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When people experience inequality, they experience it as like a personal problem that they individually need to fix rather than a social problem that needs to be solved together. So if we could achieve this fundamental shift and outlook so that people didnt think where they ended up with solely just from their own actions but actually were so heavily influenced by all the social forces that are around them that would change the world. That would lead people to demand policies that provide security for families and if we did that i think we would all worry less than three more. [applause] and w...

Then to convince people they should be reading. Least, silene your Electronic Devices for the audience and for our friends at home. Ts panel [inaudible conversations] todays panel is called connecting on thursday and readers discussing how publishers writers and the media and booksellers help readers discovered new books and authors. Without further ado i will introduce our panel and let them tell you what they do. We have taryn roeder associate producer of publicity and works of the publicity campaigns for fiction and nonfiction books. Authors include Temple Brandon and previously based in wa...

Host hello, or scharf. It is wonderful to have you here today. I found your book fascinating. It was a terrific read and i am thrilled to be here. You know, one of the great things about being here and talking to you is i get to ask you about the big questions. It questions that most people would not have to answer. That is the real fun of this book. So your book is called the copernicus complex. So maybe you could tell us what that is. Guest absolutely. Tanks, ingrid. So, the copernicus complex is really a phrase that is trying to capture one of the aspects of what i think is perhaps the bigg...

Baker, Francine Prose and Walter Mosley. [applause] ms. Paul is the editor of the New York Times book review and the popular interview of by the book. Her new book on literature and the literary life by the New York Times book review brings together 65 of the most intriguing and fascinating exchanges over time. Shes joined this morning by the author of six novels as well as the coowner of a bookstore. [applause] her newest book is this is the story of a happy marriage a memoir and before the publication of her first novel she was in the trenches of 17 magazine. Nicholson baker is the author of...

Many highways and streets and especially in this country as well, you know . Phillips 66 has become as familiar to many people out here as a coke bottle. Its that iconic in the minds of many motorists. Well frank got his start in the oil business in a sort of convoluted way. He was actually, he was not from oklahoma. He was actually born on the nebraska frontier out in the loop valley. His father was a civil war veteran, fought in the union army, and his parents moved out into nebraska territory. And thats where he was born in 1874. And they came back short will have a that shortly after that ...