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WEB EXCLUSIVE! Michael Silverblatt felt challenged when Sapphire's publisher mentioned that The Kid "might not be your kind of thing..."
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| 0:00.0 | I'm very, very excited. |
| 0:02.4 | You can tell. |
| 0:03.1 | If my voice is trembling, it's because I, you know, I got a call saying, |
| 0:08.8 | would you like to talk to Sapphire about the kid? |
| 0:12.0 | I know it's not the kind of thing you do. |
| 0:15.8 | And I said, what do you mean? |
| 0:18.4 | What kind of thing do I do? |
| 0:20.3 | What are you talking about? |
| 0:22.0 | Well, read it and see. |
| 0:24.2 | It might not be your kind of thing. |
| 0:26.7 | So I went and I read Push. |
| 0:29.1 | And, you know, after I finished wiping my tears away, |
| 0:32.7 | I thought even more so, what are they talking about? |
| 0:36.7 | This really is great literature, not just something that has been made into a movie. |
| 0:45.2 | This is the story of the future of America. |
| 0:50.2 | We've allowed maybe two generations of people |
| 0:55.0 | to go without sufficient education. |
| 0:59.0 | We've lost the ability in America |
| 1:02.0 | to transmit our language and our culture. |
| 1:06.0 | I mean, how selfish in a certain way, |
| 1:09.0 | but then comes Sapphire with a book that says, language is yours. A child can be |
| 1:16.9 | taught. And I was crying and crying. I called them and said, I can't wait. Would you send her? Could we do |
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