Please keep the spirit of lit fest going all year long with a subscription. This year we are also introducing a new digital bookstore. Please take one of our promo cards for information about the app and axis the special book deals. Before they can todays program please file ensure cell phones. You return your camera flash off. We will allow you to take pictures. You can post those pictures online using hashtag printers row. Gives me great pleasure to introduce to you guys are moderate todays conversation, eric banks. Mr. Banks. Thank you. Thank you very much. Welcome everybody. Its good to see you here this morning and its my pleasure to welcome today Monique Brinson demery, the author of the amazing book, finding the dragon lady the mystery of vietnams madame nhu, which has recently been published by Public Affairs books. She holds a masters degree from harvard university, and when she made contact with madame nhu who was the unofficial first lady of the south east government in 2005
Juxtaposition to my grandmother who was a big character in the story it was very and xenophobic so how she shaped my life as well and part of the reason i became an engineer was because of that and in pursuit of a career in the arts early on. In this book you sort of see you are reading i would hope you are reading with the context of this little kid who i am showing you eventually grows up and has this amazing moment in history. Wide view open the story with a wave of . Host in some ways she is the cause of a lot of trauma and she was very verbally abusive and very homophobic as i said and xenophobic. But on the flip side of that ironically in some way she made me a writer because she made me were withdrawn and maybe an observer of the world versus a participant. Also that led me to become, to learn how to read people. I had to know how to read people to know how to respond and not get called a you know what by her by others. All that power of observation and reading in between the li
Dallas and theres a ranch there and she gets invited to go shooting. So her daughter dresses up in like western gear and apparel has the first kind of teenage romance with a texas guy. And her reception that madame nhu gets from her mother, was very worried about madame nhus visit to the United States so she posts a state department has had an estimate as has madame nhu really shouldnt come you. I have arent all that the in these to throw tomatoes after and if they see her to run her over with the car. This is her mother. She does get tomatoes for better. She also gets Standing Ovations from fordham, from georgetown, from a lot of Catholic Education speed is good to say, she really mapped out the Catholic College and universities, i can or as part of her tour was she presented at that point as her catholicism commune, very important part of her political ideology, if you want to call it that. Was she seen in that light, in 1963 in the United States . I assume to the extent that she was
There has been a fork in the road drawn for me. I dont think im going back to engineering at this point in my life. There are a lot of signs that say keep going this way. Host how many drafts did it take to get one, the poem he read at the inaugural . Guest i have at home probably a stack about this big. Again with poetry drafts take on a different meaning. It might mean a change to words and you throw it in the drafts pile. I only had a week and i had to write three poems in three weeks as the story goes. So there wasnt room. In some ways there was incredible pressure and in some ways im kind of glad i didnt have six months to write the poem because god knows what may have happened. I would have ended up locked up somewhere i think so theres something to be said about the time to exercise and giving yourself a time limit on writing. So yeah it took drafts and drafts and drafts but there is a big turnover right in the midd middle. Part of that have had to do with my own Creative Proces
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