Shes been our guest here at the Los Angeles Times festival. Thank you, cspan. Thank you listener. Now we have a another panel coming up, author panel, is on syria. Beginning in just a second. After that, will be joined by corey field who writes about black republicans. Then an author panel on author publishing. One of the people is lisa lucas, the the National Director of the Book Foundation and will conclude our life today with a column on hugh hewitt, the radio talkshow host. Thats coming up today. People schedule schedule is on book tv. Com. Now are going back inside to hear from the authors on syria. Welcome to telling serious stories. My name is jeffrey and im a cultural writer for the Los Angeles Times. Ive been based in rome and berlin and is a cairo bureau chief. Ive written two novels, shadow man and thomas surgeons. Thank you for being here. In the strange times, strong journalism with good book and challenging ideas are critical. That is what the Los Angeles Times in the boo
Been included in the best american short stories. Hes a former marine and served five tours of duty in iraq and afghanistan where he received the silver star, bronze star for valor in the purple heart. Welcome everybody. [applause] when we think about the arab spring, its this thing in 2011 that started this glorious fire and it seemed to stir into asia, 18 days of furious energy, and egypt that brought down libya and laid in. Yemen and bahrain restless a little bit of saudi arabia and on and on. Syria stands alone. 400,000 dead, millions of refugees and displaced and a tide of anguish that has seeped into europe and across the world. Still he rules. Mocking a broken revolution and defined the world that is lefts band. Well begin with elliott. In your novel, very powerful, there is a moment when one of your characters a mere is deciding and hes in turkey and deciding do i go back to syria and he doesnt want to. He describes he says he feels that theres no life for them anymore and he g
See scattered tshowers this morning with lows in the mid 70s. Today will be cloudy and very humid with a high near 80 this morning, but scattered tstorms and downpours will keep us in the mid 70s the rest of the day. A Flash Flood Watch has been issued for all of se wisconsin until midnight tonight the rain finally tapers off after midnight with lows near 70. This moring. Milwaukee police are looking for the driver responsible for hitting and killing a 63yearold 91st and appleton just after 9 30 last night. Police say the woman was crossing the street when she was hit by a small black suv. Police did not give any other description vehicle. Theyre hoping for some tips from the public. Happening today. A man facing four felony charges for a deadly hitandrun crash will be back in court this morning. Police say Marvin Anthony was driving a stolen suv that ran a stop sign and slammed into another car at 39th and hadley in may. A woman and child were killed in the crash. Thor Waukesha County
Conditions minute by minute. Within five minutes of arriving, lifeguards came in forcing them to clear the beaches. It will start sweeping you out and you may not look bad on the surface and then you may lose your footing for a second and its just going to pull you straight out. I have a health why respect for water and the force of it. And you know, its nature and you have to have a respect for it at all times. They will going to float down with the rip tide, the lifeguards do a great job keeping everyone safe. They warn rs not to go too deep. I love being at the beach. Reporter back live now, staffing is down because many lifeguards have returned to college but ocean city make its a point to keep three beaches open late. 8th, street, 9th street and 12th street. Take advantage of that. No kidding about swimming or not swimming when lifeguards are not on duty. Its too dangerous in these conditions. Nora muchanic, channel 6 action news. A hidden danger on a truly beautiful day. Thanks s
Be armed in roanoke county. Suspected of being the driver of a car that was chased by night. Flipped and caught on fire. The county says the vehicle was coming from Franklin County on route 220 when it hit another vehicle near webb road. Four people were stay with wdbj7, and wdbj7dotcom for any updates. Judge will now decide instead of a jury. Opening arguments begin today and lawyers are prepared to call 23 witnesses to testify in the case. A judge agreed to change the trial location because about 60 percent of the potential jurors interviewed monday and tuesday knew about the case. But late tuesday night the judge and lawyers agreed to have a bench trial instead of a jury trial. A lawyer not asssociated with this case says that decision may now benefit ashley white. Richard chidester giles county attorney you may certainly get the same outcome but the judge is certainly more likely to be not caught up in the emotion and the nature for a jury not familiar with the law to preceive cert