it seems to me we really need to consider that question, are we going to find out in century that we are as a species it failed experiment? we only hope the answer will be. a relevant to that we need to read do something and then go to the q and a. we do something from the book, this is not for me, this is from two people talking. there is a section in the top portion of "roads to quoz" with that q calls oral history of the american west because everything in and i heard of or was told to me, west of the 100th meridian. i voice of the notion it would have been wonderful if shakespeare get a notebook and write down things he heard or emily brought tea had a notebook and write-down things you heard it in her daily life. wouldn't it be fascinating to read so i began doing in some years ago. i overheard some say something

and pull up in a book and write down and put it in a notebook. you find a bunch of those in there. this is one: the word students into a writer and a book signing, when is climate change or jihadism or a species decline in your books? what is the use of a book today if it is not about survival? a woman unknown to either of them over during send, what is the use of survival without books that go beyond survival? well, i hope my hope for "roads to quoz" is that it does go beyond survival, but i also hope that as you read it you will see that this issue of quoz and of connection and cooled patterns that are about footprints and tracks and traces and leaving things behind for somebody else is very much about our survival. i hope so. thanks very much.

[applause] here is your chance now to prove to the nation on c-span how bright the people of seattle are and talkative and wonderful and humorous you are. as the one hand in their. the microphone, get to the microphone if you can. >> and just curious what is your most darling are interesting thing you encountered in your travels? >> the most darling food? a lapeyre phrase the question for tv -- what is the most startling food i've encountered in my travels? a hard question but let me tell you the most recent startling food i've encountered, this was in north carolina near davidson, north carolina in cornelius,

north carolina. we went into little cafe, in a family cap lay across the parking lot from a sushi place asking the wages and she would like sushi. i said tell me about an item on the menu called liver mush and she said that is good. [laughter] and said he will eat sushi but you will eat liver mush, so bring as an order. we tasted the liver much for the next day. [laughter] what else? somebody help me shout. we have a microphone down here? i will try to repeat it. >> i am from new hampshire. in a one to say that every much appreciate your people story is.

people stories are what bring people to reading books and the value that i find in your books are the people story is and the place in which those people are speaking helps to define who they are and that certainly enhances mad story, but it is the people stories themselves. the cases to create by their words and as far as your images of new hampshire, you got it almost right. [laughter] i very much appreciate that. because of the image of midwesterners and hampshire isn't all that great. >> well --

>> i read while awaiting this visit, thank you. the story of mr. hunter and his maple sugaring family and how he speaks of of the land and and the importance of the land in. the family and the highway -- ride on. thank you very much. >> i hope the sound pick that up because i won't be able to hear it. the essence was then you being a native of new hampshire find in new hampshire stories i told it to be accurate. there will tell you one additional story, in addition is new hampshire those two red and blue highways so i'll make this quick -- there is a woman called maryann whom i met in 1970 on the blue highways to the issue is a delightful historian. she appears in the book in a photograph and much of her story is there, she introduced me to more people in a village in new

hampshire on a lake. when the book about four years later people started coming up to her door and knocking on her porch. and did not mean to do that to her and it never crossed my mind that more than three or 400 people might read this book. so that was a surprise, but the upshot was she recently had an operation for cancer of some sort and she was in recovery doing well, but her mental spirits were down. she was at the time 82 or 83 and was thinking who needs this old lady anymore. and who has been ill, but she found people coming up to her front door knocking and suddenly she realized, maybe i have left a legacy but i am putting words in her mouth. maybe i have left a legacy. >> within publishers ask me to do another blue highways in canada or mexico? the net know, the publisher billy doesn't but sometimes readers will appear in but i wouldn't presume to write about

another country of mind. on a qualified. i struggle enough to write about my own country and try to get an accurate and with mexico especially well as q speaks spanish my spanish is a wretched so it would be inaccurate. i would not try it. >> what about canada? >> are you canadian? >> one more question. >> i wouldn't presume to read about canada either. the canadians get annoyed enough with us without having american get presumptions and try to start telling them about canada -- thou be disastrous i think karen one more. >> i am from new hampshire, you used in blue highway what do you try to dig to do your story is?

>> we are a four-cylinder family. i know when to give any plans here but we are four-cylinder people [laughter] >> your blue highways book is one of the most pleasurable i have ever read the and i go at journeying to a lot of authors of which i have forgotten their names. however, i have never forgotten your name. if you don't mind my asking, what is the origination of your name? >> i explained in the third chapter of blue highways. hong with the have probably forgotten myself in a nutshell perianth my background is english, irish and the sage. my father in the 1930's wanted to honor the osage part of our

background, we did not know the last full blood osage name was. we do know that it was born in july. keep in mind from 1924 the indians are not citizens, so there was a lot of slopping england names onto it indians and inuit -- the indian names. it was an important so we don't know, but because he was born in july my father took as a way of reminding himself about that and use it primarily invoice count because he was a scoutmaster for years to life is the moon of heat. my older brother came along and he wanted to be able to use the name to so he is a little heat-moon. i came along six years later and i am least heat-moon and i asked what if there was a third child with a b. and he said at least little heat-moon. [laughter] you have been a fine audience. thanks very much, i guess we're

going to be over here. [applause] >> william least heat-moon books included "blue highways", "river-horse", and "columbus in the americas". his articles have been in time, esquire, national geographic and other magazines. the seattle public library host of this event. for more information about the library and future events visit the sp alan.org.

this summer booktv is asking what are you reading? >> i'm carl:, the co-owner of politics and prose bookstore in washington d.c.. then and got into the business because i love to read more than anything. you can see i don't do too much exercise come instead that lie on my sofa and read instead. so i want to tell you about the books, this is such an incredible year for reading and for books. i am happy to have the chance to talk about this on c-span because i think c-span.

i think it to the themes of this year our immigration and south asia. i am not going to talk about three paperbacks that are so popular on their own and they really don't need me to support them, but i will tell you what they are. one is another land which is received all kinds of awards. it is by joseph o'neill who is part of dutch and part irish. is a book that takes place in new york post 9/11. the second book is the currency literary and i always have to stumble over the name, the currency literary and the potato peel society which is in

epistolary book about alan currency in during world war ii and it's a very delightful book about some women who get together and try to think of ways of sabotaging the germans or on the island, who occupy the island. because it is part of britain and the germans essentially occupied the island. and the third book which really doesn't need me to promote it is unaccustomed earth. and that's the way is into the both, in fact, it represents both the genres that i want to introduce today. one is novels about immigration not. what i find it me -- i find a constantly reaffirming story about people coming to the

united states to reinvent themselves and then the other is the great south asian writers and, of course, he represents both of these trends. on immigration i guess i like to start a what burner because it takes place in the 1850's and is about a group of whom mostly americans who were working out issues in the united states trying to settle into the new world, but it all takes place and a few hours in the area around walden pond or a very depressed henry thoreau accidently starts forest fire and everybody in the surrounding area is: in to try to prevent

the fire from burning down the beautiful town of concord. and the hero of the day is a norwegian immigrant named osmond who has had a tragic event happen to him in the ship over to the united states and it is a way in which the canada we find and relocate himself in the united states by helping to subdue the fire and there are other characters as well. there are czech immigrants, there are irish immigrants and there are others. becoming the composite that the united states will be. then another book that takes place a whole century later is

brooklyn. and that is about an irish woman who comes to the united states to brooklyn obviously and leaves her family, there is no work for her in brooklyn. it is a really lovely book about how the lease is able to settle in, fine friends and then she is called by her mother to come back to ireland and she has to decide which side of the ocean she is going to live on. you don't know until the very end of the opposition -- a decision she is going to make. it has a little bit of mystery and the low bidder romance, it is this a very lovely book. and we are out of it so i can't even show you a cover with, we have sold so many copies this

weekend. and so let me see -- another immigrant novel is to the beautiful north, into the beautiful morning. this is the second of the books i read, the first is hummingbirds' daughter which took place in northern mexico. this actually takes place mostly in the united states because it is about a mexican woman who comes to the united states to find seven men to save her town in northern mexico from bandits. she is under the influence of your brothers the magnificent seven and she and her gay friend travel around and the united states trying to locate the seven men who will fight the bandits, so that is a really adorable book. and then there are some pretend immigration books, many of you know that britain is changing

since it entered the common market and has become a center for immigration and all over from eastern europe as well as the south asia. and two books that represent those to different areas, one is the road home, a writer who really should be better known in the united states and this takes place in london, a man who is from the former soviet union trying to eke out in the living having elected a very bleak time in eastern europe. and in the second book also takes place in the kitchen and that is called in the kitchen with. so i think this, of course, is a paper and then in new monica ali

is in hardback which probably makes a difference to the people. finally, monica of the segues into my other favorite genre which this south asian books. i have to hear, one is cutting for stone it is about a opposition. it is really hard to describe because it is an epic, very fat epic novel. we have got lots of people coming into the store to say how much they love this book. in he is a physician in the united states and emigrated here from ethiopia where his family were protestant missionaries.

a lot of cutting for stone takes place in ethiopia and a lot takes place in the united states. and it is lush, beautiful riding, about madison and about and immigration and it is about ethiopia and bad times. it is a wonderful book. and the other book, a south asian book takes place in calcutta and is called sacred gains. it is in the tradition of of life imitating art. what happened in mumbai last year was almost as though they were following a script from sacred games in six games is dominated by two major characters, an underworld boss who has all kinds of ties to

nationalist groups and so although he is interested in money he is also doing the will of some of the fundamentalist, hindu fundamentalist politician and the good guy in the book is a police detective who was on this side of virtue and goodness and democracy. they are. against each other in this huge novel which is a wonderful book to take away on the trip so those are my recommendations. i could go on and on but i have tried to narrow it down. thank you for asking me. >> to seymor summer reading lists and other program information, visit our web site at booktv.org. >> we're at the book expo america bookseller convention in new york city.

here with a director of city lights books at seven cisco. what you have coming out this fall? >> weld, this fall we have a couple of books coming out from angela davis. we have a collection of essays, her first book that has been published in about four years that covers the nims she is particularly interested in, racism and sexism and industrial complex and particularly interesting publishing with angela is a new edition of the narrative of the life of frederick douglass, an american slave at which contains douglas's narrative as well as essays that were part of a chorus that she hadn't and ucla in the '70s. so it really brings to light up that s.a. and also include new essay written by her this year. we are hoping that people who

have read the narrative speefour take a look at this book and the enriched by a new in the old work. we're also publishing the awaken there, and long awaited more by helen wheeler about her life with jack kerouac, lenny bruce, allen ginsberg, in greenwich village in the '60s. she is also involved in the publishing scene in the '50s so it is more than just focusing on kerouac, it presents a bigger picture of literary life in new york in the '50s in greenwich village which continues to voice seemed to be of interest so we're excited about that one. in and that our latest but that just came out is called the people diaries, learning to love watching ourselves and our neighbors by how we need to me and when helen is talking about is at one time everyone was interested in pop culture because they were as numerous celebrities, but he has pointed this term and that the focus is

down from celebrities to the focus on yourself, that you actually can be the celebrity and you can do that by blogs and web sites and youtube videos. it is a commentary on what the change of technology has traded for social and cultural life in the u.s. and it is very entertaining and actually in search ourselves and a lot of scenarios. blogs all-time and was twittering people about secrets and people asked if they want to get a copy of this book and we asked them to tell us a secret and then my hand and went on his account coming treated those secrets. so some of the new nonfiction him at the regular booktv viewers know city lights as a bookstore and your publishing offices on the second floor of the bookstore -- hounded city lights start and who founded it?

>> city let's publishing was actually started in 1955 by lawrence brolin gandy in many people know him adulate one of the most renowned opponents in the world. he began publishing company with a collection of his own poems called picture is in the city lights pocket poets series which has gone on to continue publishing. have about 60 books in the series he mack center bombing a little bit about the bookstore in the publishing house, how does it work? is there synergy between the bookstore and the publishing house? >> i would say that at one time most of the people that worked in the publishing company have worked in the bookstore. the person that is now the editorial director did work for over 15 years in the bookstore and is now leading the way

publishing excellent books for city lights. we're in the same building and is quite symbiotic. the books that we published very much reflects the times of books that we carry in the store, the commitment to politics, literature in translation, a new voices coming game lesbian literature, poetry and translation. if one were to look and the city lies books are those i was talking about and what this story you'd get the same sort of sense this election is being carried for you and that is a very intentional thing that is done by a bookstore and assistant store manager, and a whole host of other people working in the bookstores. so i think that in the mission is one in the same that continues to the bookstores to the books that we published. >> now how old is lawrence and

is still in well with a bookstore in the publisher's? >> lawrence is 90 years old at any the celebrated his birthday with m. at this point i would say that any poetry that we are publishing is vetted by lawrence, it has to have his approval. but the great thing that he has done is that he hasn't kept the company to himself appear he has delegated work to lots of people like myself and let us continue his vision in our own way. at this point we hope to see him, he comes into the office a couple times a week to check mail and what not, but he is busy painting, he is still writing. he is pursuing his own staff. my first and at city lights to come into the office every day so i am glad to have had that privilege to see him and work with them. >> stacy lewis, thank you.

marketing director of city lights bookstore in san francisco. >> thank you. >> david michaels, former assistant secretary of energy for environment, safety and health during the clinton administration says corporations hire their own scientists to skew the safety records of certain products. he talks about that during this event hosted by the center for american progress in washington d.c.. it's about an hour. >> i would like to tell this story, talk about the book in the story tells and how in blaze out historically and give you one of the more what i think are appalling or terrible examples and the book and then tried to talk a little bent about lessons from it but i think the place to start is tobacco. it all starts with tobacco and that is where the title of the book comes from. there was a tobacco executive who unwisely put the phrase

coming out is our product, the best means of competing with the body of facts that exist in the minds of the general public and also the means of establishing controversy. how does it get to this point? it began in 1950's, in 19505 studies were published linking one cancer to cigarette smoking and at that point it was overwhelming but this was early in epidemiology and have been a shock to some people but tobacco industry sought immediately there were facing a problem. john hill, the founder of the worldwide relations came and said you have a problem you have to address. here is the strategy and hill has some experience working for the chemical industry before that. it was a congressional hearing on carcinogens in cancer causing chemicals and food and hill and has the chemical industry how to fend off a proposed legislation that would limit the chemical contamination of food.