things, the whole issue of the weapons of the resistance, which is this -- which is this thing that hamas constantly wields, it is whole theory of occupying the territory is what they say. hezbollah with responsible governments and a hezbollah that does not have pretext of the farms of lebanese territory to be liberated is a different hezbollah. i would argue that the case of hamas is much more difficult because the occupation is not going away anytime soon. i, unfortunately, don't hear our secretary of state. i, unfortunately, don't hear high policymakers talking about our being in the 42nd year in occupation. the third generation of palestinians is growing up underneath it. it is something that, obviously, is creating lots of problems. occupation engenders resistance. you may not like the means. those means may be violation of international law but occupation engenders resistance.

there's no such thing as a benign resistance and buying off to sweeten the occupation. people don't like being occupied. it's normal natural reaction to occupation. it's something that will be difficult to address admittedly and this is a whole other question which i'm not going to go into. [laughter] >> i promised to make my answers brief, and i have failed. but if you want to address the question of hamas, you have to address it. and i only hope that the advice of -- that the advice of senator mitchell which was that we begin to look at a way for a palestinian agreement to form that is the root in dealing with the short term of bringing about a lasting cease-fire so good can

get into gaza on a short term basis. thank you. [applause] >> rashid khalidi author of "sowing crisis" is the professor of modern arab studies at columbia university. for more information, visit columbia.edu and search his name. ♪ >> next, a portion of book tv's monthly three-hour live program in depth. on the first sunday of each month, we invite one author to discuss their entire body of work and take your calls. in depth also includes a visit with the author to see where and how they write their books. that's what you're about to see. we visited the washington, d.c. home of author christopher hitchens. hington.

>> this building is almost exactly 100 years old. it's 101 years old. it's a very fine old building called the wyoming from the great days of the gentleman's apartment building in washington. and this apartment which wraps around the whole of the top floor was originally built with this wonderful floor which you can see. this wooden floor. it's almost like an ice ring. that's why i don't have any furniture because i like rolling around it. by the architecture of the building himself, his own occupation. i think the great distinction of this apartment while i've been in it it was used by clint eastwood to film absolute power. actually one of his less good movies. it's about an art thief in

washington, d.c. who needs a safe house. and the president motorcade goes up connecticut avenue. we often hear it. and came back having let the apartment to the movie makers to find all these walls were covered with knockoff paintings of the treasures of the national gallery which the clinton eastwood had stolen and i was hoping the producer would let me keep them but he had to take them away. my hood could be described -- he want to describe it as counter-armor but i think it's the other side of connecticut avenue. it's what we call embassy row. diplomatic buildings, residences, woods, gardens, very beautiful, pretty costly if you break to the right of my front door and go to columbia road you come to morgan to indicate it's bohemia our west village if you

want. diplomacy on one side, and gault malla music, ethiopia restaurants and straight to dupont circle, bookstores, cafes, restaurants perhaps three starbucks. so what you're seeing me behind me is a sort of confluence of washington, d.c., our nation's great capitol. that's connecticut avenue. that's a north/south artery that runs in effect from the white house up to maryland, crosses massachusetts avenue at dupont circle. that's the radial access of the city. due west there is california street. and this is columbia road curving around to adams morgan district. there's the russian trade mission. i'm told that there is still an apartment in this building run by the national security agency to monitor the goings-on there from the days of the old soviet union. you probably can't see it behind me but on the horizon is the

russian compound. and those domes you see in the woods are the naval observatory buildings on the grounds of which, of course, lives the vice president and you see the british embassy just west of that which is the extreme west end of massachusetts avenue on embassy row. it's a good reminder of the small size and the centrality of the district of columbia and then there in the middle on his horse is general mcclellan, president lincoln's worst general the man from whom he asked to borrow the army since the general appeared to have no use for it. and probably was a defeatist. he certainly ran against lincoln later as a proslavery democratic. he may have had secret sympathies with the other side. it makes me laugh because on his horse he's still pointing south, the wrong direction. the confederates would have been that way. he's riding away from them. a little reminder about history.

a typical writing day for me depends on how atypical the previous day was in that i tend to work late at night and if it's been successful, i may not have gone to bed till 3:00. so the next writing day will probably not start till, say, noon or so but if you absolutely had to average a day, it would be like this. get up, try and inhale some coffee. forcing myself to eat oatmeal for anticholesterol purposes, blah, blah. before lunchtime i wouldn't get much done except answering emails. and fending off whatever had accumulated. the world of telegrams and anger. just coping with that and then having lunch which i usually do reading by myself 'cause i think the essential thing for writing is being a good writing. the main thing is never to keep testing yourself against other writers who are better than you. that's what qualifies one as a

writer, i think, this permanently running the risk of having to say i don't know why i bother. i think there are certain authors of whom one should have, you know, all their books even if you can borrow them from the library. so i know i have in this apartment every single word george orwell ever wrote including his expenses reports to the bbc. it's a lot. everything that's ever been published by him. most of james joyce. not all of p.g. wodehouse because i have to say there's some books that aren't worth keeping. it's seems bad. noam chomsky and it's a bit

different. i like to think that i have a life rather than a job or a career. and it's also due with reading and writing. the only two things i was ever good at and public speaking which i can also do. and that's how i make my living but it's also what i am, who i am, what i love. and i'm fortunate at that it's nothing like i can do. it's not like i could have been a lawyer and a doctor. i didn't choose it. it chose me. >> in depth airs live at noon eastern on the first sunday of each month on book tv on c-span2. log onto booktv.org for information about upcoming guests.

>> we're at the 2009 bookexpo america booksellers convention in new york city. we're here with johnny temple, a publisher. do you want to tell us what you have coming out this fall? >> this fall one of the books we're most excited about is a graphic novel by the great black filmmaker melvin van pebbles. it will be simultaneous with our publication of the book and he is the godfather of the black exploitation movement. and we're working with activist mike farrell who is best known of the role on the b.j. honeycutt mash one of the great tv shows of all time. and this is a road -- it's a road book, a road memoir, a

travel memoir and we're putting him back on the road and we're keeping him busy. >> how long have you been publishing books? >> we've been publishing since 1997. we publish literary fiction is the heart and soul of the company. we publish -- we have a sort of outsider sensibility, though, some of our books are quite popular. but our books are often sort of provocative in one way or the other and we do a little bit nonfiction as well, political nonfiction and writers that mike farrell, john kovack and other cultural heroes of the left. >> you're not only the publisher but you're the founder. how did you get into books and why did you decide to start a publishing house? >> i sort of stumbled into book publishing. it was never anything i tended to do. in my previous life i was a rock 'n roll musician and i spent most of the 1990s touring

the world with my band, putting out albums, doing all the things that rock 'n rollers do and when i finally arrived at the thing that rock 'n rollers do best making some money, after i made some money, i published a book basically as an experiment and i found that i really enjoyed publishing the book. it was quite successful. i published a second book, again, it was a hobby. and after publishing three or four books, i had the publishing bug and i started transitioning away from rock 'n roll and into book publishing and there's no looking back. >> now, the publisher is based in brooklyn. you live in brooklyn and you're the founder of the brooklyn book festival. do you want to tell us about the brooklyn book festival? >> yeah. the brooklyn book festival is has one mayor and five boroughs and they have a borough president and brooklyn is very popular brooklyn president is

marty markowitz and he always wanted to start a book festival biá@i==-1e9 is the home of creators and it has a literary tradition dating back to walt whitman, richard wright and these days we have many bestsellers living in brooklyn. it was a natural place for a book festival. and i contacted borough hall and i helped them to realize this vision of a big book festival and has quickly become the city's best book festival. this year, sunday september 13th will be the fourth annual brooklyn book festival. we will have over 150 authors participating in programs, 150 exhibitors, publishers, literary magazines, organizations. it's a very community-based book festival. it's an international book festival but with a strong brooklyn flavor. >> johnny temple, thanks. >> thank you very much.

>> how is c-span funded? >> private donations? >> taxpayers. >> grants and stuff like that. >> >> i don't know where the money comes from. >> federally. >> contributions from donors. >> how is c-span funded? america's cable companies created c-span as a public service, a private business initiative, no government mandate, no government money. >> you've been watching book tv on c-span2. every weekend we bring you 48 hours of nonfiction books, public affairs, history and biography saturday morning at 8:00 through monday at 8:00 am eastern. ..