Capital times as associate editor of the nation magazine and aggressive. Progressive. We couldnt be more delighted to be hosting this event all spring and summer long here on our crowd podcast channel and watch it take a moment to say thank you the Madison Public Library and the medicine Public Library foundation. Their support for online cultural events is an absolutely unwavering. They are, oh, my gosh, im so excited to see john nichols. Their support for these events has been absolutely unwavering and they have been so dedicated to bringing author in advance to all of you with your watching in your home at madison or across the country or across the globe. Weve seen an incredible uptick in her audience, people from all over and it is just absolutely wonderful to see the response so thank you and what heres arguing us come to one. And all the responses of major events keep going. Without further do i like to bring john and larry to the screen, and step way myself. Hello, everyone. Th
Really thrilled with engagement level we had with all of you. You will be doing a lot of focus stuff and some pretty compelling conversations into the fall. I would say we were probably not be doing any close events until 2021 which is a bit of a bummer but we want to be real about that and the statements but with what were doing. Well keep bring you guys really interesting conversation with authors. So if everything from a wonderful event coming up in october, a conversation you wont want to miss. We just book of that. Everything from that to a conversation with matthew mcconaughey. If thats not a wideranging list of events, its going to be quite a false or stay tuned. You can follow all of our fence on magic city books. Com. I wont go through the full list here. Tonight im so thrilled to have a conversation with mychal denzel smith in a book that seems like it was written for the moment we are living in, although books are written quite a bit before their published and printed and Ev
About Voter Suppression than ahead of the upcoming 2020 election. In this moment following ongoing unconscionable tragedies of Racial Injustice in our country i have more hope than ever that are declaration of black lives matter and our protests in support of freedom for all will be unrelenting in bringing about equitable and longoverdue change. We feel incredibly fortunate that tonights guest is one of the foremost experts on Voting Rights. Leader Stacey Abrams is a political leader, the first black woman to become the gubernatorial nominee for a major party in the United States. In the race for governor of georgia in 2018 she won more votes than any other democrat in the states history. Stacey abrams made history as the first black woman to deliver a response to the state of the union in 2019. There is no doubt her history making efforts are far from over. In her new book our time is now, power, permits and the fight for fair america she draws on Extensive Research to offer concrete
Maria rousseau. So much of raising children these days seems to be about what we dont want them to do, keeping them away from dangers, both real and virtual, no dout this is a feature, perhaps and a bug of our helicopter in age but this attitude often fails to promote a sense independence in kids. Not only do they not know how to walk down the street by themselves but theyre also much and incapable of editing themselves completes without a device in hand. So for reasons both selfish, parents need a break, and selfless, we know this is important life skill for them, i think the Current Situation is untenable, our kids have trouble with any kind of unstructured activity that reading for pleasure is perhaps the activity i think a suffered the most, according to recent analysis of the american study, the share of americans who read for pleasure has actually fallen more than 30 since 2004. If there is way to reverse this trend i think it will have to start with our children and i can think
Her work has been published in rolling stone, the guardian, long reads, and the New York Times style magazine. And include in the best american essays 2016. She is the recipient of two push prices and Elizabeth George foundation grant, and fellowships from the mcdowell, the kenyon review and the Wisconsin Institute for creative writing. She lives in miami beach with herer partner. Please give a warm savannah welcome to jaquira diaz. [applause] thank you so much. Im so happy too be here and its wonderful to see all you book levers here, and thank you, savannah, for your southern hospitality. I also want to thank the savannah book festival and everyone who made thisnk event possible, including sponsors, booksellers. Lets give it up for the indie book sellers in the room. [applause] i love you all. Thank you for all that you do for loving books, for championing writers, for supporting ordinary girls. Because of you im here, so thank you. I want to open with just a little piece that opens