we will learn the winners of young peoples' literature, then poetry, then non-fiction, then fiction,an that fiction is the most important, it just means that the fiction writers hold their liquor better than the poets. [laughter] there you go. i love that corner. i want to share something quickly that i think can benefit everyone in the room. i heard a story on public radio the other day that there's a certain branch of publishing that is actually enjoying robust sales. apparently coffee table books are that the. i heard that on marketplace. who is applauding for coffee table books? [applause] table 33 is the coffee table book table. okay. because we are all in this for the must be, clearly, i'm thinking harrold next year this is a national coffee table book awards. that's a makeover; right? but why wait; right? with a few tweakings, we could coffee tablize some of this year's mom nominees in time of christmas. it becomes a portrait of elvis. no elvis lovers? "yellow birds" a tactile book about how big bird emerged winning in 2012. that's good for kids. thank you. and then "heavenly

paul, you invoke pulp fiction but this has also been the year of forrest gump. think it's very difficult to just say here, pulp fiction renders me meaningless and the traditional audience meaningless when, in fact, a film like forrest gump with extraordinarily old-fashioned, traditional... i mean, i think it may be the hollywood style in a rather quintessential way. that film does extraordinary business and has repeat viewers. and it is really very scary because it capitalizes the whole hollywood mentality which is, um... only the naive survive, you know that if you're dumb enough, everything will work out. ( laughs ) that's a reassuring thought. yeah. apparently, it was a very cheery thought to a lot of people. still is, yes. absolutely. i mean, you know and immediately you can make an argument as gump as being an ironic hero because he is a "hero." he's like a hero with quote marks around him because he doesn't do anything. so maybe gump and john travolta are not that far apart. toback: except that one is dangerous and off center and the other one isn't. that'

fiction, it wasn't my choice. that's how we start. what is the average number of hairs one will shed in a given day? >> what do you think? >> a lot.

. >> you say fiction. >> fiction. >> fiction. >> one more thing about this why i think it is fiction. when you get a deal like this you have probably a lot of people involved. you start to hear leaks. if this is leaking i don't know. that's not so -- >> the shorts have not been running to coverage. >> you really pommelled this thing. >> fiction, fiction, fiction. >>> next trade. >> three fictions. >> it wouldn't matter. >> anyway, next trade. apple climbs its way out of bear market territory and lifts the nasdaq with it. stock recording its best day since late april and had the second best day of the year. is the slump over? and are the shares set to rally again? i want to get the technical take. guy, you called accurately. >> we are here monday. we missed friday. i understand on friday this traded down to 505. i saw how awful it looked down there. with that said it closed i believe 5.27. we spoke about may 18 low a number of times on the show. i believe it was 5.20 or so. if you pull up a longer term chart although we did trade down to the 505 level it will look like a double bottom.

>> absolutely feature non-fiction. we are a country that is found on the written word started with the we hold these truths to be self-evident and the constitution and propagated with the gettysburg address and the speeches of martin luther king and others. these are fundamentally important to defining the country and who with we are and inspiring words. biographies are very inspiring and history. so all of these forms of writing writes poets with they will be futured in the museum. who and how will be determined by people more knowledgeable than all of these thing will have to be cure rated in time by creative and knowledgeable people. >> what's your background and how did you get started on this? >> i'm an engineer by training. i spent my career in business. i grew up -- i have a love of literature and after retiring had a chance to pursue my passion which is literature, and found when visiting [inaudible] the writers museum and found doesn't exist here. that's what we got started down the path, and very quickly foun

because i think that area just popular fiction, genre popular fiction will all go e. and but i do think that in literature in particular there will still be a p component but i don't disagree with you that it is switching. >> i think for a while actually the popular fiction will probably last long never print because there are still more outlets. they are sold in supermarkets. they are sold in aprils. >> but they are also downloadable on an airplane. >> i understand but yeah-- i do think that the trailing edge is going to be popular fiction from the point of view of market demand. >> what is the battle royalle today within the digital community about books i mean competition between amazon and apple and everybody else? >> and google and barns aibl noble. >> cobo before the apple deal with the book publishers with five of the six big book publishers amazon had 90% market share of ebooks. and with the publisher said was we have to create this what they called an agency model and the deal with apple, set prices, in order to attack this monday op below that amazon was gai

this is what we in the trade call fiction. [laughter] [applause] that would be the technical term for it. but instead i wanted the strangest acquisition of all the strength of positions that was leveled against me, but from quarters of the islamic world. it was as if there was suspicion about fiction itself. fiction was being proposed as being something which conceals the true motives of the writer. so whereas most of us who practice it think that fiction is a way of revealing truth, not conceding it. but anyway, i heard it a thousand times, people said he is hiding behind his fiction. >> your real agenda. >> yeah, my real agenda concealed in his fiendish make-believe, you know? i thought this is, this is really one way of describing, its people leading fiction as if it simply disguised fact. and so, for instance, in this dream sequence with this religion is being told and that our adversaries abusing the newly faithful, you know, and jeering at them, which happened, the early history of islam was persecuted. so how do you do

300 science fiction books. and over the course of several summers i read my way through all those, you know, all the classics. and i did think it has -- >> it gives you a frame of mind to think about the future all the time and ask the question why not. >> exactly. and you know i think also the dreamers, you know, science fiction authors are a kind of dreamer. and the dreamers come first. so the dreamers dream and builders come along. they're inspired by the dreamers. and then builders come along and with that inspiration some of the stuff comes true. >> and then the business model. >> and science fiction is useful because there are utopias that people say hey, that would be really great if, you know, we had spaceships and we could gal vant about the solar system. >> so are you a dreamer or a builder? >> well, you know, i like to think of myself primarily as a builder. but i, you know, you've got to have a little bit of dream never you to invent. and you know, and whenever i say something like that i want to ju

. >>> and who's your favorite fictional president? >>> plus, we'll tell you why this peewee football player has become such a huge internet sensation. you're watching "early today." >>> well, during the day today, a huge winter storm is going to develop over the northern rockies, spilling all through montana, even into north dakota. we're going to see easily 6 to 12 inches over a large swath of the country. a lot of unpopulated areas. but if you're traveling through those regions on the highways, it won't be fun and probably not recommended. a little bit of snow in the cascades, southern portions of oregon and northern california. that's really about it as far as the snowfall forecast is going to go. as far as the precipitation, other areas, just showery weather today, especially up there around seattle, portland, as the upper level low comes on shore. you'll see hit-or-miss showers throughout the day. overall, lynn, temperatures have cooled off in the west, but this next big storm for the northern plains it won't be fun. >> looks lik

the book which of course is a novel it's fiction it's made up stuff the tagline reads this used to be called america now it's just the republic there is no president no congress no freedom there is only agenda twenty one on the internet you can watch a movie trailer made specifically for the book featuring grizzled americans lining up on the streets in a post soviet style winter landscape reeking of desperation waiting for tiny morsels of food to be parceled out by the authorities reminiscent of both nazi comics concentration camps and the book of revelation everyone's forehead is tattooed with identification numbers and in an all macho to sarah palin's death panels one scene in the trailer depicts in a macy aged scraggly here old man loaded onto a conveyor belt and sent into a burning furnace of course this is all fiction or the like him or not beck has made a fortune off sensationalism and more recently televangelism and this book will tap into a wellspring of paranoia on the fringe right that undoubtedly is going to make a lot more money for mr multi-millionaire glenn beck. but whe

and you're not a fiction writer. i put you here because your book reads like fiction, from time to time, and i do have to wonder if you made up parts of it along the way, like magicians doll, but i'm sure you didn't. the kinds of books i really like to read for pleasure are the ones where you read a couple of pages, and at first you say, "why in the world would anybody write a book about this particular subject?" and then you get into it. that's exactly what i said about your book. and then about two pages in, i was totally hooked. from every page on, i found something to laugh about, or something where i'd say, "i didn't know." know. that." tell us about the whole journey of magic. you said you didn't want to be to be a nerd and started learning magic. >> i started doing magic when i was five years old. my first gig was my own sixth birthday party which went horrible, terribliy. they heckled me. and then years later, i went to new york-- i moved to new york. >> and discovered there was this whole subculture of magic

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>> sure. >> stephen: is that fantasy fiction?every lawyer wants to do that i felt that way when i was a lawyer, there were a bunch i wanted to kill. (laughter) >> stephen: people say write about what you what you know -- (laughter) john grisham, is there something you're trying to tell us? (cheers and applause) you don't have to tell me what it is but are there any things that you've done that are illegal that you would want a better lawyer than you defending you? (laughter) >> i can't think of anything i've done that's, like, really illegal. maybe some speeding, going over 55 miles an hour, something like that. a little mini income tax cheating. not admitting anything but maybe maybe. >> stephen: that's okay. tell us about the nblg tax. >> a little bit. >> stephen: the i.r.s. has a great sense of humor. (laughter) >> oh, they've got a file on me, yeah. >> stephen: do you think so? >> we've had issues over the years. >> stephen: have you ever done a foya request on yourself? >> a what? >> stephen: foya request? >> oh, freedom of

fiction in the real world.e will not be the secretary of the treasury. >> you did say that he would be probably a good one. >> he would be an excellent choice but i don't see him wanting to do it or him making the offer. >> daniel kraig is stepping down. jamie is walking in. he can't do everything. >> the "new york times" has called him obama's banker. >> that is not a gigantic leap from running jp morgan to treasury secretary. >> you are not going to get the best guy for the job. it would be an absolute disaster working with these people. i don't think jamie dimon can tolerate it. >> i don't think there is a shot he would say yes to it. >> i'm not -- coming up next on "mad money" jim cramer has first crack at it. plus pph has been in faction on wall street but can it continue to control the cat walk? all coming up top of the hour on "mad money." we have your first move of the morning coming up. [ male announcer ] this december, remember -- what starts with adding a friend... ♪ ...could end with adding a close

and here is the most incredible part of the entire fiction. while convincing us that barack obama's destroyed this country's future, the republicans have also invented a past where they were trying to help him succeed. >> that choice was not the choice of our party but americans always come together after elections. >> i wish president obama had succeeded because i want america to succeed. bz bull [bleep] [bleep]. >> (cheers and applause) you wanted obama to succeed? we may not remember that america was never really mayberry, but we sure as [bleep] can remember back to 2009. this is the news package from hannity's show, 100 days into the presidency. >> so help you god. >> so help me god. >> congrat lakeses. -- congratulations. (cheers and applause) >> jon: well, he did give the president 100 days before cuing up the song from the omen. (laughter) anybody less forgiving? >>. >> the economy is so bad and so shaky, and the obama vision has not worked at all, zero. now again, it's only been six weeks, but it isn't working. (laughter) >> jon: i mea

not memoirs but poetic fiction.and her costa thank with her sister, mary weingarten does not in gauges and the philosophical questions of the day as tennyson does in memorial him. she does not tell us it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. what she does is to circle endlessly around her grief, seeing it from all sorts of angles but never escaping it. her book is heartbreaking because it rings as to precisely the point of what a book cannot do to make her sister be again. and yet, and yet her book also does precisely what a book can do, bring her brilliant talented sister before us and all her living glory. in the deep vividness suffer endlessly problematical absence, in mary weingarten's hands kathryn washburn turns out to be the most marvelous pains they can be imagined. a little bit about mary weingarten. mary weingarten grew up outside of washington d.c.. after graduating from the university of chicago she worked for several years in community arts in london and then move to san fran

are you retreating into fiction because reality isn't that good for republicans right now?laughter) why write fiction about our history. >> because it allows people who think of history as dull --. >> stephen: yes, me. (laughter) >> -- to realize history is about people. it's about the way people make decisions with challenges they face, the tensions they live through. >> stephen: but you wrote this book -- this book just came out. you must have been working on this while you were running for president. >> yes. >> stephen: were you phoning in the campaign or phoning in the book. which is the two? you can't do two things that well. >> well, i didn't. (laughter) >> stephen: oh, that's right, you're not president of the united states. well said. now, why washington for you. what is compelling about this guy? i mean, everybody's into lincoln right now. you've got spielberg's lincoln, you've good doris kearns goodwin lincoln, o'riley wrote about killing lincoln. why is washington your lincoln? (laughter) >> well, lincoln's very, very important and well worth studying but the cou

i think the banks are scary here. >> fiction? >> i'll go fiction.t's too hard to take this apart again. i don't think that anyone could figure out. he doesn't even know how they would split it up. so i'm not sure. i'm sure he has some suggestions, but i think it's sort of just pie in the sky. once you break it up, it doesn't go back. >> a new ceo here, the inclination of a new ceo to actually split the company and yield power to three others or however many others, probably pretty low at this point. >> i don't know. if you think about the board as being somewhat active here, you've had a lot of turnover in the board and you've seen them take a somewhat radical step with the not choreographed firing of vikram pandit. i believe the nuns are irate. >> they are. >> i believe that. i think it's not crazy the idea that they split this up. it's hard to say when the stock is trading at about 2/3 of back value, that the supermarket synergy is really working. it's not. so i think there shouldn't be any sacred cows here, including the structure of being this u

this came under pressure after two suicides were linked to a fictions. -- linked to evictions. >> it is almost certain that this eviction will not be carried out. then, celebration. the official responsible has not turned out. the family was immensely relieved. >> i'm really happy and i'm nervous. >> but when i asked what happens next, she had no idea. the bank could go back to court and get a new eviction date. this is the only way they have family now. she cannot pay the mortgage of 1300 euros every month. victory inebrating a this neighborhood, but nobody knows what will happen next, and nobody knows if this is the pattern going forward, if you work evictions, fewer repossessions. if so, what would be the consequence of that two spanish banks and spain itself? spain has to make its mortgage law more lenient to bring it in line with the rest of the european union. if there is a freeze on its fictions, some say that could have an impact on banks. >> it will increase the debt of the banks, but that is not the worst problem the banks have. it could probably be solved. then we have to

. >>> he's the all-time best selling novelist of hard cover fiction, but that's not his real passion. our exclusive interview with author james patterson. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good morning, everyone. i'm randi kaye. 7:00 on the east coast, 4:00 a.m. on the west. we're learning much more about the end of the line for general petraeus. he stepped down as cia director two days ago after admitting to having an extramarital affair. now we know from a u.s. official that the affair came to light during an investigation into e-mails sent by petraeus's biographer paula broadwell. we also have a better timeline. james clapper was informed tuesday evening. the president was told thursday, hours before his face-to-face meeting with general petraeus. there are still questions about why congressional leaders weren't told until friday. but let's get back to general petraeus. an official tells cnn that james clapper encouraged petraeus to step down after learning of the affair. joining me now is rejeve from "the washington post." good morning to you. do you think general would ha

he was a fiction writer. the whole time, i love it forever and now i find out it's fiction.with jasper, i promise you it will be real. >> kimberly: very dramatic. gangum style. give me a little bit. >> bob: you're up. >> kimberly: i'm doing it. ♪ ♪ sorry, you just love it. this is what i was doing saturday night. i was jumping on my bed. hat on and i had no boots but anyway, i was doing this with my boy. he loves it. we're dancing. >> eric: the point is, this video -- >> kimberly: sorry. everyone watched it. 806.3 million. beat justin bieber by 2.4 million. you were dancing on your bed. >> eric: go quickly. that time of the year. favorite picture. check out the scottsdale gun club, pictures with santa and the big guns. leigh it there, save extra time for robert beckel. >> bob: i have to tell you a story. wednesday night before thanksgiving. busiest travel night of the year. i went to penn station to get on my train. what happened? everybody was ou outside because police were evacuating penn station so you had 15 to 20,000 people trying to get to jersey. you can imagine what

i get how and why he is but why, to your mind, are we so gullible and why do we tend to fall for fiction where politics, decisions about our lives are concerned? >> you asked a question that is not an old navy and is there has been a destabilization of facts in a record to show a over the past dozen years. a real turning point was when the bush administration to convince americans that the hijackers of 9/11 were iraqis which there were not at -- and that says to dom cÉzanne -- saddam hussein had weapons. stranget is a phenomenon that we have more sources of information then when you and i were growing up. you can get any newspaper, and the magazine on the web. you can get more documents. this deluge of the information. and yet, we seem to no less. we have the strange phenomenon where reality increasingly seems to mean reality tv. it is fun and entertaining but it is a reality. it is staged. is show business. we have a cultural problem which descends the bush administration, iraq went up and rummy's dissembling through the campaign. it is so pervasive that you have a whole political party

>> i read a lot of 19th century fiction. it's what i enjoy most. i like stories in which the decisions made by the characters and the actions they take change the course of events. the traditional shape of an awful if i do read contemporary literary novels in which this doesn't happen then i get irritated with them. of course i am right in the 19th century tradition and they are on the best-seller list as well. most leaders still enjoy a story, an old-fashioned story and much people are confronted with problems and they struggle to solve them and the things they do make a difference to the outcome. so, when i am reading for fun, i like to read anthony trollope as well as farewell main delete command once jane austen, and the american writer i like jerry much a little bit later the great favorite of mine because she is a real storyteller but she's always fiercely intelligent and her analysis of her character always amazes you and she doesn't just do that, she tells you a story. >> before i turn this back over i want to ask a personal favor and ask y

not memoir, the poetic fiction.and her task to tango with her sister does not engage us in the philosophical question in memoriam. she does not tell us it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. what she does is circle around her. comiskey and all sorts of angles, but never escaping it. her book is heartbreaking because it brings us to precisely the point of what a book cannot do to make her sister be again. and yet and yet from her book also does precisely what a boat can do, bring her brilliant taunt his sister before us in all her living glory. and the thickness of her mostly problematical absents, in mary weingarten's hand, catherine washburn turns out to be the most marvelous that can be imagined. a little bit about mary weingarten. mary weingarten grew up outside washington d.c. after graduating from university of chicago, she worked for several years in community arts in london and moved to san francisco, where she earned her m.a. in comparative literature. for translation of russian

and heavily fictionalized. and as we say, it's fictionalized cause i'm imagining it. like to think i got close. >> is that the issue if i may get esoteric with humans? we feel like we know everything and the cats surely want to be inside and not out in the wild. what is the real story? >> it's all over the board. depends on the cat where do they live with whom do they live outside. to determine whether they might be tamed or ever come inside. some want to and some don't. lucy was young and sick when she was trapped. and took me several months to tame her. others will come right inside and become house pets. so depends on the cat and the situation. >> when we see this book and i'm going to reach over and get it. it's beautiful lucy right on the cover there. you think oh, this is going to be so sweet. it's not. >> it's a suspension novel and takes you everywhere. there's a guy who wants to murder all the cats. has a thriller aspect. it's not just a sweet story. it's meant to arouse emotions as a good novel should do. and i could tell you how it ends. >> but you won't do