The most walk us through a peer started with college peer. It was just my 10 year reunion so [laughter] i did not attend i graduated 2009 from Wesleyan University with a degree in sociology. I just read in the wall street journal that 2009 was the worst job market for generations. I had the good fortune to walk straight into that. After my internships and my parents in music for a while i worked at a Literary Agency for a couple of years in new york. After that joined doing a netflix or ebook type. I was there just for three months. It was just supposed to be that i was the person that knew about books and publishing. It was a fourperson company want to join three of four founders. From there went to San Francisco and worked at a Data Analytics startup. At that it would be a great application for my sociology degree. Little did i know i wasnt what they were looking for. I did the 18 months which is probably the longest 18 months of my life. And i really like to work in a Company Buildi
First fiction. It was also a finalist for the 2020 National Book award in the fiction category. So welcome deesha. Thanks for joining us. We also have steven sparks whos the cone coowner of point reyes books out in california. Hes worked at green apple books and the dalke archive and he is on the boards of dorothy a publishing project open letter books and the center for the art of translation. Thank you stephen for joining us. And last we have john shear whos the director of the university of North Carolina, press it is the oldest Scholarly Publishing house in the south. I am as a bookseller. Im compelled to say as well that john is a former bookseller at olsons in washington dc. Oh, im sorry, washington. Not dc. So, thank you everyone. I am going to start out with a question for you d shop. You have as i said had an incredibly successful university, press book. So what brought you to West Virginia up . Why did you just what pulled you in that direction instead of looking forward or d
First fiction. It was also a finalist for the 2020 National Book award in the fiction category. So welcome deesha. Thanks for joining us. We also have steven sparks whos the cone coowner of point reyes books out in california. Hes worked at green apple books and the dalke archive and he is on the boards of dorothy a publishing project open letter books and the center for the art of translation. Thank you stephen for joining us. And last we have john shear whos the director of the university of North Carolina, press it is the oldest Scholarly Publishing house in the south. I am as a bookseller. Im compelled to say as well that john is a former bookseller at olsons in washington dc. Oh, im sorry, washington. Not dc. So, thank you everyone. I am going to start out with a question for you d shop. You have as i said had an incredibly successful university, press book. So what brought you to West Virginia up . Why did you just what pulled you in that direction instead of looking forward or d
Questions. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. Lets start with the extreme heat and Severe Weather happening all around the country. Marissa parra is in south florida, tracking tornadoes, floods, triple digit temperatures. Its hot where you are. Whats the latest . Reporter you know when you have the hot weather, the Severe Weather kicks in. In north carolina, the ef 3 tornado snapped power line, ruined homes. There were over a dozen hurt, and the pfizer plant took significant damage. And over in kentucky, that flash flooding, we know the governor of kentucky just tweeted out not long ago that there were several people who had to be rescued from the flash flooding, but so far, no one missing, no fatalities reported. The thing to remember here is the most deadly form of Severe Weather is actually extreme heat, and that is something we have seen from coast to coast across the country, particularly were not just talking about here in miami we hit the 40th d
Questions. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. Lets start with the extreme heat and Severe Weather happening all around the country. Marissa parra is in south florida, tracking tornadoes, floods, triple digit temperatures. Its hot where you are. Whats the latest . Reporter you know when you have the hot weather, the Severe Weather kicks in. In north carolina, the ef 3 tornado snapped power line, ruined homes. There were over a dozen hurt, and the pfizer plant took significant damage. And over in kentucky, that flash flooding, we know the governor of kentucky just tweeted out not long ago that there were several people who had to be rescued from the flash flooding, but so far, no one missing, no fatalities reported. The thing to remember here is the most deadly form of Severe Weather is actually extreme heat, and that is something we have seen from coast to coast across the country, particularly were not just talking about here in miami we hit the 40th d