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The night that i win the emmy. Being on the Supreme Court was an improbable dream. Its hard work and its controversial. Without information, there is no freedom. And its journalists who provide that information. Window rolls down and this guy says, hey, he goes to 11 00. [laughter]. Rick hertzberg, welcome. Great to be here. Nice to see you again, and for no particular reason except just to talk politics, which i love to do. The oh, im ready for that. And especially with you. So lets start with the president. Lets start high up on the chain here. You wrote a book after the 2008 campaign. It wa...

Wendell pierce, welcome. Thank you so nice to meet you, an honor to meet you. The honor is mine. And i must say, i love this book, and what i loved about it, i love many things about it, but i loved about it the most, was that it read like fiction even though its nonfiction. Its such a literary, memoir. Youve written books before, or not . No, this is my first book. What a debut, then thank you, thank you. Im from new orleans, so the characters of my life and my family and my community, you couldnt even find them in fiction, so right, not credible as fiction, not believable not credible as fic...

Was an improbable dream. Its hard work and its controversial. Without information, there is no freedom. And its journalists who provide that information. Window rolls down and this guy says, hey, he goes to 11 00. [laughter]. Senator sanders, welcome. My pleasure. Very nice to see you, sir. Good to be here. Lets start with the sizzle before we get to the steak. Are you going to run for president . Giving serious thought about doing just that. Youve given it enough thought at this point. Why dont you just decide . [laughter]. Whats keeping you from making the decision already . I tell you what,...

Applause Margaret Atwood welcome. Thank you. Very nice to have you here. Lovely to be here. So interested in this new book, congratulations on it. May i say nobody does dystopian like you do dystopian. laughs is that a compliment . Oh my god its the biggest compliment in the world. I mean the world that youve created in this book will come back to the handmaids tale at some point here soon reminiscent to my mind of the dystopia in that book. But i love the plot of this story, i love the characters and i think it goes in odd places that make it a very compelling read. It goes in very odd places...

Living it on a day to day basis, but both of you kind of approach this from your academic perspectives in terms of literature. So professor gates well just call you skip. Mmhmm. Hinojosa . Why look at this current important relationship through the prism of literature . Well, ive added to the Norton Anthology of African American literature along with ten of my colleagues. Hinojosa this big book big, heavy book, yes. laughing its the big bible. This. The mother ship of black literature. In order to enshrine African American literature in the academy. Look, if you are from the whitest place in s...