The visiting group stayed in the hotel for two days. Yang Fengxia took care of everything within the group. Zhang Zhong, the deputy leader, had a high degree of freedom.
On the first day, the family spent the whole day adjusting in the hotel, and then went out for a walk on the second day.
Although New York is prosperous, there is nothing interesting about it. Besides, Pengpeng and the others have been here before. Apart from shopping, there is nothing special about it.
After going shopping with his family during the day, Zhang Zhong would bend over in front of the computer and start writing a new book at night.
Zhang Zhong's autograph tour has a total of two stops in the United States, namely Los Angeles and Chicago. New York is not included, so he is not busy these days.
When New York is over and the delegation arrives in Los Angeles, he will get busy.
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"Literary News" is a global newspaper with more than 60 language versions published around the world.
They have their own separate building.
When Zhang Zhong and others arrived, Goslin, the president of "Literary News", led a dozen people to greet them at the door.
"Welcome to Literary News."
Gosling is in his fifties, but his face does not look old, and there are no wrinkles on his face.
As for his silver hair, it is said that it has always been like this, probably due to youthful white hair.
Yang Fengxia shook hands with Goslin and said, "President Goslin, we are here to cause trouble for you this time."
The English that Goslin spoke just now was very simple, and Yang Fengxia could understand it without a translator. However, when Yang Fengxia said this, Goslin could only roughly understand his own name.
The translator next to him translated Yang Fengxia's words, and Goslin smiled and said, "Chairman Yang, you are welcome. This is what we should do. I hope we are not rude this time."
As he spoke, he looked at Zhang Zhong with a smile and said, "Hello, Mr. Zhang."
Zhang Zhong shook hands with him and said, "Hello, President Goslin."
Gosling wanted to chat a few more words with Zhang Zhong, but the occasion was not right. On the one hand, the visiting group was headed by Yang Fengxia, and on the other hand, there were so many people on both sides. Even if they were not introduced one by one, they should be briefly introduced.
"Two captains, as well as envoys, the person next to me is Mr. Carlisle..."
Gosling briefly introduced the people next to him, and everyone walked into the building together.
At this time, Gosling took the opportunity to approach Zhang Zhong and said, "Mr. Zhang, I heard that you are going to hold a book signing in Los Angeles in the next few days?"
Zhang Zhong didn't know why Gosling was talking about this at this time, but he still replied, "Well, according to the schedule, after we leave Columbia University, we will go directly to Los Angeles and hold my personal autograph session."
"Then I congratulate you in advance on your successful signing. Our main office area is on the second floor and will be there soon..."
Zhang Zhong was a little confused by Gosling's words. He suddenly asked what he had just said, and then congratulated him in a nonchalant manner, leaving people confused as to what he wanted to say.
In fact, Zhang Zhong wanted to ask Gosling why Yang Xiao, who went to pick them up the day before yesterday, didn't come today, but now they had already gone up the spiral staircase to the second floor, and Gosling also started to introduce their office location, so these words were useless.
It’s convenient to ask.
A work unit like Literary Newspaper is not a labor-intensive place.
From the outside, the whole building looked like it could accommodate a lot of employees, but when they came in, they found that it was a little more empty inside than they thought.
The main office area on the second floor is okay, but there is basically nothing on the third and fourth floors.
Moreover, there are too many leisure areas in the newspaper office. Basically, you can see a place similar to a tea room every time you walk for a while.
Some floors also have gyms, game rooms, sleeping rooms...
If they hadn't known that this was the office of Literary Newspaper, Zhang Zhong and the others might have thought it was a leisure shopping mall.
It looks like there are more coffee machines than printers here.
The layout here reminds Zhang Zhong of the time when he visited Lin Lin's newspaper office. At that time, Lin Lin's newspaper office was a rough start and there were not many employees in place, but all the entertainment facilities in the newspaper office were in place.
After walking around in a circle, the Writers Association delegation was invited to a conference room.
This conference room is big enough, but there are too many people on both sides. There is no other way but to let some people sit in the back with chairs.
Fortunately, the arrangement in the newspaper office is very good. Two additional chairs are placed together and a small square table is placed in the middle.
As soon as they entered the conference room, a staff member gave each of them a headset. To facilitate communication, the newspaper office arranged for simultaneous interpretation.
After the two sides sat down, Gosling said with a smile: "On behalf of all the local writers who have been invited by Literary News, I once again welcome all friends from the Chinese Writers Association to come to the United States and come to our newspaper."
"As early as ten years ago, our newspaper has had contact with the Chinese Writers Association. In the past ten years, we have also received several visiting delegations, but obviously this time the scale is the largest in ten years, which makes us feel
Very honorable.”
"In the past few years, Chinese literature has attracted much attention from literature lovers around the world. Last year, our newspaper conducted a data survey. In the first half of last year, American readers were most exposed to literature from China.
work."
When he said this, Goslin glanced at Zhang Zhong intentionally or unintentionally.
The meaning is obvious. In the past two years, Zhang Zhong's commercial nature has been unquestionable.
Although it is simultaneous interpretation, it is still lagging behind, so many people in China react a little slower.
When the translation was over, people on the Chinese side also looked at Zhang Zhong.
In fact, Zhang Zhong's influence in the traditional literary world is not as great as that of popular literature.
Otherwise, Carlyle wouldn't have only reviewed Zhang Zhong's "Xu Sanguan Sells Blood" and "Border Town" before.
So far, Zhang Zhong's most influential traditional literary works around the world are "The Story of Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" and "Sophie's World", followed by "The Ordinary World".
Moreover, "Sophie's World" also takes advantage of the history of philosophy, but is actually a little less literary.
Gosling talked for a long time, but he was just being polite.
After he finished speaking, Yang Fengxia took over.
"Since I became the chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, I have organized more than a dozen visiting groups to the United States, two of which were hosted by the Literary News. Therefore, we have special feelings for your company. I believe that after
Through these exchanges, the friendship between the Chinese Writers Association and your company will become increasingly deeper and last forever. This visit is also the largest since I took office..."
Gosling talked for a long time with polite words, and Yang Fengxia did not hesitate to give in. He talked about the origin of the two families for a long time, and finally praised Literary News.
Zhang Zhong was bored, but he also understood that if he really came up to attack Huanglong, he would really not be used to it.