each year the national book critics circle s awards are presented to the best books published in the united states as voted on by 600 literary critics. here s this year s award ceremony from the new school in new york city. it s 90 minutes. hello, everyone. good evening and welcome. i m the director of the creative writing and we are happy to welcome back our friends. for over 15 years we have been honored to host this award in the auditorium. for the fifth year from the creative writing program interviewed the finalists in a series of interviews can you hear me? okay, the interview is posted on the blog and the website. you can check them out on book critics.org. organizing and posting over 30 interviews over a three-week period is a huge job and one that couldn t have been job without kelly stewart, student interviewers and the others. thank you to the board members and sylvan simon for all of their efforts and a huge thank you for the board i wonder if we can get a rou
the nbcc. we ve been honored to host this awards ceremony right here in this auditorium. the series of interviews that i have posted. they are posted on our blog and on the nbcc website. thirty interviews over a three-week time is a huge job and one that could not be done without that many editors who gave their help. thank you to the board members. a few more thanks. in the huge thank you. i wonder if we can give up round of applause for the board. they make mention this also. with the enterprise. i think today they have it preaching to the choir. i think they will need that. [applause]. we can also mention that. i don t want that. mention other things the arts and great organizations. to support them. now it s my pleasure to turn the evening over. the books editor. it s nice to see sony people here tonight. i am the president of the national book critics circle. for the publishing year 2016. we are delighted to have you join us. with six categories fiction, nonfiction, biog
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. brown: the u.s. military has a new order of the day: working up plans for putting women on the front lines. the process was set in motion today at the pentagon. not everyone is going to be able to be a combat soldier. but everyone is entitled to a chance. brown: with that, defense secretary leon panetta joined by the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey announced he s ending a 1994 ban on women in combat roles. as secretary, when i ve gone to bethesda to visit wounded warriors, when i ve gone to arlington to bury our dead, there is no distinction that s made between the sacrifices of man and women in uniform. they serve, they re wounded and they die right next to each other. the time has come to recognize that reality. brown: nearly 300,000 women have deployed over the past 11 years in iraq and afghanistan, where the frontlines aren t so clearly drawn. and 152 have die
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. brown: the u.s. military has a new order of the day: working up plans for putting women on the front lines. the process was set in motion today at the pentagon. not everyone is going to be able to be a combat soldier. but everyone is entitled to a chance. brown: with that, defense secretary leon panetta joined by the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey announced he s ending a 1994 ban on women in combat roles. as secretary, when i ve gone to bethesda to visit wounded warriors, when i ve gone to arlington to bury our dead, there is no distinction that s made between the sacrifices of man and women in uniform. they serve, they re wounded and they die right next to each other. the time has come to recognize that reality. brown: nearly 300,000 women have deployed over the past 11 years in iraq and afghanistan, where the frontlines aren t so clearly drawn. and 152 have die
captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions ifill: defense secretary leon panetta said lifting the ban on women serving in combat will make the u.s. military stronger. good evening, i m gwen ifill. brown: and i m jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, we examine the historic move, which opens more than 200,000 jobs to women. ifill: then, we turn to u.s. foreign policy, as confirmation hearings begin for secretary of state nominee john kerry, two former national security advisers stephen hadley and zbigniew brzezinski weigh in. brown: paul solman looks at china s fast growing economy and asks, is it headed for a crash? wages are rising for the burgeoning middle class, but for hardscrabble factory workers: mounting protests against livle wages d woing conditions. ifill: and vice president joe biden hangs out with hari sreenivasan on google plus to talk about gun violence. make your voices heard. this town listens when people rise up and speak. ifill: t