote, for anyones th who understands the role of the free press in a democracy, it should be Troublin Gbide that President Biden has so acti
We heard them gasp being and we had to do something. Gasping for air neighbors rushed to help a pilot after his plane crashes to the ground. Were you at the link . Man, was it hot. I didnt go to the game. It was hot, i was watching my kid play baseball, watching it on my phone, outside. That is the thing with weather, it is probaby hot all the over it was hot all over, sue serio. Kind of was, yeah. Look at sunrise over ocean city music pier in new jersey, this morning. Looking good. This is not one where we have a lot of cloud in the sunrise. There is hardly a cloud in the sky this morning. So we have our number of day is a nine out of 10. We have bus stop buddy and his eagles gear, of course, temperatures in the 60s and zero sevens and it is muggy out there this morning. Humidity will be up from yesterday. It was hot yesterday but now it is hot plus humid. 90 percent already, bad hair day with 69 degrees, we have maria spinning off georgia South Carolina coast right now , and you can
Spokesman, alhambra central and camelback were the schools involved in todays walkout. Carl Hayden High School they said did it the right way, they wait and protested until after school. There is a message to parents from the Phoenix Union High School District superintendent on their website, as well as a video message. For the s protests in l. A. Are back out. Dozens of police cars are lining this overpass. We believe this is near the westbound i10. Protestors say they plan to block that part of the freeway. They did it about an hour and a half ago in the Boyle Heights area. Last night several people in l. A. Were arrested. Sheriff arpaio could be heading to the nations capitol. Possible cabinet member for donald trump as secretary of homeland security. This after he lost his reelection bid to paul penzone. Trump has bragged about arpaios endorsement throughout the election. And the sheriff has spoken at several trump rallies across the country. Even though the election is behind us,