-- fictional situations has gotten bigger.i guess the question is and i will start with you maurice, is that a reflection on the legal system or a society as whole that they will accept many things that could happen in fiction and maybe in real life more so than the population might have accepted that impossible 50 or 60 years ago. >> i think it has a lot to do with -- i'm not sure if that is really true. i've liked to tell you there is a lot of disbelief and does and i still think there haven't been any books written since then, no disrespect to you and john. these go back to stories and what i recently read cleopatra that was affirmed. i do think though that with the advent of reality television and talking heads and with this two-minute commercials that can make war heroes into cowards like we saw in the presidential election. if you spend enough money, church can be suspended or disbelief. i'm really proud that we have great writers and in fact if there was any way to, i would be voting as a panel panel member and i to hol

i think that ideas would try so much of the fiction.he john grisham characters when you think about what my favorite books, the rainmaker amid these are people that are tireless, energetic crusader's. maurice dees of real-life people who just do the right thing. they just do the right thing and we don't teach law students to do that. it's about asking them to go beyond what the law is and fight for the right things, the most righteous crusading cause. at his latest characters stand out in my real-life heroes stand out because they are not doing what everyone else is doing. you go beyond what everyone else is doing. >> i do think it is interesting that atticus is a man of faith -- is a man who goes to church. inside a comment if few characters who don't which urge are the lawyers. so now i'm positing truncates his lawyers, what a nightmare. i think it does go to this generational shift, where i went to law school not that long ago and religion is something you don't talk about. religion has been completely decoupled from both the practic

fictional lands, $200. who is barrie? james barrie is right. fictional, $400. who is orwell? george orwell, correct. fictional lands, $600. who is coleridge? no. roger. who is milton? no. you were thinking of james hilton... that's right. and you said milton instead. yeah. roger, pick again. fictional lands, $800. who is vonnegut? kurt vonnegut. fictional lands, $1,000. who is mccaffrey? anne mccaffrey. you're back on the plus side, tied with mark. churchill for $600. what is "finest"? churchill, $800. what is "business"? churchill, $1,000. "baffled by" the facts. all right, we've done with churchill, roger. where do we go now? uh, movie soundtrack, $600. what is... "tron"? more? (sighs) "2.0"? joon? what is "return to tron"? no. what is "tron: legacy"? back to you, roger. movie soundtrack, $800. so maybe it didn't cost you anything. we'll find out. you have $1,800. you can risk any or all of it. you know, i'd like to bet it all. i'm gonna do that. okay. here is the clue in on the movie soundtrack... what is "amadeus"? "amadeus," of course. you say, "salieri," you have to com

it's a fictional account of a daytime talk show. >> fictional.ictional." >> let me tell you this, whenever you're embarking on a new journey, which is writing fiction for me. i've written two best-selling nonfiction books. >> right. >> but i had never written fiction before. i knew there was a story inside of me but i had never explored that side. >> yeah. >> you really write what you know. i didn't need to stretch myself. i had the most soap opera-like life in the world. >> right. >> so if i think just play off my life, i could write a book of fiction. this book, "satan's sisters," has every plot line or character -- i should say every plot line and character is based on someone i worked with, worked for, interviewed, was interviewed by, or prosecuted. >> wow. >> and think about all of those people that i have encountered, i -- >> everybody. >> i have a plethora of people to choose from. >> okay so when the people are out there saying a backdoor to get back at "the view" one more time. >> honestly not. i don't tell one secret that occurred on "t

the four categories are young people's literature, poetry, non-fiction, an fiction.irst, i would like to present the man who is going to present the national book award for young people's literature. mark aaronson is a historian, author who brings edge international voices to young adult readers in the united states. his most recent book is "trapped: how the world saved 33 miners from 2,000 feet below the desert." his next book "master of defeat, jay edgar hoover: america and the age of lies" will be published in the spring, and it's a great pleasure now to introduce mark aaronson. mark? all yours. >> thank you. [applause] you know, it was a bad year for muffled phone conversations with disastrous consequences. of course, i'm thinking, as we all know, of the fifth game of the world series in which the cardinals lost because of a bad call to the bullpen, and, of course, we had our own little oral malfunction, but the cardinals went on to win the world series, and i have to say that i hope you'll agree with me that in the end, even though we had our little detour, ther

they were medical thrillers, science-fiction, pop fiction. are had written a book for the x files television show. i have written a book that became a tv movie of melrose place and robert wagner was the bad guys. it still airs on the sci-fi channel at 2:00 in the morning. pretty funny movie. i had been riding that kind of thing. i was hanging out with these guys from mit. babies geeky mad scientist guys mostly asian. look like everyone else at mit except they had tons of money always in hundred dollar bills. we hung out at this bar in boston which is an mit dive bar. you never see hundred dollar bills. it is weird. in new york you see them. in vegas they come out of the atm machines. i don't know about d.c. but you never see them in boston. i couldn't figure out why they had so much money and i started hanging out with the main character who occult kevin lewis because he wanted me to change his name because he didn't want to be known as the black dead guy. when "21" came out and he wanted to be known as the black jack got his real name is jef

fiction. i had written a book for the "x-files" television show, i had written a book that became a tv movie starring antonio sabato jr., underwear model, and i think robert wagner was the bad guy. it still airs on the sigh tiefy channel at, like, 2 in the morning. it's a pretty funny movie. anyway, i had been writing that kind of thing. and i was hanging out with these guys from mit, and they were these geeky math science guys, mostly asian. they looked like everyone else at mit except they had tons of money, and it was always in $100 bills. and we hung out at this bar called crossroads which is kind of an mit dive bar. and you never see $100 bills in boston. so it's weird. i mean, in new york you see them n vegas they come out of the, you know, the atm machines. i don't know about d.c., but you just don't see them in boston. so i couldn't figure out why they had so much money, and i started hanging out with the main character. and in the book i called him kevin lewis because he wanted me to

if -- it is 5 fictionalize said i would have eliminated at least 20 of them and easily stock to my leading man who would have been the prosecutor and investigator and done away with everyone else and endowed him with all the great qualities and abilities to save the day. however, it was a piece of nonfiction and i think -- despite all the advice i was receiving, rather than simplifying story for fictionalizing the story readers are very sophisticated nowadays. they have read some much that they can actually manage a multi character story and they can keep track of numerous characters going in and out and don't need a singular hero. certainly not in the 20 first century. we have given up a lot of our old myths and whatever dreams we once had about singular heroes saving the day and we understand that a confluence of characters, personalities, events need to come together in order for a great triumph to take place. so the great character of this book in a way becomes its own plot line and the narrative itself. and what i hope you will find is that the unraveling of the events take a life of

i read a lot of fiction. i still do rio of fiction. -- i still read a lot of fiction. when i was reading cleopatra, all the more about women who had died or were somehow diluted. there were either joan of arc, sylvia plath, they seemed distressed in some way. i love those books. helen keller. there were not many women in that period. those books were informative. >> which book has sold the best? >> i think that "cleopatra" has sold more than the others combined. >> y de thing that happened? >> i do not know. i do not know. it is one of those interesting things. you never know what people are going to find in your work. you hope someone might read what you have written in the end and understand or even enjoy it. i am interested in the ideas of women in power, the remnants of the east and west, those teams have certainly hit a home. there's been a lot of interest in terms of female empowerment. a lot of men have come to readings and asked me to sign books for their daughters. going around and poisoning your relatives is not necessarily something you want to encourage, bu

[laughter] given your background as a poet, have you ever written non-fiction prior to this? if not, did you have any thought about the fictionalizing it to tell a slightly different story in that manner? >> this is the work of nonfiction and my previous work in english was a memoir. and actually come after eyepiece this together i decided this is really what i want to do. at least for the foreseeable future. what i love doing is going out to and finding the story is that are immensely significant but have either fallen by the wayside never made it to the headline or were dismissed or shoved under the rug. i may sound paranoid but but i found i love the notion of the stories and they are so fabulous that you could hardly a come up with fiction we will find out if i did it justice but if i had come and then you agree with me it is so beautiful and astounding that's just in the way it unfolded it would have been diminished but i found that in some great ways there was several dozen and my own they write about one because it happened quite in a magical way at the end of the five

just in a way that it is unfolded, that's a fictionalized it would have been diminutive.i also found that in some great ways, you know, and there were several dozen of these political assassinations that have taken place. and i only write about one. that's because this one happened quite in a magical way, at the end of the five years. >> did you receive significant cooperation from the survivors families and from the families of those who did not survive? >> right. a friend of mine who is also a writer and a journalist herself read the earlier version of the manuscript and said that she was really touched and deeply moved by the quality of the interviews and information i gathered. and, of course, i could have fooled her and said yes, such a fantastic interviewer, if they would only open up to me. but in truth, precisely because the story has not been covered, or i should not say not been covered, the story had been covered. but from certain angles, from a deeply political and -- and in pieces because it was a five year span, so, you know, one day there's a very exciting

you know, fiction and non-fiction writing is very different, and i read a lot of fiction, and i love it, and i've gone to a lot of talks by fiction writers, and i always marvel at myself because they say, well, what's your process like? they say, well, you know, i sort of let the story lead me, and i kind of follow my characters. to me, that's a nightmare. [laughter] i know exactly -- my process is i spend three years writing a book, and the fourth year is foundational research, and the entire second year i go through research and outlining it. always outline. it's important. it helps, and it saves you a lot of pain, believe me, and i just work on structure for an entire year, and only then do i start writing, and throughout there, i find holes in my research, and guy back and do -- and i go back and do more. i love it. >> that's what my teacher said. [laughter] >> listen to her, she's right, she's right! you can't skip the outlines, sorry. [laughter] >> i'd like to know what's the term "political machine" men? >> well, so this is the time of machine politics. it's incredibly corrupt

but they were medical thrillers, is fiction, pop fiction come i wrote a book for the exiles television show and a booktv, a television movie with antonio cymbalta, jr. and robert wagner. it is on the sci-fi channel at 2:00 in the morning. it is pretty funny but i was doing that kind of a thing. i was hanging out with these guys from m.i.t. favored kiki math guys mostly asian but looked like everybody else except they had tens of money in hundred dollar bills. we hung out at a bar in boston that is a dive bar and you never see $100 bills in boston. it is weird. in new york, in las vegas they come out of the atm machines buy you just don't see them and boston not so i could not figure out how they had so much money. in the book called him kevin lewis because he did not want to be known as the black jack guy than the movie came out then he did want to be known so his real name is jeff. i asked him why he had so much money and he invited me to his house and in his laundry was $250,000 in stacks of one hundreds. >> host: totally random? >> guest: i was friends with him but did not know he h

[laughing] now, sheldon, you've written books about a fictional defense attorney. the stories that you tell really get into, i think, the issues and stories of our time. and that's why your books have been so popular. first of all, you know, how did you become a writer? why did you become a writer? and how did you end up writing did a criminal defense attorney in san francisco, of all places? >> i was not told i would follow tony serra. i need to go back and prepare a little more. [laughing] i learned something, too. i guess i better stand up. [laughing] i'm really honored to be here. i'm the toy department. i write novels about the types of cases that lawyers like tony handle. in the daytime i work for a big law firm of the type that tony probably would not hold in the highest of esteem, but i'm delighted to be here. you know, i think if you talked to most authors, they will tell you that there is something hot-wired into our system that says we need to try to tell a story. there is nothing at all in my background. i am an absolutely accidental writer. there is no

this is sort of the non-fiction sort of truth on the outside and fiction to say well it's all made up, it's not true. but it's actually true on the inside. >> are you patients still alive? >> no, they both died about five years ago. >> what did they do when they were alive? >> well, my dad was a high school teacher. then later became the principal, much to my chagrin. my mother waited tables and was a bookkeeper. >> where did you get your interest in writing, do you think? >> you know, i think i probably got my interest in writing from four high school english teachers. i just was blessed with four english teachers that were extremely important and i acknowledged them in "matterhorn." they would take my writing and i would write something and they would say you ought to think about doing this. had you ever thought about being a writer? and i had, you know, but they would encourage me and help me. they would say well it would have been better if you had done this. my cousin and i wrote a novel about space invaders taking over the world and the world being saved by two 9-year-old boys,

i read a lot of fiction. i wrote on the biographies that every kid, the red, white, and blue, the ones about women were all about women who had died. it was joan of arc, sylvia plath, women in distress. i loved those little books. there were not very many women in that series. those books were formative. >> which book has sold the best? >> "cleopatra" has sold more than the others combined. i never had a book that sold in any way before. >> y do you think? >> it has a beautiful jacket? i do not know. it is one of those interesting things. you do not have any idea what people are going to find in your work. you sit in a room for years. you hope somebody might read what you have written and understand or enjoy it. i was interested in the lives of women in power, the resonance between east and west. i think those two teams have hit home. i think there has been a lot of interest in terms of female empowerment. i was touched by the men who have come to buy the book for their daughters. it is not a book about a rol

fiction seems to be striking a chord. the show is one of israel's most-watched dramas. and in the united states, the expectation that a second season will be announced soon. kevin flower, cnn, jerusalem. >>> we leave you with this note. i had the chance to speak to a group of high school students in east chicago, indiana, this week. i was invited by my friend reggie martin. he's a graduate of that high school. he's now a successful businessman who started his own foundation to empower underprivileged youth. we spoke about how education

history and biography are supposed to be non-fictional disciplines. i won't speak about history because i'm not a historian, but i will speak about biography. yes, it's categorized as non-fiction, and, yes, we who practice it base everything we write, if we're honest people, on incontra veritable documents, on letters, on diaries, on contemporary reports, and from these presumably undenial documents, we construct the true story in quotation marks of what happened. the older i get and the more biographies i write and the more assertive i get about checking every single fact, even if i describe the smell of flowers on a particular day in roosevelt's life or the expression on reagan's face when he said something, i never write these things unless we have the documentary evidence, even so, even though i have the scriewp lossty -- scrupulousty that all my colleagues do, the older i get, the more i understand that all is fiction. i was reading this morning in the library of congress, snitched us a couple hours to go to the room and dig out some letters of t

>> i think the novel is kind of the perfect place for it, because it is fiction. it is a little easier, i think of it. it is like putting vegetables into some kind of food in a way. it is a story in the and, so i think that makes it easier to talk about. being afraid to offend people, i think i block all of that out, and also when you are doing your first album, it is easier to do that, because you do not know if people are going to read it. tavis: talk about your character, mo. >> there is a contest about a monument, and there is an architect from virginia who wins the contest, mohammed "mo" khan, and his selection naturally sparse a lot of controversy. that is kind of the premise of the novel. people are not sure to trust him or to be afraid. there are those fears, should he take them on, about people thinking about who he is. >> -- tavis: there is something where someone is asked to denounce something. and this happens to him, it renouncing something he had nothing to deal with. >> yes. that is what i was really interested in in writing the novel. as an individ

. >>> nasa says science fiction has become science fact. the groundbreaking new mission that's now under way. >>> this guy is accused of robbing a bank. just wait until you hear where police say they found the money. you've got to stick around for this one. >>> okay, i promise i'll stick around. when we get to the weather segment, i'll promise you more mild weather, plus a chance of rain early on in the upcoming >>> it's become sort of a post-thanks giving tradition for the first family. the obamas took in some basketball today near baltimore. michelle obama's brother, craig robinson, is oregon state's head coach. it was an easy win for the beavers. last thanksgiving they beat howard. the year before that oregon state defeated george washington university. >>> the newest mars rover is on its way to the red planet. the unmanned atlas 5 rocket is carrying that rover nicknamed curiosity. it will take 8 1/2 months to reach mars at a price of $2.5 billion. but nasa says the price is worth it. >> science fiction is now science fact. we're flying

. >> is the work of fiction but neighbors say they provided the real-life inspiration. other author is defending her work. >> and at the cbs five weather center, we are heading out chopper five high in the sky. nothing but clear skies now but the rain and its arrival and their affect on your weekend as eyewitness news continues. >> he served 20 years for murder he didn't commit. how six eyewitnesses all identified the wrong guy. elizabeth cook reveals the new wave police are keeping witnesses honest, coming up next. detectives watch as a witness tries to i-d the suspect. but witnesses police lineups. you have seen them and they are the staple of tv crime shows. detectives watch as the witness tries to be the suspect. but witnesses can and do make mistakes. elizabeth cook shows us how those mistakes can happen and an new kind of lineup that one bay area police department is now using. >> i think it's one of the happiest days in my life. >> at the day francisco korea will always remember. the day he got out of prison after serving 20 years for the drive-by murder he did n

is based on fiction because it doesn't have political realities the whole problem of this crisis it was created by the europeans themselves because who could not have a single currency without a political union they knew they couldn't get away of the political union so they disappeared to the equivalent of las vegas and signed up to a new maybe a proposition which is to have a unified currency with no unified policies result says you have a situation and you want to take forget trillions forget billions forget hundreds of millions look at reality if you want to have a cup of coffee in central paris one of the most expensive places in the world because the same as going to. increase but if you're going to get rid of unemployment in greece you're going to have to get the price down and it's almost everything is priced in euro's that will never be possible to have their whole best chain if i was agree i would be down to get a graph. to get out of this because what happens there still in the euro zone so that french banks take a hack. but they're still stuck with the euro and of course ever

that is a fiction.. but let's remember that 9% were unemployed. some were elderly and disabled and almost all the rest of them pay those payroll tax deductions that we see on our paychecks that come out for medicare and social security that the president and congress will be extending to the tax cut for another year. >> the rich pay their fair share. i know where that is. >> well, i guess you have to label that one fiction. historically the top 1% of americans and they say in fact they pay a quarter of the taxes but make 40% of the money. that much is true. but like we were talking about a minute ago, the rich have an enormous deduction. they can deduct their capital gains deductions and they have a better job with their accountants and lobbyists keeping their tax rate low. >> and there doesn't seem to be any legislation anywhere along the way soon that would change this? >> i don't think that's going to be happening until a year from now. i think we're looking ahead now to the next really big tax debat

the fiction swipe one bay area author is taking at her own neighborhood. >> it's called a six pack. a common police line up and it's helped send this innocent man to presidentor jail for 20 years. tonight a new kind of line up being used to keep witnesses and investigators honest. >> going. i'm ken batista. >> a general strike it wants. disruptive yes but tonight every day people turned out to say they aren't happy with things in this country. >> police estimate there were about three thousand people, teachers city workers, students, retired folks walking downtown oakland to the port early this evening. part of the call to shut the port down. they did just that. the port is closed tonight. it's large crowd was very peaceful. not to say there weren't any problems. some bent on violence made their work. attacking banks and other big businesses, breaking windows, throwing chairs. we were over 16th street and telegraph right now. at least 100 protesters have massed outside a building. they have hung a banner outside the entrance saying occupy everything. you can see some going in but th

the tour i think maybe the beginning of a new beginning which will be based on facts rather than fiction because the problem of the moment is the you it based on fiction because it doesn't have political reality the whole problem with this crisis is it was created by the europeans themselves because you could not have a single currency without a political union they knew they couldn't get away with the political news so they disappeared to the equivalent of las vegas and signed up to and maybe a proposition which is to have a unified carbs with no unified policy result says you have a situation you want to take to get trillions forget billions forget hundreds of millions for that reality you want to get to have a cup of coffee in central paris one of the most expensive places in the world because you the same as getting harras. increase pay for going to get rid of unemployment and greece you're going to have to get the price down and it's almost everything is priced in euro's that will never be possible to happen therefore best thing if i was agree i will be down i'm going to crash. to g