[inaudible conversations] good evening, everybody. Thank you so much for coming out tonight. So delighted to have such a great crowd on a middle of august summer evening. My names lissa muscatine, im one of the coowners of politics prose. On behalf of our staff and on behalf of my husband and coowner, brad graham, we really are excited to have all of you here. I do want to just mention a couple of things for those of you who dont know. We are also now running book operations in three of the six busboys and poets in washington with plans to be in all of them before not too long. So if you happen to be at 14th and v or in tata coma and or in tacoma, youll find our books there. We also are going to be the bookseller for the National Book test value over the saturday of labor day weekend. There are going to be more than a hundred authors there with its a tremendous literary event here in d. C. , so we hope well see some of you there as well. Before we get started, a couple of housekeeping
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