Space, sally ride. For more information on this weekends television schedule, visit us online at booktv. Org. Now on booktv, bill and willie geist discuss their relationship and their careers in journalism. Its about 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] im not a huge believer in introducing people that you all know, so bill and willie geist. [cheers and applause]x i am assuming you know which is which. Fellas, this is a funny book. You might expect that from these two men if you know their tv work. It is also filled with a lot of heart and a lot amazing honesty. Bill, you used to be a reporter here in town. And when you were they didnt let me downtown. One of the many great mistakes the Chicago Tribune has made. It is very, very long list. I want to read something. I am going to do some reading from the book because i like the way these two guys write. Bill writing to willie until you were 12 i had been a newspaper reporter saying his parents owned a paper in illinois. But i guided yo
Interest for the rest of the year. Thats a good, helpful plan reportedly easily agreed to by all side during all of the latest negotiations. Next, a new federal moratorium on evictions and foreclosures, comes more than a week after allowing it to expire letting literally tense of millions live for days in fear they would be homeless in the coming days or months. In other words the prez used americans worst fears as a bargaining can chip for negotiations. And extending Unemployment Benefits through no later than december 27th or reduced level 400 instead of the previous 600 a week. A major Sticking Point during recent negotiations answers the federal government only paying 75 of the costs passing on the rest to already busted states. When theyd get the mun, trump responded, soon. Its unclear of his authority to do this since congress has the Constitutional Authority to determine federal spending. Finally, the executive order which does absolutely nothing to help any of the millions upon
Please keep the spirit of lit fest going all year long with a subscription. This year we are also introducing a new digital bookstore. Please take one of our promo cards for information about the app and axis the special book deals. Before they can todays program please file ensure cell phones. You return your camera flash off. We will allow you to take pictures. You can post those pictures online using hashtag printers row. Gives me great pleasure to introduce to you guys are moderate todays conversation, eric banks. Mr. Banks. Thank you. Thank you very much. Welcome everybody. Its good to see you here this morning and its my pleasure to welcome today Monique Brinson demery, the author of the amazing book, finding the dragon lady the mystery of vietnams madame nhu, which has recently been published by Public Affairs books. She holds a masters degree from harvard university, and when she made contact with madame nhu who was the unofficial first lady of the south east government in 2005
In their interest to do it, and they havent demonstrated propensity for doing it. But one of the things i feel is lacking is lately our willingness to promote our stuff. And we are losing, were hemorrhaging platforms. Now, theres a good side and a bad side to this story. You know, actually, i brought a list of the bookstores that have closed not since i started my web site but since i started keeping track of em. And its, the list actually, if you do me a favor and just hold this, this is a list of bookstores that have closed. Now are those brook bookstores . These are all independent bookstores across the nation. Whats the count, do you know . Approximately. Over a hundred. I mean, honestly are, i dont know the count 300 . Oh well, this is, this is how many are left, and this is counting the schomburg, this is counting the studio museums bookstore, this is counting the hub at howard university. So if we were to look at the number of blackowned independent bookstores in this country, t
The cuts are coming as the district is losing $134 million of ESSR federal funding. The ESSR funds were given to school districts to help get more resources and employees to recover after the pandemic.