Would greatly appreciate that. Okay thank you all, thank you alsouch. Hope you will stay in touch with each other. Okay byebye. And we wrap up our coverage of the recent brooklyn book festival and author discussion on multiethnic representation and publishing. Hi, i am suzanne im the ceo of penn america delighted to welcome you beyond prepositional politics and publishing. Assist in moderating this important discussion. We believe that the historic exclusion of certain people invoices from publishing is very much a Free Expression issue. Something that we can and must tackle as an organization with a mission to defend free speech. We work to up lift lesser heard voices those of the incarcerated, incarcerated, unseen in our program and we also bring together wide ring of stakeholders authors, publishers, editors need executives to discuss boundaries and how to break them down. So we have long been engaged in the debate concerning diversity and equity and publishing. And now, as the Unit
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To feel the Nervous Energy of the finalists and the champagne would be flowing. The kirkus prize isnt what you may imagine when you think of literary award ceremonies. There is no formal banquet or assigned seating. It is a Cocktail Party with a glamour and energy all on its own. Last year when Entertainment Weekly wrote about the major literary awards they referred to the kirkus prize as golden globes, fun and unpredictable and tonight we want to share that energy with you at home and give you a glimpse of what it is like to attend the ceremony in person. To that end our editor at large, megan, caught up with some of this years finalists so we could connect with them as as we were all at a party together. You can view the full conversations on kirkus. Com, but here is a sneak peek. A typical year we would all be gathered at the Austin Public Library for the ceremony, a Cocktail Party beforehand, everybody mingling. I wanted to ask whe could we find you as a finalis before the award ce
To you live from the beautiful Central Public Library beautiful austin texas. In a typical year this would be filled with the brightest stars in america and around the country publishers agents with laughter you can feel the Nervous Energy and the champagne would be flowing the price is a what you might imagine thinking of literary award ceremonies the reasonably greater assigned seating come it is a Cocktail Party with the glamour and energy all its own. Has shown Entertainment Weekly wrote about the literary award referred to as go on golden globe to and to show that and give you claims of what it is like to attend the ceremony a person. Our editor at large caught up with issues final is to connect with them as if we were all at e Party Together you can view the full conversation at kirkus. Com. In a typical year will be the ceremony everybody mixing and mining so where could we find you as a finalist before the Award Ceremony . You can find me by the many dessert table. [laughter] s
Across our bridges, its a very thin marine layer, but its sitting right at the surface of the watch for some lower visibility, little bit towards the coast in San Francisco at the golden gate and in pockets right along the coastline. Most of us though its nice and clear as youre getting out there now air quality is also continuing to be pretty clear with good conditions for almost all the entirety of the bay area again today temperatures are nice and cool winds, nice and calm so not all that bad right now were in the 50s for Alameda Oakland and hayward at 59 degrees little cooler up in the north bay where weve got some 40s in petaluma and santa rosa, looking hour into the afternoon daytime highs in the 70s and 80s nice finish to this monday. Robin sounds good. Thank you for the update John Elliotts of the morning commute starting off with a bridge check, lets head over to the bay bridge. We have a dense fog advisory in place this morning that was issued by chp you can see some of that