>> when you're writing what is a typical day like for you? >> guest: it depends what i am right thing. if i write a newspaper column for the "new york post", my home base or "usa today" or another paper, the structure is i have thought about the subject for a couple of days are but as a headline i will see what happened overnight to decide that is what we will do today then i go for a jog. while i am running, i will structure the story basically write-in in my head more than the outline, the meat and the bones and after a much-needed shot where we will sit down and put it down. a newspaper column they are somewhat formulaic although you want clever language and

the newspaper column it has more serious rating but you get it down very fast and then depending or not you're on deadline you take as much time as you can to read -- refine it. the deadline we have to decide saturday or monday, midafternoon is when all of the new yorkers get out of bed by defy get it to them by about 3:30 p.m. i will be fine. i'd like to have it to the post by 2:00 p.m. that is when that guy that works late comes in on his computer and of course, if it is late breaking you may have 45 minutes but this one because it is not headline driven i have more flexibility. i wrote it in my head yesterday when i was jogging this morning before the he struck.

now i am just trying to get it down get the body of it down, it will probably start off 850 or 900 words then i will have to scalpel and polish so it is down around 750. right now i am writing about the descent of patriotism and by the way thomas jefferson never said that i have to get this down before i lose it. i am looking for an adjective for the word emotion you have to keep adjectives to a minimum in the newspaper writing but when use the right one at the right time you have great power. but to send to must be based on facts not some type of the motion but it is a place where you can get the extra 12 punch.

it is not the right word so it must be based on facts, not vague he motions, that is not quite right, nastia motion that will plug in a word and come back and get the right one at the right time. so i do not state to continue to get attacked. dissent must be based on facts but not right now let's say sloppy motions and that comes pretty close because under the extreme right hand or left much of what passes for dissent is sloppy, emotional and critical reaction i do not like those guys on the other side there four blah, blah, blah. i always take everything right to seriously and make it the best that i can but with nonfiction, it is somewhat formulaic even the sa takes

longer you just respect the audience and state your case as clearly as possible. what i am writing right now, one of my heroes i invested in a wonderful reproduction of a huge two volume dictionary by his own definition during the american revolution you wrap himself in the flag and demanding that all the nasty colonial rebels be paying. parenthetical although he rather thought hanging was too good for them. i will cleanup but i think it works effectively.

it seems that each paragraph should land one could blow sometimes it is just a jab but other times did you get it right if you said it up that was the best as you have never recede as you have to be on the receiving end. the most fun i have never had is writing for the "new york post" it is a who did it is very serious and you try to change people's minds or reinforce but at the same time they are fine people to work with and what a treat to do something you love doing and work with people you like? the thing that people must understand is this his advice to young writers there is no shortage of talent in a nation

of 300 million people america it is literally bursting with talent it comes in all shapes colors genders sizes, a talent is meaningless without a work ethic. if you are not willing to sit down on a beautiful day like today and do the work if you're the kind of person that always has the excuse why i cannot write today, then you will not right. sometimes i do read things to get the rhythm right sometimes the rhythm is different than not -- to print a novel is different although there is the iambic pentameter but when you do the rhythm for the newspaper he wanted the rhythm that is not state the you want

it to pull you to the next idea i used the wrong word there. words have a specific meaning i did not mean that. do not know what word i want to use. i have to think about that now i am harsh know because i feel strongly about it. that is not write either. i take it very seriously as a craft. i do not like the word arch because of there is any are to a new bid will emerge. do not sit down to write down a pole or artistic masterpiece expect the report writer to deliver on kraft.

do the best you can given the context of that assignment for that project. it always give your best whether the punxsutawney daily or "the washington post" or a novel or a blurb always do the best that you can so many people want to make it now with the shortcuts it takes a long time. a few people get that magic break sometimes the first novel is great and the second is not but if you want to be a writer, you have to think in terms of decades and beyond. it is a career. four instance, right now i am talking about the slogans and catchwords listen to the rhythm with the end bogey and rhythm short debates there is a rather mixing and all

different forms in different ways nor are all of the in vogue slogans it seems like a very flat to sentence but it works on a subliminal way as we read it to ourselves. if i take out the in vogue or all of the invoke slogans, suddenly it comes alive and in a way people don't consciously recognize but it works that is the thing you cannot calculate derided for a long time you do not know what on a subliminal level but this is what i do. and "looking for trouble" were i do not want things to be

lost because i cannot bear the thought that these things go away the classic and i understand it is superficial but i don't care that is to write down. i just love the physical world around us i do not need philosophy or to see the hidden truth behind the veil. i love the world wide living. i always have. right now we have fresh raspberries down in the woods and in the morning we are still a little chilly we reach into the brambles and pick out the raspberries and bring them back up and have them for breakfast. what a gift. come into the library. my wife and i fight over, not much but this is my library but it is our first two. fortunately we both love the

books hiking comment adventure travel, and we're not claiming we're reading they are a great substitute there are wonderful books that shape the way that you think about things for instance this is not a terribly well-known book it is the daddy of all travel books unless you go back to marco polo. these are the old editions. he also wrote a massive history of the korean war but his travel to the balkans and the middle east and egypt, a traveler to nonchalant deals with plays and bandits and i do have a weakness for english

bros. of the last generation not so much the current stuff which is sloppy, a contentious, smarmy but late 19th and early 20th-century writers you do not want to write like that the tissue do not live them but the other thing is this, the internet will not kill the book it may decrease sales, hopefully not mine, but how can you not love the feel of a really good book? look at this. this is a book. look at the gilding and the dust and the printer is negative three your eyes a little bit but if you were going to read these why not read them in a good addition?

if you want to do with islamic terrorism you better read the three volumes of crusades you can take on a plane but at home what a feeling of another book in your hand with beautiful print, the art of print comment using and designing the print, let me show you, if i may, i love books. i love the feel and thus no. how can you not? of the mountains, this guy, the rivers, the beaches, and books. here we are talking about my serious hobbies of reading books, music, what i want you to do next is come with me to the rocky mountains. the desert is good with rattlesnakes we can't go out and get the other side of my life. is that okay? the west africa is good i love the books and the feel of them

this is a reproduction of a book that was done in the 1930's. the four gospels is an unauthorized edition but look at it was designed. this is beyond craftsmanship it descends into art. obviously you can read the gospels of the king james in a paperback and get the language but there is something magic -- magic about this beautifully designed print and as they came out they found the man, and my name, he felt compelled to bear his cross. i don't care if you are hindu

are harry krishna how can you not love the rhythm of the king james? if i can only take one book, it would be the authorized addition of the bible to the desert island identify only take one part, obviously the gospels. you have -- you do not have to be a religious believer. read the sermon on the mound. of the sermon on the mount is the most radical document in the mainstream of history the language is magnificent. christians themselves forget that part. but nonetheless if you are not religious the king james is the bond and the gospels is the art. the king james bible is not magic it is one-third or

2/3, less open to a random spot and see what we get. >> this is tyndale writing early 16th century translating the bible and when he sees jerusalem then understand the vacillation is nine bend them which fly to the mountains and let them which are in the midst of the partying and let them not to and from other countries enter within. where do hear that? street preachers or black churches the repetition and let them and let them and what not them. the powerful rhythms of our language of this magnificent

english-language price beacon number of languages nothing comes close to the versatility and richness of the english language we have the best four-letter words because their words are more than four letters, but seriously i cannot comprehend anybody who says they want to be a writer but does not arrival the possibilities of the language. how can you not? it is so rich. but as we all know, any of the craft, there are plenty of people that love the idea of being an artist but they do not have the grit to to become one. a hard worker, the work ethic, the romantic idea but it can't be a great life but there is not much that is romantic about sitting on your duff day after day sunday

after sunny day when you would rather be outside walking, biking, a jogging or goofing off. it really is about the work in the end. >> host: how long has it taken need to collect all of these books? >> guest: there are some downstairs and some upstairs. i have always loved books even in germany i was collecting german books and these grand books with a lot of serious things this beautiful edition, it is an american book by found it in a london bookshop. so maybe books i a technically could not afford but i bought them any way.

new grub street it talks about how one guy will forgo his dinner to buy the only addition he loves of the book of the fall of the roman empire if i remember correctly. although i am not willing to forgo my dinner because i love a good meal with wine, please, but nevertheless i would scrape my money together to buy books. and also art i cannot afford but why not? if it disappears tomorrow i will be fine without material positions since i have my wife but i'm a as bell enjoy them. if you own a really good guitar come you have to play you cannot let it sit, they really need to be played the resonance helps to develop the wood and to ag and it is likewise with books. i do not think of myself as a book collector but i read them

i like to read the nice addition is. if i am travelling to africa or iraq i may take a paperback or something because i do not want to destroy the good book but i like to hold a book in my hand there other things i can hold but books are okay. >> host: you are immersed in one of the books that you love? >> guest: write there. my wife and i fight over this year. not violently but there is a slow campaign to get their first on a sunday morning. shares are great. who doesn't want a comfortable chair and then you pull out this one today and we will be very serious. a nice chair, a nice book a glass of wine or a beer if it is hot, .

when i was a kid in a small-town pennsylvania, books were the way out. books were the way out. i made myself a pledge when i went into germany, and i had a smattering of german, not much but i promise myself in january 77 when i left germany after that speech 11 i would speak german after the tour. i normally take a trip not expensive but i would go somewhere or i will get one thing usually for my wife but my big reward for finishing a novel was to track down this set. trollope is read now more than he used to me but always in the shadow of dickens and

zachary but he was a writer for our time. the way we live now is the way we live now. people saw him on tv, but those six novels, the five and a half, there is no better portrait, a political one in any democratic system from anywhere or any time that i know of. the living characters comment trollope wrote like pros. he hated to tell stories he sensed the politics of power works and also the politics of the church so i came to trollope lay to but i love him. you like writers for different read reasons sir richard burton could be different his

prose is early 20th century but those 12 novels with those four volumes it is terrific i will tell you i do not just read american stuff i read contemporary stuff but the contemporary stuff needs to gauge. -- adhd this is where you put the writers that have proven themselves. this collection of conrad, he did not have the money it was tremendously expensive i found it in london on my leave and it used to be long view, this collection. that is not his signature the bookplate is not in this one but this sets along to a good middlebrow writer it does not mean anything but i like to

think some day after i die at a healthy age of 165 climbing a mountain that other people will hold these books and value them and will pass them on. a pure romantic i guess but the book's live for me and in dark times the books are there for you. and they remind you that people are always people. kiplinger is great but this is mark twain, russian stuff, tolstoy, if you want to learn about the russians and, the -- by humanity read tolstoy and checkoff.

and the most perfect single book in russian is fathers and sons. i read that every 10 years only a couple of books, the great gatsby which is the most perfect american novel. it had its detractor but to me if is one of the rare things of a perfect book for the books i have read in the 20th century, fiction, there are three perfect novels. "the great gatsby", -- which is a wonderful book that is not built in and of the blue fowler by elah this o. i am not a celebrity haunt but i would love to meet that woman. he has a couple of novels then she hits a streak the blue

flower which had vote in the '90s it is about the german poet german literature is much livelier than people expect. a british woman who came of age and world war ii could not have the sympathy, he would not get it and i was stunned. as a writer it is heartbreaking to read something to know that you will never yourself ever write anything that could. you just want and the blue flower is a perfect graceful gracious beautiful book literally a haunting book of course, there are other good

things to read but the interesting thing of these three perfect novels in english of the 20th century, is they are all short. a couple hundred pages and it is impossible to sustain that quality even a truly great to book, some parts do not work but books are living things. think about this. these books are on the of shelf gathering dust this is my place. i take care of this room. but these books do live. they change and richer with you. when you read a book as a young man or young woman it is about the young romance of

anna and a dashing officer but suddenly in your 30's or 40's you see how superficial they really are. he is not a bad guy he is just irresponsible and the bureaucrat who puts up with the nonsense and his fairness toward anna karenina fathers and sons continues one masterwork. it is about rebellion, etc., etc. and to throw out the old regime. you read it 20 years later and suddenly you understand the father's point*. that he is then that not that impressive after all but then you read later on and you

sympathize but then suddenly understand him in his reserve. then i think that is the chekov novel. this is important. let me settle for 16 prahl the idea that shakespeare could not really right all of these books he was just a country road from stratford. that is academics talking the proof that shakespeare wrote shakespeare's books is if he had not, one of the angeles raiders would have let the cat out of the bag do think writers like greed would not have said something? we'll seward not like the fact that shakespeare was not a

member of that came bridges said and did not have all sorts of degrees will go on to the end of time denying any a country boy that had written those plays by geniuses word geniuses, shakespeare wrote shakespeare. the theater, the theater for god's sakes. who could have written that? he was just there to make amendments i do not want to say that i am the star. i will not do that. he cannot just be a straw man and who more are backbiting and theater people? and shakespeare was a second rate actor. shakespeare wrote that? let me tell you he is getting drunk as a skunk and doing the switch hitter stuff and the earl of oxford or whoever. shakespeare wrote shakespeare

otherwise humanity it could not have kept his mouth shut they all would have told. pick one at random. these were books that women would carry in their clothes or persons in the 19th century you always have something to read when the guys are doing stuff and here is the tragedy of the "king lear". when he with his flattering displeasure left me behind so that is a neat little thing the book may be miniature but the soul is immense. ladies and gentlemen, it cannot go wrong with jon stewart on the liberty. know it and live by it. read it for breakfast it will make you strong.

jon stewart mehl if you focus a straight party ticket you are a sucker because sometimes democrats are right and usually the answer is in the middle with the american people and politicians ignore it but if i could only pick one book a political book worth preserving on the proverbial desert island it is on liberty with john stuart mill. that is like darman and freud. people pick on little things he got wrong by he got the big things right. for those who have not read him, he basically says the individual should have the freedom to do anything he or she wants as long as it does not harm others or society.

obviously there are different ways but basically think about that, that is what america it is about. as long as i don't direct the neighborhood, i can do what i want in my house prowess always a struggle how much freedom in a society, when does something begin to hurt others is it just about property values or physical harm or psychological danger? we will have those debates until the end of time but the basic proposition, that by, this is then, should be able to do what i want to do as long as i do not hurt you or do tangible damage to society. that is one of the big ideas that matter. for instance, i don't have to read what people want me to read i do not have to write to

fit a political ideology as an american. by the way theology, ideology, we are in a battle of ideas with islamist, the word ideology appears during the french revolution 1776a new word associated with the age of reason and ideas and we do it today with religion, faith belief passion and fanaticism progress peugeot to the doctor johnson dictionary late 18th century they always use it in their so we are slow days so sloppy with language offends me on behalf of on this wonderful language that is rich inexhaustible language there but they are too mentally lazy

to use words accurately and our president obviously not very capable of language, but he frustrates me when he talks and says we are at a war of ideas. he does not have a clue. i do think george w. bush means well, but, the road to baghdad is paved with good intentions. i should say fallujah. we are not a war of ideas we're at the asymmetrical conflict because we have values. democracy is not ideology it is a technique that is a tool. you can wear ideology on to it as we tried to do but basically the pragmatist and we fight for our values, the islamist extremist enemies are fighting for space. or religion can acquire 80

logical subsets but it is never a subset of ideologies so we are fighting faith verses values not ideologies verses ideology. think how much more acute our national debate which is really a shouting match with both sides covering their ears and shouting what about if we just pay attention to what the words really mean? we are so lazy. do you know, what, america? you are overweight because you do not pick up this dictionary. pick it up for every day. 100 over the head dictionary presses you will lose the weight and me smart for our love miriam webster but new oxford dictionary. if you're in the military or retired you have the i love me wall with your plaques and ribbons and awards that your

wife eighth. i do not have that my home is demilitarized except for a few model soldiers military stuff does not belong in a home my i love me wall is all of the books that go from here to hear buds why would i save a that addition? because when i am old and all burned out and use of i want to pull out the i italian division i love the italians. but they are afraid at some point* they will issue a copy of the st. jerome's bible with a topless model trust me she is not in the book. she is not in the book but the italians are i italians. they cannot help themselves. [laughter]

and another example of how the nation comes through with themself, the polls you have the dark slotback look no-nonsense it is black. we all live in the basement. the national characteristics come through but at any rate it is preposterous lee dain but i do say one copy of every edition of books. people take pictures of each other to prove they really existed. this is me proving that i really exist. we don't go for the interior decorators goal of advertising. the house is a museum of us we traveled widely she traveled as a young reporter the war in

somalia she has covered the sinai, the library is the most cluttered room in the house i tend to be a little more austere but from pakistan or india or an iraq or indonesia weird you end up? but they do have some hidden values religion fascinates me but the southeast asia and religion figure of buddha telling us to be gave ourselves put strings around it is a begging bowl from afghanistan. the work is a very fine and if you look you do not want to polish to something like this. my mother gave me these because we're a little when we

were children we had some. it is a reminder of when we were kids. they are called britons, these little mental soldiers. but the most important thing in this room, by far, even more important than books, pictures of my wife. they are all over the house. she is slavic but when i write, my goal is not to disappoint not to dismay i do not want to make per angry but my test really is and i have written a sufficiently honestly with enough integrity to pass the catherine mcintyre peters test roi also have another test at penn state as the underground -- undergrad in the late '60s when it was voted number one party school

when i was there and i take credit for that i had wonderful teachers. the best of the best was rubenstein i have kept in touch with him but he was so strict he would pass papers back with the readying all over it and the nasty comments and i said i am doing better work than any of these other people. he is raising the bar because the purpose of being a writing teacher is not to teach people how to write to. it is one comment to discourage a life apart break if they are not meant and never to comment to save those that will become writers a good writing teacher cannot teach you how to write but how not to write. 82 the mistakes the beginners make and it is your first editor. i would write four years and

years to myself and say with this pass muster for leonard rubenstein? i am still not sure i have made it but i am doing the best i can. but as a writer as you write daily columns on deadline you will not always get it right. by get right most of the time i am personally proud of my track record but i have written things that i think i should not have published that. of course. that is the human beast. but the point* is, while you make mistakes or make the wrong call, never let anything you have to be ashamed of on the integrity level. don't pander, don't ever tell a lie for personal advantage. there are things i have written in anger i would like to retract. that is the dangers of 24/7 with daily journalism. but on the whole i can live with what i have done.

readers can judge if it is worthless or some value or greater or what ever. but i am not ashamed of it. that is the important thing. you try to live your life with fundamental integrity come to write things that are true or you believe need to be true may be at artfully expressed or maybe not i have never understood and i have little people that are literally pence for higher. they will jump back and forth. this side and the side you should see the people and a green rooms due to them on camera they say something else it is unfathomable to me. again, you may be wrong about things, that is okay if you are honestly wrong but you have to live and speak and write with integrity.

the old cliche about living a lie that is how on earth a fate worse than death. the line in the bucket asks him what about help? the doctor? i bought in 1973 and oxford when i was taking one of those courses shakespeare were they take money from americans. the doctor says my god. adders and serpents let me breathe a while, not lucifer and then there cry of the intellectual. i will burn my books. i do not want to burn my books the check to not wanting to burn your books is two live your life. balance the experience if you

live without books, your life is uninformed. if you live only in books, you have not really lived but the track is to eat everything at the banquet and enjoy the way that books make our lives richer and at the same time, live that life. and formed by books >> public affairs and bridges are the perseus group this is part of book expo america public affairs susan weinberg is the publisher at public affairs for what are you doing?

>> perseus book group decided to take up a challenge this year that was to publish a book in the 48 hours on the shore day's show floor from the opening day thursday at 4:00 through today saturday at 4:00 will have a book party than a few would like to stop by and celebrate. the idea to do the book that fast is to showcase the things that are happening and publishing. the way that electronic files and format and all different printing technology, how much is changing and opening up new opportunities with publishing and bookselling. of the other was to continue more intensified collaborations' burper with other companies. when we announced redoing this we thought we would ask them to help and we found many came to us before we had a chance to call them. we want to be a part of it and we want to how we have over 20 companies participating with us and perseus but group to create the book.

>> let's walk over here because you have a whole schedule of events and a storyboard? >> guest: the first thing we had to say what is the book? we had to have a good book to the way we create in the book is through a crowd sourcing we started a website book of the sikh well dock, and we have spent months inviting people through all kinds of social networking people all out the side the world to contribute we have had contributions from new zealand and japan all over the united states it has been a fun process the book is the first line of an as yet unwritten sequel to any book ever written. it could be like call me, is mail which is moby dick from dying at sea or it could be something like they were not the worst of times that all

things got a lot worse after that. the tale of three cities by charles dickens and we created the idea for the book and at 4:00 on thursday we started the editing process of picking and organizing these lines. we also said to the art director we're not sure how the book will come out so we need a few koppers that we can look at and pick the best one when we have contributions and comments from people at the show. >> host: when you pick a cover is that one of the first things? >> guest: net when you talk about a book but the first thing when you get ready to publish the book that is when you know, what the book is and of the cover is an important marketing tool and it is the closing the book wares in public and we never send a book out naked. >> host: we have four covers why did you decide on this one? >> when we put these together we got a lot of comments but the thing i love to watch is

the very quick a visceral reaction because once you start to talk about a cover, forget it people do not discuss the the cover they say will buy pick it up or passive buy? when we have these four covers up here everybody's i went to this one. >> host: why? >> guest: we ask about that after i saw it happen they said it is about books and comments are about the older books and here are the older books they loved the elegance and literary look the may have electronic reading device with a twist some people got it right away some people did not get it they may enjoy it more because it had a two-step response. this we felt it would fade and a these two were fine but people really gravitated to the book on this cover. we had he will join us at a cover meeting we had the sales

director, other booksellers who happen to came by they gave us their comments. we send them out on twitter at the same time and we got a response from people who were following the project on an twitter with their comments and this was a very, very heavily unanimous choice. so that was a collaborative process and we decided this is the cover. >> host: we have a finished copy of the book. two things there is a introduction and the editor who were they? >> guest: he talks with the author jeffrey number who was at the university of california berkeley they came up with the idea together. clive edited and asked if he would write the introduction he has written several books he comments on npr and seems to have the right touch. >> host: let's divan and pick a page and see what we

find and you can explain it. as i lay on dead and dying. >> guest: there were a lot of zombie contributions. there were a lot of contributions from certain authors. i don't know if i have that right in front of me but if we come over here we have people who have that information. do you have a sheet of the most seek well titles? that is what we're looking for write now. >> i do not. >> host: what are you working on? >> good digital audio in addition and right now i am waiting for a final audiophiles to come from michigan from the the studio i will prove them right here in the booth with had found the

ones i am okay i will upload to the site and let all of the mentors know that the body of music is an overdrive they can pull down the file and put them on their side d&b will have the audio edition. >> host: you have already recorded the audio edition? why in michigan? >> guest: we have a great relationship with the studio he has done good work, he is fast and reliable and he was willing to do with in one day that the manuscript was given to him at 11:00 a.m. he got us the file by this morning. and he read it himself, he often does that he is an audio book producer now the digital download file will be available to anybody who sells or distributes. >> host: is this available on amazon kindle? >> it will be available every electronic format with the amazon kindle or sony reader that says we want to offer this book that way and for

many of them you can buy it today. >> host: susan weinberg, how important is the e-book to our business? >> guest: it shows growth and innovation and continue reading but yet in another form or format. the e-book right now are a small percentage but the potential and how they add to the choice is that when and how they want to read a book is very significant bellsouth think in a world where everything happens so quickly we can get them out and the e-book format faster than a brand book if there is a book that is time sensitive like george soros book on the financial crisis we released it as a e-book it took five or six weeks to get the physical book but the message was so time sensitive we let readers have and as the e-book first. >> host: what is this

schedule of events? >> guest: we're showing all the things today which is the second full day of publication it will end at 4:00 p.m.. we had the book website created right here add to the booth, we created a reading group guy. this is a great meeting where we have librarians and company reading choices that does reading group guides and helps to organize. >> host: do do that on a normal basis? >> guest: not all bucks but a significant number and a lot of publishers do it is a popular way not only reading groups but helps teachers to do the books didn't classrooms and librarians we also had a couple of librarians and we had great ideas for a reading group based on book the sequel but also polls and a lot of interested reading and what people remember we have teachers say this will be a classroom assignments we talk

about bookstores how they put book the sequel and classics around it is a collaborative project. it is something for everyone to have. there is a role to play. the meeting at 1:00 will be very interesting that will be the decision whether and how many to branch for the general public. we're talking we have been the orders in the system, we're talking to retailers and people are hearing about the book we have two with imperfect and permission make a decision how many copies to print and how can we best get them out there? our goal is to have a copy the-- copies distorted by june 15 which is very aggressive if you're doing on the ground you could not do that quickly but we believe we can do it. >> is there ever a time when you decide know we will not print any copies? >> guest: no. not a book we has already decided to publish that does not have been.

talking about e-book in the future way it is l.e.t. how does then go to the print copy that is one publishing model but we in the traditional print publishers have not gotten there yet. at 3:30 p.m. we will have a "q&a" with the participants the 20 companies that are participating and any bookseller can come and ask questions and learn more and at 4:00 p.m. we will open the champagne. >> host: right behind you is clive we want to make sure to introduce him. what was your role? >> guest: how low. -- hello i am amazed editor of the book so my book we dreamed up the idea with a public affairs officer and with my editorial colleagues we sat down from 4:00 p.m. and

look at all the submissions and decided how the would select them and arrange them in the book. by friday we had seen how they had ran out on the page we moved material around we were a little short and all along that is what happens when you decide pages through a database but in the end at about 4:30 p.m. yesterday we ended up with 144 pages and we have proofread at least twice. it is proofreading job from hell because not only are we doing it in a convention center with a lot of distractions but many sequels are variations of a theme it is hard to keep track of you have seen it before. >> host: the web site is up and running? >> guest: it is. we had to close contributions for the printed book on thursday just so for the sake of the project is so it could

take place in the 48 hours but you can still if you want to contribute on the website speed 13.com. >> host: can you pull up the final website? susan when birgit has been a 48 hour project to produce this book, book the sequel, and a long-term project what would you do differently than you are doing here at this convention center? >> guest: will probably give people a little more time to do the task. we are really truly publishing this book everything we do for a book we have done for this book but we don't often say everybody is in the same room and do what at the same time so every task we have done, if we tried to do every book this quickly comment people may get tucker out so we would not keep them there from 4:00 p.m. through a 11:00 p.m. and one editing session we would let th