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voice? 20 years. 20 years from being from finishing university, and thinking i m out in the world, and now i m going to write, and 20 years before i could write anything that looked to me like a book. i m tempted to ask, then, what kept you. that is what many people asked. especially those who thought i would never be a novelist anyway. and i worried, myself, about it. my father used to say, well, where is it, then? that spurred me on. that must have annoyed you. i think my problem was that perhaps a bit over educated. i had been educated to revere the classic so much, to revere dh lawrence and tolstoy and dostoevsky and dickens. if i could be them, i didn t want to be anyone. so you wanted to be literary. perhaps you were not confident in your own take on the world and your own voice, that it was worth listening to? dead right. if what you had been reading was the great writers, and i revered them, and you think you do not measure up to that. at 18 and 25, i did not ....
i m stephen sackur. is the way we use words changing? most of us probably write less than we used to, read less than we used to, and spend far more time staring at screens and tapping out messages. does it matter to our relationships, our politics, our culture? well, my guest today is conviced it does. howard jacobson‘s meditations on life, love, jewishness, and a whole lot more have won him awards, including the man booker prize. but is he an artist swimming against an irresistible cultural tide? howard jacobson, welcome to hardtalk. i am delighted to be here. thank you for having me on. i want to ask you to reflect on a long writing career. how long, do you think, it took to you to find your own authentic writers‘ voice? 20 years. 20 years from being from finishing university, and thinking i m out in the world, and now i m going to write, and 20 years before i could write anything that looked to me like a book. i m tempted to ask, then, what kept you. that is wh ....
her they raised three kids together. and worked the family farm side by side. the morning of june 19th. began like any other. 15:37:43 the morning of her death, she said billy- do we have time to get coffee and i said, sure, the two drove to milo to get decaf for him.. the real stuff for her. afterwards, bill dropped shirley off at the house . to haul a load of grain. 15:38:00 i said honey, i ll see you between 11 and 11:30 and she was standing there waving at me as i went out of the drive and that s the last time i seen her alive 09 that morning, shirley was gunned down at their home in lacona. her killer is still on the loose. bill waited for an arrest. but the weeks turned into months and each month was harder than the last. 15:37:47 i don t like to wake up about her and it s so real 59 15:32:53 part of my heart is missing. it is. big part of me went with her 08 with a heavy heart. he filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the man he says killed his wife- jason carte ....
today strong winds could cause more problems. here s a look at road conditions as of right now. as you can see. things are partially covered through much of central iowa. channel 13 s josh nguyen joins us live now from interstate 235 where roads were slick overnight. governor branstad hands his list of to-do s to lawmakers today. he ll deliver the condition of the state address from the house chamber at ten this morning. but presidential hopeful carly fiorina heads to des moines to celebrate the new session. she ll be at the iowa state historical building tonight for a welcome back party. the event begins at 5-30. a handful of other candidates makes stops in iowa today as well. for the republicans. rick santorum, jeb bush, mike huckabee, and donald trump. and hillary clinton represents the democrats with stops in ames and eastern iowa. minority voters have a better sense of how hillary clinton would fight for them. for two hours. she, bernie sanders, and martin o malley ....