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Imagining the future / Lee Gutkind -- Imagine / Muharem Bazdulj -- YouTube can be a published author / Dinty W. Moore -- The death of the book / David Henry Sterry -- The future in the past / George Gibson -- The fetishistic book / Robert J. Hughes -- The book business: looking ahead / C. Michael Curtis -- Introducing ... Trump Jerky Books! / Robin Hemley -- Books without borders / Gloriana St. Clair -- The library as storyplace / Rebecca T. Miller -- Best of times, worst of times / Phillip Lopate -- The phone / Immanuel Mifsud -- Netting the future / Donna Seaman -- What we've got here is a failure to ... um ... / Amy Stolls -- Writing isn't the future of writing / Astro Teller -- The writers in the silos / Heidi Julavits -- What future of newspapers? / Ira Berkow -- Literature can save the world ... if we let it! / Marita Golden. The readings. Luke and Leonardo / Denise Shekerjian ; Diagnosis/Cure / Dennis Covington ; What the living do / Judith Barrington ; Conakry / David Applefield ; Shoot the messenger: Gay Talese at 75 / Barbara Lounsberry.