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Tuesday February 20, 2007

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10:00Stephen Flynn: "The Edge of Disaster" (Random House)

The security expert argues we must focus on building national resiliency to confront the dangers of terrorist attacks and natural disasters.

Guests

Stephen Flynn, senior fellow with the National Securities Studies Program at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of "America the Vulnerable."

11:00Jane Smiley: "Ten Days in the Hills" (Knopf)

Author Jane Smiley presents her latest novel which takes place in 2003, in Hollywood, at the beginning of the Iraq War. She says it was inspired by her reading of "The Decameron," by Giovanni Boccaccio.

Guests

Jane Smiley, author of four works of nonfiction and more than ten novels, including "A Thousand Acres," which won the Pulitzer Prize

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