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nod conversation [inaudible conversations] good evening, ladies and gentlemen. thank you for all the ambient noise. and welcome to kansas city public library. i m the director of the kansas city public library and it s a pleasure to have you here tonight. to prove to you once again the kansas city public library represents all political views and tonight it s always it is as always a pressure for me to introduce my long-time friend jack cashill. jack and i i have known each other almost since he was in short pants, in newark, new jersey, where he was born a little bit after he graduated from siena college and got his ph.d at purdue in american studies. i think the only dissertation that defended the notion of american capitalism and american fiction, which is hard to do because is no american capitalism in american fiction. jack and i something like 35 years ago, founded something the zenith boosters club, political discussion club in which jack then ran for a number of
was from an 18th century english poet. it was an ode, and the last two lines were, a rage for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than not be named at all. and i realized that from a small girl, she had realized she wanted to be famous. so i thought that rage for fame is just a perfect title because her whole life after that was to that end. c-span: when was this picture taken? guest: that picture was taken about 1942, just after she d been elected to congress by the famous canadian photographer kosch joseph kosch. c-span: how old was she here? guest: she was only about 39. c-span: and how long did she serve in congress? guest: she served in congress for two terms four years altogether. c-span: when did you first meet her? guest: i first met her in the fall of 1980 at her house in washington, but it was really a strange meeting because i had already conceived the idea of doing a biography of her. when i just out of the blue, this invitation came fr
next encore booknotes. jill krementz was a guest on booknotes in 1997 to talk about her book the writer s desk a collection of authors and photos photos. c-span: jill krementz, photographer, you have a book out called the writer s desk. what s it all about? guest: it s a collection of my photographs over it period of 30 years of writers and i photographed over 1500 rider so of course it s not all the writers. my favorite pictures of a lot of the writers at their desks but they are all writers that there had desks or near their desks or behind their desks. somewhere there s a desk in the picture. literally or figuratively. c-span: why did you pick this for the covert? guest: i suppose because it s one of my favorite photographs. i think it s pretty recognizable now so people would know it was my book and because i think that it is a picture about a writer. it s a picture about a writers place and i think you feel looking at that picture that of course this is where she