are going to enjoy it in that sense so many compounding at factors that lebanon has to deal with dr asimov had speaking to us from kim also a medical center in beirut well with me here in the studio now is my colleague amandeep from our u.w. arabic a desk a so good to have you with us here and i cannot imagine you are lebanese the anxiety that you must have been experiencing 1st of all how are your relatives how are your loved ones how is everybody back home thank god everybody i know is fine and safe and survived the blast lucky my parents live in also in north lebanon and not in beirut and they were able to survive this but it has been a very very tough 24 hours for me and everyone who lives abroad we're old worried about our loved ones. they're still searching rescue operations ongoing to find those who are still missing it's been a very very tough time and the least i can say is that we're all traumatized from that despite having lived wars and several catastrophes and levon on this scene. to be on a just different level what are your friends workers your family telling you the day aft

go on i will extend the pianist and the trombone or that this image but the horrible images from asimov's past won't stop so easily hopefully he won't give up music it helped him during his darkest times and it helps him now allowing him to make a living and a new life in germany. this week or celebrating the winners of the good in that all for 2023 leading lights whose were . work in literature and the arts has built bridges for cultural understanding and our 2nd laureate is britain's ian mckeown an incredible novelist whose mind works much like an anatomist thing the 4 bills of human nature with an ever painful precision. and make human has published 20 novels and collections of short stories in 29000 he published 2 books. in machines like me he tells the story of an android and asks are robots perhaps better than human. cockroaches a biting satire about mckeown imagines an insect transformed into the british prime minister it's the most of firstly political novel he's ever written in mcewen is a vocal and passionate remainer describing breck's it as the most pointless masochistic ambit

one - - involvement of japan and china and also about free inquiry and have you read much of isaac asimov> in reverse order you - - i once went to hear in the early eighties with their attack on the creationist movement i am not a science fiction reader myself i did not even like the masters. the very hard to read. but i have read other polemics and seeing him be very spirited and with those who missed an atheist that they would subscribe to and when they ask me with those industrial relations. >> another e-mail. from west virginia, thank you for your commentary at the atlantic and protecting salman rushdie and the american citizen. why do brits favor that depiction of down and violent and fat is it just in the british nature to be cynical and snarky? >> yes. that the united states overhauled in the united kingdom and it seems quite a long time ago and many people are not forgiven. and that british compensation for this loss of time is the greeks to be dominated by the roman empire. >> that's why they referred to as the irony of slaves. >>host: arkansas go ahead. >> and to have the opport

. >> reporter: eric asimov is chief wine critic for "the new york times." >> it just makes a lot of sensehaving wine in a can take away from anything, the experience, anything like that? >> no. because of the kind of wine you're putting in a can -- you wouldn't put a fancy wine or a wine that's intended to age for years in a can. i don't think you should judge wine by the container. you know, the container is just an innocent object. you know, it's the people who make the wine who are in charge of the quality. >> reporter: people like the damianos family. >> i was going to get a bottle -- >> you're getting -- >> reporter: who despite the pandemic continue to serve wine to their loyal but now masked customers on long island. >> thank you, guys. see you later. take care. >> see you next week. >> reporter: as for angela allison, when we caught up with her last week, we learned that wine society it made inroads in an unexpected place -- restaurants. >> we never thought that we would be in sort of a white tablecloth environment. but not being able to serve by the glass, it opened it up. they s