Keep your video feed disabled. If you enable it, and able it a second time, we will have to remove it. Appreciate your cooperation. I want to briefly go over our format. We will have a reading by miles harvey to start us off. After miles harvey reads from the king of confidence which was published this past tuesday and donovan hohn reads from the inner post which was published last month in june we will hear an extended conversation between the two for 30 or 45 minutes and a few slides here and there and add some supplemental images. Once we are done questions for miles or donovan send them my way and i will field and screen those. Now i will quickly read some bios and we will get the reading underway. Miles harvey is author of the International Bestseller the land of lost maps. His book stranger in a savage latin was named book of the year. Currently teaches at the university. Interlocutor miles harvey is author of moby duck, the true story of basketball players, New York Times notabl
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Seattleites. Id like to thank katie for helping us keep the conversation going tonight. Our program can be viewed on our facebook and youtube pages. For viewers who want to watch with closed captioning, click the cc button in the bottom right corner of the video player. The video will be available for rewatching immediately following tonights broadcast. Tonights presentation will last around 3540 minutes. Afterwards, katie will take your questions. Please use the ask a question button on crowd cast, and ill pop back on to run the q and a. Well try to get to as many as possible. Upcoming programs include neil shubin as well as michael shermer, gillian andrews, kurt bloodsworth, sister Helen Prejean and two ongoing series in our annual engage science series featuring reports and our earshot jazz live from the forum. Wered aing new events every adding events every day, and many are available in podcast form on our Digital Media library. So in short, look around the media tab on our home p