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[inaudible] the lecture is made possible by generous contributions by martha dowd dowrimple in memory of her mother and grandmother and also by the family of eudora welty in her memory. in april 1983, eudora gave a series of lectures at harvard university, and the lectures were collected as a volume of essays entitled one writer s beginnings. published by the harvard university press, one writer s beginnings stayed on the new york times bestseller list for almost a year. the essays detailed the inescapable bond between eudora s childhood and her later career as a writer and how her early experiences contributed to her distinctive literary voice. her novels include [inaudible] which was adapted for the stage in a tone award-winning tony award-winning musical. delta wedding, losing battles and the optimist s daughter for which she was awarded the pulitzer prize. eudora is a master of the short story, and her stories are collected in many places but notably two, a c ....
there? guest: well, there s always been, as is typical in all families, a sibling competition there. alice was a very conservative woman, and about 17 years older than her younger sister, and as a result, she saw herself as surrogate parent, and nell was always extroverted and a little bohemian in her opinions and her appearance, and alice, for all of her life, served as the buffer between her younger sister and the world that was hungry to know more about her. you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. now, on your screen, is a live picture of the old supreme court chamber in the mississippi state capitol. booktv is in jackson this weekend, covering the first annual mississippi book festival and we ll be back in just a couple of minutes with more live coverage. [inaudible conversations] one day late in the 2000s i was looking at this library and i asked myself, how did all this music actually get here? how is this actually possible? and i began t ....
now, on your screen, is a live picture of the old supreme court chamber in the mississippi state capitol. booktv is in jackson this weekend, covering the first annual mississippi book festival and we ll be back in just a couple of minutes with more live coverage. [inaudible conversations] one day late in the 2000s i was looking at this library and i asked myself, how did all this music actually get here? how is this actuaos [inaudible conversations] one day i asked myself how did they get here in the first place? how is this possible? to investigate and found the most astonishing thing. to be traced back to three people. one was brandenburg who had spent his life investigating the properties of the human ear steadying frequencies that were inaudible. and he came up with the md three encoder to shrink the compact disc by 90 percent. but he could not monetize the invention and was locked out and in desperation 1995 he posted it as a free public down the road to a his we ....
The Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership, Education and Development (LEAD) program awarded $75,000 in scholarships to 11 local students at its end-of-year recognition banquet last month. ....
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