and a 2021 alicia patterson fell appeared previously spent six years on staff of the "new york times". were going to speak for ten or 15 minutes it will open up your question submitted to the chat and the q&a. and now we will ask kenneth to come back up on screen and we're going to dive in. >> hi anastasia. >> hello how are you? >> guest: i'm really well. hearing my bio annoying with the subject of the book is, it really shows like how long it takes to publish a book. [laughter] just like that change of topic of subject matter. >> host: yes, absolutely. we've got quite a crop of people here. tell us where you are zooming from. >> i'm coming to you live from northern italy the beautiful italian outs where i live part time, part of the earth my family. i'm a new england author and currently giving all that were experiencing these days. >> for the gouge of the subject of the book, how long have you been back in italy? has it been post covid there? >> you and i spoke last week just come from italy to massachusetts right as the country really went into lockdown. as soon massachusetts put u