Is this live . Can everyone hear me . Welcome. My name is kyle byrd im the executive director of the leon leavy center for biography. Over the past 12 years the leavy center has awarded 44 major fellowships to working biographers. Each of these fellowships is not worth 72,000 so its not chump change. To date some 20 biographies have been published including ruth franklins biography of Shirley Jackson which won the Prestigious National book critics circle award biography. I also want to spread the news about our brandnew holy unique Masters Program in biography and memoir is just started this autumn with at least 17 students enrolled which is phenomenal. Brenda is actually both former director of the leon leavy center and teaches the core courses in new Masters Program. Our next program is next wednesday, september 25 at 6 30 p. M. With david netzel giving the annual leon leavy lecture on biography. Tonight im very delighted to have Benjamin Moser in conversation with brenda one apple.
San francisco added 39 cases, now at 622. While cases in Alameda County grew to more than 600. Here are the latest cases in lake and mendocino counties for our viewers there. Lake county reported two cases since sunday. Mendocino county reports four cases. And we are charting the total number of local cases on to this graph so we can take a look at the trend. This includes data for 14 counties, the bay are and beyond. And we showed a graph like that because were concerned about the peak. Can our medical systems handle the surge of cases . Do we have enough time to prepare . And what half . We have Team Coverage tonight. David louie looks at what life could be life post pandemic. But first, lets hear from abc7 news anchor liz kreutz about the latest projections showing we could reach the peak just one week from today. Liz . Dan, thats right. The state officials have been saying our peak will come in may, but a separate new updated projection shows we might hit that peak next week. We ta
Washing stations to help those most in need. Grand princess returned to San Francisco where it docked. Members of the National Alliance for filipino concerns protested as the ship is closer. Theyre outraged that the crew is still on board the boat. Theyre calling this inhumane. Abc7 News Reporter luz pena j n joining us live now with the latest. Luz . Larry, that Filipino Community group wants crewmembers to get off the ship and get tested for covid19. Four days ago one of the passengers, one of the cruise members died of coronavirus. The grand princess is back at San Franciscos cruise ship terminal. On board, over 650 filipino memr wre concerned about hipmo tm crewmember from the grand princess cruise ship died of coronavirus in a San Francisco hospital. A day later on april 4th, hundreds of crewmembers who remain on the ship completed their quarantine period, but theyre still not going home. Very upsetting. For one worker to die in the bay area should have never happened. Over a mont
Clearly into the microphone as we are recording it today. Cspan, booktv is here as well. Following the q and a will have a signing at the table. If you havent already purchased books we had plenty at the front of the store at the registers. Tonight im very excited to welcome yuval levin to politics and prose, celebrating his newest book, a time to build. From family and community to congress and the campus, how recommitting to our institutions can revise the american dream. As the nation faces increasing divisiveness fueled by partisan politics, culture wars and populace anger on both sides, levin argues rather than trying to tear down existing institutional frameworks we should be looking to them as sources of strength and support. Through a time to build he shows our Current Crisis isnt completely due to the presence of an impressive oppressive force but the absence of uniting forces and urges us to commit ourselves to renewing the vitality of institutions. Ranging from the family an
Journalists and Science Fiction novelist discusses his book and activism. After a day of social distancing, get close to a good book tonight printed book tv from cspan2. Kathryn good evening everyone and welcome to book passage. Thank you for coming up tonight on a tuesday night. There are so many things that you could be doing. You made a really good decision coming here, this is a smart crowded pretty you will be mesmerized and just fascinated by the program we have for you tonight in the vein we ask that you turn your cell phones off because you will not need them. Do not look at your cell phone for the next hour. I guarantee it. You will be completely mesmerized by our authors. We are so proud to bring you today. So thank you for supporting book passage and we are an independent bookstore, one of the very few remaining independent bookstores. [applause]. Thank you and we are very proud of that fact. Thanks for comingan to our location here. We also have a beautiful store in the ser