i am michael luongo, editor of "gay travels in the muslim world". i love libraries and i love when people buy books. the top of gay travel book on amazon, consistently in the top 10. it is interesting a top islamic study, islamic history book on amazon. that is another thing, i hadn't expected when i did this book. that is another thing that is very interesting about the popularity among different groups. the book is in english. next year it comes out in arabic which i have about. is very rare for books to be translated from english to arabic, of any topic. it is quite rare. for a board of this topic to be translated by a lebanese company for distribution in the middle east, will be very interesting when i actually get to do those talks, they are interesting enough in the english-speaking world. that is another thing wanted to mention, you put a book out and wonder where it is going to go. whenever i do talks at universities, whether i am doing talks at bookstores and, of the things that comes up, what does they have to do with it? it sounds like th

[applause] >> for more information on arthur michael luongo and his work, visit his website, michael luongo.com. douglas brinkley looked at the first green president, teddy roosevelt, from his new book, the wilderness lawyer, hours, starting at 6:00 p.m. eastern today on c-span2's book tv. book tv visited with eva brann to talk about her life and work. she has been a tutor at st. john's college, talks about her interest in the classics and the philosophers her students be. this is just over 30 minutes. >> in 1957 when you first started at st. john's college, what did you think of it? >> i thought i had come to sheer heaven. i never had to change my mind about that. it was heaven. it was everything that i had hoped for. learning is as much a part of being a teacher here as teaching is. the relation to our students has that kind of closeness which depends on a certain kind of formality. we don't intrude on their lives, we don't pretend to be friends with them, we have important business between us, amongst us, and so, teaching is a pleasure and agrees too. it can be an enormous irritat