Now actor and producer Wendell Pierce will talk about his family and their new orleans neighborhood followed by hurricane katrina. His book is, the wind and the reefs. He reefs. He speaks of the 27th annual southern festival of books. Hello, welcome. This is the southern festival of books session on the wind and the reefs with the author Wendell Pierce. We will be ready to begin. Just a bit of housekeeping. First of all welcome to the National Public library and thank you for so much for hosting the southern festival of books and being one of the hosts. I appreciate it. Please know that this festival depends on individual donations, among other sources to remain free to the public. Please consider donating at any level that is comfortable to you. You can donate via the humanities tennessee website, the app, the facebook page, or in person at page, or in person at the headquarters of the festival throughout the weekend. The format of the session will be essentially conversational, mr. P
So let me say thats he has said the mass media and at one point i wanted to volunteer but my own book was too demanding not to give it all away but the title of my book, a first of all, let me say to say he is the poet and i am a poet and i could not imagine that could be true he is a very astute historian you can call its historical gossip then there is a banquet and a look came over his face and said actually it is quite common after each of the shootings there ribby parties and gatherings for the shooters and then later found out that my grandfather was present at one bank went and then another one. Thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] hello this is the session for it the wind in the reeds by Wendell Pierce just fill little bit of housekeeping. Welcome to the National Public Library Thanks for hosting the southern festival of the book. Please note that this festival depends on individual donations to remain free to the public. Please consider dona
Question. [inaudible] she is saying thank you for being so fabulous which were applied in a moment but she wonders if theres ever been a colleague who has tried to sabotage the work and how have you dealt with it . This happened when i was going into publishing. If i did have a colleague who did that i was never aware of it so i guess i dealt with it by being clueless. Thank you very much. Thank you pamelas. [applause]. I do want to let you no, we have another womens media group panel in the same room at 930. Women entrepreneurs learning from ceos of startups about the difficulty of having a startup. We have someone is pointing at something, we have the handout sheets in the back about womens media group, a signup sheet as well. Also we are having a digital meet up today at four that Charlotte Abbott had organized in the Digital Space and if i understand theres going to be 110 Digital Women so its going to be a very exciting party. Thank you for coming, this is the southern festival of
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