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Why books matter. In the library of americas literary anthology. He is the book critic and former book editor of the los angeles times. Ladies and gentlemen, david yulen listen. [applause] thank you. Its a real honor and a pleasure to be here tonight and a real honor to be part of the National Book awards. Let me start by saying what an exceptional year its been for fiction, which means our work which made our work as a jury in this category especially rewarding and especially difficult. Long books, short books, short stories, novels, this list of finalists could have been a hundred books long. Why . Because what fiction offers is the interior plunge, a sense to experience the inner be life of another person which which makes it a mechanism of empathy. Thats what fiction has always been, thats what fiction remains, and it offers a vivid challenge to questions about the health of fiction. Trust me, my fellow jurors and i can assure ....
I said and i will call you right back because they had the feeling he pacified want cnn the satisfaction to tell though world they had informed the white house of they sent me the email to let me know that he had died. Now we have the fee and in the york city. There is one . [laughter] [applause] from jasper it has his picture and to view that we ask you do you miss me . That is the results of greta that we get another dog after henry passed one night greg gutfeld said she was mad because proper route to taking pictures of her job she said you are known to fly into a rage i said no i want everyone to share my dog he can be americas dog and he is. [laughter] [applause] and the good news is. All of you have the book go to the lobby they will sign or they are for sale. The Richard Nixon president ial library. God bless america. [inaudible conversations]. Guest kathy is my mother and in the course of thinking about this book i realized ....
The people who travel tend to be more liberal in terms of freedom and tolerance. So encountering other people that are different from you in which you dont have to kill or enslave, you can do something that benefits them that also benefits you which ishas been one of the great benefits of capitalism that almost no one sees. It really is one of the best things ever invented. You said you worked on this book for several years. A long time. I did not know that much about the history of war, what causes a carnivore. The last time any of the great powers went to work, 1945 was the last time the proxy wars like korea and vietnam, thosevietnam, those wars are decreasing although it is true there are still genocide but nothing like the holocaust with the tragedies of mao and stalin. Those are anomalies compared to today. Isys is bad but tiny compared to what someone a century ago might have done. We are getting a handle even on the bad guys. Two steps forward one step back. Theyre always be en ....
Especially in thinking about the kinds of freedoms that you are eager for and individuation that still happening actively at that time. It made me hungry for a kind of distance from the person i had been as a child or my mothers child at home and some have poetry love me to take different kinds of steps into a sense of who i was and what was important to me. Do you ever surprise yourself by writing up. Guest yeah. Ideally thats the goal for any poem. If it doesnt happen i feel like maybe the poem isnt done yet or the poem isnt ready to be written. My last book of poems was thinking a lot about my father who passed away about seven years ago and i didnt know what i was after. I just knew that i sat down to write and i wanted to be able to dwell on aspects of our relationship and my memory that would make me feel closer to her. And one thing that i discovered an probably this is connected to some of the things i discovered in writing this memoir was that i was looking for a version of go ....
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