. >> jimmy: based on a a dave eggers book. >> yeah. >> jimmy: oh, i love dave eggers. >> yes.t the best book ever, "a heartbreaking work of staggering genius." >> jimmy: "staggering genius." >> that's a funny title. it's so good. >> jimmy: it's a great book. >> i love it. >> jimmy: did you get to meet dave at all or no? >> i did! i was just with him just last night at the premiere. we just premiered last night at tr yeah, and he came, which was -- which was huge. >> jimmy: yeah, he doesn't really come out of the house. >> he doesn't, like -- no. he doesn't. >> jimmy: he just writes. [ laughter ] >> no. he just does his writing thing. >> jimmy: a writer writes, man. that's what he does. >> yeah. >> jimmy: he's great at it. yeah, "mcsweeney's," too. >> mm-hmm. >> jimmy: yeah, he's a good guy. well tell everyone what this film is about. >> yeah, so the film is about a a young woman who joins kind of a big tech company. a la, you know, like, a a combination of google and facebook and twitter and every social media, big social media platform you can think of. and she is -- it's kin

. >> jimmy: let's talk about the this is dave eggers's book? >> it was a dave eggers book. dave ponsoldt adapted with dave. and it's such a great, like paranoid thriller. except you don't realize that -- you don't realize until it's too late that you need to be paranoid about what is going on. that's what's really fun about it. it starts off very nice. it's this tech company. emma watson gets a job at an online, like you know, tech company, social media company. and then when it's way too late to turn back, there are -- there are some real negatives to the company. that she's way too late to understand. >> jimmy: wow. >> yeah. >> jimmy: and it's emma and tom hanks. >> tom hanks. who he's never really played a a villain. he did in this amazing showtime series called "lost angels." p and he kind of played a villain in "road to perdition." but in this one he's still the charming sweet tom hanks, and you also don't realize until too late that the charming and sweetness might be in service of something really evil. it's just so cool the way they do it. it's so great. >> jimmy: h

charlie: what was dave eggers trying to tell us?: dave was writing a satire, a darkly funny book. he was asking a lot of questions about the world we have created. that recognizes all of the wonderful things technology -- charlie: the idea we can do everything and solve every problem. james: who doesn't like the idea about going to the moon, exploring the bottom of the ocean, understanding the mind, curing cancer? why do these exact same companies also have to monitor us, gather our data, and monetize it? why is that part of the transaction? charlie: why do they have to be all-knowing? james: it helps them market to us, be better consumers, that is one thing. charlie: when you decided to make this adaptation to film, it was so big and such a success. what were the challenges and what are the risks? james: a great novel like the circle is a big, unwieldy, ambitious collection of challenging ideas, characters, and plots. to literally adapt this book into a film would've made it a miniseries. for me it was focusing on the central journ

i know it angers people, to tell them their feelings don't matter eggers them because we are in a narcissistic age. behavior behavior behavior behavior behavior, that is all that matters in the human condition. >> you can watch this and other conditions online at booktv.org. >> this is booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. here is our prime time lineup. .. >> and not one booktv on c-span2 we are live from the 15th annual annapolis book festival in maryland state capitol. today you will hear from several authors on a range of topics on income inequality and criminal justice to a profile of pulp france's and former nsa and cia director michael hayden talking about terrorism and intelligence. first up in our coverage here is a discussion on income inequality. >> good morning.

. >> it's an adaptition of john eggers novel.it's the journey of a woman stuck in a dead of end job still living with her parent and gets her chance to work at a tech company that would have consumed all of its competitors and it's a story about transforming for her from a dream job to something of a religion to a glass prison of celebrity when she becomes the public face of the company. >> charlie: so she goes from step to step to step. from great love or enthusiasm to something less than that. >> in many ways she's a surrogate for us and the audience and our own relationship and technology and she's under a magnifying glass. >> charlie: what was dave egger trying to tell us? >> he was trying to write a satire and it's a darkly funny book and asking a lot of questions about the world we created that recognizes all the wonderful things. >> charlie: the notion we can solve everything and be perfect. >> who doesn't like the idea of us going to the moon and curing cancer and understanding the mind. we like all these things but why d

watch him after the steal and the slam dunk off the back rim and the chat egger between the two teamsrse went to another level after that and the c. j. mccullom given an ear full. what was he actually saying to you after that blown dunk? >> he told me i needed to do more calf raises. we were talking back and forth but we all know each over off the floor as well. it's not like anyone out there being disrespectful but it's simple fun. you hit a shot, he's talking to us. i hit a shot i'm talking to him. i missed the dunk i told me i need to do calf raises. it's fun that's for sure. >> meantime the playoffs continue tonight. >>> back east the cavaliers certainly look vulnerable down the stretch, wind up as winners against indiana. maybe the most entertaining gam was saturday when they barely beat the pacers. the pacers do make a game of it but the cavs have a guy that's been known to pull off a dunk or two, that is labron james and larry bird, the president of the inned ipped pacers, like come on man, canned we do any better than that? the pacers down 5, 29 seconds left and they fall asle

check it out, because there's some timely themes, expectations if you were a fan of the book by david eggersit starts emma watson as a young woman who goes to work for the largest social media company in the world called the circle. and that company is run by a steve jobs figure played by tom hanks, who seems likeable and charismatic on the outside, but is a little manipulative with a hidden agenda going on. it's very timely themes and fascinating in that regard. regarding transparency versus privacy and how much we're willing to give up. and emma watson's character realizes, she might be sacrificing a lot of her own privacy and the privacy of the entire world. as it goes on, it poses questions that it doesn't really answer. it changes the ending, where the book had a cynical ending, this one has the happy hollywood ending that tries to have it both ways in the end. i it captures the zeitgeist, but isn't sure about what it wants to say about it. >> what about the entertainment legend and a music car as well at the kennedy center? >> tonight, country star leeann crim rhymes will be performing

there are games you can play-- it's fubby, dave eggers-- who was a great novelist. usually in the realm of science fiction or reality fiction, things like that, a difference between what you think is going to happen four years ago and what really-- is, like, eight miles wide. they're not remotely correct in any way, shape, or form. i believe dave put a hex on us all, and traveled in a time machine to see what it's going to be like because he captured it four years ago. >> stephen: well, in this scene we're about to see here, emma watson, has been caught by this technology sneaking into your office. >> yes, she had to be rescued from-- from a precarious position that she was at illegally and we know about it. >> stephen: okay. jim. >> now they know your secret, do you feel better or worse? >> better. relieved, actually. >> i am a believer in the perfectibility of human beings. with we are our best selves, the possibilities are endless. there is not a problem we cannot we can cure any skis, and we can end hunger. without secrets, without hording information, we can fi