in conversation with simon schuster is the beloved journalist for the post and hometown hero david von drehle. please welcome. good evening, everyone. thank you for coming out. the david von drehle now of the washington post. but for ten years of my life, i editor at large at time magazine when privilege to work with an incredible and intrepid young foreign correspondent named simon. we worked together at time for eight years. tonight is the first've ever met five because because while i was sitting in a comfortable. sipping tea and preparing write up the simon was out on a battlefield in war zones. thechasing down difficult interviews and, risking his life for. our readers he under incredibly difficult circumstances send me notes which that ithe comfort oo through and choose just choices. details that i■ to put into the finished story. i thought it was an excellent partnership. you got i got the glory and simon got the experience. i like to write. so it's a tremendous treat to be here with one of the great foreign of■■"4> so much admiration for him. think in the introduction you st journalis