anthony beaver will be here in a week, one of the great military historians of our time, best military historian. i read everything he writes. i will read falkner and hemingway and dropping to the old classics and the new stuff coming around. i am very catholic in my case. i watch a lot of food network. >> considering you have written both fiction and memoir how do you feel about the process of writing autobiographical and do you feel you can trust your memory completely or what process you go through to remember events in specific details? is there a process you go through and do you think there is -- obviously an element of truth to everything you are saying? do you think this memoir sometimes is in the eye of the beholder? >> for me writing is an act of memory retrieval. when i began writing about a period in my life the memories come flooding back. my father is part of this book. i am certain he remembers these trips somewhat differently. but i am the writer of this book and i remember them this way and i craft them this way and it is prose and narrative. the events are real events

anthony beavers will be here in the week i'm sorry i'm going to miss him and he's one of the great military historians of the time. i can't think of the best military historian. i write everything -- read everything he writes. i will drop into the old classics. i will read some of the new stuff that's coming around. i'm very catholic in my case, and i watch a lot of food network. >> considering that you've written fiction and memoir how do you feel on the process of writing autobiographical and do you feel like you can trust the memory completely or what process you go through to remember the sort of event and specific details. is there a process that you go through, and do you think that there is, you know, obviously there is an element of truth to everything that you are saying that do you think that this memoir sometimes is in the eye of the beholder? >> for me writing is an act of memory retrieval seÓul am i began writing of a period in my life, the memories come flooding back to the of my father is in this book and he's very much a part of this book and certainly he remembers a couple