Hello everyone. Thank you for turning out. I am laura miller and the books and poultry columnist for slate. Com. This is another social distancing social from [inaudible] in partnership with a partnership of slate, new American Foundation and Arizona State university. Today were talking about the future of books and im joined by priscilla who is Vice President and executive editor of simon schuster, Brandon Hensley is the National Political writer for cnn politics. Hello, priscilla and brandon. I cant hear you. You have to unmute. Hello, nice to see you. Thank you for having us. When i was asked to moderate this one of the things that it brought up or brought to mind or brought up in my memory was how in the early 2000s it seems like everywhere you went there was a discussion of the future of books and people making a lot of predictions about the future of books and how things had to change and which way they needed to go and that was all tied to the emergence of ebooks and ebook techn
Washington post columnist, thriller writer who writes about the cia and such. This month, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Colson Whitehead as our guest. His most recent book is the under ground railroad. Mr. Whitehead, whats the appropriate response new book is appraised by oprah, president obama, you won the National Book award, what is the appropriate response . If only it took the pain aw away. [laughter] has taken off in a way thats unexpected and startling and wonderful. Just try to enjoy it despite my best efforts. Why does it put you in a better mood . Ive been writing for 20 something years doing fiction 20 some years, sometimes we write a book and people dig it and understand it sometimes write a book and no one cares and its sort of disappears so i have the pride the job i did with the book. Either you dig the groups of two prospectors or you dont and so you are either along for the ride description or not. Definitely when i was writing was my second attempt at a novel. My fir
The cash trade here in europe is less than an hour away. Lets get your top headlines. Softbank plummets on reports it made big bets on derivatives linked to u. S. Tech. A selloff looks set to continue, although u. S. Stocks are shut today for the labor day holiday. Johnson plays hardball. U. K. Officials say britain is not scared of walking away from brexit negotiations emptyhanded. Talks restart on that note in london this week. And cracks in the pipeline. Germanys board member former minister links nord stream 2 to the poisoning of alexey navalny. We are less than an hour away from the start of european trading. There will be no u. S. Equities trade today. You can see european futures are gaining. We are getting more german data out now, economic data. Up 1. 2 . Strial output the estimate was for a gain of 4. 5 percent, so a mess in terms of Industrial Production so a miss in terms of Industrial Production. Yearoveryear, there was a drop. The actual drop was 10 . The estimate had bee
Expected to visit kenosha, wisconsin. The latest city racked by protests over Racial Injustice following the Police Shooting of a black man. Mr. Trumps visit comes as he and his democratic opponent joe biden trade barbs over who was responsible for the violent demonstrations that continue to rock the city after jacob blake was shot by police last month. Laura podesta is in new york. Laura, the former Vice President came out hard against the president on this very topic. Reporter he sure did. Good morning. At a Campaign Stop in pittsburgh yesterday joe biden said the president is to blame for the escalating violence throughout the country. But he was very careful not to appear antilaw and order saying if he were to be elected president he would not defund the police. In fact, he would add about 300 million in federal funding to their local budgets. Rioting is not protesting. Looting is not protesting. Reporter democratic president ial nominee joe biden formice presidt blament r fanni fl
History and destiny. And we all know history, its what happens, but destiny is what must happen, this is true, i cannot believe this is happening by father was struck by lightning, his father, my grandfather, im not joking was struck by lightning, that means dont stand next to me in a rainstorm. Last week i was totally my son the story and telling him, my dad was struck by lightning, his dad was struck by lightning and hes like oh my gosh, we can be struck by lightning and as he said that i make you wont be but sure, yeah you might be, this is true, my son and my family, my wife or my kids were taking the amtrak train from new york city to here to washington, d. C. To this event and the train was struck by lightning, my son texted me and he said youre not going to believe what happened tonight. Destiny, thats what were witnessing, you will see them coming in late but this is destiny, a couple of things i will say that we cant do any rows in the country, first of all where is jim, jim s