eli reed. one is the journalist is with us today and the other is a talented singer that goes by the name of eli paperboy agreed. [laughter] so if you came here this afternoon expecting to hear this guy we have the real eli reed. and we are in the presence of a great artist and a great storyteller and a great conscience if you can understand how he could interpret the joy of the people, if you can appreciate how he could sketch the range of emotions with the pen, then you know how he is able to capture and deserved the deserve the essence of our humanity with his camera. during his time with such publication is national geographic people, "newsweek," the "washington post," spurs illustrated, you get the picture he covered the war in beirut lebanon which he covered between 1983 and 1987 the military action in panama on and the upheaval she's done photography work for such films as poetic justice, higher learning rosewood, a beautiful mind and a smile. since 2005 committees on the school of journ

but we have the real eli reed.nd we are in the presence of a great artist and a great storyteller and a great conscience. if you can understand how louis armstrong could interpret the blues and joys of a people through a trumpet, if you can appreciate how shakespeare could sketch the full range of emotions with a pen then you can know how eli reed is able to capture and preserve the's sense of our humanity with his camera. .. he has made documentaries and don still photography work on such films as poetic justice higher l

please give eli reed a round of applause. [applause] >> go san antonio book festival coverage continues with other jeff dire who has written an account of what life is like before the aircraft carrier uss george h.w. bush. [inaudible conversations] >> hi everybody. my name is clay smith. i am the program director of this festival so thank you for being here. confronting the drizzle or the mr. the rain or whatever you we want to call it. you are not here for may me you're obviously here to listen to geoff dyer. let me tell you a little bit about geoff. he and i will be in conversation for a while and we will open up for questions from you all. geoff dyer is the author of four novels to two collections of essays and seven genres by title and they are both beautiful out of sheer rage yoga for people who can't be bothered to do it the ongoing moment and known the epoch about tarkovsky's films. he is the editor of john burgess selected essays on the quieter of what was true, photographs of no books of william gedney. he's a fellow