[smith] you teach at the school in santa fe where you got your mfa. you're not there all the time, but you're, like, doing a week a month? .[orange] uh hm [smith] is that right? but you're, like, doing a week a month? tell me about the students you encounter. what are you doing to bring along the neeration of tommy oranges, or looking for the next or enabling the next tommy orange? what do you see in these students and what do you tell them or encourage them to do based on your own experience? [orange] i think one of the benefits of the mfa program, i mean a lottuf it's just basic craft, it's just teaching good writing. one of the benefits of having gone tough the book experience is that i sort of understand and have access to, sort of like a gatekeeper, like you have access to the publishing world in ways and you can encourage students and you can teach them what that whole process is like. but most of the work is just getting your writing into really good shape and doing rd worthat it takes to make a good book. [smith] i always think that it's hard

i didn't end up reading a lot of native writers until i got into my mfa program at the ins of american indian art. [smith] is there something about native writers that is particular, in your mind? would you or would we, as non-native readers, say, be ablee in native writing something that would call it out? range] no more than black writing would include ack experience or chinese writing would include chinese experience. 's only categorized a certain way because it's different than what the dominant-- [smith] characters, story, setting. [orange] yeah. it's great writing. the settings might be different d the characters' lives might be different. what literature can do and what novelcan do that i love is that, nmatter w, you can live through an experience and come to understand a story erd understand a people be no matter what people that might be. [smith] and if you create amazing characters, i mean i love orville redfeather, there are a lot of characters in this book, dolike i said about n we follow, i'm partial to orville redfeather, but if you encounter various characters, you can f

kendra is the author of when you learn the alphabet, raised in dallas texas and is currently an mfa candidate at the university of alabama. her work which has been described as raw and witty has been published in december magazine and in brevity magazine where i read trash just to bring it back intomorrow . thank you. >> thank you, i'm looking forward to hearing a little bit more about your work in a few minutes . next we will talk with jennine cap crucet, her book of essays is my time among the whites: notes from an unfinished education. janine is the author of two previous books and an opinion editor for the new york times and her novel was a new york times review editor's choice and the winner of the 2016 international latino book awards and was cited as the best book of the year by nbc latino, the guardian and the miami herald. it's been adopted as an on-campus read at 25 american universities. her short stories has been honored with the iowa short fiction award and other awards and she was raised in miami florida, an associate un professor at the department of english and institute for e

fellowships from the guggenheim and national endowment for the arts fellowships and she teaches in the mfawriting program at columbia university. >> thank you all for coming out. i'm always really relieved when people show up. i love coming to the strand and i love seeing people very early in my career, not that really, actually earlier i was on a book tour i was in minneapolis, in st. paul and it turned out to be the same night that david sedaris was doing a reading at the university in minneapolis and in like a stadium basically. anybody who was anybody who cared about this went to see david who did errors except for one young woman who showed up at my event and she had driven 100 miles from her parents farm to come see me and she was such a big fan and she said like, i thought i wouldn't even get to see you. i thought i wouldn't even get to be near you. he looked around and i was like, you're the only one here. [laughter] so i took her to see david sedaris and that actually was a great night and we had to see him in the overflow room on the jumbotron. that's what it's like to be on book

as a result, mfa announced that it would delete all call detail records acquired over the last three years. in august, the director of national intelligence, dan nsa hadonfirmed that ithat suspended the cdr program indefinitely due to its lack of intelligence value as well as its cost and compliance issues. despite this, the administration is asking congress to permanently authorize this program. now, it is really not clear to me why a program with limited intelligence value and clear compliance problems should be reauthorized, and unless there is good reason to believe that it should, i do not believe we should reauthorize it. host: jamil jaffer, let me ask you, she talked about the collection of records that they could not determine if they were lawful or unlawfully collected. at they resolve that issue? has the nsa resolved that issue? testified tohe nsa come and in fact, both life and i testified at the hearing you showed the clip from, they said we have not figured out how to solve the problem, we are working on it, and we may want to come back to you, because we may want to res

kendra is the author of when you learn the alphabet, raised in dallas texas and is currently an mfa candidate at the university of alabama. her work which has been described as raw and witty has been published in december magazine and in brevity magazine where i read she said she wants her art to tell the truth. can you talk about thebook before you read and then read ? >> towe learn the alphabet is basically an essay collection that discusses race and gender while also family ties within intersections and things like that. and i'm going to read from this book but as previously mentioned i'm from dallas and if you know anybody from texas, they love to tell you how much they are from texas . it's like new yorkers, chicago and then texas so before i even get there you will hear some balance and then we have more time but because i'm from dallas, you probably heard about john oldham and i wouldn't be from dallas if i didn't talk about it so i want to read a piece i wrote about that and then read a few smaller sections from we learned the alphabet. on september 6 2018, amber geiger and off-duty d

as a result, mfa announced that it would delete all call detail records acquired over the last threers. in august, the director of national intelligence, dan nsa hadonfirmed that ithat suspended the cdr program indefinitely due to its lack of intelligence value as well as its cost and compliance issues. despite this, the administration is asking congress to permanently authorize this program. now, it is really not clear to me why a program with limited intelligence value and clear compliance problems should be reauthorized, and unless there is good reason to believe that it should, i do not believe we should reauthorize it. host: jamil jaffer, let me ask you, she talked about the collection of records that they could not determine if they were lawful or unlawfully collected. at they resolve that issue? has the nsa resolved that issue? testified tohe nsa come and in fact, both life and i testified at the hearing you showed the clip from, they said we have not figured out how to solve the problem, we are working on it, and we may want to come back to you, because we may want to restart