the boston globe" is "the best of me," a collection of stories and essays by author and humorist david sedarisello, and welcome to in conversation with p.j. o'rourke and dave berry. my name is jack perry. we are honored to sponsor this dialogue with the authors. as a locally-owned automotive group proudly serving south

the boston globe" is "the best of me," a collection of stories and essays by author and humorist david sedaris. >> hello, and welcome to in conversation with p.j. o'rourke and dave berry. my name is jack perry. we are honored to sponsor this dialogue with the authors. as a locally-owned automotive group proudly serving south florida for more than half a century, it is our pleasure to be a small part of miami book fair, its books and authors instill in our wonderful community. p.j. o'rourke and "a cry from the far middle: dispatches from a divided land," in which he secures current events and assesses the state of the nation. after nearly five decades of biting satire and everything from political struggle and to cross-country road trips to bad haircuts, it's exactly what you'd expect. he's joined by florida's very own dave berry, himself a master of the wry observation. and as it happens, one of roarke's longtime friends. the back and forth between these two is just as satisfying as you'd imagine. and now it is my great delight to introduce to you p.j. o'rourke and dave berry. >> thanks. it's

"the boston globe" is the best of me, collection of stories and essays by author and humorist, david sedaris. a remind-under all booktv programs are available to watch online at booktv.org. >> pj o'rourke discussed views 0 libertarianism and american politics. here's a portion of the program. >> every time you ask government to do something, however lovely that thing seems to be, you are asking them to do it while a gun is pointed to the head of the people who are going to pay for the thing that government does. so, i think one should also ask ones self, would i shoot my mother, my only mother at gunpoint. -- i would hold my mother at gunpoint in order to accomplish what i'm asking the government to accomplish. so, i would hold my mother at gunpoint to pave i-95? i've personally think that's something that could be privately done without any danger my mom. bless her heart, she's no longer with us. but i would hold my mom at gunpoint to save us from being overrun by nazis? yeah, i might. being overrun by nazis would be an extremely bad thing. might hold mom at gunpoint for that but not to pav

. >>> the best of me, a collection of stories and essays by author and humorist, david sedaris. >> good evening, my name is connor moran and i'm delighted to be here tonight for our eighth event of the fall celebration, normally this would be the 9:00 little bit more laid back, i unbutton my top button for this keen of event but we dying lighted to host jacob tobia of their coming of age gender memoir, sissy. long-time coming weapon booked this event in february when we thought we could be here in person. thank you. we are also joined by -- oh, very good as well. by a local transactivist and -- thank you for being here. as always i want to thank maddison public library and the library foundation. their support of free cultural events for the past eight years and particularly over the past eight months has been intensely unwaiverring and i can't think them -- unwavering and i can't thank them enough for bringing these great opportunities to us here and across the country. so thank you to them. i'm going to let them take the conversation away and i'll see you at the end. >> yay. >> thank