sherlockian things like that, wonderful group of people. so because of that i thought, if i'm going to do a sherlock holmes book now with a pretty good time. some editor got on board, get very excited about it, and the timeline needs to be quick because, in terms of notice and attention on trying to get a subsidy the book, medium-sized, the real story reconstructed in a narrative form like this of the real people that inspired him to great sherlock holmes. right now i'm very in 1877. it is moody and atmospheric and creepy and cool. and so part of the deal is i finished the book quickly. my goal is christmas. i have until next spring on a contract, and publishers are

dangerously accommodating the office. very bad enabling sort of habit. michael is christmas so the book will come out next fall. because with anything there's a wave, a crest, and right now i checked, the real-world businessman checked to see were all of the tv shows about sherlock and things are being renewed. so bunch of things like that. [inaudible] >> i like the version, cumbersomcummerbund -- out mentd about timing again, henry thoreau, his bicentennial of his birth is three years from the. this book comes out this year, the next year the paperback. so you have to survive in the real world it -- suggested that

the timing for things you already want to do. i have no idea of how long i've been talking to it could be monday afternoon for all i know. we are good? >> we can go on a little longer. >> two more questions, thank you, sir. [inaudible] >> it varied enormously but originally it was along the everybody was a little blurry. there are pictures, they finally get the kids to sit there like this can people go everyone looks so sad and solemn in the 19th century. whether that's adequate you read in the diaries of all the funny things to think that having lunch and watching fireworks and ago set for the voters and had to go like this for nine minutes or whatever. the dog in the picture, just a ghostly blur. so it was changing very quickly at the time, but the passage i read about the death of emerson's son waldo, that was early 1842, not quite three

years since the announcement of the invention of the daguerreotype. so it was moving incredibly quickly. >> i am wondering you adjust your talk about the book for this audience right in concord versus other audiences? >> that's a great question. i wanted to get a reasonable amount of substance, particularly to this one. i didn't change the core of the talk, but a little less intro, a few things are obvious about the setting that you'd already know i took out and things like that. took out as in the form i sat in my hotel room scribbling all over this, very high-tech. so i tweaked it a look at, and also every talk i give, i was in westport, connecticut, the day before yesterday and madison, connecticut, every single time i sit down and say and think, that

was a dumb joke, or whatever, those kind of things. or occasionally i will free associate something and say, i like it, i'm going to add that. one more question. >> maybe not. maybe the question is, can we all go home? thank you very much for coming. [applause] >> thank you, michael. next tuesday evening we have -- >> someone run up and randomly occur for me. i haven't met her but i have a crush on her anyway. >> we greatly appreciate this. if all of you could purchase a book, this wonderful book, it's a very interesting. and michael will be more than happy to sign. >> where do you want me to be? >> right here.

there's also books at the counter. thank you very much for being here. >> a wonderful crowd. i sound like a comedian. of course, of course. oh, boy. i'm a writer who walked up your without a pen. you know how i collect those. so is it to you? >> to bob. >> i once started writing it and it turned out a man spelled his name -- i had to eat that book that i miss signed. >> for more information visit the author's website. >> here's a look at some of the upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the

country. >> let us know about the affairs of vessels happening in your area and will be happy to add them to our list. e-mail us at booktv at c-span.org. book tv asks what are you reading this summer? >> before and to question i'd like to give you background of that for the last 10 years i've concert most of my reading on the early constitutional history of our country and early

presidents of our country. and i suppose i studied that stuff 50 years ago or more, but it's good to go back to us. thomas jefferson, john adams, was recently john quincy adams. so let me tell you my main interest this summer is going to be a book with a long title. "the great debate," edmund burke, thomas paine and the birth of the right and the left. the reason i'm very interested in that is i quoted edmund burke so much during my political career, never really studied his background. and this gives me an opportunity that i've read a short synopsis of this book, gives me an opportunity to find out what a conservative that thinks you ought to have internal change

versus the other writer that thinks you ought to do it by revolution and may change very, very quickly. so it's a difference between what i call edmund burke, a conservative, i would even call thomas paine a conservative. people might disagree with my analysis of thomas paine but they seem to be people how they want to change more than exactly that they disagreed on what ought to be done. and so since i've quoted these people so much during my political career, i want to study them in depth, and i've never done that. >> what are you reading this summer? tell us what is on your summer reading list. tweet us at booktv, poste post o our facebook page, or send us an e-mail, booktv at c-span.org. ..