Welcome to the 2020 National Book festival. And our conversation with two distinguished guests who join us in honor of the centennial celebrations of american author and space age visionary rate bradberry a master storyteller whose legacy exemplifies the festivals theme of american ingenuity. I am john, director of the center for bradberry studies at Indiana University school of liberal arts. Red berries encouragement led to the creation of the center will re preserve his entire home office, a lifetime of words and mementos of the papers correspondence and working library that remained in his home at the time of his passing in 2012 part his remarkable career spans seven decades. He grew up in the great depression. His family, his father had to take the family all the way from illinois to los angeles to find work in rate bradberry was never able to go to college. He developed a great style, his own unique lyric, metaphor rich style. In his own kind of subjects writing fantasy, weird tal
Time when blue cross thanks for joining us we begin right here in berlin where police have broken up a major protest a far right activists and pandemic deniers for failing to stick to social distancing and massacring rules that was the condition a court set when it gave them the green light to hold the event where state officials had tried to ban at least 20000 people took part some turned violent and hundreds were arrested. By the thousands to demand germanys government change its course in the corona crisis. But for many the demonstrations in the heart of berlin ended in arrest. Police say they were forced to make the detentions after a far right activists who marched alongside coronavirus skeptics clashed with police. A small group even managed to storm the steps of the German Parliament before being detained. Saturdays demonstrations attracted a Wide Coalition of activists from right wing radicals to those who reject the authority of the German Government or doubt the severity or e
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Her writing has appeared from the new york times, Washington Post and Huffington Post in the first book she also has a second book coming out in 2020. To ask the question what is happening to faith in america . And 70 percent consider themselves christian of some sort and is the multi genre investigation of the division our country is facing. I dont want to spoil anything else but it is a very timelyy book. Without further ado please lehelp me to welcome our author. [applause]. Hi. Can everybody hearo me okay . Im used too doing midwestern events and a lady says please talk louder. I am talking about is i want to athol. Say do you have any questions say yes that i felt that after that reply had to was cspan also acknowledged the shirt i specifically wore for washington dc because for some reason you have to come here to be president. L[laughter] i want to tell you the origin story of the book because this is a book about religion and you dont really want to hear me read a book about re