burnham wood by eleanor, published by farrar. straus and giroux, a group of guerrilla gardeners in new zealand becomes involved an american built billionaire hoping build himself a doomsday bunker. should they trust him? should they trust each other. catton delivers an engrossing thriller that is also a blistering look at the horrors of late capitalism and a remarkably accomplished work of literary fiction. white cat. black dog by kelly link is published by random house in her formerly original and emotionally rich collection of stories. link reimagined seven fairy tales giving us talking animals. yes, but also ominous airports and characters entering enchanted states by eating gummies. most beguiling are the ways these stories complicate the older, tale's tidy conclusions. this is fiction that lingers like an especially intense dream. the heaven and earth, grocery by james mcbride published by riverhead. focusing othe chicken hill neighborhood of pottstown, pennsylvania, where in the 1930s, the town's black jewish families lived

farrar, in which the _ ferguson and withjeremy farrar, in which the debate and professor woolhouse isished by the who. you were _ infected... —— published by the who. you were not— infected... —— published by the who. you were not party to those e—mails. but professor ferguson, in one of those _ but professor ferguson, in one of those e—mails, says, fully agree, jeremy— those e—mails, says, fully agree, jeremy and — those e—mails, says, fully agree, jeremy and i were saying the same to patrick— jeremy and i were saying the same to patrick vallance and chris whitty last night. so, roughly an evening of the _ last night. so, roughly an evening of the 23rd — last night. so, roughly an evening of the 23rd of the 24th ofjanuary. so, of the 23rd of the 24th ofjanuary. so. along — of the 23rd of the 24th ofjanuary. so, along with the clear evidence of a sustained — so, along with the clear evidence of a sustained person—to—person transmission, along with their concerns. _ transmission, along with their concerns, based upon the who material. — concerns, based upon the who material, there was

and the winner of the 2023 kirkus prize for nonfiction nonfiction is our migrant by hector tobar farrar, straus and giroux. wow. it's been a long journey for me. 30 years ago this fall, i quit my job at the los angeles times to get an mfa and write fiction. and, you know, it's as many of the people in this room, being an author is a journey through delusions, grandeur to a more humble space and to being grateful for being. i am so grateful for this moment. that is for me and for people like me. a victory against silence. i think. i think that the hardest that many of us writers from so-called marginalized groups face is our reality is so far from the dominant reality. and i've labored 30 years to try to bring a certain kind of story and a certain kind of storytelling into the american mainstream and to the readers that so many of you help us reach. i'm grateful for kirkus. many of us here have i've written six books. like many of us here. i can say that there's only two outlets that have reviewed all my books, and that's publishers weekly and kirkus and i'm grateful to kirkus for what i

jeremy farrar, the anthony of england, is having discussions with his wife. his wife remembers 79 phone calls in one evening. she remembers telling him and she's a scientist also, she says to him, maybe you should talk your family. maybe you should inform your family something about this in case something they're really thinking they and he never really intimate who's got who's going to kill him or who might kill him. but they're worried that he might be killed over this knowledge. he says he bought a burner phone that will begin trying to use various forms of email that are not responsive. we have one of fauci's assistants saying, well, don't use your government email, it'll get for they're following me to death. don't use your government email. that's a crime you. remember hillary clinton? you remember all the discussions the executive branch has to use government email. and yet there was this idea we're just going to go outside the boundaries of this to have these discussions. and this began in january, january 31st, february 1st. so there's a big phone ca

this is an extract from jeremy farrar?scientist are you referred to giving us an insight into events. judgejeremy was a member of sage at this time. he describes, we see the second paragraph there, of a friction between waiting and waiting in. he said it led to a palpable tension between patrick and chris in the early weeks of 2020, particularly given the —— apparent absence of political leadership in that period. he refers to the fact that period. he refers to the fact that boris johnson that period. he refers to the fact that borisjohnson did not attend the first cobra meetings. he describes it as a palpable tension between waiting and waiting in. and there are some references in your notes which would seem to support that suggestion. if we can look pleased at 273—901, this is the schedule, ijust want pleased at 273—901, this is the schedule, i just want to show you a few references, sir patrick. perhaps we ought to say that you were not writing these notes contemporaneously for the first three months or so of the pandem

guy: peter farrar crew expressing his surprise that stock is not up more. a huge amount up on the back of the ai trade. the question we are asking about the balance of rewards and the risks. the margaret susan lewis to the awards. 179% this year soap -- the market clearly understands the upside but maybe this weekend was also about highlighting a volatility risk and may be downside as well. kailey: that's right and that is what we based our question around. do investors understand ai's risks? joining us is mandeep singh of bloomberg intelligence and alex webb of bloomberg originals. what you make of the events of this weekend and what it may tell us about some of the risks present in ai? alex: it was quite remarkable. it shows humans are the secret sauce. the reason people are giving microsoft a little bit of credit today is stopped because of sam altman himself. it is because of all the people at openai who have signed letters, 500 open i -- openai employees signed a letter in support of him. if you bring some of that talent to microsoft with him that is a

a memoir published by farrar strauss and the farm published by archipelago his latest novel in spanish is salva mi corazon. toto is stubborn which about which he will speaking later this afternoon and which will be published in english translation next year byrchipelago. i turn this over now to hector. thank you, oscar. and thank you. yo all for comg. i don't know. we've if we are in the hands of fate of prodence or in the hands of chance. or, maybe in the hands of free will also. five years ago, i didn't know anything. almost about ukraine. i used confuse ukraine with moldavia or or other countries that were part of the soviet union as, probably some americans or some ukrainians could confuse bolivia. colombia. but one day i received a letter from a very young publisher. two girls, two young ladi from ukraine lling me that they wanted to translate one ofy books into ukrainian and. then i began to study a little bit abouthat. and of course, especially after the russian invasion, they me to be there for a presentation. some four years ago ornow, three years ago, but it was the coronavir

, was a member of sage farrar, who was a member of sage and actually was whitty said and actually itell, that farrar had a book to sell, not patrick vallance , who not patrick vallance, who just want make that clear that it want to make that clear that it wasn't between the two of them, but still, why are you asking him? why is hugo keith even asking? chris whitty, was there tension between the two of you? it's not a soap opera. it's about was doing what and about who was doing what and why. don't make the why. so that we don't make the same mistakes in future. same mistakes in the future. >> it is a soap opera. that's what whole turned what the whole kyrees turned into, i'm afraid. now the president of the republic of south accompanied south korea is here, accompanied by will be meeting by his wife. he will be meeting with his name, andrew. i'm not going bother to pronounce it going to bother to pronounce it because i'm not even going to try. >> you use something or other that sounds like something. >> you might chinese >> you might order a chinese takeaway. say takeaway. am i allow

ahuja, a science journalist and co—author of the book �*spike�* with former sage scientistjeremy farrarhe first wave if the uk had locked down earlier, how did you feel? i felt really devastated, actually. it's felt really devastated, actually. it�*s so easy to say that, you know, with hindsight, but the feeling that sticks with me is that my father shouldn�*t have died in the circumstances in which he did and that if matt hancock and the government had acted more promptly, that his life and many, many thousands of others�*s could be saved. so it�*s very hard to listen to that. and it really... it is heartbreaking, yeah, truly heartbreaking. i5 heartbreaking, yeah, truly heartbreaking.— heartbreaking, yeah, truly heartbreakin. , ., heartbreaking. is it a controversial thin to heartbreaking. is it a controversial thing to say _ heartbreaking. is it a controversial thing to say now. _ heartbreaking. is it a controversial thing to say now, with _ heartbreaking. is it a controversial thing to say now, with hindsight, i heartbreaking. is it a controversial| thing to say now, with hindsight,

a memoir published by farrar strauss and the farm published by archipelago. his latest novel in spanish is salva mi corazon. toto is stubborn which about which he will speaking later this afternoon and which will be published in english translation next year by archipelago. i turn this over now to hector. thank you, oscar. and thank you. you all for coming. i don't know. we've if we are in the hands of fate of providence or in the hands of chance. or, maybe in the hands of free will also. five years ago, i didn't know anything. almost about ukraine. i used confuse ukraine with moldavia or or other countries that were part of the soviet union as, probably some americans or some ukrainians could confuse bolivia. colombia. but one day i received a letter from a very young publisher. two girls, two young ladies from ukraine telling me that they wanted to translate one of my books into ukrainian and. then i began to study a little bit about that. and of course, especially after the russian invasion, they me to be there for a presentation. some four years ago or kn

so farrar and giroux is a little different than knopf is a little different than random or doubleday or simon schuster. they each have the things that they do well and so random house and not both exist within the same company because they have slightly different reputations. canada tends to be little more literary a little more random house is a little more mainstream and i think urban decided that it might be worth trying to change things up to, try to make all the pretty horses fresh to give it a fresh start, to try with a new editor to try with a new imprint. so she went to. the new president of canada, who had just come in, a guy named sonny mehta, and asked if he would be interested in trying to take on mccarthy. and sonny made it. mehta himself. he was following in the footsteps of a giant ex-nazi robert gottlieb, who recently away himself and mehta was struggling. he was struggling in his first year to not to find his footing to get support from the employees, to get support from his bosses. and so he was hungry at. the time for successes himself. and he thought that he could