george delacorte founded the all publishing empire and was beloved and rather eccentric philanthropist. he contributed to some of the architectural wonders you see on campus and has also famously donated the alice in wonderland statue in central park. we are grateful to the s and in your community trust for their support of journalism education in our robust magazine program. and now, i would like to introduce one star of our evening keith gessen, before , joining us here, keith was the founding editor of m plus one, an influential new york magazine of culture and politics. if you have not read this, you should. go to the web right now and check it out. keith is also a contributor to the new yorker. and, the london review of books. he is editor of three nonfiction books and the translator or co-translator from russian for a collection of short stories, a book of poems, and the words of -- and they work of oral history. he is an author of a novel and he is also writing a new one. i hand this over to keith and i will have him introduce our guest for tonight, nikole he is also writing a h