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You at the next event. Thank you pj. Book tv continues on cspan two television for serious readers. Good evening good afternoon we know we had people here all over the world. Greetings, welcome. The Elliott Bay Book company. On behalf of all of the people who are staging this production today we are delighted to be celebrating the publication of Arundhati Roys new book azadi. This is been published and launched with her in new delhi. In the evening hours. I am in seattle where it is still a new day. All of you joining us everywhere around the spectrum. May even be earlier in the morning. The publication was the suspicious one. First to acknowledge all of the books publisher. In publishing this book. Haymarket is published based in chicago in the u. S. Its been around since 2001. And dedicated to social justice books. They have come around for on for the past 20 years. You can certainly got it haymarket books. Org. They are huge part of this. It is a south asian arts organization. It wa
About how great i am, it just happens to me because i have that experience of imagining myself in the other persons position so much more im going to move on to audience questions. Peggy asks the opposite of what my question was. I do you feel like your writing was affected your drinking when you were drinking . What was it that you were held back from or . Guest this is something i talk about in another chapter about writing a column and thinking its the greatest thing in the world, sitting and knocking back a few or whatever and waking up in the morning and looking at it and thinkingthis makes no sense. Or this isnt accurate. So theres just that very baselevel of its just not as good writing and its not Good Journalism to be drunk. You cant write as well. And i think i really limited my ambition. I think the idea of writing a book would have been impossible. I told myself a story about myself which is that i cant write more than 500 words because i dont have that kind of Attention Sp
Dominic thiem of austria is the new u. S. Open mens champion. Thiem came from two sets down against Alexander Zverev to capture his first grand slam title. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, september 14th. Thank you for joining us on this monday. We begin with the race for the white house as President Trump continues his Campaign Swing through the west. The president is heading to california today for a briefing on those wildfires, as joe biden addresses the fires from delaware. Last night the president held his first indoor rally in three months, disregarding local restrictions as he was cheered on by thousands of supporters. Abcs Andrew Dymburt has more. Reporter President Trump in las vegas sunday holding his first indoor Campaign Rally since an event in tulsa this past june. They had me standing over the grave, and the graves of our Fallen Heroes from many years ago. Its called disinformation. Reporter the Biden Campaign releasing this ad, alleging the president cal
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