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
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