[inaudible] said thank you for coming out here today. My name is sean a butler. I am an advisor focused on health care, viewership and economic developme. Ani im really thrilled to have sha with us today. Today. Her work focused on what she decided to do was go to afghanistan because consistently afghanistan has been named the worst place in the world to be a woman. In her 19 trips there, she has been focused on building capacity around maternal, around the midwife programs that look at maternal and fetal wellan being, andd shes also beeno working on reading programs for, that are focused on thems daughters of the women who have beenha imprisoned, specifically around their charge of adultery. And her most recent adventure, shes also done art projects and a lot of other things, but shes been using the buick as a social justice the bike as a social justice tool. Actively working e Afghan National Womens Cycling Team in producing a documentary on all of that called afghan cycles. So, shan
Saturday, 12 and 9 p. M. On sunday, and 12 a. M. On monday. You can also watch after words online youre kind of booktv. Org and click on after words in the booktv series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. Welcome today to a booktvs live coverage of the 2014 texas book festival held in austin, the state capital. Over the next six hours will hear from nine authors on such topics as social change an instant, the Death Penalty, the global history of train travel. Author and professor ilan stavans starts off with a discussion about his latest book, a most imperfect union a contrarian history of the United States. Hello and welcome. Happy sunday morning, everybody. I name is nathan. Im here with ilan stavans, professor of latin american latino studies at amherst college, author of last time i counted about 10,000 books. The latest of which is a most imperfect union a contrarian history of the United States. It is do you call it a graphic novel if its nonfiction . We have in
Welcome today to a booktvs live coverage of the 2014 texas book festival held in austin, the state capital. Over the next six hours will hear from nine authors on such topics as social change an instant, the Death Penalty, the global history of train travel. Author and professor ilan stavans starts off with a discussion about his latest book, a most imperfect union a contrarian history of the United States. Hello and welcome. Happy sunday morning, everybody. I name is nathan. Im here with ilan stavans, professor of latin american latino studies at amherst college, author of last time i counted about 10,000 books. The latest of which is a most imperfect union a contrarian history of the United States. It is do you call it a graphic novel if its nonfiction . We have in English Limited lexicon to address the growing genre of the graphic novels, graphic books. When hes a graphic book you really would have two meanings. It is illustrated or too violent and sexual. We need to nonfiction book