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Agency. All right. Welcome to the san antonio book festival. This is the panel on spies like us. The nsa big brother and democracy. We ha i am the editor and chief of the san antonio current. And before we get started, i want to remind you all these books, great books. Spying on democracy and the family jewels will be for sale and heidi and john bill signing them after the session. I would introtruce heidi and john. Heidi boghosia is the executive director of the National Lawyers guild, a progressive bar ass association and cohost law and disorder which is a radio show and airs on 50 National Affiliate stations. She has published articles on policing, the First Amendment for the National Lawyers guild, missouri law river and north river press. She lives in new york city so thank you for making the trip down here. To my right to is john prados which is a director for the National Security archive which is a great resource. It is located in washington, d. C. He helps bring newly declassi
About the woman silk workers and knew immediately thats hai wanted to write about. It came to me like a dream that every writer prays for that you just knew you wanted to write about this. With the second book it was difficult i sat down and didnt know what i was going to write for about 6 months. Which was fearful for me because of the fact i knew i didnt have the second book. Stevens story, i asked myself questions. A lot of writers do that thats usually how i begin. What did he do . Who did he meet when he got off the train . Who was this man servant . What was his life about . It all began with the seeds and the particular questions, as simple as that. Although, then, i had to answer them. What i had done is i usual low dont work with an out line. A lot of writers do they will out line what will happen and sometimes they have to because like if you are writing a mystery you need to write out the plot. I write about characters the characters drive the story. When that hatched i sat
A second book. Everybody here i feel sitting here all of you have one book in you. Whether its a family story or your story whether its ancestors whether its your history you want to write about. But its the second one thats hard. I felt that when i turnod the computer and thought, now i have to write book number 2. I had in mind that i wanted to write something very different from women of the silk that was strictly about the feminist Chinese Women during the turn of the century and i wanted to write about my japanese culter. I didnt have the story or the culture unfortunately because i was born in san francisco, half chinese and half japanese but raised in the chinese culture. When it was time to write the second book and i knew i wanted to explore my japanese side it was going to be difficult in the way that i didnt know the culture. Right away i had to learn a lot. It was something that was not engrained in me besides the story. I sat down and thought about the story my mother told