We are going to have a great night tonight. We are honoring literary liens, emma white will be honored, a big night for the Massive National Book Foundation for literature, culture, a big night for all of us. When i have the ability to stand in front of people i mention my mothers name jean christian. She is the reason i like to say about my mother i am the man that i am because she is the woman sheis or was. My mother was my first teacher. My mother graduated from college at the age of 17, the first person in her family to go to college. For me to be a wellknown literary advocate in this nation, a place where only a scant few generations ago it would have been illegal for me to read is no small thing. [applause] literature is the birthrightof every single one of us, no exception and if you can read in at least one language youare in my definition free. That is to say , no one can pull the wall over your eyes. No one can give you a set of what they want to call alternative facts and co
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We were thrilled to have dan sinykin with us for a discussion of big fiction how changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature dan santat is an assistant professor of english at Emory University with a courtesy appointment in, quantitative theory and methods. Hes the author of American Literature and the long downturn neoliberal apocalypse and his writing has appeared in the new york times. The washington, the los angeles review of books, the rumpus and other publications joining dan in conversation is coeditor and publisher of nw plus mark krotov. So without further ado, please join me in welcoming dan and mark to the stage. Hello. Thanks so much for being here. Theres so many places to start. Ill start with myself. How about that . I one of the things that is very exciting to me about talking to you about this book is that i, in some have lived it or have lived a little piece of it working at end. Plus one obviously weve written about about pop, ive written about publishing
Life fell in pieces around me. I was a junior in college and six months earlier i was assaulted by. An alumni at the school in my dorm. I was alone. I was out of all my classes. And so the obvious thing to do was to hide in the library. And there among stacks, for the first time in my life, i saw the name a vietnamese author. The name was back when and the book was stealing the dinner. I cannot tell you exactly how it felt to no longer feel alone in the world as turned the page by page. But i can tell you that i had the same feeling now, a decade later, reading best latest owner of a lonely heart, published this fall by scribner, and that her ability to make a reader feel seen is exceeded only by her real life integrity, grace and elegance. Beth, who has also written under the name bittman, will, is the author of three previous books, the stealing the buddhas dinner, the novels short girls and girl. Her awards honors include an american book, a patriot fund award from the pen america c