Under israeli occupation. We will speak to a palestinian father whose fiveyearold son milad died in a fiery bus crash on a School Field Trip. Abed salamas quest to find out what happened to his son was immediately hindered because he was a palestinian living on the wrong side of the israeli separation wall. Abed will join us, along with the journalist Nathan Thrall, author of the new book a day in the life of abed salama anatomy of a jerusalem tragedy. The aim of the book is to immerse people viscerally in the lives of palestinians living on the others of this wall and to make them feel and understand what that life is like. One of the things that struck me more than anything as i was working on it was how much pain there is just beneath the surface in every single Palestinian Family. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. On capitol hill, two Republican Leaders emerged wednesday as leading contenders to
Okay. I think were going to go ahead and get started. Thank you everyone so much for coming. My name is cody and help with the events are at book culture and we are so pleased to be hosting meryl gordon tonight. This conversation on the life of an americanstyle legend, bunny mellon. Maybe a quick show of hands that this is your first time to book culture. Well, welcome. We are nestled here on the west side and we have been almost three years. Some of may remember this 20 years ago. So we are so happy to be here and to be as basis of a great and important work. Do take note of it cspan booktv recording the talk, so tonight discussion and q a can live on in perpetuity. During the q a session after meryl speaks, if youll give us a a couple seconds to run the microphone to you so that when we can record your end of the conversation so she is not talking to no one on the recording. And then after the talk either give us a couple of seconds to set up, we will have signing queue up at the fro
Alexander has written for esquire Rolling Stone the nation narrative. I knew id get this one now narratively. And elsewhere he holds an mfa in literary reportage from the New York University Arthur L Carter school of journalism. From 1998 to 2006 he served as a us marine deploying to the mediterranean. East africa in iraq, he grew up on military bases from the east coast of the United States to japan. He currently lives in new york city, but calls atlanta home. Please give a warm savannah. Welcome to jared alexander. Good morning. Wow, give me one sec here. Okay . First thanks for having me. I its been a hard year for facetoface interactions with books and her two years i suppose and just being here is a real honor. Actually, im was really happy to be invited and speak to you guys about my book and about some of the stuff that sort of influenced it. And thats kind of what i want to talk about actually is i i just when i thought about what i was going to come up here and talk about i ke
Narratively. And elsewhere he holds an mfa in literary reportage from the New York University Arthur L Carter school of journalism. From 1998 to 2006 he served as a us marine deploying to the mediterranean. East africa in iraq, he grew up on military bases from the east coast of the United States to japan. He currently lives in new york city, but calls atlanta home. Please give a warm savannah. Welcome to jared alexander. Good morning. Wow, give me one sec here. Okay . First thanks for having me. I its been a hard year for facetoface interactions with books and her two years i suppose and just being here is a real honor. Actually, im was really happy to be invited and speak to you guys about my book and about some of the stuff that sort of influenced it. And thats kind of what i want to talk about actually is i i just when i thought about what i was going to come up here and talk about i kept thinking about other works and other works that sort of but maybe as a kid and as an adult sor
The book for adults with the essay collection of my custom van and coauthored with megan mccarthy, mccain not mccarthy. America, you sexy [bleep] i have to know more about that one. I really do. At the standup comedian michael tours the country and hes really several comedy albums. His podcast includes mike anton meat snacks with tom kavanaugh, topics with michael, how to be amazing and obscure. Would you help me welcome michael black. This is my first time behind the pulpit. Thank you for that warmn introduction. So much to be here in the beautiful Trinity Church in savannah. I am not just the visitor to savannah i moved here about six months ago from the wilds of connecticut where i was resigning for the previous 20 years but my children who you will hear more about were getting older, showbiz have shut down because of covid, i was not making any money and we thought maybe it is a good time to sell our house. So we sold and i googled whats the best small city in america, Savannah Geo