Welcome to book tvindepth program, this is our special year of fiction on indepth. You see authors such as david baldacci, jody people, Walter Mosley, last month we had david ignatius, Washington Post columnist and thriller writer who writes about the cia and such. This month we are pleased to have Pulitzer Prize winning author Colson Whitehead as our guest with the most recent book is the underground railroad. Mister whitehead, whats the appropriate response when your book are are praised by oprah, president obama, you win the pulitzer and National Book award, whats the appropriate response . It took the pain away. This book is taking off in a way that is startling and wonderful so mostly i just thank my lucky stars and i sleep a little better, im in a better mood generally. And i tried to enjoy it. Its my best effort. Why does that put you in a better mood . Ive been writing for 20 something years, doing fiction for 20 years and you know, sometimes you write a book and people digging
Trumps first year in the white house be with author and historian, bill w. Brands. Also with mara liasson and doug g. Brinkley. This hourlong event was part of the annual Texas Tribune festival at the university of texas in austin. [applause] as we were saying, bryan curtis on behalf of the Texas Tribune i am happy to welcome me to the Texas Tribune festival and to trump in the presidency. A very rich panel. There is a hole in this, there is a whole bunch of panel today Trump National security, trump in congress, trump and resistance. I hope this will be the first of a huge dent the possible. There is lunch at the main mall and it will conclude with a reception at the at t center. Some more housekeeping. The panel is with pearson and the sponsors play no role in the content, panelists or my line of questioning. The event will be 60 minutes for the last 15 to 20 i will leave it open for your questions from the audience for this godless panel. After that, pearson will host all of us for
Veterans day is tomorrow. People are giving back to those who have served their nation. We are life and sell city which is a big thank you event underway. Reporter a big thank you event. It is a little damp out. Im not going to lie. Theres a little bit of rain. We had a nice break in the weather for a couple of minutes and got some sunshine him and now were back to the rain. The grill is hot and the food looks delicious. All of this was your idea. We are here at the produce allie sports tavern. This is your way of saying thank you to the nations veterans and our First Responders. Absolutely. I definitely try to serve everyone. You are free to come down and enjoy the day. First responders, we are serving until 2 00. The food looks delicious. Theres tritip and theres very desk and theres vegetarian options. And you were talking about those 26 million veterans, i know that we are short on that, but you do have a packed house. You have a bunch of people in here. We are working in it on it.
Good morning, everyone. Sorry about the delay but, you know, without a little problem, life is no fun, right . As some of you know, im a federal judge about two blocks away, and im reminded this morning this is deja vu all over again. Now, one could draw a couple of conclusions from this, and that is i did such a great job they asked me back, the other one is they had to find someone who was willing to get up on a saturday morning and do this. But i think the second explanation is really the best one, because were all readers, and we all love authors, and we just want to be here. So welcome. So starting at my right is the narrator of this mornings panel, pamela paul. Shes the editor of the New York Times book review and is also an author in her own right. She writes the popular feature buy the book and interview feature in the magazine. Every morning i and many other readers of the New York Times book review turn with anticipation to see which novelist, historian, short story writer or
In the sierra. This is from 80 near donner summit. Chains required. Thank you for joining us tonight. Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. Lets start withdrew tuma and live doppler 7 hd. Its tracking scattered showers. I want to take you into central sonoma county. We have a flood advisory in effect. The Mark West Creek is currently overflowing its banks a little bit. There is minor flooding in the area. Never drive through any flooded roadways in the vicinity of that flood advisory. Tracking light showers. Winds down to santa rosa along 101. Scattered showers at this hour. Live doppler 7 hd to street level. Kensington, em ripville, piedmont and orinda. Heavier activity indicated by the orange. Each by palo alto and east palo alto, you do notice we had light showers moving along the peninsula at this hour. All these storms over the past week churned up all ocean waters. Look at this video into the newsroom of the waves around pacifica. They had high wives cresting over the barrier. It was grea