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let s have a big round of applause for the national book festival. [applause]. show your love. excellent. [applause]. and a little tip you need to check out their amazing website, national book.org. i have been there, it is exciting, it is addictive. i have have made it my homepage. i start every day at national book data work. if you go there you can literally spend all day on the faqs, because you know all of those questions that you have frequently asked about the national book foundation? they are answered at last. for example, one question i have found myself asking frequently is what is the national book foundation? if you do not know. you just applauded for them and you do not know who they are. do not lie to me national book award audience, you are better than that really. okay so i went to national book.org/faqs and here s what i found. in 1986, the publishing community establish the national book foundation, a not-for-profit not-for-profit organization to ov ....
the life substance of the companion world in cyberspace. mind and invasive expedition in the name of commerce or government surveillance. for the use of corporations, and excited police departments, you can call it quantify indication. it in the out of we called it reification. kind of dehumanizing and so it turns out that the story for all of this, oddly enough, is the eviction story from the bronze age telling of the consequences coming from eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. so like all world, it comes with the heaven and the hell. what does u this mean for all of us in this room? we writers and our publishers? we don t want to give up the presumably inconvenient thing we do. something as old as paginated written narrative. we don t want to lose heart in frank norris, the author of naturalistic works of fiction in the 60s. norris despaired of the western union telegram. ten words and stop. the twitter of today. he feared it was the end of literary disc ....
always a pleasure. one of the best minds in the business. that s nice of you. this is going to be a big story with giuliani. talk about bolo, things to look out for, i mean it s not going to end here. you cannot imagine people who are connected to him are just going to be quiet and silent and not try to implicate other people, right? i agree with you. let me ask a question to the better mind. in this subpoena, this federal grand jury subpoena, when they start outlining a lot of things they re investigating, they seemed like it wouldn t be about rudy directly. it would be about his knowledge or any paper they can get from him about these other guys. does it read like that to you also? you got to cast the widest net. you don t know what you re looking for. it s an investigative state at this point. you want to have a wide enough net to be able to say, i have a full, i have a comprehensive investigation. it may lead to nothing. it may lead to everything. we got to st ....
start outlining a lot of things they re investigating, they seemed like it wouldn t be about rudy directly. it would be about his knowledge or any paper they can get from him about these other guys. does it read like that to you also? you got to cast the widest net. you don t know what you re looking for. it s an investigative state at this point. you want to have a wide enough net to be able to say, i have a full, i have a comprehensive investigation. it may lead to nothing. it may lead to everything. we got to stay tuned. but in a place like washington, d.c., we ve seen recently if you cast too narrow and small a net, people criticize you for that as well, right? we have seen that. and, look, we ll see how it plays out. we know of at least two investigations that are somehow involving rudy giuliani, but i ll tell you what. the president made an obvious play tonight. he s got to be going to rudy giuliani. the guy knows too much. he s got too much power, and he s a ....