one other point if i could say about david remnick's point on the guns. we all have seen politics over the years. i have placed myself in the entirely fatalistic camp on whether the united states will ever have any different policy on guns. perhaps we can talk about these extended load clips or something like that. but otherwise it just seems to me a permanent condition of our... a permanent and tragic part of our conditions. i don't know that there's anything to do about it. >> rose: should the country have a serious conversation about the nature of political rhetoric here? >> we absolutely have to. and, you know... but very often when that conversation is introduced-- and, by the way, this was a very powerful theme of obama's about tone and rhetoric. and if you read both of his... especially his second book, which is kind of derided as the sort of lesser of his two books, that's a pro dominant theme both in his book and a lot of the interviews he gave during the presidential race about the fallen nature of political conversation. it's a theme at this ta

but david remnick himself. i mean, what is that legacy as you go into the new yorker where it's, there's such a rich history? >> i think in, it's an asset in the sense that i look at a lot of these people, i read "in cold blood" while i was working on the willingham story. i read "the executioner's song" which didn't come out in the new yorker, but another great crime nonfiction story. or at least based on nonfiction. and so these help me as templates, but then when i'm working on a story, i really try not to think about those things. because if i had in my head i'm truman capote when i'm trying to write my story, i don't think i'd ever get a word out. so i use it as inspiration, and i often for each one of my stories i will look to certain stories, and i will read them and say, okay, these provide -- sometimes inspiration is not so linear. it's about a different subject. but perhaps it's about trying to portray a character, getting inside a character or a more or essayistic type of piece. so i look at these, a

another one that came out about barack obama, and other biography was david remnick scum of the life and rise of rock obama. this also came out in 2010. greenwich, connecticut. good evening, u.n. put tv with jenn risko of self-awareness. go ahead with your question. >> caller: high, one of the game changers this year that everyone was talking about was e-book and how they were affecting the market. and a lot of authors say they don't be publishers anymore. they can just sell published books and use amazon and borders and barnes & noble online and to with publishing. so where do you think that's going? what does that mean? >> host: before you answer, and j. from connecticut, are you an >> caller: yes, i am. what is given up his mass markets. i tend not to buy those. at rather by the electronic version and buy what i call a throwaway book. >> host: are you in the publishing industry? >> caller: im. i am a writer. >> host: your name? >> caller: my name is mj rose. >> host: what kind of books do you write? >> caller: i have her recent book, the reincarnation and the hypnotist. >> host: o