, right next guest. is one of those nights. it s one of those, nights have a great show lawrence. thank you alex thank you. it was just about two years and two months ago on a monday night that i will never forget, after a weekend and i will never forget, when rachel maddow and i were here marveling and i mean just marveling at a weekend of breaking news like we had never seen before involving the united states department of justice, attorney general william barr tried to fire the manhattan district attorney geoffrey berman and this is the part that was so stunning. geoffrey berman fought back in a way that we did not know is even possible. just when you think you can t be shocked, the friday night attempted firing of the u.s. attorney general the southern district of new york was starting and then geoffrey berman come back, you can t fire me was even more stunning, and ultimately jeffrey berman s in that hour you described it just kind of indescribably important. wh
Emotional truth, but because when you write it up there is the possibility of people responding. Unidentified friends who might read the work, even if across centuries, and join the conversation. For me, writing this book, i cannot think of i cannot think of a more important conversation to be having words too strange to be processed alone. And so, i want to say everyone who picked up the book, bad it, it decided to join the conversation. I want to thank the judges of the National Book foundation. I want to thank Peter Castano who First Published my work and has been it fettering writers come anything englander, who kicked my aspirin it definitely deserved kicking. To John Friedman have published my first story. Tom has been a mentor to me since before i joined the core. To the marines i served with in the committee of veteran writers, and especially those from the nyu veteran Writers Program central to this book and all the nonveteran writers equally essential to the book, pointing ou
Achievement award to Toni Morrison and announcement of winners in several categories including general nonfiction awarded to David Ryan Davis author of the Nonfiction Book the problem of slavery in the age of emancipation. [applause] thanks louise and good evening to all of you. Its my pleasure to welcome you here tonight to the book Critics Award ceremony for the publishing year 2014. Where id have you join us this evening is now the most outstanding work of the past year in six categories, fiction and nonfiction biography poetry autobiography and criticism. Like i said in a gratitude to the others whove joined us here tonight as well as the editors editors publishers agents and publicists to help bring their work her attention to the National Book critics circle awards were founded in 1974 out of a conversation that took place at the out walk when hotel by grupo critters who want to establish a set of awards granted given by critics and sell them like other Literary Works are books t
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