>> guest: oh, the first day of class we may go over in great detail a short story, a classic story. we may go over a hemingway story. i mean, line by line, almost word by word, a story may be two pages long, and we go over it carefully because i want them to see how it's written, you know? the very best prose is written like poetry, it's very nicely constructed. so the other day, which is like a couple weeks ago, we did a ray carver story, and we spent about an hour on the story. so that's the first class. >> host: do you enjoy teaching? >> guest: oh, yes, very much. yes. >> host: why? >> guest: well, the students are very interesting, and their writing is often engaging and original, and i love going over hemingway, let's say, our faulkner or james joyce. i love going over really good prose when we're appreciating it. it's, as i said, it's something like poetry. really good prose is written so carefully that with a number of sensitive young people to go through this and see how well it's written, it's really a pleasure. >> host: is writing hard work? >> guest: writing can sometimes

it's a book of short stories. it won a prize, the mary mccarthy prize, and the prize was this publication. it's stories that are inspired by my growing up in southern jewish community in savannah, so characters and stories that i have not experienced directly but that i have kind of known or groan up with or -- grown up with or heard. i think probably asking a writer what his book about is probably not -- my publisher calls them outsiders teams. it's about characters who have a complicated relationship with their communities they come from, whether it's the jewish community or southern community or gay community. but to me it's, you know, the subject matter is pretty varied. i have a couple of stories about conmen. i have a story about solving an art mystery and a couple more kind of coming of age type stories. >> called fire year. >> yeah. >> and joan, just a couple of sentences. >> a dreamers guide to cities and streams. there are -- there's a section on environmental poetry. my urge to talk about what's happenin

about narco trafficking, which has been a huge hit. but one storyout a crime family upset a lot of people. they dramatized the castaÑo brothers. they made heroes out of murderers and drug traffickers, and ignored the voices of their victims. but the ratings are too good to die out any time soon. narcoo... novellass and the historical baggage that is weighing them down. >> for years it has been a staple for tv viewers around latin america. cinderella storylines, melodramatic close ups, and episodic build ups to the happily ever after. but that narrative rehashed, and rerun got old, and audiences got tired. then came the narco novella. glamorous thrillers on the drug world. a genre revamped, raising the ratings. >> people got board with the lack of innovation, and around seven years ago we started producing narco novel l as. tv really became a window of our world and it has been popular ever since. >> in columbia has always been the dramas stand out from latin america. it's amazing how a narco trafficker captivates audiences. they're human and that's

clicking on a story is a huge commitment! first you have to aim the cursor then it takes about two seconds to load, then i've got scan the thing too see how long it is and if i want to back out i have to relead to page where i came from. now as many as eight seconds have passed and i'm that much closer to the cold embrace of death. (laughter) i want to be able to decide before i click whether a story is worth my time am i interested in reading about a to help more mothers who can't afford expensive hospital incubators. but am i seven minutes interest sndz (laughter) maybe i'd rather read a one-minute article about a malaysian businessman trading hookers for navy secrets seven times. (laughter) slate even saved me time while saving me time by writing "m" instead of "minute" which saves me precious inutes." (laughter) i believe slate is on to something here, folks. they know i need to know how long everything is in my life before i commit. like falling in love. too many unanswered questions. (laughter) will we kiss on the first

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this is a story about what it's like being young and surrounded by family but it's also a story about finding solutions up much murder you tolerate as unable. to tolerate as an adult to watch the children have to see this day after day not be entertained. in one nine hundred sixty new orleans had his largest population and as small as murder rate but in the course of fifty years over ten thousand people have been murdered and since two thousand and five more people have been killed than those who lost their lives when the levees broke. at this moment there was a battle being waged each and every day on the streets of new orleans it is a battle for the heart and soul of this great city by the time you wake up tomorrow morning i will have likely received another message. the worst part of my day that says exactly the same thing mr mayor was sorry to inform you that earlier this evening police officers responded to gunshots when they arrived on the scene they found a young african-american male face jail and in blood gunshots in the back of his head he was announced dead on arrival there

a book. there are many interests in this story. a nonpartisan way to step back and say why did they make a mistake, i think they believed a guy they shouldn't have believed. that's fundamental part of this and got them into this situation. >> david, isn't it possible that the core notion at the heart of this controversy about benghazi that the government should have known that a terrorist attack was being planned for quite some time before it actually happened. isn't it possible that could be true even though this source for "60 minutes" turned out to be compromised? >> first, i just want equate my book with this false book. no, here's the thing. i don't know what lara logan knew. she spent a year working on this story. if she paid attention we would know on the night of the attacks, mitt romney politicized this tragedy for his own agenda and trashed the president and trashed secretary clinton and said they were sympathizing with the attackers so "60 minutes" and its story is another version of the same hoax and scandal that they u

every bridge has a story the old bring has a story and i believe that the new bridge already has a story of beauty and construction safety. we honor those from the great demonstration that built the first bridge and from this day forward we'll honor folks that built this bridge on this labor day. i want to tip my hat to my predecessors and there is one more and i welcome him but i stand on the shoulder of my predecessors. there are so many people who invested in this bridge and i couldn't possiblyly name all of those involved but i will at risk try to identify some of the key figures. t y end and dennis changing - (calling names) (clapping) i've got 3 more don mcdonald, herb roth man, and clooif. (clapping). those individuals and a many others are responsible for the iconic structure. i'll tip my hat to the contracting forces that built this bridge and 34 are mentioned by mr. flowers but i'll also acknowledge because we're eternal indebted to them the many contractors and subcontractors that made this happen. please give them another round of applause. i'm going to take the risk of namin

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every bridge has a story the old bring has a story and i believe that the new bridge already has a storyty and construction safety. we honor those from the great demonstration that built the first bridge and from this day forward we'll honor folks that built this bridge on this labor day. i want to tip my hat to my predecessors and there is one more and i welcome him but i stand on the shoulder of my predecessors. there are so many people who invested in this bridge and i couldn't possiblyly name all of those involved but i will at risk try to identify some of the key figures. t y end and dennis changing - (calling names) (clapping) i've got 3 more don mcdonald, herb roth man, and clooif. (clapping).

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there is a cnn reporter who on 9/11 was telling me this story. bang.rd downtown a he looked outside and saw had been a truck passing. one of the foundational things now of the conspiracy theories is this third explosion and cnn covered up. what is now changed is that happens in public. every crazy ferrying -- every crazy theory. every inconclusive fact is now out there on twitter. your readers are swimming in the sea of this stuff. then there is this choice of would you try and the additional way to keep your hands clean and not engage things you're not sure true, which is the appropriate traditional approach. you do not want to be floating harebrained theories to your readers. if they are swimming in these informational waters, as are our -- as ours our, they learn there or miley cyrus has done something crazy, and they come to a website to find out what is going on and navigate us. we certainly with the boston mobbing, we solve the surge in traffic from people coming from twitter trying to understand what was going on. yet the find the responsib

a block. the lede. that's the first story. greg, it is time to evacuate the dance floor. >> but first, so a lot of viewers wondered where the heck bill schulz went. he has decided to move on from the show. he has been a close friend of mine for 13 years and he has been a huge part of "red eye" since its inception and we wish him the best. now on to this stuff. >> awesome, pet news. >> it is a lot of scratch for two lucky cats. a tennessee man who died at the age of 79. he left his furry pals 250 grand and his 4,000 square foot home. the will should go toward the care of his unoblivious, stupid pets as well as the maintenance of his giant house. his five children told a reporter the family didn't want to talk about it. guess they were busy. meanwhile, in other awesome pet news, a colorado man was informed his dog, baxter, enrolled in obamacare. and finally, shane smith doesn't know how baxter was enrolled, but he did give baxter's name as a security question as part of the registration process. that's how he got obamacare. anywa

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>> oh, the first day of class we made it over in great detail a short story, a classic story. we may go over a hemingway story. line by line, almost word by word, the story may be two pages long and they go over it carefully because i want to see -- i went in to see how it's written. the very best isn't poetry. so the other day, which is like a couple weeks ago we did a rate carver story and we spent about an hour on the story. so that's the first class. >> do you enjoy teaching? >> very much. the students are very interesting and the writing is often engaging and original. and i love going over hemingway, let's say, or faulkner. i love going over really good prose when we are appreciating it. as i said it's something like poetry. with a number of sensitive young people to go through this and see how well it's written, it's really a pleasure. >> is writing hard-working? >> writing can sometimes be hard work, or it can sometimes be fluent. you know, it's like mozart creating music. and other composers revise a little more. one, maybe it's almost too easy if it comes in your head

it's the stories about actual people that we represent. angela davis and in her essay has a wonderful story representing a juvenile in the case. they have a long record of juvenile offenses and he's going away. he's going to get what we sometimes called juvenile life and she's trying to come up with some creative defense because he's already in the adult system in another jurisdiction so she tries to use the provision that is usually with no record that's kind of like in the interest of justice to take them out of the system, the judge doesn't buy that and then he's convicted and tries something kind of creative yet again and tells a story about losing and her client being sent away to an institution and she keeps it together in the courtroom and goes in the back and cries and then she comes out and encounters her client's mother who comforts her. >> i think it is true of committed offenders. we take it to heart. you have to take it to heart to do this work and you have to have the kind of personality that is kind of open enough to be able to reach out and connect with other

there is a way to tell that story, but it is a difficult story to tell. ere is something to be known about the nature of the forming of colleges and the world in there. >> what do you mean, there is a way to tell the story? >> part of my job as an historian is to make that story available to people, to explain it, and let them understand how that moment comes into being. where childrenny play a role in the book. one of the patterns i noticed doing the research was the number of children owned by college presidents. it required some sort of explanation when you really think about how many had made specific requests for children. ezra stiles, the president of yield during the american revolution. earlier as a newport minister, purchases a boy named newport in , and thenhode island he emancipate's newport on the day before he becomes president of yale. jonathan edwards purchases a girl, i believe he names her venus, in rhode island. he becomes the president of princeton. he is an early indian missionary in connecticut, a fantastic career in connecticut as an

this is a story about what it's like being young and surrounded by father but it's also a story about finding solutions. you tolerate as unable. to watch children have to see this day after day. and it. and one nine hundred sixty s. had his largest population and his smallest murder rate but in the course of fifty years over ten thousand people have been murdered and since two thousand and five more people have been killed than those who lost their lives when the levees broke . at this moment there was a battle being waged each and every day on the streets of new orleans it is a battle for the heart and soul of this great city by the time you wake up tomorrow morning i will have likely received another message. the worst part of my day that says exactly the same thing mr mayor was sorry to inform you that earlier this evening police officers responded to gunshots when they arrived on the scene they found a young african-american male face day on in blood gunshots in the back of his head he was announced dead on arrival there are no witnesses. the first script that the browns. dead in

if you have anything else you'd like to say, fine. >> no, you're just doing a story and i got caught up in it, is what you're saying. but it's probably a very good story. >> anything else you'd like to -- >> nope. >> you're free to go. why don't you come out the front way, if you'd like. >> sure. >> i think sometimes these guys are trying to figure out how they're going to leave. if they go out a different door are they better off doing that? most of these guys are not harden criminals who are going try to run from police. once they see that they're going to be arrested, that a number of deputies or officers are there they pretty much cooperate. how old are you? >> i'm stupid. >> how old? >> thoroughly, completely stupid. >> how old are you? >> 56. >> 56. >> i'm stupid. i've never done such a thing. god, please, please just go. le s store and essentially they just get sold something. we provide the exact individualization that your body needs. it's the ultimate sale on the only bed clinically proven to improve sleep quality. the sleep number bed. once you experience it, there's no goi

the next day, a senator's talking about your story. they knew it was all predetermined. they were no lingering questions. the conflicts of interest should have stopped them. the des crepesies should have stopped them. this whole thing is a train wreck. >> i want to make clear here, steven, i don't want to like put a dagger in "60 minutes." i have tremendous admiration. in some ways, it's like a miracle it exists in television journalism, which i think is why all of us take it so seriously. what is it like in that building today? >> it's obviously a very, very difficult day for everyone there, but my question is how much real self-examination is is being done there. i watched lara this morning on cbs this morning and even though there was an apology, and even though it was borderline mistakes were made, i don't believe there was still an adequate explanation of just what kind of vetting really was done. at the end of the day. >> journalism 101. you have a single source. you have with -- >> most dangerous thing in the universe. >> who is a self-interested source because the

heard the short -- a story, but i will share it. en i was china just prior to us launching the chinese language website, i met with a couple of chinese generals. , a woman,m interestingly, began our conversation by really talking in an angry way. she was very upset. we had just begin to charge for the web not too long ago and the problem was that every morning she would wake up and the first thing she would go to nytime s.com to see what was happening in the world and it would not accept her credit card. did not accept those credit cards. we fixed her problem. the point is that a chinese general, first thing in the morning, would go to "the new york times." if that does not speak to the changing nature of the world and the opportunities we have, i cannot think of what else does. >> i want to follow-up with the other end of it. we had our interview, we talked about the media model. i want to go down the road on that for just the second with you, arthur. we talked in the interview about young people. the notion that young people don't

. >> i did a story on ballistic backpacks and bulletproof backpacks. one being a former cia officer who thinks any layer of added security is good and one as a mom in do i really want to give my kids the idea that this kind of technology is going to keep them safe? let's have a look. >> as a former cia agent i learned how to shoot a variety of guns. so when techknow asked me to cover a story about the trend in bulletproof back to school supplies, it intrigued me. as a former operative and as a mom. back to school shopping it's always the most stressful time of year for parents like me who are not prepared and now we've got one more thing to worry about: some parents are buying items like this insert intended to bulletproof backpacks to their back to school shopping list. in the wake of the sandy hook shooting, it's no surprise that this year security is a big concern. i visited one company called hard wire, based in maryland, which manufactures bulletproof school accessories. >> where are we going now? >> onto the factory floor and this factory was buil

this is not a front page story. it's a legitimate story. let's be fair. barack obama has a sibling. hillary clinton has siblings that have disagreed with them on policy issues. that has never been on the front page of the "new york times." why this? because it's a conservative. why this? because it's the cheneys. and it's also because they absolutely want to stop liz from getting into the senate. nobody should be surprised by this. >> you're frowning. but how do you not mention it? whether it's front page news or not is a very legitimate point. how do you not mention it when mary cheney has been so vocal in criticizing her sister? >> there's two issues. one, sure, if mary's vocal and criticizing her sister it's a story. it could be a gossip story which i think is what rick is getting at. until you consider this is indicative of a larger issue going on in america on gay marriage, social issues, gay rights especially where you see families become conflicted. you're starting to see the republican party become conflicted. that's interesting as a larger story about where the gop is going

thank you. >> now, a snapshot of stories make headlines on america tonight. you may already be aware of this if you have a teen aged movie goer but a new study shows that pg 13 films have become far more violent. gun violent have tripled, last year even more than r rated movies. >>> fatherly advice from u.s. bishops straight from the vatican it was live simply, be pastors and don't preach ideology. >>> iran has agreed to provide access to u.n. inspectors but future of iran's nuclear capabilities have stalled. >>> earlier in this program we heard an on the ground report from the philippines after the supertyphoon struck there. although it has been four days, because of the isolation and level of devastation, relief and government officials are still struggling to get immediate crisis under control. downed communication and transportation links make recovery efforts very difficult. amid scenes of utter devastation, without food electricity medicine or other supplies how do other nation get that relief and recovery effort going? one person who knows some of the a

as the intelligence community is a bit of a misnomer for this next story is case in point to be a.c.l.u. filed a request against the f.b.i. which has actively and admittedly monitor websites media organizations and assent groups in the years following nine eleven they found very interesting is that the agency had violated an antiwar web sites for the minimum right by conducting surveillance by accident so how does something like this happen all the foyer across revealed that the f.b.i. mistakenly flagged the website as a potential threat that plan to quote hack the f.b.i. is website a threat that antiwar dot com mind you never made what actually happened was that air garrus the websites editor had notified the f.b.i. that antiwar dot com was its self the target of a hack and was hoping the agency would help them with this problem but instead the f.b.i. accidently marked antiwar dot com as a potential cyber threat and use this as a reason to monitor of the site and create a surveillance file on its users over the course of six years six years now you might be thinking that this is just a

seems more than just a coincidence after all who would benefit most to have media outlets running a storyfear mongering the us into taking a harder line over these negotiations yes israel and guess what country already has an arsenal of nuclear weapons and already kick started a regional arms race and has time and time again below literally refuse to comply with any non proliferation treaty peripheral aeration tree i cannot say that word i think the point twist the truth to fit your agenda meanwhile all eyes away from the real peace to turn in the middle east that the real weapon of mass destruction. two weeks ago seven point three magnitude earthquake hit near japan's eastern coast the same spot where a nine point zero earthquake hit in two thousand and eleven triggering a catastrophic meltdown at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant thankfully last month's quake only resulted in small tsunamis and caused no damage but it did serve as a stark reminder of japan's continuing nuclear nightmare for the citizens living in and around fukushima and one japanese politician wants to make sur

. >> behind the headlines a american bride in kabul this memoir is the story of a young american jewish woman who fell in love with an afghani man and returned to him with his own country. phil phil says there is a message in her story. he was very westernized in the west. but when he returned home to claim his place in the scheme of things, given that his family was powerful, he had to follow their customs. he probably hoped that i would adjust. this was madness. >> when chessler arrived in afghanistan with her new husband her passport was confiscated. she faced the represssive norms all women face in afghan sovment she had no idea that she would become a prisoner of his family >> i became a citizen of no country. and the property of a poll lick mist -- pole lick mist afghan family, he did not mention after a two-and-a-half year courtship he never mentioned his father had three wives and 21 children. and that i would be expected to live with my mother-in-law. what? and that i couldn't go out on my own. after a few months she tried to return home. she tried to escape to the american emb

. >>> we move to a developing story. prince georges county police have a sketch of a man wanted for two sex assaults. they handed out flyers. on the afternoon of october 29th, a woman was pulled into a wooded area and assaulted. same thing happened to a second woman a short time later. >>> there's a story that's been getting lavl us in our newsroom talking, and a lot of others too. two people raising money on a crowd funding website to make a prototype of something they call antirape under wear. >> that expression has a lot of people puzzled as well. debra checked it out as well, and it's a horrible crime that strikes someone else every two minutes. >> reporter: the creators of this antirape under wear wouldn't talk to us on camera and don't give their last names on their fundraising site. it's up to you to decide. this has a lot of people talking and not all of it's good, and that can be an understatement. >> are we going to wear something over our mouths so that people don't force us to perform oral sex. >> reporter: st

stories in my little book. the most entertaining one is one entitled paratrooper circumcision. it's a true story. ou can read it for yourself. i am a surgeon. i'm not the patient, okay? so then i, after the military, i came back to parkland hospital to do my training as a pathologist. and just in case any of you are wondering what a pathologist does, well, we do autopsies and we read biopsies and run laboratories. and so i was, i knew every one of the physicians that were in attendance to kennedy, and of course it was a chance to pick up a lot of gossip from people, you meet them in the hallway, having dinner with them, standing in an operating room with them, whatever. and so i developed an interest in the kennedy autopsy, because i was doing autopsies, and i asked for the warren commission report, and i read the autopsy. >> before we get to that, you got to sit in on a rather famous autopsy. >> yeah, i actually stood at the, around the edge when earl rose autopsied jack ruby. i can assure you he's quite dead. he's not living with elvis somewhere. he died of lung cancer. and i did actually autops