tonight, a conversation with pulitzer prize-winning columnist anna quinlan. it ran for more than a dozen years and was the basis for her best seller, "thinking out loud. in addition to her new memoir, we'll get her thoughts on the number of current events including the battle for women voters in this year's presidential race. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: she is a pulitzer prize- winning writer and best-selling author. her latest is called "lots of candles, plenty of cake." good to have you on the program. >> thank you. tavis: this book, in many respects, is about aging. as you have become more chronologically gifted, whether or not you think you're doing this gracefully? >> highlight to think i am at that we are having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. it is interesting to me. every

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. >> author anna quinlan will talk about her perspectives on writing and life, plus your guide to social policy and the politics that make it happen. life today on in-depth. her latest rumination is lots of candles, plenty of cake. starting at noon eastern on c-span 2. >> it cannot be more remote. it is in northeastern part of afghanistan. this valley is a cul-de-sac that goes nowhere. it is up near the the himalayas. getting up there is hard, flying helicopters is hard. the only way in is by foot or helicopter. trying to get their, initially to plan the mission was tough. what they are doing is going after a high-value target. this guy had some association with al qaeda, some sort of truce with the taliban. these guys are nasty characters. foreign fighters in chechnya and guys that are not there to fight against. these guys are mercenaries. what he was doing was repressing people into fighting. and he was rumored to have been stockpiling guns. he is also credited with a series of ambushes in the valley that had caught the attentions of some of the commanders. they decided they had to go

. >> anna quinlan will talk about her perspective on writing and life and her social policy and politics that make it happen live sunday on in debt from latest rumination on light, lots of candles we drizzle plenty of cake and she will be ready for your calls and e-mails on booktv's in depth on c-span2. >> the world is a big place the certainly the most powerful entities are these huge corporations like goldman sachs for instance. because i spend so much of my life in developing world in places like africa, let america and the middle east to give you a small example i saw what happened when commodity futures were brought up and corporations like goldman sachs and price increased by 100%. i saw the cumin consequences of that and children who were malnourished and died of starvation because they couldn't afford to eat. the wars in iraq and afghanistan have little popular support yet for a handful of corporations lockheed martin, north roman, halliburton are immensely profitable as war is for a certain tiny segments and always has been. war is a racket. i think that we unfortunately have cr