i give you erik larson. [applause] >> i think i met all of you last week. i am not sure. this makes me very nostalgic for my very first ever book events. i am sure you recall the naked concern -- consumer. [laughter] that is a book no one bought. one guide bought it and did not like it because he was the target. but i did get a call one day to do by assigning in lancaster pennsylvania. so i thought my career is on the way. sunday afternoon where you sit at a table with 40 books and expect people to come up in droves and i sat there happily somebody made a plate of chocolate chip cookies as an inducement. i sat there for the first hour and a half and nobody came to talk to me or even made by contact. far from it even looking at the books around three not coming year me. there was something odd. there was but at the hour and a half later i looked up and a woman was coming towards me with the biggest smile now i think now was when it starts to happen. she says how much are the cookies? [laughter] so i want to talk about my book from crown publishing. it is almost universally

this guy has that erik larson thing going on. look for it, this is what it looks like. [laughter] >> [inaudible] >> oh, yeah, stacks and stacks of books on my coffee table, and there will be more. >> if anybody found anything exciting at the show, and you want to share it with us, line up behind the microphone and wave your hand there -- anybody have anything to talk about? jason, come on up, come on down. [applause] one minute. >> it will be less. i've been hearing you have to add value to hard cover books to compete with e-books, so i found this on the floor. star wars 11 iconic scenes book, and it has these exciting visuals, and here are deafless prose, destroy the cyst, we must. a whole page for that. [laughter] >> anybody else? >> i picked up a university press book from the press which does beautiful books on economic artists, and this is creators of the superheros by thomas andre and interviews by joe siegel, and jerri robinson, gashing curvey, and it's a $40 book. it's got beautiful illustrations from the time period, different comics, original pictures from the