And former british embassador to moscow recalls the soviet war in afghanistan in afghancy. Many of these authors have appeared on book tv and you can watch them on our website at booktv. Org. Three programs from the recent boston book festival held recently. First up a panel of the future industry followed by pams on wartime illustrations and time travel. Good morning, everyone. Very nice to see you all, welcome to industries of the future. My name is Debbie Porter for those of you who dont know me, founder and executive of the boston book festival. We are excited to have such unbelievably impressive panel. I want to thank ge for generously sponsoring this session. Bbs can offer this session for free and all the other sessions at the boston book festival thanks to sponsors like ge and also thanks to people like you who donate and this year we are not auctions, we are raffling a beautiful new red vespa donated to us, just another way to entice you to support us. Tickets only available t
Hi. Welcome to the boston book festival and todays session. My name is christine, and i am a board member of the boston book festival, and i am just one of dozens which feels like hundreds who work behind the scenes and truly believe that the festival is a wonderful source of inspiration and eyedsharing. Idsharing ideasharing. We have been gifted a beautiful new vespa, its under the welcome tent, and all donations will go towards keeping the festival free for you all. Donations are just 10, and i would love to see one of you riding around the city in that beautiful thing. So thank you so much. One other administrative thing is we will have a book signing right across the hall where you can ask the presenters any additional questions. So please enjoy todays session. Thank you. [applause] hello. Im Alexander Danner of the writers room of boston. I will be your moderator for tonights presentation with hillary chute and Sarah Glidden. I myself am an author, im also a writer of comics with
Flipside of people who take their own lives. Theyre doing it in the pursuit of a cause, and the people who are doing it now i know the president doesnt want to call it radical islam, but there has been on the sunni side of islam a distortion of what islam was essentially about, and it has fed a lot of radical movements like alqaeda and isis. And it is and until islam deals with the distortion within, and there are real signs that its beginning to happen now, i think that the rest of us are going to have to be patient but also, more important, be very vigilant. Thank you. Very quick comment. Im sorry. This is more of a comment than a question. I came here because im interested in more literature, whether it be fiction or nonfiction. I actually feel like i will come out understanding my father better, also a veteran of the iraq war. I have struggled to understand where hes coming from, and and i want to thank you guys for helping. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. [applause] thank
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