Welcome everyone to unbound, the bay area book festival virtual conversations. I want to start by acknowledging the partnership between this festival and kqed. Joining me is tiffany shlain, emmy nominated filmmaker and author of 24 6, the power of unplugging one day a week. Thank you for joining me today. Im so happy to be here. Is an interesting time to think about unplugging given this moment during the coronavirus pandemic as we are taping this interview. Many of us are finding ourselves even more tethered to screens because we are able to do things like meet people in person, go out to our workplaces or schools. Or hang out in a bar or cultural venue. First we will hear more about the book from tiffany and then we will have a discussion. Sending it over to you tiffany, take it away. Its so good to be here. Im from the bay area. I love the bay area and im glad we are still able to make it happen this way. Adapting doing literary adapting to this very extraordinary circumstance we ar
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