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Number one, i was monitoring the twitter feed on the event, and somebody posted a question there canning was there any rigor or sampling to the interviews you did . And are you trying to present them as representative of them. My own question was if im a person who knows a fair amount about welfare, has read a book or two, a study or two, whats the most original or valuable thing i would get out of this book . They may be related. Yeah. As far as rigor, no, there was not a scientific sampling do...

Monitoring equipment and other things reconnected. Fire chief, john camyer, exactly how many we see so many ambulances here. How many people have you called in to help with this transport process . Were calling in strike teams of ambulances, some as far away as yellow county. It shows how well our system works, not only in our county, but outside of our county and state as well. We have a number of strike teams. We have transported about 50 patients already from the facility. Were having them go...

Drinking in america our secret history. Her distinguished bibliography includes the 2015 biography of e. E. Cummings a life which was chosen by the economist as one of the best books of the year and is now considered the definitive biography of that iconoclastic show hes a poet and other biographical works include american bloomsbury the leading figures of the transcendentalist movement, and my name is bill, bill wilson for his life and the creation of Alcoholics Anonymous home before dark, the ...

Novelist as she launches her newest book, drinking in america our secret history. Youll tell us the secrets. Her distinguished bibliography includes the 2015 biography of e. E. Cummings, a life, which was chosen by the economist as one of the best books of that year. It is now considered the definitive biography about iconoclastic, shall we say, poet. And other biographical works include american bloomsbury, the leading figures of the transcendentalist movement, and my name is bill, bill wilson,...

Now 15 women in West Philadelphia really mean that when they say that. Good point. Plus uber drivers who want to avoid that thing all together, they were on strike this weekend across the country. Their demand and why it could make the Popular Services more expensive. What is lauren dawn johnson going to do your uber ride will go up. I have a a funny story. A guy in my building said i see your tweets about the struggles you have with uber. So, you should try this service and i will try to give y...

Perspective issue. Host guest the behave as if we are immortal and that means we are willing to sacrifice time for the sake of the future achievements we are willing to delay gratification but that makes no sense when you are aware of time so it is a matter of perspective and its to to have the proper perspective for where you are in your place in time. Host its great to see you again. Congratulations on the book being mortal. I look forward to continuing the conversation. Guest thank you. Guest...

Service to the American Literary community will go to ms. Zimmer we will learn more about that this evening. This is the booktv coverage of the red carpet of the National Book awards in new york city. After this you will see the actual board sarah ray. Awards ceremony. Good to see you. [inaudible conversations] spec on the red carpet right now is one of the finalists. Shes having her picture taken. Hopefully we can talk to her in just a minute as a cartoonist of the new yorker. Joining us now on...

The kids grew up. Working on the same health care program. They are coworkers, essentially. Fell in fell in love and have the troublesome children that they have now. Host here is the cover of the book. You talk about that life is not all bad on the reservation,. Guest my cousin, my first cousin. He has been in prison for a while on a number of charges i may argue that our lives are not tragic, but they are hard. He grew up close but has had it much harder than i. So even in one family you have ...

Publishing operations, the google settlement moving forward in different directions. Those olympic first stage apportion of Bush Publishing news. On the nonfiction front is a very strong year. In particular receipt of the best of 2012 list dominated by the likes of catherine coos behind beautiful forever is the witch was the winner of the National Book award. The ongoing biography of Lyndon Johnson and Andrew Solomons fire from the tree, only recently published over 900 each companion he had the...

Heart, or are we going to follow our basic instinct. It. [applause] nothing deal. I told them do not worry about being too abusive. [laughter] sometimes i am very modest about the introduction. Dont go overboard but just something simple like not since mark twain. [laughter] i am not here to boast but the only fault with the introduction he did not mention was the first novel ever written. I regret to say there has not been a bandwagon of people trying to right novels since then. I thought i wou...