Blood. Well, good evening, everyone. Welcome. [cheers and applause] on behalf of all of us with the Miami Book Fair we want to welcome you to the 29th book fair, believe it or not. [cheers and applause] remarkable undertaking and takes the work of literally hundreds and hundreds of volunteers. We have a remarkable board of directors who work extremely hard at doing this year round, none of this at all could happen without the good, good support of everyone here at Miamidade College and lets give them a huge round of applause. [applause] and we are particularly appreciative of the sponsors. Without the sponsors and the funding from foundations and governmental agencies, we would not be able to bring you all of this wonderful literary extravaganza. I would also like to tell you to pick up a guide on the way out. We have a remarkable program. We start at 4 00, for all who have kids, he is coming with his new series and will be there at 4 00 along with manuel diaz, wonderful writer. And ch
Great to be back and a special honor to be invited to introduce tom wolfe and a huge burden because how does one introduce tom wolfe . One read the economist, of course. Two weeks ago was a wonderful article on literary realism and i will quote as a way of introduction. For use tom wolfe has been lambasting the establishment for ignoring the best story around, their own country. America positively titillate with fantastic stories and get its writers ensconced in their manhattan lofts and residentss cant be bothered to look further than the ends of their noses. This week, a moment in American Literature, he wrote in one of his manifestoes on behalf of literary realism we need a battalion, a brigade of zolofts to head into the wild bizarre, heart stopping country of ours, reclaim it as literary property. The trouble turning yourself into an american is you expose yourself to being trump by reality, better sort of critics are forever lambasting tom wolfe for going over the top, using cart
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] its my great pleasure to have my best dressed and old friend tom wolfe here for breakfast. [applaus [applause] i decided the one thing that had not been touched was college life. We or i began to hear about coed dorm, but it was a total abstraction to me. I mean, i assumed it meant more sex, but it was i couldnt get a picture of it. We heard about corruption in big time collegiate sports. I was curious how this affected the athletes themselves. What were they like . Weve heard of Political Correctness. We hear a lot about Political Correctness because in the we journalists are much more apt to be talking to professors of one sort or another, than to students. And i discovered right away that students today are eager to talk to some older person honestly about what theyre doing. And in this case, of course, it was a novel there were no dangers identified by name or even by looks, as a
We break away from this portion of washington journal to fill our longtime commitment to bring you live Senate Coverage. Follow this at cspan. Org, senate gasoline and next coming up shortly. Senator Tammy Baldwin will deliver the annual reading of washingtons farewell address. After that the senate will debate the nomination of Robert Malloy to be a district judge for the Virgin Islands with the vote to limit debate on the nomination is scheduled for later this afternoon. Live Senate Coverage is here on cspan2. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, the center of our joy, make us your captives so that we may live liberated lives. Provide our senators with the spiritual, mental, social and physical revitalization they need just for today. May they place their trust in you and experience your profound peace. Grant that they will relinquish their worries to you, as they permit your perfect love to cast out every fear. Lord, show them your redemptive purposes in every problem they must so
They had to put in the backup quarterback for the final snap. And of course people were very upset about this. Former redskins quarterback Joe Theismann wrote, how do you miss the last snap of a game because youre taking selfies . Thats unprofessional and wrong. Unprofessional and wrong. Both of those things. [ laughter ] the guys 22 years old. He heard it was time for the snap. He probably thought they meant snapchat and he went [ laughter ] elsewhere in washington it was a busy few days for our dear misleader. On friday trump placed a call to fox friends and talked almost nonstop for 53 minutes straight. He didnt even pause for a chicken leg. He just went on and on. [ laughter ] he had a nice long chat with his friends. And then later in the day smoked a peace pipe with perhaps his fiercest republican opponent. We got almost 6 million kids addicted to nicotine. And theyre getting addicted to nicotine because of flavors. Putting out cotton candy flavor and what is it, unicorn poop fla