I. Will with Everyone Welcome and thank you for being here at the 2022 texas book festival, live from austin, texas. My name is brian sweeney. Im the proud member of the Advisory Board at the texas book festival. And though i am biased, i firmly believe it is the best one in the country. So thank you for being here. We are absolutely delighted today to have two unbelievably talented authors on our panel talking about the environment both past and future. Im going to start at the end. Id like to welcome maya cave and ross and to austin and to the book festival. She is an author. Lawyer and activist. For 30 years, she has led the Delaware River Keeper Network, which is the area where she grew up and lives now with her family. And she is the founder of the green amendment for the generations, which is the subject of her book, which has been updated. It is called the green amendment the peoples fight for a clean, safe and healthy environment. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome maya, keit
Conversation. Elizabeth alexander is a prize winning and New York Times bestselling author, renowned american poet, educator, scholar and cultural advocate. Her memoir, the light of the world was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. And one of my favorite books and National Book critics circle awards. She composed and recited praise song for the day for president barack obamas. 2009 inauguration and is currently president of the Andrew Mellon foundation, the nations largest funder of the arts, culture and humanities humanities. So im looking forward to this conversation. I love this book, the trayvon generation. My first question really is about the books title, because it has multiple meanings and what what is this . What does it mean for you . The trayvon generation . Well, i think, first of all, im so happy to be here with all of you. So thank you so much for coming out. Im so happy to be here with you in what feels like an conversation that we get to focus in the here and now. So tha
Characteristic. Watch the program anytime online and get booktv. Org is a bullet for the title of his book, no free lunch. Thank you for joining us. My first question, what made you decide to tell your story . Ive been asked for about ten years tell my cancer story and every time i give a speech or something to say you need to write a book and he said i only want to talk about my cancer stuff because people have been asking for my cancer journal ever since i had chemotherapy when i was diagnosed with colon cancer one of my assistant finally said we need to turn it intoto a book and one thing ledo another andop i wrote it so i cn hopefully inspire people and give them hope and the publishers wanted to go beyond my cancer story to inspire a broader audience so i finally decided this was the time because cancer is so prevalent and so many things are going on so i decided to be part of the solution to give people hope and faith they can make it through the hard times and a lot of people ar