Publishers, agents and of course readers clamoring to meet their latest writers. You would be able to feel the Nervous Energy of the finalist and the champagne would be flowing. It is not what you may imagine when you think of literary award ceremonies. There is no formal banquet or assigned seating. It is a Cocktail Party. Last year when they wrote about the award, they referred to it as a globe asked. Tonight, we want to share that energy with you at home and give you a glimpse of what it is like to attend in person. Our editor at large megan caught up with some of this years finalists so we could connect with them as if we were all at a party together. You can view the full conversations on kkus. Com. Here is a sneak peak. A typical year w would all be gathered for the ceremony, a Cocktail Party beforehand. Mixing and mingling. I wanted to ask where could we find you as a finalist before the Award Ceremony . You can usually fin me by the many desserts table. [laughter] where uld we
Im David Rubenstein coming from the library of congress, the Jefferson Building and its part of our National Book festival and have a pleasure of interviewing richard hoss who is the president of a foreign relation and ive written a new eczema book called the world a brief introduction by richard hoss, thank you very much for coming today. Great to be with you. For those of you that dont know your background, i want to talk a little bit about the bo book, you are native of new york and went to college in ohio and became a Rhodes Scholar, what did you do to become a Rhodes Scholar and for those of you who are not aware there is only 32 people picked every year in the Rhodes Scholar and youre one of the top 32 students, what did you do to be one of the top 32 students when you graduated. My children would claim it was an administrative error i did nothing to confuse the scholarship, i could also answer i was one of 32 people who peaked young and peaked at the right time, my own guess i h
The but not to pay i95 or to deliver a package to my po box church. Pgo works book is a cry from the new middle visit the website booktv. Org and type the authors name or book title into the search box. To the of the program. Good evening thank you for joining us for the program today. My name is gavin im the director of programs, exhibitions and partnerships for the massachusetts Historical Society. Before i begin the program on extend a special welcome to anyone who might be attending Virtual Program for the first time. If youre not filming with mhs was the oldest Historical Society in america in a been collecting preserving collecting and preserving our history since 1971. Have an amazing collection of close to 14 million manuscript pages and putting papers of three of the first six u. S. President s. In these days of social distancing we take into hosting virtual events. We have Online Events planned for the rest of the calendar year exploring many subjects of u. S. And massachuset
Urged to stay at home again as authorities move to curb a new outbreak of kobe and the cattle on capital. And as knighthood for captain tom the british war veteran whose charity walk raised millions for the National Health service. Welcome to the Program European Union Leaders are meeting at a key summit in brussels to try to bridge their differences over a 750000000000 Euro Recovery Fund it aims to help the bloc rebuild from the coronavirus endemic german chancellor Angela Merkel chairs the talks as germany currently holds the e. U. Councils rotating presidency and shes admitted that finding a compromise wont be easy the key Sticking Point is whether the money should be given to countries as greg. Or loans the main proponents of lending the money are the socalled frugal for austria sweden finland and the netherlands. Joining me now from our studio in brussels is Felipe Lembergs hes a member of the European Parliament for the Green Party Mr lamberts how optimistic are you that leaders
Signs of discontent emerge from iran as demonstrators in the city of homs protest the governments handling of the economy. And sex workers in germany say the coronavirus ban on prostitution is putting their livelihoods and safety at risk by driving the business underground. Welcome to the program the United States has broken yet another coronavirus record 75000. 00 you infections in one day thats almost as many as chinas official 6 month tally florida is the new epicenter now on friday the Sunshine State we call it more than 11000 new cases. The state also recorded a 4th consecutive day with more than 100 deaths floridas republican governor governor Rhonda Saunders who is facing criticism for his handling of the pandemic has blamed the high number on increased testing in the state. Correspondent is in miami outside the Jackson Memorial hospital staff and we are seeing grim new figures whats the situation like on the ground there in miami. Described the situation absolutely accurate it