at being able to make it decoupled from the dollar or the next reserve currency and succeed th t tke dted r roerese yave that relationship with unemployment. if it gets out of control they will have politil issues at home to deal with. what do you think aut china's monetary policy? >> oe again i le ese peed qstioause it bolsters -- i am glad i spent time going to school point of view but the fact of the matter is in the real world it is a different ballgame. evything completely applies to esmy r with very deep monetary tools. people with bank accounts you change the interest rate and mortgage markets respond immediately. that is not china and it has a

to become a reserve currency to decouple or remove themselves from relying on other currencies? that is true. if you look at reserve d ilg omd d by china and ina giar tar increasing their amount of holdings not just in terms of reserves but in terms of the assets. where there are gold asss and prop land astsf arndhe d. n'nt rely on the i m s for the u.s. for bailouts. significantly there's a shift away fromhat. i t tret deli between the emerging

and developing economies. i talk a lot about the swaps chinas do ual manel ost ecied doar i don't think that is going to happen i great extent very soon. the financial infrastructure required to have the rerve currcy, china w o . to they're moving in that direction is pretty accurate. >> join me in thanking dambisa moyo. [applause] there a nonfiction or book you would like to see featured on booktv. senate e-mail to

book-sn.g. ro the pritzker military academy, anthony swofford talk ta.ut his life since leaving the [applause] >> thanks to the pritzker library for having me here. i thank you for coming out. your friends are growing for the lakers or something. an amazing day. igo to read from my new book, a section that tak place in d.c. at the naval hospital and also at a dinner ler that same day for wounded soldiers and pop around a little more and talk a little about writing

about the military which i have done a bit of -- want to do more of it. am aecenfa aan ou bbuam g to do that tonight. inndooatebethnd in my mind i had been in the desert driving a humvee spraying fire everywhere. me driving with my left hand, barrel out the window and letting looson bsts. e nppedpeedloy. hehoulder ahead of me i change a tire on his truc my first thought was vehicle born explosive device. and i saw the wte and child holding hands in the rear of the eyed

landcod ve be a scene out of a novel of john steinbeck. people driving beat up cars people should write a dissertation. my right hand grped the sht lit a gp p gp my wife. i have no ammunition on a road of bethesda and the targets remained ulear. i poured water over my head and laughed at radio. i took the speedometer back to . ngbsbe t ks what would i say? i made it to bethesda somehow in the labyrinth sound of the office that i need to naofr, m tegrtoorme to be injured marine floor. i made plans to be up later at the dinner in d.c.. as we walked my first impulse

was to bolt. i hadn't be to hospital sns my brother died. i knehe ss aof anptane d maines that give and take wife. i knew the collective heart beat of a hospital for holding lives in fine balance. i did not belong here. i would wre the balance. that was not the plan of the day. foe ea was e oerwe min ombe over her young marine son. he had arrived two days before. they were not sure the kid would live. weaker earlier he had taken a sniper round to the forehead. the swelling was down. hutldy k when his mother spoke a d meed from ohio. someone from the naval media team asks me to sign a copy of moyo 18. i wrote it to tom your to your whatever his name was knowing he would never read it. his mother was overly polite. took toor ndle anid w rit hind tug pas

the kids something with a little bit of hope. not my big book. what are you going to give a mother from ohio to read over the dthbed of her 19-year-old son? i walked o ofro. myinhu. i shofrefi got called away for a moment and asked me to stand by. ahead of me in the hallway i saw a man in his 50s leaning against a wall outside a patient room. he wore a ret-srt eossed wiarinn hedlst guess. i approached him. excuse me can i ask you a few questions? who are you? i was a former marine officer right away, vietnam's 68. could see iin h. m foerd e i ju here to get sins stories and see how the marines are doing. my boy, he saidpointing and his sweat shirt and looked at me as

though i were stupid. loe oe gue hes s e heers shakes out. i was in vietnam. i saw a lot ofood diets and three weeks here and never saw as many men injured so heinous we. the boys are ripped to shreds. e.oom room and you will ae hefath is here because the fathers are back home earning money or never been around. i am lucky. i was an executive at a bank. i retired year ago. i gotwo pensions. i can affo to mdeal re lk ter so i dos ths life. look at the mother's. some of them are married but you know the story. many of these boys are from broken homes and single mothers. these women thought they were gog tohion themsve ter . w dangvees einsr eest of their

lives. he placed a hand on my shoulder and asked me to look after ery marine i could. a woman approached clutching copies of a newspaper artico r cht. is ithey n yeda tpe said. they captured him. couldn't speak but blinked his eyes and they captured his will. the woman began t cry and the marine that comforted her. they i give you one of these about my son? she asked me. id. i gnc athe tie. thongery h a color photo from wednesday's paper in cleveland or cincinnati or wherever. this woman and her son, t mobile oxygen masks and lightning y lyibut p oficatl. aru wh? she asked. my mind introduced me to the woman. she asked for a signed book and i gave her one. told me a week before -- was much more excited to mt me.

thmaldth c hson ceived was top- the sports staff had been wonderful. i glanced at the photo of her son on cover of the newspaper. a sweet boy, she said. the marine dad walked away. e woman look at me and set i am happy for him his son h ngot yr gss a small wound, i would never be able to truly understand the depth of the despair of the marines and their families. during my work it had been a short time athe entry point of this calamity at thend when e if redi and work hods sometimes fired on friendly troops and i had forgotten about the destroyed end of it to ruin families. may i had you? the woman asked. yes of course. .felt awkward but coun't say hu mghd crme le f a of who her son had been. young and clean shaven, strong.

i was none of these things. he would never hugged her son while he stood up right. she walked into my shlder. eadosher. ic ed ou w o she locked onto i i s. in a mildly erotic way, her fe full of tears. was attractive in the high school librarian way. handsome. aooths.llat s ws hen d bfine. he would never walk and might not talk but he would have his mother and somehow they would both be while. is the not have been true but it ie sa wisth myself then and se f de.in belve ts because we have to. nursees and orderlys swam around us in green and blue from every room came the nauseating white sound the resuatan prulga aegng o

ald soe bee t ansumenoerroom. can two visitor shares sat an extremely old woman and a girl who could not have been older than ten. they work colorful indigenous clothing but to my untrained eye shoutebolia. ane irbe smle as in congress as their address. my mind introduced me to the marine. and infantry staff sergeant had been blown up in a convoy he was in traction. heaid gngo s e tur of human shrapnel. he said my guy got blown up but i live. i live. i got blown up and i woke up right here in this bad. how many days later? i don't even know. i was having a dream like a thplut oes aoof the bed and there is my grandmother and my niece. i haven't seen anyone from

bolivia in4 years since i left. i guess i died inghdad. yth a m nce. inky' n d how can they be dead and walked supply-side and said you will live. the grandmother i did me suspiciously and little girl continued her intense at autiful smile. i loved this. bad ai ke, it gotlop gn randmoer and my niece? i was totally impressed. all i want to do is look up and fight again and fight for my dead broer's. could see he was soaked up and looked as igot ot ouis iv because his mind wandered. where did it take his brain? back to the desert for the philippine islands or shangri-la not unlike t muslims promise overflowing with virginfor y out of the hospital.

i had never driven in d.c.. have only igt ea i edvithar memorial at arlington. in capital held for the wounded warrior starting at 7. i found the memorial, a replica ee.the famous one at iwo jima ittoesev al campaign large and small. it was one of those truly american collections of people, latino in mid lease term and ceuropn imgr. tse na ot tond daughters. a man being pushed in a wheelchair had to be from the island hopping campaign. he wore a cap with the badge of

guadalcanal in the first marine vision creat scifically jumpslanthe w h aid japan. i look that the war memorial and smelled burned sand and scorc acidrom centuries. i walked toward the edge of arlington. there were two funerals underw ch held beneathe ti . ave aeadyeed staring into the earth and the other covered above the box in mid for air offering absolution. i wondered who rested in the coffins? young men from current warsr oln pasd on f oronanr or a pfund just one last breath. arlington's austerity choked me. a tapestry of green and white silence. this did not hide the fact the rr deaths in combat.d women died

two 4 buses unloaded their passengers in front of the rest from the few blocks from the senate office building. these were the men and women, soldiers and sailors and marines undergngutpaenca at waeean. thseut and walkers and wheelchairs' and somewhat on their own. a prosthetic leg which i could tell by e snap or she choosing to go without a psthetic. eelinntohero of t shirt. single phantom hand in a gesture half of france and half of the finance. more mothers of theany legacies the war produced the one not yet considered by mt rvws h ma boite on th hospital corridor. a fe as young as 40. when a man my age might face. look at the horizon and saw themselves escorting their sons to the hospil for the next 40

years. n otdelland ar me blow each other up and post the the gun youtube and the mother must carry the casualties to the river and wash and dress the wounds and count casualties. the ther'sill tt hwould mae n nyth rs and the missourand danube. name a river it has received our wounded from the bare backs of mothers. i heard someone calling my name. i watched a sff sergeant fro bedae ncrp up h therweinesue and to gain it from a bottle of whiskey. it was a prelude to a horror film and i couldn't decide which. i motioned to the twoarine that we should head in. ere a ouuehe ev. tecfl andstf these men and women were not prepared to climb the stairs.

the guys told me to takthe stairs and they would meet me up there. i offered a piggyback ride but he didn't trust the scraw vilian legs e ptloike iuaated for a few years. the food spread was not as ambitious as at a hollywood party d on par with sometng with a party of poetry magazin ranking new york parties in tes of sex aeal anfood andri ie nuer one spot and television magazine and books and ugly and distant last the n g e os. the barn consisted of one guy behi thared or whie e teeanutf itn'matter. the arriving troops were pumped. they wernot leading hospital food and rubbing elbows and wheelchair wheels and prosthetic limbs. e secretary of the army and a

misee ind w dole and half a dozen congress men and senators whose faces i knew from uldn recall.hose names i of coue this partyidn'hold eye porond h y ihe world when you arthe power and the money you can spend only so much time around the masses and an unmfortable silence falls over the rim. the troops and their families will not be able to hold eronouli i rom remodel. this gathering was suppod to be casual social hour but eventuallyhe masses will want to talk about health care and prescription drugs and the living wage and how many times can you as the kid with a metal e isd he w hewan where in iraq and afghanistan did this unfortunate awful thing happened

and how he was progressing and if he missed the men in his unit? how many times can you ask these questions withouthe guil and binu? eaul bred from our cocktail loungwithin 20 minutes and jump in a scooter and sale to a party where none of the tough questions h to be asked. no visible injuries. goodrtinees. i was gh op utoead and our power lifter the back door having done their good deed of the week. i sat at a table with the staff sergeant and two injured army peonl and two female volunteers for non-profit parent carondtobe ofobg weeo be a couple. the couple was quarreling next to me and i extracted myself from a clear shot of them and said hel theoung

t. g , tht. sh looked about 16. strawberry blond hair, sweet smil blue jeans and a blouse. i wondered if her father was one of the injured men among us. i looked for him. she lifted her right leg. the sound was of titanium. guess how they got me? you d't have to guess. i e d. she chuckled. the first time that they i found myse eech. thhi vornger er mscmbled eggs and rushed her off to homeroom was living the pain of war right next to me while at the same table a pair of old fish lovers quarrels to be about nothing. are thought had been handling e edhegnfa ll clngom s newspaper story. the bolivian sergeant with his grandmother and niece, cologne with his lessons in sex. none of it had been pretty but

it had all been terab. prepshi shefor this band of from. and they drove this work too they. they were replaced with entrees. hell ias in the marine corps in the first gulf war but i am out now. lyd. eatmt? s agocess. the barracks are cruddy. the worst i've ever had. food tastes like dirt. that is why i come as often a possible and got an autograph of tiger woods a couple months ago. i t te fnd gidat substrate in his chair chewing stake. my sergeant's stripes pulled over his forehead and black army jacket and dollars eyes. fernand own ardsley at me. ery move teate wi aroe wutiece is sgeant

and all but we're both getting out. he broke his back when his bradley float so we are getting out. on my other side from amy and the man she was fighting th ha ae tlien that. i nodded at the private or enlisted sergeant's boyfriend and excused melf. most male soldiers and marines stood for wheat in smoke. i never smoked or had a cirein my lifeutsked unriitr if he cldpareo this is the one vice of military members that i never took up. you didn't smoke? i never took up the tobacco trade. ernge, low. sure thing. he squared duke into a california beach cliche. tty love that. my hair wasn't long but longer

an any military guy's. i ied o take thege of a my hair red slimy civilian and this has many extra pounds in my suit. i looked at the men rating their appearance and behavior for military bearing and discipline. how bsurd that was. the mari lift my cigattfo ndnhe ly smit and burned. i chewed it into a planter being used as an ashtray. this drew a chorus of laughs. where did you learn to oke? you only a dolr for that. myaretrothe planter. my first one ever and my last. if that is the case can you gonna be run? what are you drinking? beer, the whole of smokers laug i coted eig eibe wl se w i can do.

inside the waiter said desert in front of diners and at the state country band made ready for its shell. i askedhe bartender for 16 be years. he didn't want to give them to me. he said we can't get these kids too drunk. some bad stuff has gone down i the past. who knows what they are on. i pulled something out of my wallet and handed it to them. on the terrace i put the beer for smokers to y all exclaimed and istled and clappedir em se fm t h if those guys will never give us more than one beer per person. they think wwill get drunk and cherwi ch the bti s ca they are worried we will skip and go to a beer and get a fight with civilians. i pull rank. back at the table of staff sgt alone seemed to be making

exar pos esm noof th glsonhthe would be true profit in veteran advocacy. i will take a little break their. itheir . ookrin 2 veberid organization called stable american veterans sins002 when someone asked me if ipe nder i ce 2002 when someone asked me if i spent time around veterans. i tried to go every year. they teach adaptive -- hocke ty wild.o. they call them -- use it in a

plug and go do the mountain and i skied better than i do on mywn and thet iys a beautiful week. it is a little strange because you can ask them and there are people cruising are round in their $1,50 ski suits and vts in fs an n-ind g il s rey n he slopes and the match up of the lifestyle with these injured veterans is always interesting to watch. nj vand yig ard have noticed from that meeting that i didn't really know exactly how to our approach these guys and i was -- didn't really knohow to ask about

r rir kut ii meet a guy and know he is injured i say when did you get it? what happened? what did you lose? how are things going now? i fndremarkabhe t to tell their stories. the sharing of the story for the veteran is a healing a. te b cpay i was in portland, a en ainoran there was a young guy, my caddy and i started inquiring and we had a great 35 minute conversation on the way the airport about his injury and h iheary and the process. that is the one thing that drives me to spend time around

these veterans and find their stories is the process of recovery whaeay rk ie tund piri ng the process but what we are finding is many of these young men and women who would have died in other wars are alive now andhey are apond wldt ew orld war ii.k as a writer and someone interested in combat andhe histy of combat i am anticipating- excited to see atil mn er w hiy this war is written because we will in fact have more planned women who live in the war with these injuries. we will paint a new and different picture ofhat

return from war is. and i would like to get out and tell their stories. ..

rneom w, but the war was still present for me, and then it was very present for me, and i wrote the booon the war, and there was no way i couldn't say i was not in the as aiz,nd only really in the last decade when i had the company of veterans again, have i discovered that the company of that really a inmo r abou ptsd and suicide in the veteran population, and i spent a lot of time talking with dr. shay who has been treating wewenn skypeingafter the vietnam

actually for an hour and a half, and atthe end, i just wanted advice. i said what happens if a woman calls you up and says doctormy pslolpe ayad are in need of some help, but they are not trying to -- nay are not seeking it out themselves, and, you kn, i can't force this on them. bring them into a circle of veterans pshologically injured veteran. sleep and peers. of course, you know, they may need therapy, but he said i've never treated a veteran who was getting lots of sleep wh dn't finay o he said peers. he said sleep and peers. if youave a veteran in a room with other veterans where they feel safe and feel they can

share their story and not be judgedbyenu a mao in ro peers will be well on their way to health and to healing. remember that sleep and peers for any vetera u k t h i eventually found myself in a dark place, and i escaped manhattan, and i was living on the side of a mountain in the caskills ae inbi yio f a book, isolating myself. i had been in a seriesfv trs wa, dy father's a vietnam vet, and the

rv trips were a way for us to kind of come together. sharedtori, and he ansh s my own stories. eventually, have you been in a winnebago for a thousand miles? it's excellence, especialf your wrhe thbu a thousand miles is quite a bit. these rv trips were my father's idea, and i give him a lot of credit for making the offer and for making the efrt. its degrees in august, a couple weeks before i turned 40. i was in a bit of a crisis. i had gone for a run, and i was sure ireated a catatacsmic

impn lel r d i watched him in the rv. hehe was taking his meds. he lived alone in fairfield and traveled alone in the rv. wiisnts being a clint eastwood character from a western or war film, the epic wandering, the stoic, the man who lives on beans and shoe leather and the hard bought wo'tfad bthe roand ppin le with a woman living in a clean house? i loved my father and understood the lure of the fantasy, but the possibility that i might end up dying, scared ea ld, alone, and ilo n yk the pool west of houston. it frightened me so much back in

the rv i told my father i couldn't make it to california with him. i needed to return to new york as soon as possible to take care of some things, to takeaof lfll nd igeou m . adt lockhart that afternoon and ate barbecue, and in the afternoon, i jumped on a plane home. i don't remember much of august. friends in the city threw itasseber my 40th bda thtf moving to los angeles where a friend was shooting a movie where icould live there for free or somewhere elsewhere i'd never return. enlyieske shid h a friend coming up from brooklyn, and we might like each other and we had some things in common. the day before i decided that the next woman i dated needed to have been the daughter of a itre. dct

dd daughters of doctors, lawyers, and the rich, and that never worked out. i had not been out for afew months. this woman -- this is t first shbeinif fngd i k ,ha forever. she was in a short skirt, flirty blouse and cowboy boots. in winter, he turn would be white, and she said funny and flattering thing about hiies, monk aa, a eme ha anc mi she went to college in the late 1990s. when she saidthis, i must have stared at her stidly and longingly. she might be the one. thmeex au, b she aais mo w a we stress on a marine base camp, and as a child lived on camp in base housing in

a development called terrace two. it was the bloodiest batt of rld waii,pjog e nerp trs iehi drilled in my head. i had nightmares where a drill instructor yelled to a room of recruits, and the recruits had to stand and strain in a stress positionr another invving e aaefng sir, bloodiest battle of world war ii, sir. it's true, i still have thos nightmares or cleaning the floors. is iheif tt d heard theml ndll soaked with the blood of marines. most beautiful women from new york city would have guessed that it was a new kind of chutney. [laughter] she went on to tell story about being studentounc eaor snd secretary

were responsible for running up the u.s. and marine corp. flag, and i knew for certain i was going to be in love with her. upuens ian prablynit tarara, everybody heard of this? this gentleman will help with the microphone. >> do yo fellow colleagues at >> o d work for the "new york times," but i know there are -- one of my favorite "new york times" reporter, cjhi, 'srmin do know, he might feel like a fish out of water there, but he does some of the best reporting th i read.

yes, sir >> yuall didtti y inin c.. atur motivation? do you think it was a good decision or something that didn't turn out too well? >> well, i wrote a book about that. the first bk,ut t m ma c discover the mystery about my father which was vietnam in combat. i ws, in fact, conceived when my father was on r and r i vim. wald j lane and go meet her husband in honolulu who had a week off from the war, and then i was the result of that. my childhoodwas very much colored by myather'sieam experien tauly occasionally.

some of the friends came over to convene in the backyard, it was men talking, and i was not allowed into the circle. at the time, i joinedhein rpcamy dies were doing it, and the was a good sales pitch, ani was excited to serve my country and also escaping the town i'd grown up in. it was aealroic idiry rvice, and paicularly to service in the marine corp.. >> what you're in the marine corp., do they bring up the literary tradition of the marine corp.? the bheri tt c the marine corp.? is that part of the marine corp. tradition? >> it was not part of my tradition. it was just a grunt. not a lot of reading. i was the weird guy who went to

the tiny libra, ald nvd ach h ob, w, 4 books, and i'd pull out camo and read that. i discovered another on my own a few years after i got out of the marine corp.. i think ff ., i owtowre s than i think in the pass and the officer corp. there is a new emphasis on reading literate re aheto list of grunt in a ne tasks from day-to-day up -- unfortunately. >> we have a web question, we have 10 minutes left. fro ri,ha nnn o rantiment of veterans from the current war from you or

other veterans from the gulf war, and is it a fair assessment? >> yeah, i think there's a lot of respect from veterans from aom out war veterans and, you know, i know the language, and i know the codes, and sure, our war was -- the gulf war was a smaller war, over whedents of, you know, recent american history and certainly practitioners of the war understand that was really, you know, the beginng of these aney oer really,ular you know, what the the cost of conflict is, you know, the human cost, but also, you know, the cost in general t society d e uronh m

d n return. >> yes, in the sometime line. how do you feel about the military draft? do you think we're beer off thbrr national spectrum. >> i'm in favor of the draft. i think there could be a national service aspect of it. you don't want everyone in the litary. the generals don't wa everyone in t military, but that has to de wth dde firrvice, but maybe you have some people fighting fires, maybe you have some people building infrastructure in the inner cities, and then you have some people who are part of draftedbaio you owafe so, w israel for about a month, and that's a country where everyone

serves, and at dir er jt o ta ye ais w gle ererds cf service, and i think that's something that couldn't hurt re. it's probably really a population issue. >> first off, i'm from one th fveinu ke iie f those who advocate on behalf of veterans to help those understand the sacrifices they go through. >> thanks. >> is it easieror you now -- well, more so you mentio eaiebo ymawi marp the work you've done, books written, and traveling you've done, is if -- is it easier to have the love and get that o to the marines and others who have not served? >>eah, you , hii lf mesav a -hreon w t

neorp.. i love ma reaps, but the system sometimes is brutal. i was recently rereading the memoir by louis polr,r. sjuin vnand en of it, he said, you know, i love and hated the marine corp.. that's something that, you know, unless you've been in the marine corp. you don't understand. i probably spent some years after the marine crp.atit renin b owte writing "jarhead," i spent time in the company of marines and vetans, and it's about individuals. it's about comrade and history, soar e a sw, i'mtill a reap, and it's important not to just tell marine stories, but military storie tell them well, and make sure the story -- the sry's from --

the sries fromhe current rs ol ath atal responsibility. >> you talk about meeting with current veterans coming back. what do you think is the largest challenge for them once they return both injured and not >>sfftfo yo.he current war? g come home, and they become a math teacher off the bat, and they don't have any difficulties or a science teacher or libraria mechanic, what have you. other guys, ty lost their oting. ink it's important that veterans realize that there's services out there for them that e indeed service organizations, and they are not alone. the thing that i hear againnd agaiwhen talking t anrtis that the most dangerous thing is when a

veteran isolated themself and pulls out from society and so, you know, i would just say reach out, and if y know a veran tos ohery tot pull them back in. for me, the thing that helped was going to college. got out of the marine core, got to college, and i kicked around community clegesor thlwe mien s, - way to a community, and i was no longer a part of the marine corp., but i was a part of this, now a part of this community of learning that meant everything to me and that,ouknow, allod me t y, , ynow m t here now telling you these stories. >> question right here. you talk a little bit about the writing process a how it evolved sinceritingjad"

ur a aprr, long distance sprinter. that's what i say. my wife says i'm lazy. i read books for a month. she says, what are you doing? i'm wkii'og. i rd sig weeks, and i work eight to ten hours a dwai, and then i hang out, read books, watch movies, and slowly reenter the wo've ne ar h" a there was o novel after that which forced me tore more narrative -- forced me to be more narrative in t storying telling. bonow iro book i mtu d, ain terms how i approach narrative and how i'm

telling the story. >> whatid rndsit in b relating to the military? >> my reading is all over the place. i'm a big fan of presidential biographies. anthony beaver will be he in a ek, sorry i'lmi h. ofrst military historian of our time. i read everything he writes. i read hemmingway, drop into the classics. i readthe new stuff that's coming around. i'm catholic in my taes, and i watch a t of foodtw gh >> considering you have written fiction and memoir, do you trust

myomel w rbe sif details? is there a process you go through, and do you think ther is,ou know, an -- obviously, element of truth to everything you say, but with memoir somemesis nhe e eho y m writing is an act of memory retrieval in writing memoir, and so when i began writing about a perio in my life, the memories come fa i tok 'sck, and, youw, at book, and i'm certain he remembers the rv trips somewhat differently, but i'm the writer of the book, and crthhiy.erhemth wy, and i 'ssend nrative now. you know, the events are real

events. you know, the dialogue is close to what occurred. tor,nd'lmeckeysaend10 ar ie and i think that's true. i know that's true, but i trust my memoir telling, and i like memoirs because i feel one thing that memoir has in america right now is 5 lot of om f ven,e ect ns dotand o things in terms of narratives, and that the memoir is still new. it started with frank conro wi "stop time"n7 foarveen.o 'shy i wrote another memoir, and i'm not certain that i will write another one. i think that the next non-fiction book might be a recorded book. >>no web qiond haefe.nd

this is a web question from jake in chicago. you conclude your book saying fatherhood may be more a test of man's greatnesshanoat ncmpngk,ho oi i'm doing well. my daughter's only 9 months old. she can't offer a contrary narrative just yet. [laughter] i'm sure she will. i lov fatherhood. it'seen the nnet mfe meg eneny ht s born, and this is probably nothing that other men don't experience, but she was on my chest about five hours after she was born, and i truly had an epiphany and realized iould continue writing booksnd i d o tgs bt the most important thing i'll do now is be a father to this young daughter who is on my chest, and that was very freeing. all of my anxiety about writing

and work, and, you know, what am i going to do th my fe dippd, a sown thi'one the best writing of my life since she was born. >> anthony swofford. >> thanks. [applaus twrolrs0 follow booktv on twitter to get publishing news, scheduling updates, author information, and talk directly with authors in twr.borogramming. e w to od you to michelle fitzgerald, the associate directer of marketing and publicity at paul grave mcmillain publishers. lestwi formerarnboutheew

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