so nothing against kirkus and nothing against reviews. i would love a great review, too, but if i had to pick one, i would say four on a pure sales basis. i would say tick tock. at the moment. are there any other social media companies that are having the influence today? that book talk is no, that's an easy one. it's really incredible. i mean, there is you again, the youtube has been a pretty interesting sales force for books over the years. is instagram. but it does it you know again back to the authenticity thing like on instagram, you know, it's like a beautiful stack of books or it's a bookshelf where that's, you know, lovely and color coded and it has the lighting is nice and or, you know, it's sort of a beautiful picture of one book, you know, like range just so on a couch next to a plant or something. oh, my gosh, my cat is going to knock over my plants. sorry, but. but it doesn't really get it doesn't get to the emotion and it doesn't it's not as it's not a sort of quick and satisfying and pithy. as you know, this book is great.

so nothing against kirkus and nothing against reviews. i would love a great review, too, but if i had to pick one, i would say four on a pure sales basis. i would say tick tock. at the moment. are there any other social media companies that are having the influence today? that book talk is no, that's an easy one. it's really incredible. i mean, there is you again, the youtube has been a pretty interesting sales force for books over the years. is instagram. but it does it you know again back to the authenticity thing like on instagram, you know, it's like a beautiful stack of books or it's a bookshelf where that's, you know, lovely and color coded and it has the lighting is nice and or, you know, it's sort of a beautiful picture of one book, you know, like range just so on a couch next to a plant or something. oh, my gosh, my cat is going to knock over my plants. sorry, but. but it doesn't really get it doesn't get to the emotion and it doesn't it's not as it's not a sort of quick and satisfying and pithy. as you know, this book is great.

and the whole country is suffering at the moment but we see it's been even more her oval in kirkus danit is difficult to have accurate use -- more overall in curtis dan --kurdistan. it is difficult to have accurate -- numbers on this. we have heartbreaking news from the region of iran. yet people with the sharing or limited -- they cannot access that they can hold onto their stories and the situation and the world is still waiting for further reaction to the situation. but at the same time, for them, the excuses when they -- want to keep iran as a whole -- doing what we are doing in the most horrible organized way so that we keep the independent of -- independence of the country together is not the case. because of the proud iranians day one even though they are all truly proud of the fact that they are from kurdistan. but they served that country and they have been under a lot of stress and now that we have -- i love my country about 50 years ago. but i carried the story of iran in my heart. i spend many years there and in the u.s., i have never seen anything like this -- making me tr

in 2021, she published her debut essay collection, carefree black girls, which was chosen by kirkus as one of the best nonfiction books of the year. all right, folks. so for the delay, please give me a very warm welcome to virginia and the iraq. hello. oh, how are you doing? oh, what's. good? hi. oh, hello. whoo hoo! i this is. this is a long time coming. this is really exciting. i know you're about to read a passage from the book. um but before you do, i just have to say here, i hope have tissues because she's to cry is so -- exciting to just be here with you. it's. it just feels like the culmination so much. and i just had say before we get into this time. incredibly proud of you. i'm so proud of you. and you a beautiful, beautiful book. and i'm so glad that everyone here and everyone out there gets it because i think that it has. um, i was about to change a lot in the world, and you. and you should be proud. so thank you. i love you. thank you. this is the very night. i haven't really cried anywhere else, but i feel like i'm going to cry tonight because i'm with one of my best frien

patti has been named one of the best books of the year by kirkus reviews. time and npr. people, washington post, apple books o the oprah magazine, the guardian, good housekeeping, buzzfeed, elle and many others. i quote patti the literary void with compassion and complexity and tenderness raves. time magazine and npr. annie dennis been an indispensable novelist, i would argue that she is an indispensable member of our roundtable today, and i'm so glad that you're going to bring us all together and allow us to have a great conversation analog. so thank for joining us. thank so much for having me. i'm really excited to be here and. see a few faces again. emily is one of them. this is a reunion. so i'm grateful and i cannot wait. this whole roundtable. so let me start scratch. you know, for those of you who are not well, already are not familiar, our so when i started writing, you know, i wanted to actually write come up please where i wanted to feel liberated in that growing up in jamaica, born and raised in jamaica as a young girl i was i was actually taught silence and s

book a comprehensive indictment of bars tenure as the top law enforcement official and review and kirkus discard the book as a damning convincing account. there are more forward-looking note, elie concludes his book with suggestions for post-barr reform which i'm sure he will get to in a minute. elie would be in conversation this evening with omar jimenez, the cnn correspondent based in chicago. so elie and omar, the screen is your. >> thank you brad. i appreciate it. elie great to see you as always. i feel like we see so each other much in this virtual thing, we have to see each other in person some point. >> thank you for agreeing to do this. we some have never met in person but we have become fast friends are you covering events and me commentating on it enters a taxing, what do you think? thank you for agreeing this and asked you because i think you're such a talented young reporter and you have spoken to my classes and you connect so well with them, so thanks for doing that. >> thanks for having me. for everyone who is here i'm excited for this conversation mainly because it's rare

kirkus and military times. it was chosen as a finalist for the prestigious gilder lehrman prize for military history by the new york historical society. his other work, target tokyo. you probably have seen that if you haven't, and you've missed a great book because it was a 2016 pulitzer prize finalist. he also wrote the war below and the attack on liberty, which won the rear admiral samuel eliot morrison award. scott loses his wife, his two children. he's from south carolina. and i'm very glad to have both of them here in mississippi today, because mississippi has a great tradition of aviation as well. gentlemen, thank you so much. and kevin, i guess we'll just go ahead and get started with you. i number one, if you were a fiction writer and you created a character named lucky lucky. i do. i would think it was completely over-the-top. but then if you described lucky in your book, i wouldn't believe it. but he is one of the most unbelievable men in the world. and what's so great about it, he still is because he

patsy has been in one of the best books of the year by kirkus review, time, npr, people, "washingtonost," apple books, oh the oprah magazine, the guardian, good housekeeping, buzzfeed, and many others. i quote, patsy fills a literary void with compassion, complexity and tenderness, race "time" magazine and npr named nicole dennis-benn and indispensable novelist i would argue that she is an indispensable member of a roundtable today and am so glad that you are going to bring us all together and allows to have a great conversation and dialogue, so thank you for joining us. >> thank you so much for having me. i'm really excited to be here. i see a few faces -- family faces, emily is one of them. i can't wait for the sole roundtable. so let me start from scratch. for those of you who are not, who already, or are not familiar comes when i started writing i wanted to actually write why wanted to feel liberated, in that growing up in jamaica, born in jamaica as young girl i was actually taught violence and shame for very, very long time. so being a writer something completely drastic where

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