Globe. Tonight we celebrate this is all i got, which immerses its readers in the life of a young homeless single mother amid her quest to find stability and shelter right here in new york city. Laurent is an awardwinning journalist, essayist and author. This is her third book and she has written about inequality and its many forms from publication including the New York Times, new york, the new republic, the nation, and salons. And has worked as a producer at npr. Tonight lord will be in conversation with New York Times non fiction critic the Senior Editor at harpers magazine. Our event tonight will run for about one hour, beginning with the conversation between jen and lauren alibi q a for all of our viewers. Please never to post your questions on ip k twitter feed. With no further do i passed the mic to jen to get us started. Thank you again and enjoy. Thanks much jessica. Hi lauren, congratulations on your book i was wondering if maybe to start off you could give us a few sentences
Is this live . Can everyone hear me . Welcome. My name is kyle byrd im the executive director of the leon leavy center for biography. Over the past 12 years the leavy center has awarded 44 major fellowships to working biographers. Each of these fellowships is not worth 72,000 so its not chump change. To date some 20 biographies have been published including ruth franklins biography of Shirley Jackson which won the Prestigious National book critics circle award biography. I also want to spread the news about our brandnew holy unique Masters Program in biography and memoir is just started this autumn with at least 17 students enrolled which is phenomenal. Brenda is actually both former director of the leon leavy center and teaches the core courses in new Masters Program. Our next program is next wednesday, september 25 at 6 30 p. M. With david netzel giving the annual leon leavy lecture on biography. Tonight im very delighted to have Benjamin Moser in conversation with brenda one apple.
Festival of books. Here in downtown nashville. Today we are at the National Public library and i like to thank them for hosting this if it and monday other sessions. Theyve been a great partner to this if it for several years and we just want to say thank you. Southern festival of books is an annual if it produced each year by humanities tennessee, i would like to take those moment to thank humanities tennessee and all who contribute to the organization for their continued support of the written word and the writers, the young writers, Community History and civil discourse in all things humidity here in tennessee. And humanities in tennessee like to say, our story and our state and i like to think humanities for helping us tell and preserver stories. So a pit of housekeeping before we began, in a moment ill introduce our other and share some stories, and some insight from the book, no surrender. The conclusion of his presentation, we will open the floor up to questions and if you have
Publishing industry experts. Well also give you updates on current nonfiction authors and books. The latest book reviews. And well talk about the current nonfiction books feature on cspan book tv. And welcome to about books. This week, were focusing on some of the most anticipated nonfiction books released this fall. In a few minutes, well chat with the Tampa Bay Times book editor Collette Bancroft about what shes looking to in the coming months. But heres some news items from, the publishing world. Well, National Book foundation has rescinded drew barrymores invitation to serve as host of this years National Book awards. This is after ms. Barrymore announced that she would resume production of her talk show despite the ongoing hollywood writers strike. Miss barrymores announcement was criticized by writer union groups who promised to picket outside her production studio. Quote, the National Book awards is an evening dedicated to the power of literature and the incomparable contributio
Publishing industry experts. Well also give you updates on current nonfiction authors and books. The latest book reviews. And well talk about the current nonfiction books feature on cspan book tv. And welcome to about books. This week, were focusing on some of the most anticipated nonfiction books released this fall. In a few minutes, well chat with the Tampa Bay Times book editor Collette Bancroft about what shes looking to in the coming months. But heres some news items from, the publishing world. Well, National Book foundation has rescinded drew barrymores invitation to serve as host of this years National Book awards. This is after ms. Barrymore announced that she would resume production of her talk show despite the ongoing hollywood writers strike. Miss barrymores announcement was criticized by writer union groups who promised to picket outside her production studio. Quote, the National Book awards is an evening dedicated to the power of literature and the incomparable contributio