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tv   After Words  CSPAN  June 6, 2015 10:15pm-10:31pm EDT

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. >> just as an aside broadside had to do some corrections. correct? >> every book i remember years ago to remember the book backlash how women are prevented from dancing hugely successful and popular someone on the right jiddah catalog and showed it to make was you publish this as the book? that is the first time anyone suggested that to me but that was just the indicator and "the new york times" that they have a large structure so it is
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almost impossible that is still written under the pressure of time to get a book out quickly so it is inevitable but what is distinctive or special to this case is there is an apparatus that has ben assigned to the clinton inn chain to a sign members to fact check everything and this operation is run by my old friend david who had this done to him and what about hillary? he learned how to do it from
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the clinton machine. this is what they do when his book was published there was an effort to fact check by the adversarial operation and as the recall "the new yorker" published an article to see how major errors? there were three errors and one was the address of the video shop where clarence thomas rented a pornographic video. it is a game and this is how it is played obviously be one to our booktv accurate to bring that to our attention but the idea that somehow the findings the general argument the fact
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there are errors is to misunderstand the nature of investigative journalism and publishing. >> you wrote that if you could control the use as or will show and in 1984 cannot be used to express the dissenting views but it is say cover page said published last summer in "the national review" on the premise of let your right to pray and run free as i was announcing the emergence of a new wing and very quickly
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airboat give you the background betray nonfiction editor in my career by two years ago i began to hear from conservative authors who have written novels who had said i had written a novel will you read it or consider publishing it? and i talk to my publisher at harper collins the up shot was that they are of little to do a sectarian where they are meeting them for a broader audience i should be clear they are john run novels political
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potboilers science fiction that what we would call'' section. this is the classic instance of the genre but with some thai of conservative theme. or like sam spade makes comments but is at a conservative cast it is not so much like the keystone pipeline which was one of the of obsessions but a sensibility your point of view that infuses of the narrative fiction i started to look into this wasn't just a few writers but
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scores of people and then the libertarians who came and inspired by the advent of the rise of the amazon, a digital selfie publishing technology to write their own works of fiction and yet they had a lot of difficulty to connect with their natural audience for it seemed the best thing to do is create a place as of platform with the new conservative the insurers it is called liberty island is
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a up magazine written by conservatives sand libertarians. the point of my article is to make a broader point of what i call the resurgence of the right to parade was not just limited to year fiction but a brighter for american of comics, arch, a video game designers. it is a broad cultural movement and it is back. bid amount is but they feel
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that their perspective is some reflected in the national media of the panoply of popular culture. so a counter cultural energy or spirit prices and that is what has animated the neo-conservative right to swing -- right wing and the item that you quoted refers
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to the experience that i had as a young person to go to a science fiction writing workshop back in 1976 when i was 19 for the first time the ideological point of view that was progressive and i was told by advocates there were certain words you cannot use our idea is you could not express that it was wrong, harmful, a dangerous and i realize that first of all, words and do have consequences as language is important there is the struggle over the meaning of content.
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and diversity. and three have to do argue but is this a power struggle going on within the creative part and i found conservatives today are unaware and detached. when i was an editor 25 years to publish controversial books in the effort to break down barriers as day conservative
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popular culture it did that matter. so i tried to and tried to participate and play a role. with that conservative intellectual there over those institutions created by visionary or that with my job in publishing. they saw that scholars and academics were forced out of the academic positions so with that alternative system
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and magazines had to be created and that is pullulating successful to be considered a beneficiary of large parts so for those that i consider to be the grown-ups in my field. i feel if they were here today there would be active in the field of popular culture with those steps necessary to raise awareness
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to create energy and focus and what i find it is the more i have got an outgrowth my books of publishing into the broader world and those that create music labels for film companies or to do animation and graphics. these people don't talk to each other. i was on the panel hosted by "the national review" dryad best segment of popular culture from the of hollywood film industry. and then we would talk shop. i've learned a lot and the
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main thing the take away is we don't talk to each other enough. and one thing to distinguish from editors so as day business for several so i am a capitalist but that is not good for girl but i am part of their larger movement. . .
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