books according to book people bookstore in austin is vacationland : a memoirist from humorist john hodgman. some of these authors will be appearing on book tv, watch them on our website, booktv.org. >>. [inaudible conversation] hi everyone. i think we're going to get started. how are you doing? everybody doing good? [applause] thank you. my name is lily philpott and i'm the public events coordinator. where so glad you joined us at the strand bookstore this evening both to celebrate banned books week and to help us launch our new series. this year banned books week run september 21 through the 30th and we are pleased to be celebrating the freedom to read and the three and countable authors, david levithan, coe booth and ariel schrag. band out loud as a series presented in collaboration with the strand, the series provides us with a platform to amplify diverse voices and convene vital conversationson the way free expression affects writers and readers alike . next monday, october 2 we will be back on the second floor with daniel and lily who will speak about physical linguistics and creative

and then a memoir from humorist john hodgman. some of these had or will be appearing on book tv. you can watch them on our website. one common investment fraud is the promises of profitability and then initially delivering on those promises by taking the money that later investors put in and using that to pay out the off the dividends to early investors. they can't last forever because eventually you run out of people at the bottom of the pyramid the actual form of that is very consistent but so is the mode of marketing in almost all of these types of schemes that approach is to look for some group of insiders and to head someone in that group and all of the schemes are perpetrated by individuals who can expect to have trust because they are selling the scheme to people like them who are distinct from the rest of society. the most famous example still is a ponzi scheme. they focus on the italian community. the earliest example is by sarah howe in the 1870s. she focused on unmarried women. the bond of trust. there are quakers that give me resources to make good on my promises. and

nonfiction books according to book people bookstore in austin, texas, is vacation land, a memoir from john hodgman. some of these authors have or will appear on book tv. you can watch them on our website, book tv.org. >> atlanta started as a transportation hub for railroads it got really crowded in the middle. by the late 1880s they began to build beltline railroads to go outside that center and there were four different ones, so ryan's i did to connect them was unusual because they never were connected. they were or invite-- owned by four different railroads and there were industry built up around them, people began to live around them and then the street cars came in late 1800s and there was this magnificent network of streetcars in atlanta and in their infinite wisdom one year after i was born in 1948, they destroyed all of the streetcars in atlanta. why? because they were old-fashioned. why? because starting around 1915, atlanta really began to switch to automobiles and trucks. there is a picture in the book of downtown atlanta in 1914 and it had a few streetcars, a lot of pedestrians just wal