always use the example of dave edgar's book what is it? to make me truly feel for the first time what it must have been like to be a sudanese refugees fleeing the civil war and trekking across the desert to make across the border into kenya and being attacked by wild animals and melissas. i felt a great sense of empathy for those boys because of this book, this novel and that is what literature is, what fiction is for you to leap over the wall itself. that is the great gift of reading, you get to be somebody else for a while and see the world through their eyes and experience something different and come to understand better. >> host: we thank you for the gift you have given us and people have questions and we have some microphones and our friends from politics and prose have organized it so please come down the aisle. >> this is the loveliest venue, gorgeous. i am so thankful to be here. it is beautiful year. >> host: and the perfect place, perfect setting for us so thank you. >> still waiting to wake up. i am still waiting to wake up. ca