i exhaled three months earlier and anticipated, a great time is pride, carla cohen with smart, engagingimaginative and bighearted. she brought us all together, and i know that together we will continue to honor her. thank you. [laughter] >> my friendship with carla actually was a family friendship over kids. writing and journalism, et cetera, et cetera. here's the thing about card in a nutshell, is she loves me and i she was able to communicate. i love her too of course but she was able to dedicate this love. you knew you were loved by carla cohen. how she did it come how she had so much spirit, how she had so much love in her, it's pretty amazing. she was full of love and i don't think there's anything else to say. [applause] >> hi, everyone. i want to thank barbara and mark for asking me to be your. i am alexander zapruder. i'm going to read. early memories of the collins and politics and prose. i was first pulled into the orbit when i was in high school when entering join my older brother matthew, who maybe are somewhere, and a fast friendship, which lasted to this day triple threat

you knew you were loved by carla cohen.how she did it, how she had so much spirit, how she had so much love and i was pretty amazing. she was full of love and i don't think there's anything else to say. [applause] barbara and mark zapruder -- i want here about some my early memories of the colons of politics & prose. i was first pulled into the orbit when aaron joined my older brother matthew and arthur burrus who may be here somewhere. in a vast friendship, which lasts to this day, a triple threat of brains and wit. then i became friends with parents cousins there and there was a season around the time of my senior year in high school when we all hung out a fair amount at the house on holly street. i do think being impressed by the chaos, allergic to the black dogs in her hair all over the furniture and most of trying to keep up with the intellectual banter between the junior and senior members of the household. i have a vague memory that frankly i'm not entirely sure my own of an impromptu dinner at holly street and which

like the books she price, carla cohen was smart, engaging, imaginative and big hearted. brought us all together and i know that together we will continue to honor her. [applause] >> my friendship with carla was a family friendship over kids. we go back we before book writing and journalism etc., etc.. here's the thing about carless and may not show is she loved me she was able to communicate. i loved her, too that she was able to communicate this love. you knew you were loved by carla. how she did it, how she had so much spirit, so much love is pretty amazing. she was full of love and i don't think there is anything else to say. [applause] hi, everyone i want to thank barbara and mark for asking me here. i'm going to read. ives thinking before coming here about some of the early memories of politics and prose i was first pulled into the orbit when i was in high school when erin joined my older brother matthew who may be here somewhere in a fast friendship which lasts to this day for pool threat of brain and wit. then i became friends with his cousin, sarah and it was aro

prose bookstore, for hosting this event coming and i want to say a special word of appreciation for carla cohen, co-founder of politics and prose, who has many of you know, lost her brief fight against cancer only about ten days ago along with her partner, barbara meade, carla tikrit dewolf energy bringing reading and writing in to this city and i think barbara tells me they hope they will find someone to carry on the tradition and its good work. she told me speak to the property heads of the neighborhood. [laughter] and i don't doubt that that is the case. this book was inspired so to speak by a story in "the washington post" on the anniversary of one of the first protests by american jews may well have been the first. in march of 1933 only days after power, some 4,000 jewish veterans of world war i assembled in downtown manhattan to warn that the threat the nazis pos were not only to the jews of the countries they the veterans had fought for. could they carry the stars and stripes and banner with the star david and the city where they called upon the new york mayor to get the u.s. government

. >>> up next, a memorial for carla cohen, founder and co-owner of washington, d.c.'s politics and prose bookstore who passed away october 11th, 2010 at the age of 74. she started the bookstore in 1984. speakers at her memorial include politics and