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Host good evening and welcome to the rare book room. My name is nancy and i am the owner of the store. This strand was founded in 1927 by my grandfather benjamin and then on to my father fred and then on to me. For a little bit of history in the late 18 hundreds, syria around this bookstore here in greenwich village, was the epicenter of publishers and booksellers. Divine press, and they all had editorial offices and down below, they had theks bookstores to display their books rated along Fourth Avenue just around on that side, was known as book row. And spike of the work 48 used bookstores of which strand is the sole survivor. As the owner of the strand, 18 miles of books, i am not easily faced by 1000 books. But the bucket list, and tonights featured book taught me in my tracks. [applause]. s expansive scope is coupled with a delightful wit and a perfect eye for supplies of detail never again will you have to wonder what to read ....
Literary celebration, a combination of lectures, readings, panel discussions, versations, and it began the first years looking at the work of Ernest Deming way and it grew Ernest Hemingway and it grew. There was a seminar devoted to Tennessee Williams and a collection of writers. They look to people like james james merrill. Since that time, over the 30 plus years, the seminar has stuck to that same fourday format. It is an investigation of a particular literary theme. Anyway you can divide contemporary american literature, we have had seminars devoted by biography an autobiography, seminars devoted to poetry as well as in a particular sense the poetry of elizabeth bishop. We have looked at the popular crime fiction genre. We did a seminar called the dark side. A lot of really wonderful bigname crime writers. We del ....
I guess. I wanted to describe killing, accounts of several murders and cases where game and have been killed by straight men or people who think they are straight or ostensibly straight or identifying as straight at the time. The reason i called it honor killings is because i want to focus on the criminals in this and i wanted to examine the psychology that goes behind all of this. After looking at it very carefully, i decided that was what was at play, the sense of honor young men feel and that was it was more the cause of this violence coming from within these guys much more than it was about the victim. Number ofly large these cases, much larger than i realized at first. I chose cases from different environments all over the country, different geographical baltimore,fornia, there was one in michigan. South,explored down alabama, oklahoma, obviously. Lets take a look at this problem within the united states, but in its various geographical incarnations. Had thisan in oklahoma fantasy ....
Derailed after alerting pharmaceutical companies about the unusually large shipments of opioids. Tmobile and sprint are planning to announce a merger as they gear up for what could turn into challenging antitrust negotiations with the government. The merger could create the nations thirdlargest mobile business behind verizon and at t. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, october 16th. Good morning to you. We begin this half hour with firefighters finally turning a corner in the battle against californias deadliest wildfires. Fire officials in Northern California say theyve made tremendous progress. With a little help from a shift in the weather. Right now 15 large fires are still burning and even as thousands of residents are allowed to return home, many others remain missing. The death toll has already climbed to at least 40. Abcs linzie janis has more from santa rosa. Reporter flames in every direction. Inciner ....
We begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Drive them out of your communities. Drive them out of your holy land. And drive them out of this earth. President trump urges the muslim world to fight terrorism. He didnt sound like the guy at the end of the bar popping off. He sounded like someone who had actually thought about what he was going to say before he said it. President trump is currently on the second leg of his first trip overseas. I have come to this ancient land to reaffirm the enduring friendship between the United States and the state of israel. And thats number one for me. North korea tested yet another ballistic missile. Perhaps theyre just acting out now in response to some of this pressure i believe theyre beginning to feel. Drenching rain is swamping much of the South Central u. S. Following a long weekend of nasty damaging ....