In speaking with two of the leading lights of the english book world, two of my neighbors in brooklyn. One is johnny campbell, the other is jessica the noodle of the green light bookstore in my neighborhood bookstore. Welcome to both of you and thank you for taking the time to speak. I want to talk shop with you guys give people inside baseball about our new lives as independent book people. We will start with you jessica. What has this doneto your business . It a lot really fast, right west and mark its been a real reinvention over the past six or eight weeks. Midmarch there were a couple of days where we were like we need to consider closing . Suddenly it was like yes, you absolutely have to and you also need to send everyone home and in that week of transition, i think march 21 we close the doors and walked away from the bookstores that was terrifying because we didnt know what was going to happen next. I feel like we were in a fortunate position that weve already had a really welle
To submit your questions and ill try to get to them as many of them as time allows. Medicares is retired physician geneticist. The other madisons is a first book and a follows a newly 30 your quest. Its been called roots for a new generation. Thank you for being with us. Very happy to be part of this program. Most of us grew up thinking of James Madison as the fourth president , one of the founders of our country, wrote the first draft of the u. S. Constitution and bill of rights. What did you think or what we you told about him growing up . I was told mostly what everyone else was. As you said, this important figure of American History. But i was also told that he was my great, great, great great grandfather through his relationship with one of his enslaved cooks. So he was one of my ancestors. And remind us of this. You are a madison. You come from african slaves and a president. What did that mean to you as a child . To me it set some clear expectations of it was intended to be forc
Television companies, supports cspan2 as a public service. Hello, everybody. Peter maravelis here are coping this finds you all safe and look at a deficit like booksellers and owners and publishers and the City Lights Foundation i would like to welcome you to our virtual reading series that follows in the footsteps of our calendar during the time of the pandemic. A big shout it and welcome to all of our cspan viewers joining us tonight. As always we are being to you from unseated an essential grounds also has a San Francisco bay area from where we continue to celebrate the works of authors we know in love with readings, discussions and forums. Tonight it is a pleasure to have with us Brian Hochman celebrate the publication of his new book titled the listeners a history of wiretapping in the United States. Brian hochman instructive american studies and at asse professor of english at georgetown university. The author of the book savage preservation, the ethnographic origins of modern Me
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