Welcome to book tv in depth this is especially or fiction on indepth and last month was David Ignatius who writes about the cia. This month we have Colson Whitehead is our guest his most recent book is the underground railroad. What is the appropriate response mr. Whitehead when your books are praised by the president obama and ohio oprah and the National Book award . It takes the pain away. [laughter] this book has taken off in a way that is unexpected and wonderfu wonderful. So i think my lucky stars i sleep a little better, a better mood generally, and try to enjoy it despite my best efforts. Why does it put you in a better mood . I have been writing 20 something years doing fiction 20 years. And no one particularly cares. So i have the pride of thinking i did a good job with the book and the bonus of other people to see that as well. Host your first book was about elevator repair people. How do you sell a book like that quick. Exactly. So when i send it to my agent with the concept
Yearold markus beck went on the campus of an Elementary School less than a block from his home. He started asking questions and loitering around the campus. They finally called police. Two days later, around 4 00 am wednesday, he was arrested for dui a few blocks away. Officers say he crashed into cars. When they searched his car they found a loaded handgun inside, along with ar15 style rifle in the trunk. With those two incidents connected to markus beck Police Seized any other weapons that he had. When they searched his home they found the strong smell of gas. The stove had been admitting gas for a while. It was at risk of exploding. A little scary and very surprising. Reporter anthony lived next door and says they were evacuated for an hour and a half. Pg and e and the Fire Department were called. The gas leak also put the Elevator School on lockdown. Being a parent and having my daughter living here and knowing him, because i did speak to him a lot. I am disappointed he would bring
Good afternoon everyone. And welcome to the Mayors Disability Council meeting. My name is sheri albers and this meeting is now in order. Today is friday, may 19, 2023. This is a inperson and virtual hybrid meeting. This meeting is broadcast to the public on sfgovtv, and it is open captioned and asl interpreted. The Mayors Disability Council holds 10 Public Meetings per year, and they are generally held on the third friday of the month. Please visit the mod website at www. Sf. Gov mod or call the mayor office of disability at 4155545678. For more information or email sorry. Mod sf. Gov, for any accommodations you may need. Our next regular meeting will be friday june 16, 2023. From 1 oclock to 4 oclock right here in this room, which is room 400 in San Francisco city hall. I dont know if i mentioned that is where we are at. It is also going to be hybrid meeting and broadcast on sfgovtv. We thank you for joining us and we are glad you are here. Okay, mary, could you please conduct the rol
These Tall Buildings outside the reading room. All you could see with sky. So its really a place where the city has grown up around the library. Host weiser called the reading room . Guest the rose family made this reading room in honor of their children when it was renovated in 1998 and during the renovation, every square inch of the surpluses in this room are touched by a. So its really restored to its original splendor. Host do you know about the paintings . Guest deserve murals that we have to actually recreate. They were in such a bad state of disrepair before the renovation. These were created in a studio on canvas and installed here. They are not paying michelangelo style. Host how much of the librarys collection of artifacts are available for people to see . Guest all of them are collections or more than 51 million items and we have all kinds of things from books to manuscript and archival role materials to photographs, prints, and menus, maps, all kinds of materials. Host one
So to be integrated in this type of society. Kennedy. He will be answering your calls and tweets until 3 00 p. M. Eastern. Host we haveaut the agents themselves are raised and dedicated but therethe agents come is a culture for treating against those that point out th problems or threats punishing agents who questioned anything on the other hand promoting agents into management go along and pretend so it is a corrupt culture and you saw an example of that when the previous direct her claim after this intrusion that he was stopped at the door and that was a total lie. How can an agency put out a lie i cut and think they can get away with it . When it came out of that wasnt true the new director was asked about that at a hearing into whether anybody would be held accountable for issuing a false information adhesive how do and he said how do you know it was an error how do you appoint anybody like that number one, to be the permanent director and number two how can anybody on the lower le