The author of the New York Times bestseller also a visiting professor at columbia university. Featured in the new yorker, the New York Times, the atlantic, rolling stone, esquire and the guardian among many others. Joining the conversation born and raised in jackson mississippi, professor of english and creative writing at the university and author of the novel Long Division and a collection of essays how to slowly kill your self and others in america. Also the author of the memoir heavy, shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie medal and named one of the best books by the New York Times, publishers weekly, npr, library journal, the washington post, entertainment weekly, the San Francisco chronicle and the New York Times critics. Without further ado please join me in welcoming morgan and kiese laymon. Hello, everyone. Im so excited to talk to you about this book. I wish that we could i really wish we could have done this down south. Guest i know. Two years ago i was in conversation with you
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In with staff periodically on sunday he failed to check in. Those are surveillance photos of him from sunday night. The fbi and u. S. Marshal office are assisting Hawaii Police in tracking him town. Officials say he has family in the south bay. Lets talk about the weather. Get ready because the rain returns tomorrow. Tonight we are getting flash flood warnings. Lets look outside now of the San Francisco camera. The right side of the screen is what it looks like right now. On the left side is what it was yesterday. A beautiful fall evening right now. But door more stormgs coming. A 12 punch gusty winds and heavy rain. Lets bring in jeff with the time table in the next 48 hours. Complex pattern. Overall we are tracking the stronger storm developing to the north. The thing helping to boost up the rainfall totals is the southerlily moisture stream. Ahead of the storm there is a new Flash Flood Watch in place more marin, napa and sonoma counties be 4 00 p. M. Wednesday until 3 00 a. M. Thur