ironically, the thing that makes the bookstores so great is it is a gathering place in a place where communities come together. now it's one of the big liabilities that we have. and so, it is an attempt to help flatten out that curve as they say. we are closing our stores. >> what about author events? have you had a lot of cancellations prior to the closing of your stores? >> we have had 30 or 40 author cancel is asian starting a couple of weeks ago, people were canceling. we have had lots and lots of cancellations. going into april and some very big nays authors that we expected very large turnout for as well as smaller debut authors. it's having an impact all across publishing as well. imagine being a young author and it's your first book coming out. it comes into the world right now. it is a very, very difficult situation for the literary community. >> have you thought about doing online videos with these authors? >> yes, that is something we are exploring and publishers are exploring it, where exploring it, also the podcast called the literary life and my podcast is going to conti

for a little bit of history in the the lighting ten hundreds over this area around the bookstore here in greenwich village was the epicenter of publishers and booksellers. charles and sons was here and the company, design press, they all had editorial offices in ebola, they all add their bookstores to display their new books. along fourth avenue just around on that side, was known as growth. and it's it height there were 48 used bookstores which is the sole survivor. we are. as the owner of the stranded widgets 80-mile in books, and not easily phased by thousand books. the james on the bucket list, tonight feature book has stopped me in my tracks. [applause]. 's expansive scope is coupled with a delightful wit and a perfect die for slide detail. never again will you have to wonder what to read next. "1,000 books to read before you die" is a one stop shop for anybody who likes books. he does not like books. [laughter]. i have to say that i cannot think of a better person to have written the book like this. and james. than james mustich, princeton graduate with a degree in english liter

for a little bit of history in the late 18 hundreds, this area around the bookstore here in greenwich village was the epicenter of publishers and booksellers. dodd mead and company, divine press, they all had editorial offices and down below they all had their bookstores to display their new books along fourth avenue on that side known as book row there were 48 stores of which the strand is the sole survivor. as the owner with the 18 miles of books i am not easily fazed by a thousand bucks but the literary bucket list has taught me in my tracks. [applause] his expansive scope is coupled with a delightful wit and a perfect eye for surprise detail. never again will you have tond wonder what to read next. a thousand and books to read before you die is a one-stop shop holiday gift for anybody who likes books and who doesn't like books. have to say i cannot think of a better person to have written a book like this man james. princeton graduate with a degree in english literature and a veteran bookseller who started his career in briarcliff working for just or$2.70 an hour. [laughter] he ha

after leaving his homeland and family behind in hong kong, the bookstore in taipei has become his home. >> i don't expect the situation to improve soon. maybe in a decade or more. nevertheless, we should not give up. i boycotott all chinese product. revolt does not necessarily mean throrong a petrorol bomb. it's all the little things in our everyday lives. >> the liberties have had their price. he believes he made the best decision he could have. pablo: the pandemic poses a particular challenge in africa where many countries lack critical health care infrastructure. sudan was already facing a health care crisis before the covid-19 outbreak. many medical workers left the country under the previous dictatorship. that has left mostly young doctors to handle the coronavirus outbreak and some say they have been attacked by patients families who blame them for the health systems failures. >> a moment of rest before the eaearly shift b begins. doctctors and nurses board a shuttle bus to the nearby clinic. they cannot keep a safe distance apart and they are not allowed to see their own familie

unlike normally happens in the bigger bookstores, their very rep. of what is happening in small businesses. so many thousands upon thousands of small business people who are suffering the same way we are. peter: are used doing this because the state has mandated it or you sought such a drop in foot traffic and sales. mitchell: a couple reasons we are doing it. one is at this point, with the mandates that have come through, and the guidance from the cdc about people not gathering in places where there are more than just a few people. we filled that it is our responsibility to heed those warnings. ironically, the thing that makes the book so great, is the gathering place. in places where communities together. that's now one of the big liabilities that we have. and so, in an attempt to help another curve as they say we are closing our stores. peter: what about author events. yet a lot of cancellations prior to the closing of your stores. go ahead. mitchell: we have had, 30 - 40 cancellations starting a couple of weeks ago. for canceling so we've had lot

and the lockdown forces writers and bookstores to find a new way to celebrate stories on world books say. hello new figures released in the u.s. paint a picture of an economy devastated by the coronavirus in just 5 weeks all the jobs created since the end of the 2009 recession have been wiped out so here are the numbers last week another 4400000 americans filed for unemployment benefits this is the 3rd week the number of new claims has declined so a sign the worst of the shock may be over but it does mean a record $26400000.00 americans have lost their jobs since the end of march when lockdowns shut down production and led to mass staff furloughs that's more than 15 percent of the u.s. workforce meanwhile members of the u.s. house of representatives representatives have returned to washington where they're expected to pass a $484000000000.00 relief bill to fund small businesses and hospitals meanwhile some people over in georgia and other u.s. states are now preparing to return to work but the moves anger. even president trump he says georgia's decision to begin exiting lockdown was i

don't necessarily spoil them with everything else but i usually walk out of the bookstore with quite a big bill. >> i do too. there's nothing you can do, look were not buying souvenirs but will always get you books from another country. while finding english language bookstore or if you're in the state or an english language country, although to go to the bookstore and we can pick out three books. that thing where that becomes part of what your family does. there is ways in which to arrange travel around that. again does a kid need a battery pack for his iphone when you go on vacation, maybe not let it run out of batteries and make sure everyone brings a book every time they leave the house. again no parent likes to have stuff scattered in the back of their cars but better it be boo books in the back of the car then random plastic toys that they've gotten. i think ideally you don't really want to have a set time for reading. a read in an atmosphere where they're looking for that time. i say this because i'm not the editor of a book, i encourage my kids to read children book reviews bu

the ongoing pandemic. james patterson said he will donate $500,000 to eight independent bookstores across the country. he's partnered with reese witherspoon the americus booksellers association and the book industry to launch the hashtag save in the bookstores. bookstores around the country continue to provide remote services for their customers through online sales in virtual author events. source books in detroit has closed its doors but is selling online. bay area booksellers had partnered together to provide a series of author events at hashtag we love bookstores. 13% the last week of march. they continue to make changes to their publication schedules. with the book fairs in san antonio in annapolis maryland offering not to reschedule. their annual conference in june in chicago. the los angeles times festival of books largely set to take place has decided to hold the 2t annual festival in october. it will continue to bring you new programs and publishing news. you can watch all of our archive programs anytime a book tv.org. >> recently at politics and prose bookstore journalist james man looked at

for a little bit of history in the late 1800s this area around the bookstore in greenwich village was the epicenter of publishers and book sellers. charles scribners and son. divine press, they all had editorial offices, and down below they all had bookstores to display their new books. along 4th avjust around on that side was known as book row at its height there were 48 used book stores of which strand is the soul survivor. as the owner of the strand with it's 18-miles of books i am not easily phased by a thousand books, but james literary bucket list tonight's featured book has stopped me in my tracks. [applause] his expansive scope is cup ltd with a delightful wit and a perfect eye for surprise detail. never again would you have to wonder what to read next. "1,000 books to read before youy gift for anybody who likes books. and who doesn't like books. i have to say i could not think of a better person to have written a book like this than james mustich printten grawt with a degree in literature and a veteran book seller who started his bib liophilic career as a shop affbrier silico

searching for hidden gems the bookstore is mostly empty. and then something caught his eye priced at 650 pounds a limited edition iconic photos of the be those including the paris hotel room and was so metallic he could see the reflection he started to daydream about his parents buying it for him as a belated birthday gift but the call was from a blocked number pretty sure the housekeeper was on the line emergency emergency she shouted. your father. he could not get a coherent answer though i thank you could think at his parents flat was a mile away so he went outside and hailed black cap the ten minute drive felt endless they seem to crawl through the streets with the locals that hurried along the sidewalks to keep pace with the taxi. val went through the scenes maybe the father was hurt maybe it was locked out of his computer. and then allow cars to park on the side no addition to the bmws and mopeds he paid the cabbie and sprinted across the street his parents lived on a flat on the third floor and then went up two flights of stairs the d

the passage. we are an independent bookstore one of the few remaining and bookstores. these are very very proud of that fact. thank you for coming to our location we also have a a beautiful store in the building in san francisco and if you've never been there it's a beautiful store. buy a few books and then go have dinner in the city. it's a wonderful way to spend your evening. remember book passage is so much more than just a bookstore. we bring to you probably thousand author readings every year if you can believe that. and in addition, we have all kinds of classes, and which, writing, book groups, children's classes and finally i'm proud to say we are going green. we've been producing a paper newsletter which i know some of you receive in the mail starting in march. we are going to do e-mail only so if we don't have your e-mail or you're not getting the newsletters, please sign up with these pieces of paper at the registers that your e-mail down and we will get you on the list. so, we've also have challengers and event promotions in the store. we rent out our space s

in 2015 it was greece's financial crisis keeping customers away from the free thinking zone bookstore and cafe at the time pages weren't being turned coffees weren't being served and the overall situation looked bleak owner and at the worried her small athens business might not make it despite all that what she called the free thinking zone survived now though it's the coronavirus pandemic that threatens to switch the shops lights off for good it's been met i have heard. the bird biggest problem that not. only doesn't actually. these days independent booksellers around the world are finding it increasingly difficult to stay in business hi everyone this is my own at the bookstore i was on reiner owns and operates the run for cover bookstore in san diego california its doors are temporarily shut and its future is uncertain but customers are still ordering titles actually really hard. business book business we're all to get our hands on books because everyone has. their way to do business mariani who fulfilled a lifelong dream by opening her store a year and a half ago has turned increas

ironically, the things that makes an independent bookstore so great is the gathering place. communities come together. now it's one of the big liabilities that we have. so in the attempt to help flatten at the curb as they say, we are closing our stores. peter: what about author events have you had a lot of cancellations prior to the closing a resource. go ahead. mitchell: we have had 30 or 40 author cancellations starting a couple of weeks ago. people were canceling so we have had lots and lots of cancellations going into april and there's some very big names authors that we expected the very large turnouts for as well as as well as smaller others. so is having an impact all across authors as well. imagine being a young author in your first book comes out and he comes into the world right now. it's very difficult situation for the literary community. peter: have you thought about doing online videos with these authors. mitchell: yes. that is something that we are exploring we have the podcast gocalled literary life. i was usually doing it with authors coming here but i'm go

, the bookstore, if someone sums it up they say it's a triumph of the human spirit. he came to me and he said can you do for foster parents what you did for bookstores? pardon? he says,m we need more foster parents and we are not getting them and it's going to kill us all. would you write about it, would you write a book about it? and i'm thinking monograph self publish table. we will sell 80 copies to people who are already fostering. it's an important story but it's the core to get outside the parameters of the people who are already playing in the sandbox because the other people to want to hear. how do you a story nobody wants to hear? we settle on a blog and that also got us past the anonymous park or foster parents could talk without being judged. because if your faucet. you already judge. the next word of your mouth doesn't matter. so i said let's do this blog. he said that's fine. you are remembering this man is a pastor. we set up the plug. i started editing of the people's stories. i really, really love to work with other people's stores. i love to help them

for decades, the center of pinortland's relife has been powell's bookstore. it takes up a whole city block, oand housr a million volumes, new and used. it's even a tourist destination. >> you coknow, when peopl to visit portland, visiting powell's is at the top of the list. you know, when you-- when you go to a city, you know, you go to paris, you want to see the eleiower. you go to portland, you want to go to powell's bookstore. >> reporter: samiya bashir, a poet, and a professor at portland's reed college, says powell's is special for readers, and for writers. >> they read the ok they know who the authors are. they curate their sections carefully, lovingly, smartly. >repoer: andrew proctor, director of the portland nonprofit, literary arts, collaborates with powell's to bring authors to portland. >> you know, powels books is onof the most important, you know, institutions in american literary life. >> reporter: f the top of your head, can you tick off some of the notable writers who have read at powell's? >> i mean, everyone! i don't even-- like, it would kn

many retailers across the country. a bookstore is a place where people come to browse and shop at the community gathering center we had put on normal time slots. we had classes we have a coffee house. in much of that activity has had to stop. as the spread of the virus and the warnings to social distance. at the same time we had been able to carry on some activity largely through web orders and also at least until today curbside deliveries but even those have now been curtailed by the dc government. >> you have shut down your stores here in dc russian mark. >> it has come in phases. finally last week closed the doors of all three locations to customer foot traffic. as of an order that was issued by the dc mayor last night's east even ceased even the curbside deliveries. >> what about author events how would you hold in a typical month? >> we were up about 15 or 20 a week about a thousand year. we had been building our author invents program steadily over the last decade we would hold several a day. in various venues. and all of th

you know, we're being true to our name and trying to be the last bookstore. ea. she had the idea to give people sort of surprise grab bags based on categories that they like to read or titles that they have read before. so that's what we're doing. we're just trying to curate small collections for people to read while they're stuck at home, and they can drive by and pick them up on the curb, or we can deliver them for them or mail them, whatever they prefer. >> i'm gonna ask you, you know, "what have you read in the past? what authors do you enjoy?" maybe i will try to fish for a couple other genres from you, just in case, you know, so that we can provide a good -- good variety. so far, we've seen a wide variety of people. it's been really great to see, you know, parents calling in orders, or, you know, dm-ing me for orders. so, we've been able to dig through the books that we have in that genre and put books together for, you know, 7- and 8-year-olds, and that's been really fun. i've enjoyed that a lot. >> if you've gone through everything you have at home, yo

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the lockdown. forces writers and bookstores to celebrate stories on book day. ♪ figures released from the u.s.nt a picture of an economy devastated by the coronavirus. in just five weeks, all of the jobs created since the end of the 2009 recession have been wiped out. last week, another 4.4 million americans filed for unemployment benefits. this was the third week the number of new claims has declined. a sign the worst of the shock may be over. a record 26.4 million americans have lost their jobs since the end of march when lockdowns shut down production. that is more than 15% of the u.s. workforce. members of the u.s. house of representatives has returned to washington where they are expected to pass a 480 $4 billion relief bill to fund small businesses and hospitals. some people in georgia and other u.s. states are preparing to return to work. the moves angered even president trump. he says georgia's decision to begin exiting lockdown was in violation of lockdowns -- of guidelines released by the white house. bowling alleys and her salons will open across the state on friday. other states in

[laughter] but anyway so if that but the link investigation of huber it is available at the bookstorethe company culture is shaped by the business model and those incentives those are shaped by the incentive of venture capital with speed and scale and the couples with that libertarian spirit that has been incubating for 25 years or 30 or 40 years so you get this weird cultural product with these values of over consideration. i don't know what i'm talking about i'm so sorry. [laughter] >> i don't remember actually. [laughter] >> so it's fair to say that you take with you that you actually appreciate. so allied of those folks so in questioning that i guess i am wondering if there are parts of the whole culture from the time you took? >>. >> this is at the heart of the book there is a lot that i appreciated. i don't know in my thirties if i would go back to appreciate the same thing to be honest but to have the right yearnings to be the a deal in the certain way yes i was in my twenties. and when it mattered. so in my twenties just moving here to get ahead all new meaning but what i admi

everybody is wondering about the future books. in bookstores at the strand i would like to say that we are going great. [applause]. thanks all of you. we're thrilled to have our friends c-span book tv with us tonight. they are an american treasure was done an amazing job of promoting incredible books. for the format tonight, i going to ask james some questions and then will open up the mike to your questions but first upon being seated, hope everybody got their literary quiz. [laughter]. no. [laughter]. i read it. in 2016, the new york times challenged their readers best strands literary quiz job application rated tonight, james and i are challenging you to tester book smarts with a new version of this quiz. the "1,000 boks to read before you die" quiz. the use of any 21st century device, is prohibited in answering these questions. it's a noo you cannot phone a friend, used during google or alexa. at the end of the event, james will give us answers to the quiz and spoiler alert, we have five prizes for the soon to be affirmed reforms. our top p

if you're in the state or an english speaking country, we'll get to a bookstore and you can pick up books. that kind of thing where the becomes part of what your family does. there are ways in which to arrange around that. you need a battery pack on vacation? maybe not. maybe run out of battery. make sure everyone brings a book every time they leave the house. make sure no parent likes things in the back of the car, it's better to have books in the back of the car rather than a bunch of random toys. ideally, you don't have a set time for reading. he create habits in which they are looking for that time. i can say this because i'm not the editor of the book, encourage my books kids to read children's books reveal. twelve and the 10-year-old, encourage them to read the "wall street journal" and new york times so they can tell me if there's a book they are interested in and want to order. they can get into professional book reviewers. >> that's awake right way to encourage kids. moments where i felt like my kids didn't know what to read, i might say okay, here are six books you might like to

ironically the thing that makes independent bookstores so great, which is that it is a gathering place, a place where communities come together is now the big liability we have and in an attempt to help flatten out that curve, as they say we are closing our stores. >> host: what about author events. if you have a lot of cancellations prior to the closing of your stores? >> i'm sorry. we have had 30 or 40 author cancellations starting a couple weeks ago people were canceling so we have had lots and lots of cancellations, going into april, some very big name authors we expected very large turnouts for as well as smaller debut authors. it is having an impact all across publishing as well. imagine being a young author, your first book coming out and it comes into the world right now. it is a very difficult situation for the literary community. >> have you thought about doing online videos with these authors? >> yes. that is something we are exploring and publishers are exploring, we are exploring it. the podcast on literary life, the podcast will continue in which i interview authors. i wa

i guess this is my sense of the book in a bookstore. aughter] but the product presents certain they'll use of the industry and our culture doesn't necessarily value slowness or small-scale small businesses. look at your cities, look around. it's not just a tech. i think it is an amplification of a social moment. >> there are a lot of people here and i would like to get a few questions and start thinking of a few last ones. [inaudible] why are all tech people [inaudible] >> not all tech people. [laughter] >> i have a section in the book like when i need to stay awake and i can't drink any more caffeine i need to get pumped before doing anything that needs me to be. [laughter] you can tell when i was really blasting it. i think edm there's an energy and i think it can be made quickly. there is someone in the audience i would love to ask [inaudible] >> it is much easier if you live in the city and i feel like that is happening all over but it exploded in 2008. that also coincides. speed to [laughter] there is an amazing profile that i could

. >> i always given at the bookstore. that's my family policy. i don't necessarily spoil them with everything else but i'd usually walk out of the bookstore was quite a big hill. >> i.d. two. again that's another thing you can do. we are buying souvenirs but we will always take books from another country. if you are in the states or an english speaking country will go to bookstore and will let you pick out three books me get there. that kind of thing where that becomes part of what your family does. there are ways in which you are arranged travel around that. there are again, if you need a battery pack, maybe not. let it run out of batteries make sure everyone brings a book with them every time they leave the house. .. speedo i also encourage my kids to read children's book reviews. my kids are 12 and 107 pretty present during the wall street journal and the new york times so that they can tell me if there's a book that they are interested in what order they can kinda get into like almost being a professional book reviewer. host: i think that is

i don't necessarily spoil them but i walk out of the bookstore with quite a big bill. >> that is another thing you could do. we are not buying souvenirs but we get books from another country. in an english-speaking country we go to a bookstore and let you pick up 3 books. that kind of thing becomes part of what the family does and there are ways in which -- a kid needs a battery pack, let it run on the batteries and make sure everyone brings a book with them, make sure there's nothing scattered in the back of their carts, books sitting in the back rather than random plastic toys, ideally you don't want a set time for reading. you want an atmosphere looking for that time. >> i encourage my kids to read children's book reviews. the 12 "how to raise a reader"-year-old, i encourage them to read the wall street journal so they can tell me if there is a book they are interested in and wants to order and they can get into professional book reviewers. it is a great way to empower kids. in moments i felt my kids didn't know what to read here at six books you might like. pick the one you want to c

the bookstore will host an online event tonight via zoom with an author has released a new book in theo-owner says he is optimistic he will be able to reopen the store once the shelter in place order is lifted any questions how many people will come into the store to buy books once it is over. >>> you know i was just talking about this yesterday, all of the extra washing and sanitizing of your hands these days is also causing new problems bay area dermatologists say they are seeing severe cases of dermatitis is the skin's natural oils are being scrubbed away. we talked to a doctor about remedies that you can try at home.>> >>reporter: burning and itching and cracking hands, this mom and daughter are hurting.>> clean har defense against covid 19 but before the crisis most washed 3 to 5 times a day.>> now the situation where you are at 10 or 20 times a day to get skin very dry and dehydrated. >> when natural oils are stripped the skin turns red and scaly, it burns and itches and then cracks and develops open source, very painful. >> what we are seeing is a lot of hand dermatitis.>> this

i am stephanie come on the co-owner of community bookstore. pplause] it doesn't surprise me that the crowd is hard-core. we are thrilled to welcome rebecca on her new book the reflections of my nonexistence, shall be in conversation with leslie jamison, please note that there will not be assigning after the event that rebecca did arrive early to sign each and every one oou

probably more importantly, i thought if i burn a book i can go and replace it easily, just go to the bookstore, buy another copy. i'm not removing from the human civilization this document, so theoretically i shouldn't find this discomforting. i could not bear the thought of doing that. and i thought this is almost superstitious. so i thought i'm going to pick a book to burn. okay i can do this. then i thought i will pick one i don't like. and then i thought that still seems really wrong. [laughter] so i thought i will burn one i really like. and i thought i'm not going to burn the books i like. i thought well, i will burn one of my books because i have lots of copies. >> you mean the books that you wrote. >> white orchid thief's. i've got like 100. then i thought while i'm not going to burn one of my books. and i finally thought i can't do this. i know it's silly and superstitious and i know that it doesn't what it means when they had for turning celebrations. and i know that i'm doing this for research. but i cannot bring myself to burn a book. and i thought i am just not going to do that. >

in 2015 it was greece's financial crisis keeping customers away from the freethinking zone bookstore and cafe at the time pages weren't being turned coffees weren't being served and the overall situation looked bleak owner at the your yearly worried her small athens business might not make it despite all that what she called the free thinking zone survived now though it's the coronavirus pandemic that threatens to switch the shop's lights off for good it's been very hard because. the per biggest problem right now. really doesn't actually. these days independent booksellers around the world are finding it increasingly difficult to stay in business hi everyone this is my own at the bookstore i was on reiner owns and operates the run for cover bookstore in san diego california its doors are temporarily shut and its future is uncertain but customers are still ordering titles actually really hard. business book business we're all to get our hands on books everyone hard. business mariani who fulfilled a lifelong dream by opening her store a year and a half ago has turned increasingly to soc

[applause] >> folks, just reminder there would be assigning one level up in the bookstore. the books are at the cash register. >> weeknights this month we are featuring booktv programs showcasing what's available every weekend here on c-span2. tonight we feature authors of history books. .. book tv this week and every weekend here on c-span2. next, pulitzer prize winning historian alan taylor on

the bookstore in boulder colorado and they mistry bookstore. can i whisper something in your air. my initial response is to say yes to that. she said sure. i named my tumor after lucas. what's your reaction to that. part of you is. and she was so sweet. i don't know if there is another author. and maybe the whole publishing. the mending -- i signed the book and all i said was are you okay now. she smiles. she rolls up her sleep. she walks out really sweetly. now i think i have a future in this business. [applause]. a kind of goes back to that novel. if you are a young writer stan starting out. there is a whole subculture out there that you don't want to know about. i have roadkill recipes sent to me. there is a whole culture about that. i was at a book signing outside of chicago maybe milwaukee actually this is a true story. and there is a guy at the back of the store. and the owner comes up to me. somebody has something we don't know what it is. i said does he look okay. there was no place to go. comes up to me. i did something for you. and oil painting of roadkill. it is not abs

and various cultural interests and so we bring all that into the bookstore. >>with that in mind city lightsllies set up a fundraiser that in less than 48 hours beat their goal collectingnearly half a milliodollars that money will go toward paying the entire staff and bills during the shutdown the business's backers say that there's something special about this place itover the generations ges people a sense of comfort om simply knowing that it can still exist live in the newsroom. ella sogomonian kron 4 news alright ella filly some good news. there meantime an apartment complex partthat violated that ended with the shooting. that se 6 people to hospita happenin central california party. in bakersfield, it may have gone unoticed until frantic witnesses called 911 shortly after midnight. deputies who respondeto the scene say the party was large, but coldn't say exactly how many people we there. one miner in 5 adultswere shot but are expected to suive. investigators found 94 shell cases and 3 live rounds at the scene there now earching for 4 suspects. now health

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and are here at the bookstore. labor day is around the corner. we are thrilled to welcome authors like john kerry, deborah harkness, walter mosley and many others. you: more about these in our upcoming events on a website harvard.com. /events or on the sale of flyers. after today's talks we will have time for questions. c-span is here taping. as a request we ask that stand up and speak loudly so they can pick it up. please know you will be recorded. following q&a we will have book signing at this table. "reader, come home" is available for sale in the next room and for today only is 20% off. part of how we say thank you for buying your book at harvard bookstore. your purchases make nice events possible, so thank you. i would also like to thank you in advance and gently remind you to ideally turn off at a minimum silence your cell phones for the duration of tonight's event. some phones will probably go off and you will feel so superior that it's your neighbors and not yours. tonight we are joined by maryanne wolf, visiting professor at ucla where

we want to invite you to visit the ambassador in the bookstore on the 77th street side of the building he will be signing books and would love to chat with you so thank you all so much for coming and again, it was wonderful having you on the stage. thank you. [applause] in his book "the dragons and the snakes,," david kilcullen, general adviser to david petraeus, looks a looks up of ly hostile forces have adapted to the way of the u.s. by its wars. >> welcome, everyone. founder and president of the foundation for defense democracies and thank you for joining us today for a special discussion marking the release of doctor david kilcullen the book "the dragons and th "the ds how the rest learn to fight the west."he today's eventto is hosted by the center on military and political power that shows understanding of the defens different strateg, policies and capabilities necessary to determine and defeat threats of the freedom, security and prosperity

the ongoing pandemic. best-selling author, james patterson announced that he will donate $500,000 to aids independent bookstores across the country. he's partnering with reese witherspoon, and the book industry charitable foundations and to watch the # save the bookstores effort to provide grants to booksellers. bookstores around the country continue to provide remote services for their customers through online sales and virtual author events. sourcebooks in detroit closes doors but here are selling online. the recently announced the rehiring of 49 of their staff members to assist with the rise in online sales. bay area booksellers have partnered together to provide a series of author events. at # we love bookstores. according to books sales, they dipped 13 percent in the last week in march compared to the year prior. publishers continue to make changes to the publication schedules and many of the announced layoffs, and the closing of their distribution centers. spring book festivals and conferences have been canceled with book fairs in san antonio and in maryland three or opting not to reschedule. also cancell

the stores have raised 450,000 and $100,000 respectively. bookstoresround the country continue to provide remote services for their customers through online sales and virtual author events and patch it, novelist and coowner in nashville describes how her bookstore try to adapt and we make our plans, we change our plans, we make other plans. this is a new world order. and publishers weekly recently conducted a survey of independent bookstores according to the report on average a minimum of 35% of sales in march were online and over half of the responding bookstores had to let go of 50 to 100% of their employees. in more news npd book scan report that is despite effects of the coronavirus, book sales for the first quarter were down 1.3% compared to last year. however, march sales dipped 7% from the year prior. publishers continue to make changes to their publication schedules and many have announced layoffs in the closures of distribution centers. recently one of the country's largest book printers, lsc communications filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. boo

the rise in online sales. bay area booksellers partnered together to provide a series of author events that hashtag would love bookstoreso, according to npd bookscan book sales dipped 13 percent last week of march compared to the year prior. publishers continue to make changes to their publication schedules and many have announced layoffs in the closing of their distribution centers. spring book festivals and conferences have been canceled with book fairs in san antonio and annapolis maryland opting not to reschedule. the american library association also notes the cancellation of their annual conference this june in chicago. while the los angeles times festival of books originally set to take place in april has decided to hold their 25th annual festival in october. book tv will continue to bring you new programs you can watch all archive programs any time at booktv.org. >> booktv in prime time starts now, first up ella baker center for human rights executive director zach morris offers his thoughts on how to build inclusive communities. and then the national institutes of health doctor jerry brown looks at 1918 influen

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i'm bradley graham, co-owner of the bookstore along with my wife lissa muscatine. while there's been a lot of news, a lot of it about the trial in the senate but some important things have been happening in russia as well,

remain nameless, this was a lovely man who came to me about two years after the book was out and he set up a little bookstore if somebody sums it up in the radio the triumph of the human spirit so he came to me and said he can you do for foster parents with u2 for bookstores. i am like pardon? we need more foster parents and we are not getting them and it's going to kill us all. would you write about it, and i'm thinking self published center staple it's an important story but it's not going to be those inside of the sandbox because the other people don't want to hear it. how do you tell a story nobody wants to hear. so, we also got past the anonymous part of. if you're a foster parent who are already judged and the person talking to you has some you up. so, i said let's do this. he said that's fine. remember this man is a pastor. wwe set up the blog and i startd editing other people's stories. they are holding their annual conference near my home and johnson tennessee. these people would feel a sense of accomplishment and mission. there's a huge book of all these things that are going to happen. this woman