We will go ahead and get started. Thanks for coming today and the director the top this Jefferson Center it is the source of great pride that this is the 22nd virginia a festival of the booktv involved in one way or another is something that we hope to continue to do for many years to come one of the best ways to combat censorship for the desire is to remind people of the many benefits of free speech in into have that to celebrate the right to free speech is a way to remind folks that it is a small price to pay for all the benefits to explore or any concept for government reprisal. Props to the First Amendment did 22 years i discovered that i needed to wear glasses. [laughter] at some point therefore festivals i was doing this number has asked me to read that housekeeping details of the beginning. [laughter] i would get that far so be patient with eyeglasses. 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Please spellout Program Evaluations to help keep the festival free and open to the public we will have books available for sale and we could prevail to sign a copy we are here today to talk about this book the car live home companion but this center has been involved in many of these in the up past i have had great pleasure to moderates and a number of them but i realize that people were not here to hear every but were more interested in the book for the author so i have learned the best questions come from the audience themselves so i will stop asking questions and take the microphone available and will bring better around to anybody who has a question. We have never found that to be a problem. Writing for tv and the stage most recently the solo show her masters degree in with the jack russell terriers. The dream of living somewhere with much fewer cars. [laughter] just to avoid 29 north. [laughter] let the board of trustees a strong believer of freespeech blood hasnt helped compelled you to write your book . It is interesting i have been would teetoo right its funny how the time does that. My mom died in 97 pretty suddenly and pretty quickly diagnosed with liver cancer dead five weeks later that was a huge wakeup call as a human and an artist and i had this wild and crazy life i was 34 at the time i felt that i had already lived seven lives. I wanted to tell why survivors story because i was a very different person at 25 there is somebody different iterations as an adult or pretending to be its debut there was a little hook i happen to be George Carlines daughter and part of my story is the lead in the 60s and 70s in the eighties through my dads death but my parents had drug and alcohol issues through i was 12 my mother almost died and got sober lot of money end co cade and the weird stuff that comes with that in some Great Stories with that. So i lived through that our family has, my mothers breast user id my fathers Heart Disease i was then abuse relationships panic attack syndrome rand drug abuse myself and i felt because i had gotten through it to get the feet back on the ground to find my center i wanted to share that with the world to pay it for word i was so lucky to grow up but i understood my privilege. And that is part of the reason i wanted to write the book but now i have been sitting with it i also see that being an only child growing up where the adults chaos was in charge of my life until i was told your soul they didnt feel i had a voice or a place in hayseed now that telling my story was a way to heal that ultimately i exist and i am here and die matter of every single one has a story to tell. That is one of the themes of the book that it is part of it that all children want to ultimately so here i am being seen and heard big time. [laughter] want this program to be about your book but a big part is your parents. You are a writer you never to for stage and screen and publication and i can use to view of the inherited some parts of that affect your father who loves the written word. Began from the car live family itself. Did that start with your father . There is a great story perhaps where he got his love. But carlin family were irish, my dads father, he didnt really know his father in a cut not metabolize ethanol very well as he would say. [laughter] when he wasnt drinking he was brilliant a big advertising guy in new york city Like National level and brilliant and woodwind speaking contest that Dale CarnegieCommon National speaking awards had a real gift. My dad never knew him because my dads mother when he was about three plants sold took my father and his older brother and slid down the fire escape because she was tired to be battered around and all so he started nine the oldest son. Said she would take a bus ride downtown and uptown with a full story about who was of the bus beginning middle end punchline a very witty woman. There is a story here of my dad. On may 12, George Carlin was born in the weeks later after trying to make the marriage work she speaks out of the fire escape the being patrick sr. In his rage for a good chance the the damage he had done too little patrick did she would not let sweet george be another victim. She tried to leave a few times before but this time the stock. Even though he tried to bring her back she held strong and george never saw his dad again. In 1945 he died of a massive heart attack at the age of 57 my dad was eight years old. Without debbie and around to keep him out of trouble on the Upper West Side for what he likes to call irish harlem barry took her job as mother and father very seriously and look for ways to shape and control his mind and succeeded only one area, the love of language rand words. Very encouraged my dad to look up words in the news that bin conversation. One morning he asked his mother excitedly if she had cruz to the paper by fled he anticipated her prove all. Slowly she turned and sharpened her gaze and said i have not. Actually i have only given it a cursory glance. Hed marched right back to the dictionary. That was mary carlin in a nutshell love to have the upper he did every situation but she encouraged my dads love of language and he encouraged me also. He would do this well into my thirties which was very irritating. If we were with people in conversation and i would pronounce a word wrong he would slip a piece of paper later with the correct pronunciation and written al like the dictionary. I get it he was trying to protect me but it in your 30s and some point. [laughter] of of blood to read just a little bit of the beginning to jump back a little bit because there is something about my life that always felt faded in some way and i want to read a little about that. Bell legend holds that for me to come into the world it took a little sperm cell little a get a little scotch in the little read and something called the limbo. We were trying to get pregnant for months but no luck said my mom to me as i was seven year old watching my dad pack for the road. Moments earlier he said but i get to new orleans i would get post card from the hotel you were conceived in and send it to you. Confused by the word conceived she quickly filled in the details. We redoubted were lynns october 62 and at the club hanging out with musicians when someone announced a limbo contest. It sounded like fun. The next thing i knew i was pregnant. [laughter] she did mention the weeder the scotch because she didnt need to. They were a given. Tavis smoking lead in drinking beer since he was 14 and bonds started to speak snips sets from the same age and still not clear about the mechanics but it clearly worked i have here. For the two years leading up there were Constant Companion disturbing artist chasing my dads a comedy dreams gigs and pack and unpack some cases hundreds of times to travel to almost every state in the country in the 57 and dodge dart. My mom loves to play in the role of on the road partner in crime. She was his party girl and press agent and a lover all into one. Always his best audience. You can always hear her laugh above the glasses and the patrons in every club they visited. Because dad was a complete unknown on some nights she was the only person in the audience. One night in baltimore no one was in the audience. Not even my mom my dad asked the odor why my going on . Because if people come in and we want them to know we have the entertainment. I hear that dad killed that night. [laughter] during those years he paid his dues but colicky one night lenny bruce caught his act is chicago am loved it introduced him to his minister. This was a huge my dad were shipped to. Taking every opportunity to soak up his presence a u. N. Drive to chicago just to see him perform. One night he was arrested halfway through the set. Is was normal that night the cops did not like the use of his word, i will not say that it is a very descriptive word. The cops began to ask everyone for their identification when they got to my dad he said i dont believe an identification. [laughter] then the cops promptly threw him into the back of the paddy wagon with lenny when my dad proudly told him he said are you a schmuck . My mom chased the paddy wagon by foot all the way to the Police Station and bailed them not for growing a surrounded by stories like these is living through many others i have felt my family yesterday unfolded like a mythological legend. Our lives together were shaped by what my dad called the big electron. Something was calling as to form one amazing life together. It always seems so distant. Maybe we should talk about the First Amendment. [laughter] we could talk about that now but also the next phase after your conception in one of the things and in particular how we met but one thing i love about your book is that did you spend some time the titles of the chapters . And one of the am waiting ones is the three musketeers so you could share a little bit of that. I was an only child there was only three of the sanders early on my dad began to call lists the three musketeers. All for one day and one for all. It became the feed. Review article the child with a tightknit family you feel like it is you against the world is certainly in our life especially in the 70s when my dad was considered a hippie freak you developed whole world was against us but it was also the theme that if you grow up in the dysfunctional family and i am sure none of you understand what i am talking about. [laughter] there is a sense of loyalty and a willingness to keep your family secrets protected because you love them it is the right thing to do to protect your familys reputation. So there is a sense of that when you grow up in the there was crazy stuff going on in our household. It was a great sense of paula deen. But yet it kept the alcoholic family secrets secret and it did not help us in the long run because there was a lot of crazy stuff at my house around that. But there is a warped to that than i do love bandit door and my book launched at barnes noble a woman came to be in and gave me a little hot wheels car with the three musketeers on it. It is of my alter and i covet it so much but i will read what we were doing in the summer of 72 to give you an idea how were important it was to be the three musketeers. Mom that i went on the road with dad. That was a fetid venture purpose of my earliest memories are waking up in a hotel room with both parents dead to the world spending the next few hours covering and watching cartoons with the volume down to steer out the window when i was starving a wooden bench them awake dad would go down to a local diner or store or Order Room Service says he became successful to get in the box of cereal and milk he would take out a pocket knife and magically transform it into an instant to bowl. Breakfast was served. Although i never heard it i was sure that one of those mornings he heard that as snap crackle you. [laughter] explained that there is protest against the war standing up for what they believed in the government had silenced them by shooting them this was one of daddys big teaching moments you wanted me to understand the importance to stand up for what you believe in especially those used to end up to the government and how they always silenced those bin young white americans are in that category. I felt there was no safe place for anyone. Being the nine yearold only child i acted as kong and cool isnt collected as i could to understand civic sedan and morality but all i could think was if the government was shooting these people would day shoot me or my dad . It was the terrifying thought that echoed in the back of my mind. The next stop was summer fest. It is the notion of the year surrounding and i went of psocids. [laughter] what they call good clean american fund. And when i say that dont you think George Carlin . [laughter] he struggled to do is immaterial wellconnected with the enormous audience of 10,000 people. He begin to do the new routine the seven words you can never say on television which he just recorded on his third album but it would not be released for another few months so i am pretty sure the promoter did not know what he signed up for. It was so hilarious the intellectual examination of language but consisted of words according to read bad that will in fact, your soul curve your spine and keep the country from winning the war and the seven dirty words are, you know, what they are. By the book. [laughter] some for a woman just had a stroke. I apologize to her family now. Because summer fest was an outdoor venue to be heard throughout the fair grounds reading it ted be heard by mommies and daddies and little kids in there was my dad on stage killing get. Most of the audience was loving it we stood in the wings. After the promoter said the cops are here complaining about the language and will arrest and the minute he gets off stage. My dad said he would like to to everybody in the audience knowing he was carrying drugs in his pockets and both grass and coke she had to think fast she grabbed a glass of water and walked out onto stage and dad was very confused but took the water and mom whispered exit stage left the cops are here. Dash wrapped it up we hustled into the dressing room and locked the door i watched as long removed a large baggie of cocaine from a purse and dad to doubt that joined in in the coke hitting them to the promoter but suddenly there was of bank as if the gun had gone off. I began crying hysterically. Nothing else happened someone said it was just a balloon someone had popped a balloon