Industry with interesting insider interviews with Publishing Industry experts will also give you updates on current nonfiction authors and books the latest book reviews and well talk about the current nonfiction books featured on cspans book tv. And welcome to the about Books Program and podcast. This is book tvs biweekly. Look at the latest nonfiction books and publishing news in a moment. Youll have the chance to hear from librarian of congress carla hayden, but first, lets start with this weeks publishing news. The Authors Guild announced that they are starting a banned book club to highlight several of the books that are being challenged or banned across the country. A Virtual Book Club will be available on the fable app and according to Authors Guild ceo. Mary rasenberger. It will spark discussions across the country about the value of a diverse body of literature and the harm book banning causes. Also in the news andrea elliots the invisible child is the winner of this years goth
Latest news about the Publishing Industry with interesting insider interviews with Publishing Industry experts will also give you updates on current nonfiction authors and books the latest book reviews and well talk about the current nonfiction books featured on cspans book tv. And welcome to the about Books Program and podcast. This is book tvs biweekly. Look at the latest nonfiction books and publishing news in a moment. Youll have the chance to hear from librarian of congress carla hayden, but first, lets start with this weeks publishing news. The Authors Guild announced that they are starting a banned book club to highlight several of the books that are being challenged or banned across the country. A Virtual Book Club will be available on the fable app and according to Authors Guild mary rasenberger. It will spark discussions across the country about the value of a diverse body of literature and the harm book banning causes. Also in the news andrea elliots the invisible child is t
From librarian of congress carla hayden, but first, lets start with this weeks publishing news. The Authors Guild announced that they are starting a banned book club to highlight several of the books that are being challenged or banned across the country. A Virtual Book Club will be available on the fable app and according to Authors Guild ceo. Mary rasenberger. It will spark discussions across the country about the value of a diverse body of literature and the harm book banning causes. Also in the news andrea elliots the invisible child is the winner of this years gotham book prize. Its given to books written about or take place in new york city the prize established in 2020 comes with a 50,000 award. And in other award news joseph henrik has won the 2022 hayek book prize for his book the weirdest people in the world. How the west became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous. This award is given in honor of the political philosopher and Nobel Laureate fa hayek who most
Its its incredibly well well observed. Its well researched. Its fascinating compelling and its funny, which is not something you would expect necessarily from a book about despots. But you know more importantly for our purposes i think is that its also in the current context certainly of the american political crisis. Its really timely so i was wondering just sort of out of the gate. What prompted you to start writing this researching and writing this book . Yeah, thank you. Thank you for having me and thank you to politics and pros. So basically i started my career studying dictators and despots and thats what i spent most of the last 10 years doing and then somewhere i started to realize that these personalities these types of people that i was encountering in that line of work. Were also in boardrooms and midlevel management and neighborhood associations. And so i wanted to do a sort of 360 degree. Assessment of power and who seeks it who gets it how it changes people so i started d
To huntsville to in the race to put the man on the moon. So engineering was a very common degree that people pursued i needed money for college. My activist parents were broke and vanderbilt offered me a merit scholarship on forever grateful. I loved science and math and i use the logic of engineering in my writing you could particularly i think see it in my most recent book where im a selfhottaught historian, but i bring a systems analysis. To the structures that create racial inequality. So theres a connection there. Its helps me to think critically. Well that path began in huntsville, alabama. It went through Vanderbilt University and then to Oxford University masters in english law jd from harvard. And then a clerkship with Supreme Court Justice Thurgood marshall the Clinton White house and finally to authorship and Georgetown University cheryl cashion. You were only the second africanamerican to clerk for Justice Marshall. Is that correct . No, i was the only second black woman to