we tweeted an article about authors including salman rushdie who has protested russia's stance on free speech. we tweeted information about this months of tv book club selection, women's history for beginners. >> the biggest challenge for me, let's say as an american educator is that women, women's studies frighten people because the assumption is all women's issues are about the body, therefore, all women's history will be somehow about birth control, therefore it's not appropriate for a kindergartner or a middle school class. >> you can watch this entire interview at booktv.org. on facebook we posted a link about the first degree in self-publishing to be offered at the university of central lancashire and to recognize the 10th anniversary of facebook we posted david kirkpatrick's presentation of the facebook effect. >> on facebook you have to be yourself in order to get the benefits that the software is designed to give you. in other words, you can pretend to be someone you're not but you won't really have a lot of friends because the whole point of facebook is to connect with people

. >> among the people there were salman rushdie, liz smith, maggie gyllenhaal. why them?e of them had a relationship to norman. i think it was an idea to create them in a believable way. other actors were cast as an extension of making it naturalistic, to find people who sensibility aligns with that. for example, paul giamatti, ellen burstyn word chosen for that reason. >> you wanted me to come in participate but our schedules did not match up. it looks remarkable. you put it on a barge. >> this is the top floor of a brownstone in brooklyn heights. that is 1-1 scale. mailer opened up the roof and built an extension on top which is quite eccentric. it had these ladders and ropes and plank ways that he would descend and cross every day to get to a position in a crow's nest of sorts where he could look out the window over the new york harbor, said at a desk, and write. when i first visited, that resonated very much and that ended up being another structural element in the film. the film ends in that writing position. the last version of the spirits of norman, who is performe

. >> rose: among the people there with elaine strip, who you saw, salman rushdie, maggie gyllenhaal, why them? >> well, some of them had a direct relationship to norman and i think intention was to create a believable way where people from his social circle would be there and other actors who were chosen i think were cast as an extension of thatover that interest, making it naturalistic. in other words to find people whose sensibility aligns with with that. and, for example, maggie gyllenhaal and paul giamatti and ellen bursten were chosen far reason. >> rose: this is where you asked me to come participate in that and our schedules didn't match up. it looked like a remarkable thing. there is also this. you put it on a barge and you can see the apartment which is a book on the heights, i guess, wasn't it? >> it was the top floor of a brownstone in brooklyn heights built at 1 x 1 scale. so mailer opened up the roof and built an extension on top which is quiting acentric. it had these ladders and ropes and plank ways that he would ascend and cross to get to everyday to get to a position