First, Roger Rosenblatt whose work has been published in different languages and the author of five notable times books of the year which was originally an essay in the new yorker. The collection on writing came out in april. The he performed and played piano and it will go to the center for the arts in new york. He also wrote the screenplay for which will store doctor channing and is currently in production. He is a distinguished professor of englisprofessorof english any brook and formerly held among his many honors and the president s medal for the institution for his body of work. We are incredibly pleased to have him with us. Asked of the community would change outreach and engagement at the Library System she works with the four member libraries and communities to help people live there best wife. Along with her colleague from these other Library Systems have been coordinating leaving our fingerprint documenting to collect firsthand accounts to create a peoples history of covid19
And you can watch full programs on our website, booktv. Org. Welcome back everybody. Lets get started. Imdealer kites, your room host of the day. Were a little weary by this time but im glad to be here. Im also chair of the brick 11 literary society. Turn your cell phones off, thank you all for coming. Lets thank our sponsors, we need to do that in every session because they are so important to the success of the fair so thanks to knight foundation, poway gel, or a gain of construction, bachelor foundation, the degroot foundation. As always, thank you to all the friends of the book fair. We hope everybody who is in this room will be a friend by next year so you can enjoy all the activities that are available for friends during here. We thank our volunteers, we thank the staff of the book fair and super big thanks to miamidade college. Thanks to all. [applause] we have a big crowd for a mighty important author to let me start by introducing his introducer. Marcia dunn is a longtime miam
Have you been followed around by this crowd all day long . Know, but i have seen so many people all ages, its just the excitement is building. We are halfway through and you can see it building and people are coming in and politics and prose, the independent bookstore is really buzzing. Even the nonbook items are going and people are buying and the excitement is palatable. Plus, people are seeing their authors Walking Around the convention center. Is that also. What have you been able to do so far . Who have you seen . Nick offerman and he was being interviewed by a young lady who is very big the National Park service. She was able to interview him about his new book and it was a good interchange. Then, i was able to introduce Janelle Monae with her book the Memory Library and. Talk about making librarians cool. Its Science Fiction and everything, however she was not the rock star she was a reader and someone who loves Octavia Butler the Science Fiction writer. She related to the peopl
Physicians, both sides have access to the information they need. This concludes our session. Thank you to all the reporters for joining us today. Retired marine lieutenant ben connable. En harry holzer. And then a reporter with the associated press. Your phone calls, facebook comments, and tweets. Washington journal is live every morning at 7 00 eastern on cspan. Tonight, retired professor and activistsvietnam war dsouza. Inesh we started out as a outlutionary you started in bin laden mode. You sounded totally different today. He talked about teaching, you talked about socratic doubt. What happened to that Old Revolutionary . I feel i still a revolutionary if you mean if what you mean by revolutionary is having a fully worked out program in which we can overthrow government and move forward, no, i am not that. But if you mean someone who is willing to dive into contradictions and fight for more stability and balance. I see the need for a fundamental change. To me, the struggle against
Biography which ive never been able to explain, but it happens. After i finished my last book, which was the third of a trilogy on Theodore Roosevelt i was looking around for another subject. My agent said to me, what about edison . About time somebody about did a book on him. I said i dont think i want to do another enormous biography, so i said no to the idea. But a few months later, mysterious how these things happen, i was at an airport in florida, fort myers, which is near where edison used to have his winter plantation, next to henry fords and i was running to catch a plane and came across this airport lobby display of a huge cutout, lifesize cutout of thomas edison. Thun of these photographic silhouettes. I literally barged into it. It was posed next to his and lecture find modelt that henry ford had given him. So here am i looking into Thomas Edisons eyes and i suddenly became overwhelmed with curiosity. This guy is fascinating, i have to write about him and all the way back to