host: along with toni morrison in 2001 norman appeared in toni morrison was on february make fierce and, shelby foote, richard, david and david macola all appeared in 2001, one note when it came to richard brooke kaiser who started the show that the war in afghanistan started that day so we had to cut it short so we brought him back for a later date he's one of the few that ever appeared on the program twice park in kansas city missouri which of those three did you want to answer, faber author, what are you reading your favorite in-depth guest. caller: my favorite author is mary roach i have most of her books. host: did you watch her when she was on in-depth? caller: yes, i also replayed it on your website a couple of times because she's very entertaining and i like the way her books have the one-word title but i e-mailed her in she's e-mail me back, she was a very good guest in a very good author. host: thank you for calling in, let's talk to david in louisville kentucky. david, good afternoon. caller: good afternoon, thank you for "in-depth", i went to answer the question about one of

wrote the memoir 1968 and it's the only book i have read twice my favorite book the affection by toni morrison. i know you've had tony on several times but i don't recall you having and moody. host: and her book came out in 1968? we started in 1998 so perhaps she had passed by that point or not an active writer. >>caller: i think she passed a few years ago but that maybe you just had her on one of your shows. host: that does not ring a bell we have been limited over the years as you know staying with nonfiction that is an appropriate but given the title. >> that's a great book i'm just a book person and i love books. host: what is sitting on your table right now? >> i have a lot of books sitting on my table but i just finished reading claudia's book just us and i'm presently reading her other book citizen and american lyric and also wandering in strange lands her daughter reclaims her roots. i have seen her on your program. host: and she was on as well recently. >>caller: i believe it was last week. host: did you pick them up because of booktv. >>caller: i was a bookseller years ago but i get

well, it was in 2001 that fiction author toni morrison appeared. and she is a prize winner, author of beloved. here's a little bit from tony morris. >> how do d you get inside the psyches of these people? >> it is difficult. i use what i think are methods for the actors and actresses us use. you have a vague character you want to be in that person's head if you are on stage to wear the clothes, where the shoes, behave the way that person would. so you would have to enter or project and no where they park their hair, what kind of soap they would wear, what food they don't like. whether or not it appears in the book, you try to imagine all of those things. and that works for me. i can suspend, i don't judge my characters that way whether or not i'm going to have lunch with them not a something quite different. you have to love them for the moment of their portrayal. whether they are men, women, old, young, children, what have you. stay what are they sprung from your pen fully formed? are they developed as you write? two as you sit down in the book com

my favorite book of fiction is song of solomon by tony morrison. now, i know you have had tony on several times, but i don't recall you ever having ann moody on. do you recall if she was ever on in. >> no and if her book came out in 1968, you say? >> yes, sir. >> booktv started in 1998, and perhaps she had passed by that point, or was not active as a writer. >> no. i think she passed maybe two years ago. >> oh, okay. >> i thought maybe you may have just had her on as one of your shows. >> the producer is looking it up bit i don't think -- ann moody does not ring a bell. we have limited over the years -- we stayed with nonfiction. that would have been a very appropriate book given the title to have on. >> right. >> it's required reading here in mississippi for junior high school students. it's a great book. >> now, are you a teacher -- >> i recommend it. >> are you a teacher. >> not, just a book person. i love books. >> what sitting on your table right now? >> okay. i have a lot of booked on my table. but i just finished reading claudia become, "just

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my favorite book of fiction it's son of solomon by toni morrison. now, i know you had tony on several times but i don't recall you ever having anne moody on. you recall if she was ever on? >> host: no. effort book came out in 1968 you say? >> caller: yes. >> host: chances are, booktv start in 1998 and perhaps she had passed by that time i was not active as a writer. >> caller: i think she passed maybe two years ago. i thought maybe you may have just had her on one of your shows, the producers looking up now but but i don't think anney does not ring a bell. we have limited as you know over the years, we've stayed with nonfiction. that would've been a very appropriate book given the title to have on. >> caller: it's required reading here in mississippi for junior high school students. it's a great book. >> host: are you teacher? >> caller: no, sir. i'm just about a book person. i love books. >> host: what is sitting on your table right now, what book is sitting on your table? >> caller: okay. i have a lot of books sitting on my table but i just finish

i hope you will all join me in seeing the beauty of toni morrison's work.ay all day all about the book these are people near and dear to toni morrison's park. >> you undersold what's coming and we can't give all the details but that is going to be extraordinary. so for more on this book club, head to today.com/readthjewia. and the newsletter, text jenna -- 66866. >> yes. got it. >> we're good. >> you have a good year. >> thank you, al >> and her birthday was last week >> you're very fancy >> can we put the big board up we put copies of the book to everyone on the my today plaza crowd. and jena, since you are here, you are going to enjoy the folks that we have. do we have paula there hi, paula. paula is a gorgeous lady and she became a grandma for the first time and it is true that jenna inspired you in a really sweet way? >> she did. i happened to be reading her book back in the summer when our first granddaughter was born and i was trying to decide on my grandmother name and i just fell in love with it. so i am now ganny. >> are you wearing your ganny shir

i return often to the wisdom of toni morrison in her 1992 as black matters wrote, the ability of writersgine what is not for self, to familiarise the strange and mystified the familiar. is a test of their power. discovering great literature depends on freeing imagination, being open to welcoming the new, not erecting barriers against a perceived threat from the unknown, the unfamiliar, the alien. i don't think i'm breaking the rules to say this, please read all the books on the short list. please don't forget any of them. they will certainly all remain part of my life forever. so now is the time to reveal the winner of the 2020 booker prize. my very astute co—judges and i have chosen an outstanding winner and that is... shuggie bain by douglas stuart. thank you very much, margaret busby chair of the judges and the winner of the booker prize is douglas stuart for shuggie bain. you're looking for shocked, let me if you words. sorry, i'm absolutely stunned. it did not expect that at all. i would like to first orjust thank my mother. i think i've been clear that my mother is in every page of

shout out in the chat if you like toni morrison. she has this great thing in one of her books, where she says on page 15, "the ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystified the familiar is a test of their power." i thought, i wanted to take over the familiar and give it back to people in a strange way so they could see it again. to me, it is strange to be a gay man or a pigeon, so i wanted to make sure i wrote that in a way that did not mystify it or get it wrong. i like that she puts it as a test. research is the way that i tried to pass that test. prof. tyson: thank you. miles, could you talk about when you first -- how did you get taken in by this confident man? what sources lead you to finding him? prof. harvey: so, i got lucky with this. the source that led me to this was an editor at little brown. i got a call from my agent or an email for my agent one day and he said, guy from little brown wants to talk to you about a book. it was a wonderful editor ben george, and he said, i hav

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it could be a toni morrison orrg ia woolf. that's what it is. that's how we're constituted as human beings.m- >>m. >> we'd rather take the easy way out -- status, money, wealth,an so forth. and, yet, the real spiritual and moral wealth that really does provide a deep joy, st a superficial pleasure, isat something e provide as a door opening for young folk who want to enter this love of trut beauty, goodness, and then, as christians, even love but that's always ical minority, but that's alright. de in our classes, cornel will often tell our ss that, "you may not understand it, you might not even believe it, but that you have come to princeton" or harvard or whatever university it is.on "the real reou have come is to learn how to die, because if you don't learn hdie, you're not gonna be able to know how to live. we learn howo die in order to learn how to live." and it's only in the perspectiv agaie horizon of our own death that we can really get our values straight. >> absolutely. >> i mean, i can't end it any better. it's been one heck of a broma

fugate create a business that's lasted for 30 years in historic leimert park, hosting authors from toni morrisons like muhammad ali, rodney king, spike e e, and a young barack obama. >> and i thought at the time, i said, "he probably should go into politics." >> reporter: community support has kept pouring in through the decades. for 2020, it's brought a special surge in demand for books by black authors. >> they have really been looking at all types of books dealing with race and racial issues. >> i wanted to come and just support a black-owned bookstore in my local neighborhood, to learn about racial injustice and further my education. >> reporter: the bestselling author of "how to be an antiracist," ibram x. kendi, said it's one of his favorite places. what role does a store like eso won play in the process of eradicating racist ideas and policies? >> eso won provides the literature that allows people to understand the nature of racism. you can't eradicate anything if you don't understand it. >> reporter: kendi has talked up the store, sending orders soaring. >> 40 to 50 orders went to 400 or

it goes all the way to toni morrison. a lot of figures in between. they are culminating with tony morris. it is in the making. i head about two years to work on these. at the moment we are just trying to get through the election. we will be reading aj hopkins. and the global history. with the university of cambridge. as the treatment it is the treatment of the american empire in the client just elites across the board. that they don't have the power required. in all of those ships that were just going under because we lost access to the best of our past. unable to mobilize with the spiritual and moral as well as political that can keep a very fragile experiment in democracy alive. i think that's where we are now my brother. thank goodness the life of the mind is still at work. it's always insufficient because we have to have courageous citizens and loving humanng beings all of us in some way that we were laboring under certain frameworks and the lens in which we look at the world. it comes from musicians. shelley is right. they are the unacknowledged

. >> i mentioned toni morrison. the song of solomon that was another book i wanted t write.s one of those things if you asked me what's the kind of talent it seems magic dust sprinkled someone and suddenly they can write a book like that it was the kd of book after reading it i have to confess shakespeare'sragedies i wasn't somebody that was raised on the. i decided to take a shakespeare class in college and just reading those tragedies it was the same kind of feeling where i thought how is it somebody can capture so much growth what is essential about a human life and yet still have a story and a plot and interesting things happen so that u are carried forward. when i think about the great works of american writers, whether it's falconer or hemingway or langston hughes i see what i mentioned earlier, that part of myself that is constantly dissatiied and restless and wanting to see what's next and leaving the past hind but always being drawn back to it. when i think about my own work i am shaped by the quintessential open road looking westeeing what's next or in the case of

useful to this moment and baldwin writes an extraordinary letter these exchanges between him and toni morrison i would be in the library desperately trying not to shout and say oh my god. it was amazing. >> thinking about what you said about writing this book for activist and baldwin as you describe saw himself as and accountable to the activist but also particularly after king's death there is attention where baldwin and the black power movement in particular in one of those is about blackness and identity and baldwin's view of blackness and identity that is the essential resource for struggling. >> i think baldwin's relationship with black power as with everything is nuanced he never betrayed those young people he promised them in that apartment in dc where they were drinking i'm sure she had johnny walker black. but he understood why stokely would say black power in mississippi. he refused to let the nation and dismiss them. we have to confront her vision people were the same that were fighting or confronting in the bowels of the south. and to tell the story wholly separate from the civil r

depth, tonight highlights from past shows including our interviews with david macola, shelby folk, toni morrisontom wolf, grenell west and many others, that begins at eight eastern, enjoy book tv this weekend every weekend on c-span2. >> book tv on c-span2 has top nonfiction books and authors every weekend, saturday at 1:00 p.m. eastern from the recent virtual southern festival of books, thomas burton and lean winkler reflect on life in appalachia they discussed the jim crow era and the south. then at 7:45 p.m. new york staff writer discusses his book joe biden the life, the run and what matters now, on sunday at 1:00 p.m. eastern from the southern festival of books analyst matthew talks about his book deep justice about a civil rights case which helped to reaffirm the right to a trial by jury in most criminal cases and author stephanie gordon and chris hamby offer their thoughts on investigative journalism and its role in a democracy. then at 9:00 p.m. eastern on "after words" professor john fabian talks about his book american contagions, epidemics in the law from smallpox to covid-19 he is in

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. >> we've come a long way since the taco story, much doubt, toni morrison's beloved. the sam thing won't be happening anytime soon again. >> that's a great note to end on, and a recognition of progress, which is always heartening. i want to thank our great panel, and the brooklyn book city festl and my colleague from pan mrs. who put this together and leads our literary program, and our audience, thank you for being with us. have a good night. >> thank you, have a good evening. >> thank you. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. every weekend with the latest nonfiction books and authors. c-span2, created by america's cable television companies as a public service, and brought to you today by your television provider. >> listen to c-span2 podcast the weekly, tking about the history of presidential transition with martha joint culpar the director of the the white house transition project. >> here are the current best selling nonfiction books. topping the list in a promised lean, former president barack obama reflects on his life and political career, and then isabelle w

to this moment and baldwin writes this extraordinary letter, or the exchanges between him and toni morrison and i would be in the library trying desperately not to shout, not to say, oh, my god, that's sort of thing. amazing. >> i'm thinking about what you said about writing this book for activists, and baldwin, too as you describe, saw himself as loyal and accountable to the activists, also intention with them. seems like particularly after king's death there's a tension with baldwin and the black power movement in particular, and one of those tensions is about blackness and identity and baldwin's view of blackness and identity as something that is a kind of essential resource for organizing and struggling but also potentially a trap. >> i think baldwin's relationship with black power is as with everything with him, is complex and nuanced. he never -- i'm sure he had johnnie walker black until the sun rows, sun rose, but he understood why stokley or tour rey would say black power in june of '66 in greenwood, mississippi. he refused to let the nation smith those. refused to let the black bo

. >> well mtioned toni morrison and that was another book i wanted to write.e of those things where if you asked me what is the kind of talent that seems like it's just magic dust sprinkled on meone and suddenly ty can write a book like that, it was the kind of book that after reading it i said my goodness how es somebody do that? .. i decided to take a shakespeare class in college. and just reading those tragedies is that same kind of feeling sick how is it someone could capture so much of what is essential about a human life? and yet still have a story, and a plot, and interesting things happen? so that you are carried forward. you know, i think, when i think about the great works of american writers, whether it's faulkner, hemingway, or langston hughes, i also see what i mentioned earlier. that part of myself that is constantly dissatisfied and restless. to see what's next. leaving the past behd, but always being drawn back to it. when i think about my own work , i have been sped just as my character has been shaped by that quintessential jack carol act ope

tonight highlights from past shows including interviews with david mccullough, shelby foot, toni morrison, tom wolfe, cornell west and many others. that begins at 8:00 eastern. enjoy booktv this week and every weekend on c-span2. >> booktv on c-span2 has top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. saturday at 1:00 eastern, from the recent virtual southern festival of books, thomas burton and wayne mingle are reflect on life in appalachia. wanda boyd and david pilgrim discussed the jim crow era in the south. at 7:45 at 7:4:05 pm new yorker staff writer discusses his book joe biden, the life, the run, and what matters now. on sunday at 1:00 pm eastern from the southern festival of books, journalist matthew van meter talks about the delta justice about the civil rights case that helped reaffirm the right to a trial by jury in most criminal cases. and stephanie gordon and chris hanby talk about investigative journalism and its role in a democracy. then at 9:00 pm eastern on "after words" law professor john fabian webb talks about his book american contagion, epidemic and the law from smal

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tony morrison has recently argued that this kind of taxpayer citizenship is ultimately a cramped one because it requires you essentially to buy in. it requires you to have some skin in the game in some ways. she was quoted in a recent interview of kind of lamenting this transformation of american citizenship into an identity that was solely associated with tax paying citizenship. and i think, you know, there's something to be said for this. but my research agenda kind of looks at the ways in which the taxpayer identity has been used to push back against a sort of cramped definition of citizenship. looks at the ways in which sometimes marginalized groups are able to claim their taxpayer identity in order to push open the boundaries of american citizenship. so this book will focus on how various groups, including women, african-americans, property owners, pacifists, anti-war activists, immigrants and anti-immigration act viss, the poor, gay men and women have used political and legal identities as taxpayers to affect policy changes, to expand or defend existing definitions of citizensh

and i'm like, can you just, i don't know, read a book by tony morrison at this point how much fras doazing conversations with people like abby jacobson and john ham and michelle obama so it's been a really fun first season >> jimmy: at the end of your podcast, i was listening and you read the credits, and you credit sasha and malia obama as your interns but you said you're trying to speak this into existence. and have you spoken things into existence before is that a thing you do >> yeah. so i really love the secret, and i know that a lot of people make fun of the secret it's like it's not real or it's fake it's like you just say something and you get it i'm like well, you have to think about what you're asking for. when people are like, i want to have michael jordan's baby >> jimmy: no, no >> he can't got enough sperm for everybody, so you've got to let this dream go. >> jimmy: that's exactly the right answer i want to mention your show on facebook, too, as well gosh, you're busy and doing so many creative and cool things. so happy you're doing this stuff. it's called the #buyblackfr

. >> you excerpt some of these writers in the book, i appreciate that, there's toni morrison, allie bakeron, they're both powerful, i'm think about audrey, all of these incredible, baker, wells, all of these incredible black women who have done tremendous work for the liberation of black people and i'm always hearing people say, you've got to be brave like them, courageous like them and one thing i teach my students, courage is not something you're born with, it is something you practice. >> i'm curious, knowing that courage is something that you practice, how do you respond to people who think you're fearless and a superwoman and got all the answers, the troop is going to lead us, you've all the answers pre-how to respond to that. >> i literally do not and i'm working out just like you are, but i will say this, i am well practiced in problem solving because i've had to be, it's not like it's something like i'm going to be a problem solver grade when you grown up born black woman in particular you are forced to problem solve even beyond before you should be a problem solver. and even some

you know, toni morrison says we do language. happened that made people do language this way? what are the walls trying to say to us? what are we not hearing? what are we not seeing? and it's, to me, a form of visual justice. you know, lewis at harvard has a class, vision in justice, and this is about us staking claim and having a voice and having representation in the community. it's about not being heard and claiming that -- taking that megaphone, that, yand making something happen. >> the series is called a beautiful resistance. jenee osterheldt, thanks very much for being with us. >> thank you. >>> coming up next, we are months into this pandemic, and many of us have the same unanswered question. where is the lysol? we've got some answers. we'll share them when we come back. i'm still on the road to what's next. and i'm still going for my best. even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there's a better treatment than warfarin, i'm on top of that. eliquis. eliquis is

. >> toni morrison has recently argued that this kind of taxpayer citizenship is ultimately a cramped one because it requires you essentially to buy in and it acquires you to have some skin in the game if some ways and she was quoted in a recent interview lamenting this traps formation of american citizenship, and i'm not solely interested in taxpayer citizenship and they want to see how the taxpayer eade entity in the cramped citizenship. how marginalized groups are able to claim their taxpayer identity in order to push open the boundaries of american citizenship. so this book will focus on how various groups including women, african-american, property owners, pacifists and anti-war activists and immigrants and immigration activists and the poor and gay men and women have used both their political and legal identities as taxpayers to affect policy changes and to expand or defend existing definitions of citizenship. although the defense of taxpayers' rights is almost always associated in contemporary america with the political right, historically progressives as well as conservatives

depth in tonight highlights from past shows including our interviews with david macola, shelby, toni morrison, tom wolf, cornell west and many others, that begins at eight eastern, enjoy book tv, this week and every weekend on c-span2. >> book tv on c-span2 has top nonfiction books and authors every weekend, saturday at 1:00 p.m. eastern from the recent virtual southern festival of books, thomas burton and wayne winkler reflect on life in appalachia and david discuss the jim crow era and the south. and at 7:45 p.m. new yorker staff writer discusses his book joe biden the life, the run and what matters now on sunday at 1:00 p.m. eastern from the southern festival of books journalist matthew talks about deep full of justice about a civil rights case which reaffirmed the right to a trial by jury in most criminal cases. and author stephanie gordon offer their thoughts on investigative journalism in the more on democracy. at 9:00 p.m. eastern on "after words" law professor john fabian talks about his book american contagions, epidemics in the law from smallpox to covid-19 he is interviewed by joy

tonight highlights from past shows including our interviews with david mccullough, shelby foote, toni morrisonf, grinnell west and many others. that begins at eight eastern, enjoy book tv this weekend every weekend on c-span2. book tv on c-span2 has top nonfiction books and authors every week and saturday at 1:00 p.m. eastern from a recent virtual festival of books author sarah marsh, john burton and wayne winkler reflect on life in appalachia and david discuss the jim crow era and the south. then at 7:45 p.m. new yorker staff writer evan discusses his book joe biden, the life, the run and what matters now. on sunday at 1:00 p.m. eastern from the southern festival of books journalist matthew van meter talks about his book deep delta justice about a civil rights case which helped to reaffirm the right to a trial by jury in most terminal cases. in author stephanie gordon and chris offer their thoughts on investigative journalism and its role in a democracy. then at 9:00 p.m. eastern on "after words" law professor john fabian talks about his book american contagions, epidemics in the law from sma

although we have yet to see how bellow and toni morrison plays out over the decades. hemingway is sentence by sentence. that hemingway is an innovator on the level of sentences. he is not an innovator in the form of the novel. he tells chronological narratives. with a heavy reliance on dialogue. they do not do much in the way of formal innovation. gatsby" obviously is manyormous influence on ofple, but is only one fitzgerald's novels that had that type of influence. with faulkner there is a huge shelf of works. there is a huge shelf. and that it influence has gone many ways. so the american literature of the american south and the in the decades and generations that follow has been about faulkner. everyone is following him or running away from him as fast as they can. i think you have heard that wonderful flannery o'connor line , when somebody asked would you , like to write in faulkner's shadow, when the dixie wind is coming down the tracks you get out of the way. you do not want to get caught doing the same thing he does because he would overwhelm you, yet there is

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the book has been recommended by president obama and nobel prize winner tony morrison called it requiredple who look like me and you, rearing young black men in america. >> yes i recognize that it was well-read. i do recognize i can see that >> reporter: i get the sense that maybe you don't think it was as impactful as -- >> i think it takes time to judge that, you know what i mean we'll see. i hope so. >> struggle for your grandmother and grandfather. >> reporter: hbo adaptation features a truly remarkable cast of performers and activists. when you saw it come to life in the hbo film, what did you think? >> ensemble experience it's a much more collective experience one of the cool things about it is it means something when i write it a certain way, but when angela davis says it, it has a different level of meaning when phylicia rashad says it, there's obviously something else that they bring. >> one of the things that's always stayed with me from the book is this line you wrote. you wrote, you never thought it would be okay. you still believe that five years later? >> very much so. and

tonight, highlights from past shows including our interviews with toni morrison, tom wolf and many others. that begins at 8:00, eastern, enjoy book tv this weekend every weekend on c-span two. committee judiciary continued its review of the fbi's russia probe by hearing testimony from former deputy fbi director andrew mccabe. he was asked about the origins of the investigation. werether actions that taken by the fbi. this after james comey was fired by president trump. >> buckle, everybody. we have some republicans -- welcome, everybody. we have some republicans at leader elections. the election is over, they are counting the votes and making legal challenges. , we willthose are made have that done. we still have two outstanding races in georgia to determine control of the senate. and the committee will keep moving forward doing its work. next week, we have social media oversight. to have the social media ceos come to the committee and explain themselves. we will take a hard look at social media platforms. after the hearing, we will have more. today, we have mr. mccabe. number two at the