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And now Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Fraser discusses the life and novels of Laura Ingalls wilder. She explained the differences between actual events in the authors life, the little house on the prairie book series, and the television adaptation. The Jefferson County, Missouri Library hosted this event. Good evening, everybody. We are really thrilled to see you here tonight. This is the third and final program in this series. We kept miss fraser very busy for the last two days and weve had wonderful crowds turned out each time. We sold out of the books. It has been really very satisfying. To have cspan here taping this to show on television is just the icing on the cake. Its such a wonderful feeling to k ....
Cake. Its a wonderful feeling to know that something so positive representing Jefferson County will be on national television. My job tonight [ applause ] is to introduce the two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. Jane henderson is the editor at the st. Louis post dispatch. She graduated from st. Louis and graduated from columbia with degrees in journalism and english literature. She cut short her work as a grad student to go to work as a copy editor in the mid 1980s and later, after three years in the newsroom of the hartford in connecticut, she returned to st. Louis and has been an editor and writer with the post dispatch features department for 30 years. As a book editor, she assigns and edits book reviews choosing from some 300 or so new books each week. Shes written stories about book trends and interviewed many authors from sam and rushdie to e. L. Doctorel. So tonight she adds to that and she w ....
Its an author discussion on the potential longterm effects covid19 will have on society. Hello, im brian tate and i am pleased to welcome you to to the 2020 brooklyn book festival. We are here today with authors paola giordano, Mark Honigsbaum and sonia shah. Im gonna read very brief bios. Mark honigsbaum is a medical historian, journalist, author of five books including the pandemic century 100 years of panic, hysteria, and who works. And the fever trail in search for the cure for malaria. His current elector at City University london. Paola giordano is a physicist and author of four internationally bestselling novels including the solitude of prime numbers, which are sold over a million copies worldwide. His essay how contagion works published in italy at the beginning of the coronavirus emergency as the mathematics of contagion was shared more than 4 million times and he ....
Tightening of restrictions would push down the covid rates. A state mandated curfew. The goal of a curfew is to decrease activity and decrease the spread of the virus and perhaps, a curfew would help. This weekend marks a traditional travel weekend. The Citys Department of Public Health joining the chorus to avoid traveling for the holiday. If families are going to gather they must do so in as safe a manner as possible. Keep it to no more than six people and keep it outdoors and keep the masks on. The choices we, you, i make in the next two weeks will determine the trajectory of the Holiday Season. The Health Leaders say they are asking people to stay home this year to protect their families so everyone can come together and and healthy next year. Santa clara count ....