and encourage you all to give generously to the before columbus foundation. we are certainly grateful for any donations that we can receive and find this at before columbus foundation.com. as we conclude the ceremony annual american book awards, i would like to bring all of our attention to the walter and lillian lowenfels criticism award, which this year is going to "appalachian reckoning" edited by anthony harkins and meredith mccarroll. as a master playwright tom at the late tennessee williams said in his sweet bird of youth, it takes a hillbilly to take down a hillbilly. and in the struggle to bring some kind of counter valence to the intentions to control the discovery of the culture of appellation coming out of washington, d.c. and the loudmouths in new york, this particular work really does the lion share of that work in eliminating the struggle of the people who actually lived there rather than capitulating to what new york publishers or politicians in washington, d.c. would like as us to believe abt the population there. and so by way of an introducti

my name is justin and i am the chairman of the board of directors of the before columbus foundation, and would like to welcome everyone to the 41st annual american book awards. as many of youw,