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Chicago tribune. [applause] that is enough of that. Does anybody in here not know who erik larson is . You walk in saying that looks like an interesting name . He is, without argument and you can argue if you want to the finest nonfiction writer alive. [applause] he is also a terrific human being and you unfortunately have to listen to larson and kogan. This is the first time we are having a conversation without cocktails. You describe this as a floating village in steel. You get 15 minutes to ask specific questions so i will not focus too much on the book. My editor has specific questions. Bu...

With 23 fake credit cards in their car. After watching this video lawmakers called for the doubling of penalties for hit andrun fatal crashes. There was alcohol involved and they know that they want to escape and allow that time to wear off. Reporter the Suffolk County executive calls this a textbook case that cries out for change. Even four hours after sharpe allegedly fled Officials Say they were still able to calculate his blood alcohol level at the time of the crash at. 12. Thats well above the legal limit. Reporting live from the Suffolk County district attorneys office, in hauppauge, lon...

Folklife center. The library hosted this event as part of its summer lecture series. I am going to start the program off. I want to leave time for q a for stephen afterwards. I have a boatload of questions and i imagine the audience is going to as well. As littlewho know about the American Folklife Center as i did, i will share notes i jotted down. Our speaker today is Stephen Winick, who is with the Folklife Center. I will tell you more about his job and a second. The center is located at the library of congress, that is our theme for this month lecture series. The center was created in 1976 ...

Look for these titles in bookstores is coming week and watch for the authors in the near future book tv and this is book tv live coverage of the 2016 Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. Over the next seven hours you will hear from several authors including eric larson, Kenneth C Davis and brian burrow. We began todays coverage with a discussion on politics featuring former pres. Obama adviser David Axelrod, author of axelrod, author of believer, and nationally syndicated columnist Clarence Page, author of culture, lawyer. This is live coverage from chicago on book tv. [inaudible conversatio...

That collection arrived at the 135th Street Public Library 90 years ago. He was a bibliophile who migrated from puerto rico in 1891 found a job on wall street work in the mailroom saves his pennies and worked really hard and bought anywhere are unique but he could find that was by or about black people. He eventually became famous for this collection. People would go to his home in brooklyn to see the library to borrow from the Library People like Langston Hughes and eventually people like and when the librarian at the library and library decided she had a lot of lack patrons coming to the lib...