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My name is cynthia and i want to thank you for coming tonight. Im a librarian here at midmanhattan library and im very happy to present john john mcwhorter. John has come more than once. Been very kind. That. This is his third visit. Tonight hell be speak about miss most recent book, talking back, talk black joan mcworther is an associate prefer of english and comparative literature at Columbia University where re teaches linguist sticks, western service, and american studies. A New York Times b...

Have time at the end for a q a session please line up at the microphone to the right so with that i will handed over to the interviewer the managing editor for the Chicago Tribune. Welcome to ruth printers row lit fest. I am pleased to be sitting here with lisa napoli with a fellow journalist who is the offer of ray and joan the man who made the mcdonalds fortune and the woman who you gave the ball away. We were working on a cover line for a magazine people dont put appreciate how long it can go...

Booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what theyre reading this summer. Im going to start by finishing up the essay of montania im reading and then move into a reread of pools frauds, and fire brands by rodger, and then after that, i will continue on with my my research in studies that ive been doing on 1960s particularly this 60 and the 68 election. And so and miami and chicago and 68 and gone from there. Ill do echoes, frog cemetery, and ill also finish up with a coupl...

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Rutgers university, surrounded by Political Correctness and people trying to shut others down and it outraged me. It was very upsetting. It angered me that there was a lack of freedom of thought on college campus. This was ten years ago, things have gotten much worse. I got off the panel here and talked about this contempt and the anger of injustice and that got me started. Host was there a specific incident . Guest at rutgers they had grease trucks that sold sandwiches and some had offensive na...

Of the Manhattan Institute. And its, thank you. [applause] its a its a pleasure for me to introduce jason riley today as motion most of you jason is senior peel low a regular columnist for the wall street journal. And a commentator for fox news in his new book, false black power jason offers a critique of civil right leaders an their prior decision power of africanamericans the book also could manies responses to aye ons sergeants from two and glenn lowery. Its a slengder book, but it packs a po...

Hello, everyone. Welcome to lawrence park. I am so happy to be here with Courtney Martin and you can all be here with us. I want to say trent tillis, one of the cofounders of our project, is Courtney Martins editor on the blog, he is said he cant be here, he is sick today. I want to bring his name in here. Envious. Host Courtney Martin send an email yesterday. When we planned this we were not looking at the calendar saying what is happening that week . Courtney martin emailed yesterday and said ...

Hudible conversations] hello. I am so happy to be here with Courtney Martin and you can be here with us. One of the cofounders of the project is very sad he cannot be here, he is sick today. Courtney cent and email yesterday we were not looking at the calendar to say what is happening this weekend chief meld yesterdays and said it should redo this . Should be have a book launche to talk about the new better off in the week that it is momentous and the unsettling landscape . And i said absolutely...

The famous sexist paragraph, that will evidently go on my tombstone which, you know what im talking about . Its the one that gets quoted in every review, unfortunately. Completely out of context of course. Number three was a meeting with boggs who is the facebook guy who runs ads and we had this sort of weird mafia boss file meetings and the fourth one was the story where i blew up the plumbing so is there any other theme that somebody wants in the reading that youre willing to propose . One of ...

And authors every weekend. Book tv, television for serious read [inaudible conversations]naudibe [inaudible conversations] evening, everybody. Good evening and welcome to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. My museum. Nn my name is anna collins, Vice President for programs and education to hear at the museum. How many of you have visited in the past . How many of you have gone to our tenement at 97 how many of you have been here in thisl go . Building . It hasnt opened yet. So upstairs we will ...