Sponsors National Art Commission and content group, and about university and in this book. This special session is entitled remake america. Have a panel authors and three books in first, we are going to read some but i will introduce the authors first and ill begin with she grewp in bosnia. After surviving cousin cleansing and the 111 days underilitary siege, she immigrated to the u. S. In 1996. Friday 71999, she earned aa in economics from Brown University and later obtained two masters degrees of doctrine from Columbia University. Currently, a profeor at Columbia University working on understanding how and why societies fall apart and wha role education plays in this countr shes published extensively on education related issues and lectured around the world adolescent audience. Hertudents feedback, nsistently praised as one of the most aspirin professors th have encountered throughout theicareers. Our second guest, stephanie, and often from staff sectors. Her books include the awardwinning memoirs moscow. The bestselling guidebook, 100 places every woman should go. Shes also written for the New York Times, washington post, the believer, the virginia review and she edited this womens travel writing 2010. Her coverage of the text mexico border, for social justice reporting. A renowned public speaker, assistant professor of nonfiction at the university of North Carolina chapel hill. The daughter of palestinian immigrant inherited she explores her fiction. Her first novel was named a New York Times book review editors choice from Los Angeles Times united election and Marie Claires magazine 2020 best fiction by women. Its currently long listed for the center for fiction 2021st novel prize. Short story collection with the winner of the 2016 with the books fiction award. She earned her msa from Columbia College chicago when she was a recipient of the David Friedman award for best fiction. New city magazine recently named her one of 2020s list, those who really looked in chicago. She writes and teaches outside of chicago. First, wed like to hear from you today, stephanie, her book entitled how about it . In the u. S. Borderlands. Love, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Just to giv you some context, this is book examines life in the borderlands texas mexico border where i am from the new york canadian border, in particular, the nation dissected by ontario, quebec and the u. S. And canada reading fm a sectn from the terminology used when an undocumented pern isound on landho has not made it, they died along the w way. As you probably know, thes a major crisis along our southern border and other regions among the southern border thats essentially becoming a graveyard for people who are dying because of immigration policies. This takes place, i happen to be in the Sheriffs Department when i receive one of these phone calls and i went outo assist on a body recovery. Th uertaker arrived on the scene, and over man crying a white bedsheet. S spread over the womans feet fe, theres blood on the blue rubber gloves. Inches from the neee kit. First he finds these, and he pulls out, he checks to see if there is maybe an id, a phone number, but there is nothing. Now comes the task of slipping the woman into the bag. He lays the sheet besid her. Carefully he rolls the woman onto her side. That makes her scalp fall off. She had become luid, shes leaking and dpping. He slides her scalp bac into place the rest of us stand and stare, they put the sheep beneath her and put it back onop. Probably guatemalan or honduran. She is stuck into the black body bag. The borderatrol agent was 30 feet out and w roughly half a minute. Theres no evidence insight, we are leaving behind only an empty water bottle. No words were spoken. No rights were given. I better make sure tres no bodily fluid on me. The bodyguard was on top and goes to the back of the van. The go to the undertake and i want to say how fitting, before i can seek, i am a writer. A lot of people write stori nothing ever gets done. Unusually, t subject of a remark and a smile but there is something about standing in the woods n95 degrees heat, it gives me hope and maybe something will change this time. Policy and fines will be changed law will finly be enacted. It makes a spark of hope that this is being written about. Running her name, just one number of 34 before her 94 after her in this single yr in this one state. It is a unique hour, being annihilated, i will remember this. I tried to fall aslee at night. Pray that this counts as something getting done. I wish to say this, i wish to say all of this and a great deal more but it remains a pair. Already knows hell be back tomorrow and i, i will not. Thank you. Thank you. Now we will hear from our next guest and she will read from her book, cap i never named. Hello, everyone. A true story of love, war and survival. It is my true story of a girl who was born and raised in bosnia but i was also born native. Early 1990s against all odds and the help of a stray cat that i never named. Im going to read you a brief opening to the cap i never named. It wasnt all at once. Instead, like a cat, he stopped me quietly. A glimpse of i. I didnt believe it was there until it pounced. 1992, chapter one. Whirling as i ride the train home to bosnia. The tracks push was. Families, others, children. Its a long day and i will be lucky to get home by 1 00 a. M. A few stops later, the families get off, soldiers get on and i realize that i will be lucky to get home at all. Men stomped down the aisles, i dont have to look to know their serbian nationalists. Jared dressed in black, wild hair and hate. In their eyes for anyone whos not served. I saw them all over the streets shouting, anyone they thought might be muslim. Arent you afraid . I asked my cousin. It is not a big deal, she replied and shrugged. People feel they can say anything these days. When these soldiers invade, i fear they will have far more than words for this team muslim girl. Lets hear fm her in her book is entitled the beauty o your fans. Can you hear me . You are muted right now. I am soorry about that. Thats all right. [laughter] you got a moments head srt. [laughter] i just wanted to say, i thought the passages before me were beautiful so thank you for those. The beauty ofour face begins when a whi male shooter enters a school right outside of chicago the principal thinks it is firecrackers when it begins because the school is constantly harassed in this predominantly white neighborhood and they quickly realize they are not firecrackers. Are going back in time, its like. The chapters are intersperse with the view of the shooter. Going to rd from 1976 when the man is ten years old in chicago r sister has disappeared. Twentytwo days pt, shes gone ba to her husband with a promise retu in a few days. He came to the door to collect her. He didnt stepnside awkrdly apologizing. Stopped by home. Pyrex dishes the neighborhood dropped b to comfort her before shes incapable of even brewing coff coffee. They pull logs when she comes home from school and the women shakeheir heads she returned safely to you. She visits with her mother and they play outside while her mother washes pulls in, sits at the kitchen table, sobbing work could you have gone, she asked her hair is cut in a short tit bob. Last summer, she crashed her bike and she picks up her piec pieces. She lets her friends touch her scar tissu it looks like someone did it off. Shes no longer allowed to ride a bike ever since. She overheard her mother telling mama about it. See what happens when you give a girl too muchreedom in this country . She lose a finger. Luckilyt has not changed her mind. She turns the knobs on her friend and shrugs her shoulders. Dont know where she went. They take turns throwg on the pad. She pulls her mother the rainbow disappears. She desperately wishes mama refuses to have any creatures in the home. They have a fish take but the nolty has quickly worn off. I want an animal to hold and cuddle iuess they would have found her she was hiding, laying her chin on her shoulder. Why would she be hiding from me . She doesnt intend to be cool but she wants to escape for at least a little while. She turned the knob kinds to join to make a heart thatt looks like an uneven triangle. A young detective working the case one evening,hey offer the detective in the kitchen. Hes very young, blue eyes. Big blonde hair parted on the side, and appearance of a school boy, not the appearance of a investigator. He shows her father his badge and texted back into the pocket of the jacket. Someone called about a suspicious man in the bacard. We investigated, h turns and says go wat tv. He goes to the front room and sits on the sofa bed. We investigated a bombing. These photographs, can you identify this person . She pushes back. Are you sure it is not her . Any distinguishin marks . The money grows louder. The bathom door slams shut. Mom was vomiting is the only sound in the apartment. The detective stands and before he closes, she touches the image of an arm badly bruised. Im sorry about all of thi he says. You should take comfort in t fact that we will do our best to find her. The picture turns out to be lopez, 16 years old on missing a day before. They know its almost worse it not being her body btered and broken because it means more waiting, more not knowing. Thank you. Thank you for the wonderful reings. I dont think one in here that and be unaffected. At ts time, i want to make sure everyone in the audience knows you are able to ask questions they will be relayed tos and we will answer them for you. So while you are thinking about your questions, i want to propos that in all three of these novels or books, they are not nels, there is a current threat, a common threat. In fact, there a twos. One i hatred. How is theatred that you see today, in our coury, different from or simar to hatred that you write about . My story isentered on the hatred that exists in those countries so after realizing the killings of three americans in north carina in 2015, i reference it in my book, her husband and her sister were murdered in cold bod in the neighborhood. I was immsed in the hatred in this boo it was really important for me, i start inhe present and i think people like me, little hesitant to pick up this book because they imagine it will be incredibly graphic and then you realize okay, we are actuay going on the journey of this young woman who, before she comes facetoface wit the shooter, we get to see all the mio aggressive behavior and he takes this on. I was really interested in not just presenting this sensationalized event, i wanted to make sure i was presented sort of dispelling ideas stereotypes surrounding the communities. I thought it was an amazing opportunity and its ironic that in the world, after trump entered into office, the situation is even more desperate and critical in my opinion. Thank you. Stephanie. His hatred and underlying theme in your work . Especially now, it is increasingly different difficult to fin in this landscape. Between 2007 2017, it is the time. In this book, i was researching throughout the obama adminiration but it was horrifying what i found. Everything from environmental injustices, clusters around oil refineries. Just entirely surrounding immunities of color, specifically indigenous communities. I was spendg my reporting when there were 670 miles o concrete and sel wall and fermented cutting throughout the borde. Making it impossible on the border, so many families, half on one side and have on the other and it should have just been a matter of crossing the bridge, youre still crossing the same bridge but it takes two hours to cross t bridge now. The situation was when was reporting, i handed in my book a couple of weeks before the ection. Through the work of artis, through the work of keepersnd so i amlways in the process of trying to seek that out. I do thi among the residents, the policy, the political aspect of it yes. What role ds hatred play in your account . This is an important question and i reallyppreciate you asking it. In t United States, we see the description of my book, the stunning memoir of struggling t survive and the stray cat that protected her family through it all. The first inclination is what has happed to someone else in a distant place in a distant ti. It is nothing white could ever happen in the United States they will begin to see that i was very much like tm. I did not think that the warar could ever happen in my country. The same way they think tt it cannot occur here in the u. S. I was 16. I loved writing. I pyedolleyball. I had great friends. Even started falling in love with a boy. Then it all changed. I und myself in an entirely different world. A world that i never imagined before. Women and girls that i grew up with raped all because we stood in the w of a racially pure nation. I think your audience members between that contact and what is happening in the United States today on their own. I could not go to school most ys. Many now can relate to that. Even though many specifics and what is happening in the United States is different, the sense of dramatic upheaval, the sense of fear, hatred, uncertainty is exactly the same. My book i not just a memoir. It is also call to action to counter hate through storytelling. It is not exclusive to a one nation any one group or any one nation. I received an emotional note from an american pilot who served above me a he was deployed to end war in bosnia. He said to m that he never cried wle reading the book as much as he did cry reading that. He said he was questioning what his purpo in life was. The realization that the purpose in life was savg my lives and lives like pple like me. One instance in terms of American Foreign policy and intervention making a difference and did save lives. How do we orcome hatred in this country . Freeing anyone of you to awer that. Stephanie. I thinkhat shared experiences in an important step. Public schools, public transportation, movies, festivals are so important. It could be anmportant shared experience. The idea that we should be keeping each other safe. The reason why i always return to the comnity, i feel like they are working dply to unite one another a celebrate what we have. I think that Climate Change is going to show us that even more innsely. These are tragedies that we are living through. Hoping that that can be a possible way that we can understand that w are sharing the same experiee and we will need everyone to uniten order to overcome these tremendous obstacles that are really rapidly coming our way. The opportunity to realize that are one. [inaudible] for me, this is such a complicated question. The role of the artist. I think that by writi, you know, am entering into a lack of empathy. It is an empathetic act. Io think that, you know, there is also, fiction is only going to do so much it is placed o writers of color and in the society is just tremendous. The greater White Community also needs to make in effort. An art for sure. I do not say that pessimistically. That needs to be shared. I think about, for emple, this idea and a failed experiment. It is le a oneway venture. You are expected to come into what is a colonized country. Your religion and other various partsf your identity. It is never, well, you can bring that, t. I really believe, though, this is the optimism. Again, i a so grateful to be in this state. I love what is said in her new book unconditionalitizens. You arent born in thi country or you are person of color or you are constantly having t prove your patriotism, a garden of innocence. Some pple in this country continue to live in and expect us to leave them out of. I would say educaon. I just think, you know, we can obviously do better and that will come through. Recognizing our bigotry and educating our young people. Too young to talk about race. Too young to tk about this. They are actually me open to engaging if we would just give them time. You wroteour book for young adults. I wonder how difficult that was since you had difficult subject matter to discuss. I would say that for me, a simple response to your question , i was 16 when i was experiencing this hatred. It sms natural and obvious to be writing inhat voice. It was important to be honest with this. A couple years ago that my thirdgrader came home from hool and asked me a question. Mom, what would hapn if you and dad were rounded up as muslims or immigrants. For r, it really was not a choice. Someone who survived the genocide a to appreciated this opportunity to come to the United States, i thought one particular moment that triggered my desire to write as genuinely and honestly as i could. I was first entering the United Statesnd i was 16hen the war started. Members of my family. People in my life. There i was with a few dollars in my pocket with broken english terrifd of men in uniform. I was afraid of all men i uniform because that meant to me, killing or rape. The immigration officer looked for a very long time. For while reaching out. I was trembling. I was expecting to be told go back to the country that you came from. Yo do not belong here. We do not want you her. I had nothing to offer. In that moment he reached out with his hand, saw me trembling, ready to pass out, touch the fingerprints of my hand, gave me the password a said, maam, welcome to the United States of america. Am sorry forhat you have survived. You are safe now. Makes me wannacry every single time. The possibility of america that i want my cldren to grow up in. I still believe, i am a genocide survivor and look where i am. I am here. I bieve in the possibility of that america and our shad humanity. How hard it was emotionally, it will make people try and want to be part of one people, one nation, one humanity. I am hopeful, as everydylse. I am deeply hopef and hopeful for my children. I hope that everyone who is listening to us listen to each one of our stories. They have verymportant lessons to offer. Stephanie, what is the best thing . What is our best . Well, i will speak in a moment as a traveler i visit over 50 countes. I lived in moscow, beijing, ive lived in mico, i travel quite extensively. Speaking from that Vantage Point as seeing countries on t brink and in very difficult moments for our history. What i have apprecied about the United States is the opportunity to be self actualed human beings where there are so many obstacles to doing tt in other nations. At least that was my impression when i was younger. I think part of t american eam is we do have that here. It is not an equal opportunity for us all as w have certainly seen in the last year. I am really heartened. All of my students are talki about this. Are having this awakening. It has not been possible for black americans to become self actualized as people i do feel it is more possible in the United Statesnd other nations, but, yes. Anyway, this is a tough question. [laughter] National Beauty also [laughter] [inaudible] its a prettytate. Thank you. What gives you the most in thUnited States . I think that i echo what stephanie said. I just want to emphasize, you know, having lived in palestine, coming through ohare internatiol airport every time is such a relief. It is prettyorrendous the occupation. I am grateful. I think that for me having been born here i take that for granted. We als had the privilege to come back. I am definitely speaking from lot of privilege. I am grateful that america has always been open. And accepting immigrants and refugees. As stephanie was saying it is not always equitab and equal. For me, you know, it symbolizes the future. So many people want to forget the past. We know tt that can b very dangerous. That h always been, i think a great thing. We consider how much better we can be. I think young people are going to lead the way. You mentioned earlier tt the welcome to our country very often is a welcome, come on and if you can be just like us. [laughter] how is that being torn down . I see it definitely just within my immediate community. For all of the electn and tragedy, it is just so horrific. A hatred, and unreasonable fear of our religion. Just continuing to blow my mind. I am finding, especially with my daughts who are now trd generation muslim healthy amicans, they a, again,ore read to accept one another differeny to celebrate them. Here is what i am bringing to the experience of living in the same country in the same world. Theris just something so beautiful about tha also see that in termsf sexuality and gender. As a teacher of 25 years, i cann tell you the things that i have seen. It has been just amazing. I think, diana, it is better. I think communities,ou kno have sort of rallied around their cultures and their heritage. Sometimes that continues to come as a conseence. If you are not speaking english, you cannot be american. I do think that there has definitely been more of a celebration. For me the melting pot is gone. We are definitel doing bter for sure. Which leads me to ask stepnie, the people tt live in the beten our borders. Howoes one live in two cultures . How do weive in two cultures. The aztecs actlly had a word for this. That was how they described the schizophrenic situation. The colonization. Simultaneously secretly ty would be honoring their o ancestry straddling those two worlds. That is an effect. And, so, a l of people really have come to and think of themselves as occupying this paicular state. It has become its own culture. It is a beautiful culture. That is what i eat, that is what i speak, the music that listen to. We have created our own culture. Trying to have the best of each culte and create something entirely new. That is a best case scenario. And i think that is the fear in whh people approach it. However, it is also incredibly challenging. Having to contend with an occupying force, that is the reality today. One reason, one of the longlasti, and a lot ofs, it is because we were punished for speaking snish. Seventy years in Public Education would have their mouths washed out for speaking spanish. I guess trying to do them together. A way to comt islamic phobia and other phobia o people ofhared experiences. I wanted to ask, what shared experiences, besides that first one with the immigration officer , what shared experiences have beenood experiences with you in this country . Well im going to start by sang, for me, even coming to america was, in a way not a choice as much as it was growing up a dream that i thought i was even banned from dreaming. It w not present in my life a a possibility ever. The conduct for you and your audiences, especially those n familiar with the war in bosnia and the bosnian genocide. Four years living in my hometown that was constantly bombed by the army with no food, elecicity or normal schooling. I really felt for allhose years every day i was in the waiting line waiti for my turn to be killed. I used t go to bed hoping that i would not end up being raped. That my death would be quick and a result of an explosion. Then there is the war that something beaiful happened to me. I will not go into details of that. It is a detail obviously deliberately handled in the book in that moment i learn probably one of the most important lessons in my life. I reall could not control the forces being external t me. Teens and even adults cannot control this pandemic and social unrest are rising hatred o violence in our country. What i did know is that i can control what was internal to me and what it is tt ideal. When i decided to really focus on, as an individual that was deeply hated on self empowerment. In some ways, self appreciation of things that ideal. I taught myself english. I found an old dictionary that my father had when he was in college in our attic and memorized every word i that dictionary. I worked on immunizing children. I won competitions that ultimately help me get here. Those are the moments during that time where the committee visited my destroyed city. They met one of my teachers who said to them, look, we are all going to die here. Yo cannot save us. I was asked to come and study i the u. S. I have to s that my initial reacon was laughter. I simply never imagine myself in this country and even the remote possibilit i was convinced that i would die so i gave the team my entire documentation. My tnscripts, birth certificates, all of the originals because i did not think any of thatattered anymore. They came to new york city and they presented the Board Meeting and they were bng philanthropists, a board member whe name was david who said is there one life i can save . I ended up being that pern. I ended up being that life that he saved. He was a jewish philanthropist. Besides him i was helped by a college, the first clege that i enrolled in when i got to the United States. They helped me at that time. I was also helped by quake in early years here in the united state. I choose to believe in that kind of american spirit despite all that is hpening right now in is country. I do believe that the is goodness and most of us. If we can share our story, i think we can bring our nation and our people to gather. As you mentioned, we are to an extent failing, but i choose to believe tt there is a chance of the america i want to see. Your novel is an intersection between two topics in america, islamic phobia and gun violence. What inspired you to put those two things together. I think earlier it was inspired by that real life shooting. I think it comes very natural for my bacround of being a feature of being a principal. Feelingo disenanchised by their community of peers. That is a different kind of violce for sur. The gun violence is just simpl the kind of vionce that is inflicted because of bigotry. Certainly speaking to the gun lobby and just failed policies in this coury. Not st against muslim communities, but going back t schools and four children. We just lost too many young ople. Lost too Many American citizens that gather a what they think e safe spaces. Our recklessness when it ces to gun control. I think those things are just tural, you know, to talk abo , to unravel in this book. And, yeah, i think, hopefully that answers a question. What role does gun violence play . How is it different between the noh and the south . The northern border in the southern border . Thank you so much for talking about gun vionce. An opportunity to talk aboutun violence in mexico which is treme and primarily the trafficking of guns from the United States down into mexico. Mexico actually has very tight gun ls. Its very easy to buy guns in the United States and that is what has led to the mexicans being murdered over drugs because the United Statesannot control its o drug problem our ridiculously lacke laws and bung guns is leading to tremendous violence in other parts of the americas. In the northern, same thing in the United States, though guns are trafficked from the United States into canada. In fact, canada only had one major shooting. The university in montreal, i believe, antifeminist remarks. It happened more tn 25 years ago. Quite a long time ago. Canada made major sweeping gun rules. The vionce that is occurring is because there is gun violence in canada, there is a whole trafficking of guns as well. Presenting something really important. It is not only harming one another, but a lot of violence. Another century as well. We have an audience question. A service specialist, a public library, she says she is currently reading your book and she is so glad to hear even more of your story. I like to hear the language in my mind while reading as an effort to connect tohe war and the characters in place. I would like you t announce for me t maci which means cat in the bosnian language f those that may not have read your bk yet. Thank you for that question. Another question that i often geis why is aook titled as a cat i never named and there is a name in the sto. Just to provide some context, i meet for the first time when a refugees starts coming into my city just before my hometown is besieged by the army. She refuses to leave my family. She follows me home. I have to be honest and im very honest in theook about that as ll. Nobody really wanted her in m household. She did not want my mother did not want hair on the furniture. My family did not have enough fo for us let alone another human being. I did not like she did not care. She adapted herself and became a crucial character in the story. I will just share one detail. There is a moment on the very fit day, june 12, 1992, my brother and i decided to be in the basement where we were locked up for a little whi to survive and stay safe from the bomb, we go back and we see m aci to see our friends who died and we survive because of this cat. The cat i number hundred never named. She continues to play a crucial role. Throughout the entire war. Oneessager lessonhat i want t communicate through the tie of the book is sometimes under these circumstances when there is desire to simply live day to day one forgets to name a pet. It was always retrospectively after the war that we realized this was being that gave us so much love andope during the war that was never properly named. That is one of the reasons why i honor her with bng one of the main charactsecause that is the role that she played in our lives during the war. How wonderfu. I want to thank all of you for being our guest toay. I am just totally smitten with each of the books. For totally Different Reasons because they are not the same book. They are very, very different. They certainly give usnsight into the American Experience in america and certainly give us hope for becoming better americans and for learning that all americans are real americans we thank you we thank our sponss again. We hope that we can all join each other next year in person. A fabulous way to enjoy this festival sce we could not be there in person this year. Than you all. Heres a look at some publishing news. Former president barack obama released the first of his twopart memoir this week. The book titled a promise land total 768 pages and covers president obamas early political career. His road to the white house and part of his first term. Printed 3. 4 million copies for north america and an additional 2. 5 million for the international market. Publishers weekly spoke to other executives about a potential president ial memoir by president trump. Many suggested rivals the 65 million that former president and first lady obama received for their respected memoirs. In other news, New York Times White House Correspondent is writing a book on her 20 years of covering president trump. The book will be published and will be available in early 2022. Several of americas larger publishers reported sales gains for the Third Quarter of the year that ended september 30. Simon schuster saw 28 while others rose by 15 . Collins up 13 in sales. Mpd book announced James Patterson was a bestselling author of the last decade. His total sales were higher than stephen king. And john grisham combined. Made up for one in seven books sold in the thriller genre. Book tv will continue to bring you new programs and publishing news. You can also watch our past programs any time at anytime apple tv. Org. Monthly Author Interview program. We spoke with retired admiral about his military career and his thoughts on character and leadership. He responds to a viewers question about the recent removal of confederate statues. First of all, i do not believe any statute anywhere ever should be torn down by a mob. In my view that is not appropriate. A national conversation. We are beginning to about which statues of what individuals or what period of history are being examined. For my money, as i look at the spectrum, i would say that, for example, the confederate generals and admirals who took up arms against the United States of america, therefore, by definition traders, not only to their oath to support and defend the constitution of the United States, but also took up arms against their nation in defense of the system that included slaverys. I do not think they have statutes put up about them. I think that where there are such statutes and there are many of them throughout the country, i think that there is time to have a condition, probably coming to the conclusion as i have, put them in a museum. Study the history of the civil war. It is a cautionary time for our times. They should not be glorified in our public places. On the other hand, we have our founding fathers. I am well aware of the instances that my fellow veteran points out, systems of individuals who have gone after a statue of general and president grant. I am very aware of the movement to take down statues of Thomas Jefferson who was a slave owner, for example. I can understand that emotion. I think that is a different set of circumstances. The world should not make these decisions based on that use. We had to have a collective conversation. My vote would be to take down the statutes. Take down the monuments of confederate admirals and generals. Washington, jefferson, grant, not perfect, slaveowners, but in the Broad Spectrum of their life and times, their contributions are striking and they are statues monuments need to remain on display. Indicating that in addition to all that is known, jefferson held slaves. That is a valid historic point. It does not rise to the level of tearing down the jefferson memorial. I think that there is room for meaningful conversation here. I do not believe ever that mobs should be tearing down statues or anything else. To watch the rest of this Program Visit our website booktv. Org and click on the indepth tab at the top of the page. Book tv in prime time begins now. The seventh annual prize given by the literary publication and then Adam Higginbotham talks about the 1986 Nuclear Disaster in ukraine. Weighing in and when advances are helping or hindering our soldiers in combat. 10 00 p. M. Eastern afterwards political scientist deborah stone argues and explained numerous ways figures impact our lives daily. Data scientist looks at the history around the world. For more Schedule Information visit booktv. Org. Here is a presentation of the 2020 good evening. Welcome to the turkish prize ceremony. I am coming to you live from the Beautiful Library in downtown austin texas. On a typical year this film would be this would