it was an amalgamation of the work i did when i did my mfa in city college in new york. those are award-winning short stories and there's a lot of political polemic i guess in there. a lot of essays, blog posts and opinion pieces i've written over the years mostly on my wall with the free state project. >> what is the free state project ? >> the free state project is in libertarian movement. trying to attract libertarians to the state of new hampshire. a mass migration movement so what we're trying to do and we've been around and are success stories are highly of the state but what we did is in 2001, this gentleman was a yale student at the time wrote asa and he was like what would happen if we put all libertarians in one geographic area. the problem is there are a lot of people who actually believe in freedom and the principles of freedom but there scattered all over america or all over the world. so he had this notion if you sort of concentrated together in one, you'd be able to make absolute differences and achieve liberty in our lifetime. so i read a bio back in 2003

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she received her mfa from american university. she's the author of the novel treva lucian and three other collections . dirks bicycle, midnight at the organochlorine and cabinet of wrath, a dog collection. moderating the discussion between these three powerful poets is e e. ethelbert miller, an aaward-winning literary activist and author of twomemoirs and several poetry collections . he hosts the wtf morning radio show, on the margin with e. ethelbert miller and hosts and produces the scholar on utc tv which received a 2020 kelly award. his latest book is if god invented baseball was awarded the 2019 literary award for poetry by the black caucus of the americanlibrary association . as i turn it over to all of you, the only regret i have is that we are not celebrating your work in person. here in gaithersburg. we look forward to doing that next time but for now, welcome joseph, kim, tara and ethelbert. >> it's very nice to be with you. so i'm going to be in with you. we saw january 6 in our capital and made many people made referen

it was an amalgamation of the work i did when i did my mfa in city college in new york.

it was an amalgamation of the work i did when i did my mfa

he hosts an ama in english and creative writing for the university of michigan and an mfa in creative nonfiction from columbia university. he has published short stories, personal essays, satires, journalistic features on a wide range of topics. in recent years he has primarily about science and health and his work has appeared in the new york times magazine, the new yorker, theatlantic , wired, the los angeles times, the financial times magazine and mit technology review among other publications. and of course he is the author of the book ravenous which we have seen the title in your screen. and your supporter and that's what we're talking about today so welcome sam. >> thanks so much for inviting me on. >> is wonderful to have you. i love your book and it reads as i said on a social media here, it reads like a novel. so i was glued to it but it's all true. i don't know, i'm sure you talk as we go through about your emphasis and how you came up with the idea of not writing this book. and connecting all the stocks but anyway, it is about the nobel laureate biochemist lana warburg who