thank you especially during this difficult time for spaces like the local bookstore. there will also be a link in the donation if you would like to get additional support to the bookstore and purchases and financial contributions to make this series possible and now more than ever to support the future of the landmark independent bookstore. thank you so much for tuning in and support of the authors and incredible staff of booksellers at the bookstore we sincerely appreciate your support especially now. and as you may have experienced in virtual gatherings this past year, technical issues may arise and if they do we will do our best to resolve it as quickly as we can thank you for your patience and understanding and now i'm pleased to introduce today's speaker. wendy lower is the william rosenberg scholar at yale university and director for the center for human rights. she is the author of the empire building and holocaust in ukraine, the diary of the holocaust and coeditor of ukraine. her book german women and the nazi killing field were finalists for the book award an

. >> the bookstore by the way is in seattle. >> by the way i want to tell the audience we did not color coordinate in advance. it's a very positive sign. such an honor to be here with you >> likewise. >> i wouldn't do this for any just any politician. but this is an invitation to read your book which is really fabulous by the way. i've read a lot about you in terms of your life story and your politics and your rights as a politician but also a lot about you as a person as well and we were talking backstage about one of the things i discovered that you besides being a politician you are a lover of literature visual art and you have a hobby that sounds really interesting and maybe you can tell us about this hobby have. >> i make my own paper in and make my cards. i've loved anything art is and also it is that. i thought i'm going to start making my own paper with all the ups and downs and craziness here. sent that's really cool. if you could send me a card. >> give me your address and i will send it to you. >> and then of course is the writer and a lover of literature i read your memoir i

we have it available at the bookstore. copies are selling quickly. if you don't see one available on her website or if you come in and we don't have it, more are on the way i promise. we also, if you live in sacramento locally to the bookstore steps easiest for you. if you're not from around here we do shipping all over the nation. so do not hesitate to support a local bookstore we certainly appreciate it. so in fact, any questions you have for ray or for kate? please put it in the chat and we will get to that at the end of the event. so, welcome kate are going to toss this over to rain now. >> and here i will test it and toss it right back to kate because we are going to open with kate reading a little selection from already toast. >> thank you. thank you all so much for coming. i'm excited to see faces of people i love, new friends i have not yet met. it is wonderful of you all to spend here saturday evening here a year in to the -- thanks are making the time. i hope the glare will not be too bad a promise to take them off. i will read a short secti

. >> the bookstore in seattle. >> fantastic of course. by the wages want to tell the audience we did not color coordinate in advance. it's also a positive sign. >> i think so. >> such an honor to be here with you. as i was telling -- >> likewise. >> i i wouldn't do this for just any politician. certainly heard about your reputation well in advance for reading a book which is sightless, well written. we'll get to all of that as well and there's a lot about you in of your life story, matches your politics and your rights as a politician but also a lot about you as a person as well. backstage we were talking about the art behind you in one of the things i discovered about you is besides being a politician you are a lover of literature in various ways, visual art. you have a hobby that i thought was really interesting. maybe could tell us a bit about this hobby that you have. >> i make my own paper and make my cards. i've always loved anything artisan all. so papermaking is that an site used to go around buying all these handmade papers and i

and then in the dessert table where you and i will be shop independent bookstores. here we are older, scared, but the devastating pandemic the federal government confused response was the finals draw to crushing development. the un report on climate catastrophe published months before my wedding in 2019. with the extinction of 1 million species three weeks later. major buzz kill. it has been torn asunder. i got medicare three days before i got hit which sound something like an old person might do. now what last one third of my life it's the easiest it has ever been except for the fogginess and the bodily effects. the maybe that is one year before the two un reports which have changed everything. and the wedding were all the people we love most in the world gathered to celebrate the miracle that you and i have found each other needles and haystacks and fallen in love. we celebrated well outside the sacred circle the nation and the world seems to reach the point of no return. so we dance. that was glorious. i hate to be a downer but now what? where do we get our world

you can purchase "ageless" at harvard.com the harvard bookstore the harvard division of science and the harvard library in massachusetts. have a good weekend and keep breathing. thank you so much. >> thank you. bye-bye. .. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening everybody. and welcome to our live virtual book event tonight. coming in from the offices of the progressive magazine, as you can see in the background there. 112 years of publication. at eight most recent issue, just out and on newsstands and in the mail to subscribers right now. so thank you all very much for joining us tonight. it will be a very interesting and informative conversation i think with chuck collins and his brand-new book the wealth hoarders. before we get started i would have some thank youse to bookstore here in madison, wisconsin has been cosponsoring these events with us throughout the year pretty very much appreciate their support and very much encourage you to patronize local bookstores in your cities and towns across the country. also, the progressive magazine available in bookstores and by subscription if you go to progr

>> in that i'm not going to, you know, all the bookstores and, you know, i'm trying to support all the doing a tour >> seth: of course >> that would take me to strange motel rooms and bad diners, so - >> seth: i hope that those virtual book tours are still effective. i would like to think that people, you know, would log on to those zooms and still get to engage with you. >> they're huge. you're getting more people because anyone can log on. so it's not just in that area. so it's actually -- we actually just -- the theater company i'm on the board for do this miscast every year and we've had more people being able to attend last night and the year before because of virtual -- because everyone can buy a ticket >> seth: did you -- do you do q&a's when you do your virtual bookstore? >> yeah. >> seth: how are -- what percentage of the questions are fully loony bird >> most of them are not about the book [ laughter ] many of them are -- "are you ever going to do an 'er' reunion? >> seth: a lot of "er" reunion questions, sure. >> yeah, that kind of thing. you know, if someone fainted on an a

. >> and then nonfiction i'll at the bookstore. >> i knew the owner, alan. >> and then nonfiction i'll. and was a huge fan of lincoln. and then calling for venues for our wedding and it is the weekend in between so when you call they say are you valentine's day? [laughter] >> . >> my niece is getting married in vermont the home of lincoln's oldest son in vermont. and they have a place there. the income disparity and monopoly. >> i would tie that into one of the questions i see here from susan on campaign financing. there is a section in the book called we the people and to talk about small businesses and when you have a monopoly and they have the skills in that area you cannot part again for good wages when there's only one good company. and then to have conspired to those set wages but there have been some major ones so they were successful. >> so the key here is not to look at this to the lens of the economic competition but worker competition and then to come up as the counterweight. but all of that with all of that the union movement and as i said before, monopolies are great havin

. >> thank you stephanie in thank you to the bookstore, it is such a pleasure to do this, i welcome the chance to travel back in time of the gilded age and celebrate the publication of this book, congratulations kim. >> thank you very much. >> it's exciting to have in the world. >> i'm sure it's been a long time coming and now the world is starting to open up again it kind of seems like the perfect time and thank you to everyone who is attending also. maybe we can get this conversation started by focusing on beginnings, would you tell us how that reporting got a start? >> it really got a start of this era it is publicly and she is a young woman in western pennsylvania the nagel her way into a job at dispatch without a lot of experience but that did not hold her back in, she was very ambitious and more than a year she really said new york is a place to be i'm going to go to new york and work for the best papers in the country. she spent long months trying to find a job, it was very competitive, everybody wanted to work for the same paper she wanted to work for and women were not in high

thank you to the bookstore, it is such a pleasure to do this. e the chance to travel back in time of the gilded age and celebrate the publication of this book. congrats, kim. >> thank you very much. it's exciting to have it out in the world. >> i'm sure it's been a long time coming and now that the world is starting to be up again, it seems like the perfect time thank you to everyone attending also so maybe we can get this conversation started by focusing on beginnings. would you tell us about how stonend reporting got its start? >> yes, it got its start with lately, people have heard about the reporter of this era, probably nelly and she, as a one young woman in pennsylvania finagled her way into a job without a lot of experience but that didn't hold her back, she's very ambitious and in slightly more than a year, she said new york is the place to be and i'm going to go to new york and work for the best papers in the country. she spent long months trying to find a r job that's very competitive, everybody wants it to work for the same papers she

and thank you to the bookstore. this is such a pleasure to do this. welcome the chance travel back in time to the gilded age and celebrate the publication of this book. congratulations, kim. >> thanks very much. it's exciting to have it out in the world. >> i'm sure it's been a long time coming and now that the world is starting to open up again it kind of seems like the perfect time. thank you to everyone who's attendingg also. maybe we can get this conversation started by focusing on beginnings. would you tell us a little something about how stuck reporting got its start? >> -- stunt reporting. >> it really got its start with nellie bly who people afford about any reporter of this era is probably nellie bly, and she as a young woman in western pennsylvania finagled her way into a job at the pittsburgh dispatch without a lot of experience but that didn't hold her back. she was very ambitious and slightly more than a year she already had like new york is e place to be, i'm going to go to new york and work for the best papers in the country. she spent l

and i know that the staff at the raven bookstore appreciates it as well. so, and now, i will introduce tonight's guest speaker. this university distinguished professor in the department of history at kansas state university, he specializes in researching and teaching environmental history, kansas history, north american indian history, and history of the american west. he's written numerous books and articles, including railroad empire across the heartland. we photographing the westward journey if alexander gardner, which is a familiar resource for the staff and volunteers at the watkins. i know we have that book on our shelves and we have used it. the grasslands of the united states and environmental history, another book. tonight, the professor will discuss his latest work, and copies will be available for purchase and signing thanks to our partners at the raven bookstore right here in lawrence kansas. so, without further ado please join me in welcoming our guest. >> thank you, well, that was a generous introduction. i appreciate that. thank you for hosti

the book. or from your local independent bookstore. on to the main event. curator of political history at the smithsonian national museum of american history. author of the 2016 award-winning book how young americans make democracy social, politics personal and voting popular in the 19th century. he frequently contributes to the new york times that has been featured in the new yorker the washington post and elsewhere. this entails traveling the country from 19 to 20th century campaigns conventions and protests. the smithsonian. down lives in washington, d.c. in fact right around the corner and down the block from where i am right now, my house on capitol hill. so, he is one of e cities bookshops neighbors and customers. for those of us that work there, his work is much appreciated. he was first known as mayfield's husband. his wife has held a number of positions that e city bookshop. currently offers web and eyes on racism at the workshop. if you are interested in that please go to our website and read more about it. also the father of an adorable little bo

my name is mack i like to thank you on behalf of the bookstore for running tonight's event with us. o be in conversation discussing the neck new book the making of a modern astronaut. that included q&a portions of like to askla

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and to the bookstore i'm delighted to have the opportunity to pepper jury with questions about his fabulous new book which is about all the things that i get most excited to write about. it is really a pleasure to be here. i thought maybe if you are up for it we could kind of kick off the conversation by having you tell us why, humans have a number of traits apart from some other mammals some other primates. we have naked body we have large brains and language. why focus on? >> it is a great question. like you said, we have these differences but we have a lot of similarities to our primate cousins but we have differences as well. up right walking is one of those. mammals cry, swim, sprint, leap, mammals walk and climb. your typical mammal moves run on all four think about a cow, goat, sheep, dog, cat, squirrel. ms. run on all fours. only humans will navigate the world on their extended hind limbs all of the time. this is really strange way to move. and when another mammal does it we lose our mind in researching this book bears but almost 5 million views of a gorilla in the philadelphia zoo

my name is mack i like to thank you on behalf of the bookstore for running tonight's event with us. love niclas is going to be in conversation discussing the neck new book the making of a modern astronaut. that included q&a portions of like to ask niclas a question endpoint can go in and click the ask question button at the bottom will do that towards the end of the event. also if you like to purchase this book the green button right below it'll take you there. got out of the way i let them take over p thank you both so much. : : : >> i have read this book from beginning to end and fell in love with it. there are so many different parts to it is a swashbuckling story of excitement, speed, richard branson, it is a story of nick's father which is a complex relationship that we will talk about. i got to know of neck in 2011 when he wrote, this incredible reconstruction of the bin laden raid when he was killed. i thought how did he get that detail? i met him in person when i was teaching at princeton he was kind enough to send me copies of the book. i get a lot of requests for blurbs. no

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the report or 7% of bookstore said the new information was unclear and unhelpful. while 33% responded the responded the changes would have no affect on their stores operations. the survey also found two-thirds of the booksellers would continue to mandate masks the warm inside their stores. the 104-year-old drama bookshop in manhattan will reopen june 10 under new ownership that includes hamilton krieger lin-manuel miranda as well as the broadway musical director and producer. the ownership team purchases for athena 2019 that had to delay resuming operations due to the covid-19 pandemic. in pd book scan reports print book sales were up close to 9% for the week ending may 15. there are calls by scholars to publish an unseen manuscript isolate novelist john steinbeck. the book described as a ministry werewolf novel was written by steinbeck at the beginning of his career and rebuffed by publishers in 1930. it has since been stored in the archives at the harry ransom center at the university of texas-austin. stanford university a professor has argued for the books publi

and the bookstore in la jolla california that were made in the building it's called home for the past 70 years after 30 people raised over $8 million in two weeks to buy the storefront. in operation over 125 years and his own by the fourth generation of the family. to continue to bring new programs and publishing news you can also watch all of the past programs any time on booktv.org. a. >> scientist and best-selling author lisa was a guest on our weekly interview program "after words" where she discusses the science of memory and forgetting. >> the reason for writing this, the intentions behind this i've been talking about alzheimer's around the world for over a decade now and that's super important work to me personally. i know it is to you as well. really trying to help folks understand the disease and be less afraid of it, and courage g an early diagnosis and resource. it turns out every time i spoke about alzheimer's, the conversation eventually shifted to memory and forgetting in general and i found folks over the age of 40, definitely over the age of 50 are all kind of freaked

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you can purchase "ageless" at harvard.com the harvard bookstore the harvard division of science and the library in massachusetts. have a good weekend and keep breathing. thank you so much. >> thank you. bye-bye. .. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening everybody. and welcome to our live virtual book event tonight. coming in from the offices of the progressive magazine, as you can see in the background there. 112 years of publication. at eight most recent issue, just out and on newsstands and in the mail to subscribers right now. so thank you all very much for joining us tonight. it will be a very interesting and informative conversation i think with chuck collins and his brand-new book the wealth hoarders. before we get started i would have some thank

it's the independent bookstore printer so excited to be with you to celebrate the rightness of wealthorothy a brown rejoined tonight as well by doctor maurice from going to introduce doctor austin verse abuses his love of history to strategically analyze topics upbringing and livelihood as a scholar, professor and prominent american historian who presents his chronicles with an experiential in-home perspective on the international implication surrounding topics race in a black safford welcomed doctor hobson were thrilled to have you here. welcome doctor brown for doctor brown is a professor at emory university of law. graduate and georgetown law, she received her llm in taxation from an york university. national brick and a scholar in the area of race, class and tax policies per sheet special published dozens of articles and book chapters on this topic. she's appeared on cnn, nbc, pbs and npr. her opinion pieces have been published in cnn, opinion, forbes, leader times in the "washington post". porter is in the south bronx of near city currently resides in atlanta, georgia. this is he

and financial contributions make events like tonight possible and helps ensure the future of a landmark independent bookstore in harvard square. we thank you so much for showing up and tuning in and support not only of our authors at the truly fantastic staff of booksellers at harvard bookstore. we sincerely appreciate your support now and always. lastly as you may have experienced in virtual gatherings over the past year technical issues may arise. we hope they do not of course but if they do we will do our best to resolve them quickly and we thank you so much for your patients and understanding. now i will introduce our speakers. louis menand is the family professor of arts and sciences at amc and robert m. bass professor of english at harvard university. he is the author of several books including the marketplace of ideas and the metaphysical club which won the 2002 pulitzer prize in history and is also a longtime staff writer for "the new yorker." david leonard is president of the boston public library and leads the 170-year-old institution one of the great institutional cultural and civic structures. th

international spy museum for inviting us and most importantly for displaying our book prominently down in the bookstore. i'd like to begin by recognizing and introducing hank slassinger hank. where are you you hank is standing back there. but by the wall hank is a colleague of ours hank is written books with keith and i now for the last 12 12 or 15 years, i guess that we've we've been associated and hank has just done a magnificent job in terms of research and pulling together a lot of the material that we have in these books. for those of you who might be familiar or have access. to the publication of the association of former intelligence officers. affio hank has a fascinating article. in this month's or in the current edition. on a spy a little known spy, but an important spy of the american revolution thomas diggs thomas diggs was a resident of the washington area lived just across the potomac from george washington and did spying for us in europe during the revolutionary war. so if you have a chance to read hank's article, i know that you will be enlightened. i would also. like to ask is there any

thanks so much nell and jerry and to the harbor bookstore. i'm delighted to have opportunity to peppery jerry with question thated is fabulous new book which is about all the things that i get most excited to write about, so it's really a pleasure to be here. i thought maybe, jerry, we could sort of kick off the conversation by having you tell us why, humans have a number of traits that set us apart from other mammals, from other primates. we had naked bodies. we have larger brains and language. why focus on bipedalism? >> is a great question. like you said we have these differences. we have lots of similarities to our cousins and our primate cousins but we have these differences as well. upright walking is onece of tho. mammals fly live in swim int in leap. m mammals walk and climb. your typical mammal moves around on all fours. think about a cow, goat, dog, sheep, hat, squirrel but only humans will navigate thers world on their extended hind limbs all the time. it's really strange way to move. the world on their extended hind limbs all the t

, big shout to marcus bookstore. theupported from a bookstore part of tonight's program paid like to watch more virtual programs please visit common book club.org. thank you and take care. ♪ ♪ >> spinnakers a look at some the best-selling nonfiction books according to quail ridge of books and raleigh, north carolina for top in the book is amanda gorman's printed edition of the poem she recited at the inauguration of president joe biden. after that at the bomber mafia. collaterals recount of the development of precision bombing during world war ii. next a collection of stories and essays by author and humorist the best of me. that's followed by wilmington's david's accounts history of the 1898 wilmington north carolina race riots which resulted in the death of 60 black men and the displacement of hundreds of black families. and wrapping up our look at some the best-selling books according to quail ridge books is michelle's memoir requiring an h mart. on these authors have appeared on book tv and you can watch the programs

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and i wanted an escape, and i was in the bookstore, you know.hing like that, other women are thirsting for something like that, and tony morrison said, if there's a book you want to read and you can't find it, you must write it. i took my pen and started writing it, and now you're holding it. "summer on the bluffs." >> i'm so glad you did, sunny. it's a great read. you take on some really tough topics. how did you find the balance? >> well, you know, i think that if you are going to write about women, and you're going to write about latina women, and you're going to write about black women, you have to be authentic about it and you have to write about our real, lived experience, and part of that is including things like colorism. part of that is including things about love, loss, you know, friendship. all of those trials and tribulations, and so i tried to find that balance because we live these robust lives. women are really complicated, and i think i found that balance and i struck that balance and i just wanted to make sure that i showed, you

reading when women invented television, jennifer and i hope you order from the shop.org or your favorite independent bookstore. if used bookshop.org, you know the shop.org supports local independent bookstores with every purchase and tonight if you're using bookshop.org, give your purchase jennifer's favorite independent bookstore, mcnally jackson books in new york city and now, please welcome jennifer armstrong. >> thank you for having me. >> before we jump into discussing the women in the book, i have to ask you to talk about this fascination of session we were talking about in the green room with television and popular culture. how did you turn everyone's favorite sport, channel surfing into a career. >> i was really lucky, i will admit that right now i grew up in a very pop culture centric pop culture, i didn't realize this until college and beyond when i met other people who didn't know everything there was to know about pop culture like i did but there was always records playing for the tv on or we were going to the movies together and a lot of memories with my family. going to see with myrt dad was sle

he's the owner of a small comic bookstore. based in concord. in the past year, 20% of his business. >> super challenging to get through. i never worked harder in my life. >> he's waiting to i a apply for the state's incoming relief grants. >> $4 billion. that's the total package of small business grants. not loans. grants. $2.5billion of that package has been allocated. the governor is proposing $1.5 billion for the next rouped. that's going to essentially allow something on the scope of 430,000 businesses to get a grant of 5 to $25,000. didi meyers is the director of the state's business and economic development department. for small business owners watching at home. once this latest round is approved, what's the easiest and fastest way for them to qualify and get this aid. >> we worked hard to make the process simple. the first step is to go to gran ca relief grants.com. that will provide all the information businesses need to apply. >> can any small business apply for this money? what are the specific requirements ? >> they have to be califor

the wearing of masks of vaccinated people in most indoor and outdoor settings. 47% of bookstores reportedew information was unclear and unhelpful. the survey also found that two-thirds of the booksellers would continue to mandate that masks be worn inside their stores. the 104-year-old drama workshop in manhattan will reopen on june 10th under new ownership including lin-manuel miranda, the ownership purchased the store at the end of 2019. in other news, npd book scan reports that book sales were up close to 9% for the week ending may 15th, and there are calls by scholars to publish an unseen manuscript by john stein become. the -- john steinbeck. the book was written at the beginning of his career and rebuffed by publishers in 1930. it has since been stored in the archives at the university of texas-austin. stanford university literature professor gavin jones, who's argued for the book's publication, said it's certainly not steinbeck the real u.s., but it is steinbeck the naturalist, entered in human nature. which is why i think readers would find it more interesting than a more typical

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