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Will be sent said along to ther who answer them at the end of the presentation. Also we encourage you to support todays featured author by purchasing her book from independent book seller, politics and prose. Finally i big thank you goes out to the featured sponsors. The blair family foundation, downtown crowne, and montgomery college. Lets get started. Tonight we have got author casey cep to talk about her bestselling book furious hours murder, fraud, and the last trial of harper lee. She tells the true story of murder, revenge and courtroom drama. Beloved writer harper lee spent years working on telling this story. Now casey cep brings the story to life from the shocking murders to the courtroom drama. Casey cep is a staff writer at the new yorker. After graduating from harvard with a degree in english she earned a master philosophy in theology at the university of oxford as a rhodes scholar. In interviewing case tonight is eugene, an awardwinning veteran journalist who has an eclect
You dont walk around with that instability it is always there at random without warning. Kind of terrible magic can switch on and scramble our lives. As life magazine would put it afterwards struggling to explain the hidden volatility that caused earthquake somewhere to earth is quivering all of the time. All right you want to start . Yeah. Okay. Thats what thats all about . Nice to have a book in hand and following along while it feels like being in church right now it is most like interactive experience ive had in a while so thank you past ton john. Thank you we can do anymore on that give me a call. Hi everyone thanks for being here. This is really weird and im i think more nervous than i would be if i was in person. Not that im staring at any own space. But were here to talk about john. You will be for the fore foreseeable future to have a little motel on our handle. How do you write a book . Where do you begin and how does it begin to happen . Yeah. Thats really good question. I m
We are in a webinar which means they can see and hear you though they can see your name so they know you are here. If you have anything you want to share, type your message in the chat window. If you have a question you would like answered you can use the q and a icon. When we get to the you and a, start thinking about it now. We are recording so look for video and audio versions later on, and this is the important part, bookstores are closed for shopping but johns books are available, i will paste the link in a minute but you can purchase it on the website and it is delivered, thanks for your support of john, we really appreciate that. Our interviewer this evening is Jazmine Hughes, she is a story writer for the New York Times magazine in 2020 recipient of the next award for journalists under 30. She will be talking with her colleague, featured author jon mooallem. A longtime writer at large and contributing to numerous radio shows including this American Life and wired. His first boo
His new book, this is chance the shaking of an allamerican city am voice that held it together talking with jasmine hughes. Youre in for an excellent evening. Want to give a huge thanks to everybody who is happening, jon and jasmine and all of you showing up. Green lot storefronts are closed but the community is still here and that means so much to us so thank you. Just a couple of housekeeping orientation kind of things. Were in a webinar which means you can hear and see the speakers but they cannot see and hear you but they can see your name. If you have anything you want to share, use the chat icon and type your message nets chat windows. If you specifically have a question that youd like to have answered in the q a you canny the q a icon. Jasmine will be pulling questions from there start thinking about them now. We are recording tonights event so look for video or audio versions on website and social Media Channels and books. This is the porsche part. Our book stores are closed fo