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I think i just got an f from you, actually. applause diane guerrero, welcome. Thank you for having me. So nice to meet you. The book is amazing and maybe the most amazing thing about it is the bravery that had to have gone into the decision to write it. You could have gone along in your very successful career as an actress and never written this book, never told this story, probably not subjected yourself to what, im sure, youve been subjected to in writing it. Yes, its so, why do it . Well, first, you give me way too much credit. As somebody who is brave . Well, okay. I think brave and succes...

Not much anymore. That was an earlier chapter in my life. And odd that you would mention my ethnicity there. And i say that because i once thought about that. And i realized that i may be the most visible scientist of any discipline, of any ethnicity, of any skin color, in america today. And the reason why i went through that mental exercise was because there i am trying to bring the frontier of science to the public, and i said, i dont want to do that alone. I want some others there with me. And i looked around to see whos there with me. You know, do we have a geologist there with me, and a b...

Are you gonna run for president . I think i just got an f from you actually. audience applauding r. L. Stine, welcome. Thank you. Very nice to meet you. So nice to be here. I seem to remember the actual Christmas Carol being scary. Why is it necessary to write a scary version of this . I know, and nothing like stealing from the best, right . Right, well, but you understand its like when i hear that were gonna do a scary version of a Christmas Carol, thats like a musical version of rent. I thought it was a musical. No, youre totally right. Why this now . I had never written a christmas book bef...

Chips. Hinojosa so a lot of people, when they think of the south bronx, 1960s, 70s, when you were growing up. Right, right, right. Hinojosa . Their image is of a place that was entirely desolate, that was, you know, in destruction. Right, right. Hinojosa but for you, it was a totally different reality. Well, there was that element to it. But i always say that i was very fortunate to have grown up in that time period, because the culture, as far as latino and African American culture, particularly afro puerto rican, afro cuban culture, and obviously African American culture, were in full force ...

Lets start with the sizzle before we get to the steak. Are you gonna run for president . I think i just got an f. applauding t. C. Boyle, welcome. My pleasure. Congratulations on the book. Thank you so much. I publish books all the time, every year, and i go out on the road and every once in a while somebody says, congratulations, and im wondering, for what . Its like going to war when you publish a book. No, its like giving birth, here it is. It was long awaited. No, no, the thing about this book that i thought was especially great was it took me back, truly took me back to the mid and early ...