Phonte elijah holly is an Award Winning journalist and author of an american the shakers and nation. They created. His writing has appeared in the atlantic, the guardian, new republic, the washington post, l. A. Times and elsewhere. He lives in los angeles. Please join here and giving him a huge round of applause while he comes out and and then talks about his book. Thanks, ali. Thanks for coming out of retirement for this event. And thank you things are coming out of retirement thank you for being here and having me i moved here a year ago which is the first chapter and the part that i wrote for this book the scene that sets the stage for the rest of the book. Im going to read a short excerpt from that and that im going to talk about the book itself, the themes behindoo the book and how i came to write and why i wanted to write it. Then i will read another short excerpt, i promise theyre very short. And then we will have audience q a the name of the book is American Family and the nat
Phonte elijah holly is an Award Winning journalist and author of an american the shakers and nation. They created. His writing has appeared in the atlantic, the guardian, new republic, the washington post, l. A. Times and elsewhere. He lives in los angeles. Please join here and giving him a huge round of applause while he comes out and and then talks about his book. Thanks, ali. Thanks for coming out of retirement for this event. And thank you all for being here. Thanks to skylight so much having me i moved to l. A. A little over a year ago and you know, people me right away. This was the bookstore you got to come to. So here i so thanks for being here with me. I think what im to do is im going to read just a little excerpt from the first chapter, the opening the first chapter, which is the first part that i wrote for this book was a sort of the scene that sets the stage the rest of the book. So im going to read a short excerpt that, and then im going to talk a little bit about just th
Phonte elijah holly is an Award Winning journalist and author of an american the shakers and nation. They created. His writing has appeared in the atlantic, the guardian, new republic, the washington post, l. A. Times and elsewhere. He lives in los angeles. Please join here and giving him a huge round of applause while he comes out and and then talks about his book. Thanks, ali. Thanks for coming out of retirement for this event. And thank you all for being here. Thanks to skylight so much having me i moved to l. A. A little over a year ago and you know, people me right away. This was the bookstore you got to come to. So here i so thanks for being here with me. I think what im to do is im going to read just a little excerpt from the first chapter, the opening the first chapter, which is the first part that i wrote for this book was a sort of the scene that sets the stage the rest of the book. So im going to read a short excerpt that, and then im going to talk a little bit about just th
Phonte elijah holly is an Award Winning journalist and author of an american the shakers and nation. They created. His writing has appeared in the atlantic, the guardian, new republic, the washington post, l. A. Times and elsewhere. He lives in los angeles. Please join here and giving him a huge round of applause while he comes out and and then talks about his book. Thanks, ali. Thanks for coming out of retirement for this event. And thank you all for being here. Thanks to skylight so much having me i moved to l. A. A little over a year ago and you know, people me right away. This was the bookstore you got to come to. So here i so thanks for being here with me. I think what im to do is im going to read just a little excerpt from the first chapter, the opening the first chapter, which is the first part that i wrote for this book was a sort of the scene that sets the stage the rest of the book. So im going to read a short excerpt that, and then im going to talk a little bit about just th
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