i am pleased to welcome dave barry. was a long introduction. >> we really try and -- it's done. you can leave now. dave, you -- there are many things that we want to talk about with you. >> can i say to social media professional community, i have -- since this came out, i have gotten some angry social media comments from people -- >> well, you won't after this show. >> who are professionals in the field, and they feel that i have served slight -- >> undermined their existence. >> i have nothing but their deepest respect for tweeters. >> i want to reiterate that. we love our social media followers. >> love them to death. >> they do not call themselves -- >> they don't. i love them too, and i want to have sex with them. i don't quite have any more fights with them. i want to make up with them. >> it's all love. dave, let's talk about the novel takes place for the most part in florida which we often talk about politically as a crazy place. socially it's a crazy place. you moved there. you're a new york native. you moved th

he didn't have to do anything es, just take off his sunglasses. >> the novel is "insane city," dave barrye greats. thanks, dave. >> put this over our head? >> just for the rest of the show, just talk behind the book. >> coming up across the river, brian sullivan with business headlines. we'll be back in a minute. peter and the star catchers based on dave barry's children novel is being adapted to the silver screen with gary ross as the director. ross has recently enjoyed success at the box office directing "seabiscuit" and the hunger games". if you hadtive vo premiere, could you have access to all of these titles at a moment's notice. put it all at your fingertips, brought to you by tivo. we're all having such a great year in the gulf, we've decided to put aside our rivalry. 'cause all our states are great. and now is when the gulf gets even better. the beaches and waters couldn't be more beautiful. take a boat ride or just lay in the sun. enjoy the wildlife and natural beauty. and don't forget our amazing seafood. so come to the gulf, you'll have a great time. especially in alabama. you

evan thomas, dave barry and many more will speak at this annual festival. watch booktv for live coverage. during the second week of march booktv will be live from the tucson festival of books in arizona. among several lawyers featured activity begin, and kristin iverson. also in march the virginia festival of the book begins on wednesday the 20th through sunday, march 24th. this annual event features several authors including douglas brinkley, and congressman john lewis. please let us know about book fairs and festivals in your air and we will add them to our list. post on her wall at facebook.com/booktv or e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> for the next three hours booktv brings your a few panels and other presentations from the 2013 key west literary seminar in florida. first we hear from paul hendrickson, author of hemingway's -- "hemingway's boat". >> good morning, good morning, thank you. i moved up my flight, then go to the airport after, literally right after i spend ten minutes here reading and i am going to read something quite short on the theory

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you wrote a book with dave barry. it is in paperback. how do you write a novel with two people? >> you know something he and i met. we met each other on previous book tours for our other books. he lives in coral gables, florida. i live in new jersey. we alternated chapters. i came up with this idea. okay. there is a kid's soccer game. 10-year-old girls. championship game. one girl kicks what would be the winning goal. okay. but the ref calls her offsides. okay. the girl's father goes ballistic. and he and the ref have a feud. so i'll be the ref. i'll be the voice of the ref. so i did the first chapter as the ref. >> joy: you spoke it or wrote it? >> wrote it. i sent him the chapter. he sent back the chapter as the girl's father. and it kept on alternating and now we've got this movie deal with universal with steve carell to play one of the dads. >> joy: that's fantastic. congratulations! >> thank you. >> joy: that's great. it was lovely to see you. >> great being here. thank you. >> joy: alan's book, "lunatics" is in stores now. i'll see you all next time. >> jennifer: i'm jenni

next guest is a very funny emmy award-winning writer whose latest book "lunatics," co-written with dave barryhave you on the show. thank you for finally coming. >> thanks for having me. this is great. >> jimmy: please. i'm a big fan of yours. i told you this. i met you years ago, but your head shot is up on seventeen on "saturday night live." >> it takes up most of seventeen doesn't it? >> jimmy: it's a nice size shot. but i remember seeing your face every time we went into the writer's meeting. i'd walk right by alan zweibel. . and was like, there's alan zweibel. and then i actually got to meet you and you're a moving head shot. >> i am a moving head shot. >> jimmy: you were there at "snl" when it first started. >> i was there from there day one from 1975 to 1980. >> jimmy: wow. >> it was the most exciting thing in the world. >> jimmy: can you tell me anything like -- you weren't allowed to stuff on tv that you can now. >> you don't understand. there was no cable back then. there was not even a fox network. okay. >> jimmy: yeah. [ scattered applause ] don't clap. they're clapping for that. >

with dave barry talking about it. about the united states senate. >> insane city. his book about the senate. >> the what did you learn today? >> i learned today that my brother-in-law tom, toughest guy i know going through a tough time right now. love you tommy. >> what kind of tough time? >> he got his first day of chemoyesterday. here's to you, buddy. >> that leads me to tell you what i've learned today is what you should learn each day. be grateful for your health. if you've got your health, you've got about everything. you know it's way too early but right now actually time for chuck todd. take it away. >> president obama heads west to lay out his vision for an immigration overhaul. the presidential push comes at the same time as a break out of bipartisanship in the senate and his support for their effort could make this happen even faster than anyone could have dreamed. get it, oo dreamed? later this hour with just three days left on the job, secretary of state hillary clinton holds' town hall to talking with young people around the world but no one specs a qu

evan thomas, isabelle will can kerrson, dave barry and many more will speak. watch booktv for live coverage. then during the second week of march, booktv will be live from the tucson festival of books in arizona. among several authors featured with timothy egan and kristin iverson. also in march the virginia festival of the book begins on wednesday, the 20th, and runs through sunday, march 4th. this -- march 24th. this annual event features douglas brinkley and congressman john lewis. please let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area, and we'll add them to our list. post them to our wall at facebook.com/booktv. or e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> you don't always find many newspaper editors in any era embracing investigative reporting. the point we've seen over the years it's not just economics, it's the discomfort that investigative reporting up causes in a newsroom -- often causes in a newsroom because it was troublesome. it's that more than the economics. if you're going to ruffle the feathers of somebody powerful, that gets those people runn

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barry bonds and other baseball greats. we'll tell you why some people think when it comes to the hall of fame, they are out. "mornings on 2" starts now. >>> good morning. i'm dave clark. >> i'm tori campbell. >>> police are investigating a violent night in san francisco's potrero hill neighborhood. paul chambers is live with information on injuries after a shooting and a stabbing just a block apart. paul? >> reporter: good morning, tori. now, police released the -- the scene here. take a look at some video here. police say the first time scene happened about 1:40 this morning. shots were fired in the potrero hill neighborhood. police say a 53-year-old man was exiting vehicle when he was struck by a bullet in his foot. he was taken to the hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries. almost two hours later and after officers left the first scene, they were called back, this time responding to a stab. in that situation, police say the victim was stabbed while inside a home. he then walked outside where someone called 911. he was taken to an area hospital with three stab wounds to the chest. he's expected to survive. police say as of right now, they do not believe t