Den Lemon, among other renowned panelists, will provide attendees with invaluable literary expertise and wisdom. (Photo courtesy of CNN)
The
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books will be streaming virtual panels from April 17 to April 23. Over the course of the festival, more than 100 authors will participate in the panels to discuss different topics and writings.
Below are some of the featured panelists on this year’s Festival of Books mainstage:
Guy Raz and Mindy Thomas (Saturday, April 17)
Guy Raz is an award-winning journalist, creator and radio host. He is widely known for hosting and creating the podcasts “How I Built This,” “The Rewind” and “Wisdom From The Top,” and he is also the co-creator and former host of NPR’s “Ted Radio Hour.” Throughout his career, Raz has interviewed more than 6,000 people from various fields, and his shows have amassed over 19 million listeners every month.
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Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder and conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk will be joining Talkradio 77 WABC, New York, where the late conservative pioneer and greatest radio host of all time Rush Limbaugh first launched his national career.
Talkradio 77 WABC, New York, and 107.1 FM WLIR, Long Island, announced Friday that Salem Radio Network’s syndicated talker Charlie Kirk will be joining the two stations’ lineup at noon EST, starting Monday.
77 WABC is known as one of America’s top NewsTalk radio stations, and has launched the national careers of hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin.
“One could argue that no station in America has had the influence on the talk radio landscape like 77 WABC, and we are incredibly excited to join the WABC lineup,” a Charlie Kirk spokesperson told Breitbart News.
The world of conservative book sales is one big grift. Regnery Press is so often in the middle of it.
It s so bad that conservative authors unsuccessfully sued Regnery themselves in 2007 for giving away bulk buys of their titles to inflate sales, while cutting the authors royalties.
Many conservatives buy their own books in bulk in an attempt to get on the New York Times Bestseller List. These days the Times puts a dagger emoji next to those listed that benefit from so-called bulk sales.
Ted Cruz, or at least his publisher, tried to get around the bulk sales emoji by hiring
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There may be no greater repository of analog information than the library, a glorious assembly of printed pages that can take us on adventures, educate us, and fill our days and nights with details of worlds beyond our own all free of charge. Today, there are roughly 116,867 public and academic libraries dotting the country. To celebrate National Library Week, we ve rounded up 25 fascinating facts about these irreplaceable institutions.
1. Benjamin Franklin started up a lending library in 1731.
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One of the oldest public libraries in the country opened in 1790 in Franklin, Massachusetts, where residents circulated books donated by Benjamin Franklin. The Founding Father once started his own lending library in 1731 in Philadelphia called the Library Company, but it required a subscription fee of 40 shillings.