nixon if you can believe it was at 60 approval in the gallup poll and 19% disapproval, astonishing here was next in seven before and had been written as the biggest loser in american politics. >> senate 10:00 p.m. eastern professor and novelist roxane gay discusses her life, her body and its impact on her life in her memoir "hunger". >> you see a woman in her phat pants and she's like i did it and i just thought i can't write that book yet and i want to write that book, so why don't i tell the story of my body today without apology. just explanation of this is my fat body and this is what it's like to be in this world in this body. >> for more on this weekend schedule, go to book tv.org.

>> author james patterson, think i read somewhere or told by someone who knows this that one in 36 books in the us has your name on it. >> sacredness. i don't pay any attention. there are a lot of people who like my book, which is terrific for me and also for people going into bookstores and libraries. host: how many books are you working on right now? guest: usually a dozen or so book that i'm doing a one time. last year i wrote two books about myself and this is a weird one, if you think this through i approached 2500 pages of outlines last year and dolomite outlines our drafts, so three or four drops of a 2500 page whatever, which is all imagination and making up stories. here's a story and

here's how i see this going. we have a book i'm doing with president bill clinton and started with an outline. host: you have done that outline? guest: yeah, we are halfway through. we meet frequently and talk on the phone a lot and it's great because he's a good storyteller, also. he has information about the presidency and governments that other people don't have, so it's going to be a really-- it's called "the president is missing". i'm so proud to be working with him. host: who's the first drafter you are him? guest: i don't know how it works, but that's not how works. host: win is that due? guest: next summer. host: where did alex cross come from? guest: it's a long time ago, but a piece of it was when i was

growing up my grandparents had a small restaurant in upstate new york, and the cook was a black woman named laura and she was having problems with her husband and our family said move in with us and she moved in with us for about three years and during that time i spent a lot of time with her family and they were smart and funny and interesting and their food was wonderful there and i actually preferred being with her family than my own. that always stuck with me in terms of just the workings of her family in particular and families i met during that time. especially wearing man up mama came from. i guess that would be a combination of this woman and probably my grandmother who was one of these people that she would go up and fix her own television antenna when she was like 80

years old and be upon one of these rickety-- literally of three stories and you're like my gosh, she's going to fall. that's not how she died. host: wended children's books become a part of your-- guest: we have a son jack that's 19 now and when he was little-- he's a bright kid. he wasn't a big reader and when he was eight i had been stimulated to write books for kids because people turn the pages and that's useful for kids to get them involved, but when jack -- he wasn't a big reader in that summer and i wish more people would do this we said you will read every day and he said do i have to reset unless you want to live in the garage so we went out and got him a dozen books, some of the library and some in book stores and by the end of

the summer he had read all 12 in his reading skills went crazy and when jack took his sats he got an 800 perfect score in reading and that's what can happen, but it won't necessarily wind up with an 800 test, but they will become good readers if they read enough, most kids. parents need to take responsibility for that and to understand that it's their job. in the same way that you teach your boy may be how to throw a baseball or teacher girl how to write a book and those are good things to do, but getting them reading is even more important. host: prior to becoming an author you had a life, you have not been an author before. guest: i was in advertising for several years, but i have been clean for over 20 years now, so i don't know why you brought that up. it got me to understand communication better. it got me to understand there's an audience,

that you will talk to people and, you know, you have to hold of their attention. they are not necessarily interested in what you have to say. i think that is particularly important with children's books. host: the first manuscript you wrote, what was it? wasn't easy to sell? guest: the first book i wrote, i was 25. i went to graduate school and i wrote it-- a detective novel that was turned down by 31 publishers. it then was bought by little brown and it won and edgar as first mystery. here's a book turned down by 31 publishers and that one and edgar award, so for anyone who is writing you can get turned down and sometimes they just aren't paying enough attention or they are just not that smart, i don't know. [inaudible]

guest: i left for a while and then came back. i've been with them in total over 25 years. host: you have another nonfiction book you are working on. where did this come from. guest: i have written a couple, i wrote "filthy rich" about a guy who i ran into a few times in palm beach, a billionaire who's accused of having relationships with several underage girls that he would bring into his house and i'm doing one right now on aaron hernandes. host: why erin hernandes? guest: we have a lot of insider information in terms of what went on at the university of florida, things about his family , various things about the patriots, and i don't want to hurt anyone, but it's a fascinating story when you get

someone who had not just a physical gifts, but he was a bright guy. you have a gift and he obviously was making it in a big weight and had just signed a 40 million-dollar contract and yet something was wrong about this guy and some of it goes back to his father died very unexpectedly when aaron was 16 and something happened to their. something went terribly wrong and i just-- it's a story that i could knock it out of my head and i think it's going to be a terrific books. host: james patterson, we were also identifying you as a literacy advocate. what are you working on? guest: well, we just do an awful lot, my wife and i. we have scholarships for teachers or people studying to be teachers at i think 30 universities now with over 450 scholarships for teachers.

i will do graduation speeches. i did at some of the school's. i done them at manhattan college, mississippi state, arkansas. we have programs for scholastic. we gave away almost 2 million to school library/during this year we will do classroom libraries, which is i think even cooler because a lot of times these teachers are putting up their own money to buy books for their classes, so that's-- and so climbing in like 10 days we got like 20000 teachers saying please help her classroom. we do a thing in the holidays where we give out just bonuses to people that work in bookstores around the country and in a lot of ways that's the most gratifying because they always write letters. the letters are always

articulate and emotional and you got to understand with a lot of these people they don't have much money, so all of a sudden 5000 or thousand dollars that comes out of the sky and i remember one woman wrote back and said i can go to the dentist this year, i mean, that's the reality. a lot of people work at bookstores, there's just no money there, so that's a rewarding program and there are other things we do. host: how anonymous kenny be these days walking on the street? guest: it's not bad. it's not like you are tom hanks or tom cruise or you know, nicole kidman. people notice and might smile. mostly people give you space. hearing little more because it's full up. a lot of them will come up and go i'm such an such from this place and you gave us a grant, which is very emotional and they want to meet

sue and i, which is gratifying and fun. host: james patterson, author and literary advocate, author of over 150 books, thrillers, romances, children's books, young adults, 350 million books as a january 16. guest: that kind of crazy. i don't think about that, honestly, but it's nice to be able to do-- someone said you are lucky. find something you like to do it it's a miracle to have someone pay you to do that and that's my situation, obviously. especially, i have my own children's imprint that little brown and we do my books and other authors as well and the omission of jimmy is when a kid finish is a jimmy book that they say please give me another book as opposed to i don't like to read, so i think that's a smart way to go and that's what we

try to do and if we can do it with kids and get books in their hands where they go give me another book, we will go a long way in this country in terms of making this country more compassionate, more thoughtful, a little less of a-- a little better judgment when we are dealing with the political process etc. host: thank you for being on the tv. guest: yeah, great. >> sunday night on afterwards. >> someone like steve jobs can sell this product and forever be associated with it when it's just a shade of the story, i mean, he was hands-on had a lot to do with it, but the truth is like even the iphone as so far was developed at apple it never would've happened without scores of people worked around-the-clock. >> motherboard magazine senior editor on the creation and development of the iphone in his book: the one device. interviewed by steve lohr. >> part of the story is that the iphone was born

as this software interaction paradigm was born behind the steve jobs back, this crew of job-- guys that i document in the book started basically experimenting with this freewheeling research that was fun and wild kind of stuff. they had this crazy projector read they were using to hack products together and create what would become the iphone. >> watch afterwards sunday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern on t-pain-- on c-span2 book tv. >> and now book tvs monthly in-depth program with author, journalist and history professor herb boyd. professor boyd teaches at the city college of new york and writes a call oil-- column is the author or editor of many books including autobiography of a people, the harlem reader and his latest