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Thank you all for coming out tonight and supporting your local independent and Employee Owned bookstore. [applause] before we begin tonight i want to mention other programming we have coming up on thursday per code next week on tuesday we host former poet laureate along with a few contributors for his new anthology next wednesday we are hosting for the atlantis boston history many more events coming up you can find more information up by the registers when you pick up 19 century protest book page magazine well written in interviews that deserves a livelier but this is a general audience too vi...

[applause] ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming out on yet another rainy day in kentucky in 2019. Let me take a moment to ask you to take your time now to check your cell phones and make sure it is turned off. Thank you all for coming out today to another historic moment for the history of the Mcconnell Center here at the university of louisville. Ive decided to handle it this way. I will not call you out. Thank you for bringing her today out in the rain or dragging her through the rain here today. This is a historic moment for the center, one of many in our history. I was thinking about...

Ladies and gentleman, thank you for com ladies and gentlemen thank you for coming out on another rainy day in kentucky. Let me take a moment. Thank you for coming out at this historic moment at the Mcconnell Center there is a number of distinguished guests in the audience tonight if you think i would call you distinguish then that is the case. But i do owe and introduction to the president of the university of louisville thank you for bringing her today. This is a storied moment in our history and the statesman one of the most important of all time because it seems to me we have duties one is ...

Today. Great to see so many people out here, hungry for books. Toiling away in front of my moreter, dealing with electronics than live people. Of course im writing about history. The people im writing about our dead. Its nice to see live people. Engrossed in the kinds of things i and other writers here write about. I was fortunate to have grown up in a home that was filled with books. I grew up in yonkers, new york. A suburb of new york city, thousands of books, walls filled with books. As a little kid the sense of myks around me is one of most indelible memories of childhood. Remembering that...

Listening toe other speakers and it is a privilege for me to be talking to you today. Great to see so many people out here hungry for books. We are toiling away in front of my computer dealing with more electronics than live people. Of course i am writing about history. All of the people i write about are dead. They cannot talk back. It is nice to see live people. So engrossed in the kind of things i and others write about. I was very fortunate to have grown up in a home that was filled with books. I grew up in yonkers, new york, with thousands of books all filled with books. The sense ofid, b...