L. A. Times festival of books on everything connects the Building Blocks of daily life. Im john wiener, i write for the nation magazine, and i also host the weekly podcast called start making sense. You guys have been here before, you know the rules; silence cell phones, no personal recordings. You can watch us on cspan when this is over if you want to relive those unforgettable moments. [laughter] we will have time for questions at the end. We will have a book signing afterwards. The signing area for this session is signing area one. Two of our authors appearing today are are prolific, old pros. Ed humes has written 14 books, brian fagin has written more than 40. So lets start with jonathan waldman. This is his first book. Jonathan waldman [applause] [laughter] jonathan studied writing at dartmouth and at boston universitys Knight Center for science journalism. Hes written for outside, the washington post, the New York Times, mcsweenys, the utney reader. He has worked as a forklift dr
Journal article but it had a map of the state of california and and all of the locations. And then the location of automotive facilities in favor all along the same track moving from that midwest and from the south. But the lot of activity in the Silicon Valley area. Allot of automotive in that area. This is the big change. Guest one of the things that killed kodak that it stayed in rochester new york it was Great Technology bad bill all the work was digitals ober now they are in the mobility business. In that is a big part of the future dependent on Wireless Networks so you want to be where the innovators are. Is a big change and people who live and work differently i hope we can get that national will to have that conversation. Faq very much t14 will come to the l. A. Times festival of books everything connects the Building Blocks of family not family life also a host the nations weekly pied cast you have been here before you know the rules no personal recordings you can watch us on
It comes out of your head. So i think actually he was raiding a really good point. When just to when i was writing he had so many girlfriends i could take my children anywhere because there was a girlfriend there to interview. Including the dirt road across my daughters writing camp in vermont. Thats another way to save. Give you a tip. So, i have to say, without sounding polly annish, i loved every moment. Maybe because it was my second job and i still had another fulltime job was very consuming, plus im one of five children people up here, but it was really fantastic. There were a lot of people alive, or are, who knew jonas salk so i did over 100 interview starting we people in this Grad School Class who were still alive, and although the archives gave me this enormous amount of material, and i read all of the scientific articles he wrote and everyone else wrote about polio and aids and influenza and all the other diseases he was involved in. Wasnt just involved in polio. The intervi
That should be easy to verify if that is in fact true. Thank you very much. It has been a pleasure. [applause] he might give you at all like to have your book signed, he will be right over there signing books. Get them here and pay for them upstairs. Or if you have them with you, that is terrific. Thank you so much for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] shes welcome to this and all a daily times festival of books on everything for mac of the building life. I am john weidner. I write for the nation magazine and i also host weekly pot cast, start making sense. U you guys have been here before. You know the rules and silence cell phones. No personal recordings. You can watch us on cspan when this is over if you want to relive those unforgettable moments. S. We will have time for questions at the end of a book signing afterwards where the session inside an area one. Two of our authors appear today are prolific old pros. Edward humes has written 14rittm books. Brian fagan has writ