Well wait a second for everyono just put away the flask and have a seat. Im there from florida, and ill tell you a little bit about myself if you dont know or even if you might care. I was born in fort lauderdale, florida, and i have my background is in newspaper journalism. Ive never lived anywhere but florida, and thats my excuse for my novels. I dont know anything finish the weirdness of florida is my daily reality. And everyones moving to florida now, which is a lot more material for me. Our newest floridian, former resident was in manhattan, apparently [laughter] now hes down there golfing. The material is priceless. Ill talk to you about the first, one of the first the first book i ever wrote with just my name on it was a book called tourist season. I had done three novels with another columnist, one about the cocape war, one about marijuana smuggling in key west and another set in china where my buddy had been stationed for the herald and one of the first reporters in beijing. T
Tv television for serious readers. Good evening everyone and welcome to politics and prose im Bradley Graham the coowner of the store. We are delighted to have joshua hamare humor with us. He was here for his last book about four years ago and that one of course was very popular and it told a riveting story of how an archivist in timbuktu in northern mali managed with some very brave helpers to smuggle more than three and 50,000 historical manuscripts out from under militant jihadists. Someone with an eye for some really truly great stories. And hes done it again with his new book the falcon thief the falcon thief another true and gripping tale this one about wildlife smuggling. Generalist working for newsweek over nearly two decades. They joined them in the 1980s. Within a few years he was off to cover the rest of the world. With things that were in nairobi. On back here in the u. S. For the past decade cade and a half hes continued to report and traveled widely four years ago he won
Note there will not be a signing after the event, she arrived early to sign each and every one of your books. [applause] a little bit about her shes the author of 20 books including a field guide to getting lost, the faraway nearby, of paradise built in hell, rivers, shadows, and wanderlust. A history of walking shes also the author of extreme things to me on feminism, activism, the current climate crisis. A product of the California Public Education System from kindergarten to graduate school. She is a regular contributor to the guardian. Leslie jamison is the author of the New York Times magazine she is a contributor writer for New York Times magazine and her work has appeared in publications including the atlantic, harpers, the near times book review, the oxford american, and the virginia quarterly review. She directs the graduate Nonfiction Program at columbia universityd. Please help me welcome Rebecca Solnit and leslie jamison. [applause] [cheering] [applause] [applause] [cheerin
In the mic . No. Without the mic . Also no. Alexis is the deputy cto of new york city and runs a policy experiment lab, trying to get vendors to compete for who can devise the best programs to improve social welfare of the citizens of new york. An adjunct professor of tech media and communications at Columbia University and spent a couple of decade studying the issues as a doctoral student and then as a member of the staff at the u. N. Mission of the state department, and also just speaking deeply about them which is so clear from the book, which i really admire. So quick round of applause for alexis. [applause] just jump right in. This book is about what you call net states. Maybe you just want to start by taking a minute and telling us what those are and why we needed a new category. Canthank you all for coming. The pest way to straight what net states are is to talk about how i came upon the idea to right this book in the first place. So, back in 2015, there were a number of terrori
Calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the johnstown flood. Copies will be available for sale. I am thrilled to be with you to hear her talk. I hope you will join me in a very warm welcome. [applause] prof. Kierner in 2012, Superstorm Sandy destroyed many places i love. I found toys about the storm very riveting. Especially the Human Interest stories about its victims, survivors, different efforts to provide Disaster Relief. Which the whole system became politicized. I also found it interesting what this told us about the larger worlds of new york and new jersey. I notice that the news followed a pattern that was familiar to me from katrina and other disasters. First claim the quantitative information about what happens. How may people died. How much property was destroyed. And the value of that property. Interestme the human stories, mostly uplifting stories about relief and resilience. Third and finally came the postdisaster investigation. This is a threestep process. It is how we do