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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
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Good evening, everyone. My name is elijah and id like to welcome you all to the Elliott Bay Book company, where were very happy to have stephen here to give a reading on his most recent book, inequality kills us all. Covid 19 Health Lessons for the world stephen bezruchka, m. D. M. P. H. , is an associate teaching Professor Emeritus in the departments of Health Systems and Population Health and of Global Health at the school of Public Health at the university of washington. Were also joined tonight by cspan booktv, who are recording tonights event. Were going to have a little conversation and start off with stephen, have a little q a from, the audience, and then were all done. Well wrap up our book signing in the back where you can also purchase stephens book from me. So with that lets all give a warm welcome to stephen. Thank you, elijah. I hope you can hear me and thank all for coming and i want to i think this is a complex hearted book. And if i were to read passages from it, it mig