readers to new and different worlds. >> that's the value of fiction, isn't it. to be able to put yourself in someone else's place for just a little while and experience that. and that's what these were. >> an experience the library of congress is now preserving for future generations. chip reid, cbs news, washington. >> the largest u.s. naval destroyer ever built is about to hit the water. the zumwalt warship to be floated soon in maine is 100 feet longer than existing destroyers. the cost, more than $3.5 billion. it can fire warheads more than 80 miles. coming up, art by the acre. the story behind a very big portrait of a little girl. >> jeff: finally tonight 11 acres of artwork. not a museum, it's in a field and its he unlikely you've ever seen anything like it, here's alphonso van marsh. >> at first glance you might think these piles of sand, grass and limestone are freshly plowed fields of farmland by the water but you have to step back. way back to see this ask a portrait of a little girl, titled wish, she spans 11 acres or about 44 olympic size swimming po

pulp fiction magazines are getting a new life.> i have a piece of the pulp paper, and it just -- you can see what happens to it if you bend it at all. it really just disintegrates. >> reporter: jean manages restoration experts at the library of congress. they're trying to preserve the works before they disappear. >> it is a race against time, and every time something gets used that's in this fragile of a condition, it can be further damaged. >> reporter: pulp paper was never meant to be saved. the titles convinced people. >> covers were the bait. >> reporter: this pulp fiction writer said the books lit a fire under him. >> pulp novels were about people who stumble, who go to work every day. they don't usually win big in the end, but they have these moments of glorious redemption. >> reporter: pulp fiction created opportunities for some of america's most famous writers. he says the writings sprang from the minds of men and women traumatized by war. >> it's seen all sors of horrible things, seen a lot of death. they came back and st

because it is a fictional name. >> it is a fictional name. lou stole mine.nibal lechter is my favorite. >> can we agree people luke making bracket challenges? >> sure. >> who is he's not the fictional character. are you the fictional americans? >> mensa has howe 9,000 on this list. he was given conflicting information by humans which caused him to act the way he did. truly the hume answer were the villains. i'm not sure who the sexiest -- that is jonathan reese myers from nbc's new "dracula" which premiered last night. super sexy. i have two villainan from last year. and the reason these are the scariest villains is because they're about as real as can you get. they're not super natural, not science fiction. i've met all of them in my travels through eastern pennsylvania. that's it for me. i'll see you next time. i love the south.

so 1984 is speculative fiction. "star wars," science fiction fantasy. in another galaxy far, far away. "1984" this planet, stuff we've already got. >> rose: and this is a reference to noah and the origins of the bible? >> to adam, yes. so in the first book, "oryx & crake," there's a web site called mad mad and its logan is "adam named the animals "maddaddam." >> rose: what kind of world are you depicting here? >> i'm depicting two parts of that world, number one, the future before, number two which is when a man made virus wipes out most of us. mad mad.. >> rose: which is a possibility. $yes, people are indeed creating my cobs in thelab. >> rose: that could escape. >> or somebody might take the top off the box on purpose. >> rose: so it could be malicious behavior. >> it could well be. is. >> rose: is there anything different about creating these characters versus other characters? your novels? >> for me no. i like to give my characters a past and i like to let them eat food. so novelists don't allow their characters to eat. the you notice in daschle ha

one is fiction. true. >> sean. >> yeah, i'm going to -- i saw questionable acting in that. >> you're not sure. >> i have done inversion yoga myself so i think that's true. >> okay. we'll give you guys a second to think about it. >> everyone in the audience hold up the sign of the story you thought was fiction. the one you think is fiction. the one you do not believe. >> a lot of people changing their minds. people don't think the extreme ironing is a real story. we'll see and if you're at home right now we want you to weigh in as well. you can log on and vote today.com, tweet us #extremeironing or upstartacademy. the one you think is fiction. we'll find out how our contestants voted right after this. but first, this is "today" on nbc. >>> all right. back now with the results of fact or fiction, the game where we have to spot the fake story. is it either extreme ironing, the wackiest of hobbies or the other. 70% thinks extreme ironing is the fiction story. 30% think it's the upstart academy. let's go

all the the fiction. he was popping up in the different characters. he's like showing his face in the page. and i wasn't aware at the time. but i felt now looking back i feel like that's what was happening. i department begin working on this until around 2010. and i kept saying this. it was very difficult book to write. part of the reason it was so difficult. one, i had to write about the event. reliving my brother's death and my friends' deaths; right. and then also, you know, growing up. that was difficult. reliving it was difficult until the writing. and i did that in the first draft that i wrote here. it was even more difficult with writing the next draft, the revision; right. because i realize in my editor help me realize i had basically just written a memoir where all i did was write the events. there was no connective tissue there. as a presence, you know, i wasn't apresent in the text. because i wasn't trying to figure things out. i was making connections for the reader. i wasn't doing any of the

could be another fact or fiction. all right. >> wait a minute. >> matt came in the stands too. >> there you go, all right. >> but who came first. al matthew. >> good morning. the same warm and dry weather pattern is going to continue today. temperatures will be way above average. >>> and that's your latest weather. >>> all right, al, thank you so much. really nice effort. >> a little late. >> coming up on trending, the meaning behind your most common nightmares. >> also, jennifer garner opens up to jenna bush-hager about the new law intended to keep the paparazzi at bay. >> and a bombshell claim from mia farrow. ♪ [ male announcer ] reveal light bulbs from ge. ♪ [ dog barks ] ♪ unlike ordinary incandescent bulbs, they filter out the dingy yellow tones... ♪ ...bringing the true beauty of your home to life. ♪ reveal light bulbs from ge. [ laughs ] [ smooch ] [ male announcer ] french the rainbow! taste the rainbow! ♪ ♪ i'm watching you tonight. ♪ it's in those blue eyes. ♪ sweet surprise. ♪ that everything feels right. ♪ tonight.

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or fiction?w did you get out here this fast. >> this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. state consular peter franchot is going town today kenny to remind small-business owners about the tax credits available to offset the cost of providing health care to employees. it is worth 35% of the busines'' health care costs and goes up to 50% next year. businesses who make less than $50,000 you could get up to $847 in credits per employee. fog and haze would give way to scattered clouds this afternoon. maybe one of those clouds produces a sprinkle. otherwise we are dry with highs in the mid 80s. we stay that way into the weekend but we will have to watch for a cooldown next week. >>> from nbc news, this is today's take with al roker, natalie morales, and willie geist. live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. >>> welcome to today on this friday morning, october 4th, 2013. i'm willie geist along with al roker, natalie morales, and brooke shields back with us again.

"kind one" was a finalist for the 2013 faulkner award for fiction and is the fifth novel of laird huntlished in france japan germany spain and turkey the sixth novel never home will be published by the bow brown in the united states. it comes as no surprise that laird hunt is a translator as well of the english works into french and french works into english. under the offer if numerous stories in reviews and translations that appear in numerous publications. with "the wall street journal" among other places with residencies at the macdowell colony in the land and foundation teaches at the university of denver in the creative writing program where he edits the well-respected journal denver court of the. he moved to rural indiana during his high-school years after a childhood spent in singapore where he was born then san francisco and then to london. he has his bachelor's degree at indiana university. "kind one" seems to be an attempt to penetrate that misunderstanding, but corruption in this translation that slavery has brought on the country and takes us back to full centuries to put

>> it's non-fiction opposed to the fiction a alized account.t's whether you are covering a war or a convention. a comic book journalist tries to be as objective as possible and obviously objectivity is objective. >> it brings a lot of power to telling stories. why do you think these comic books as we see so much coverage of tragedies on television and on the internet and newspapers. what do these comic books do that traditional journalism don't? >> well it's not bombarding you with lots of electronic images. it's very -- you choose your own pace as you go through it. you go back to panels and ahead to panels and you can reread things and you can work through it at your own pace. there is something thoughtful and pensieve about that technology. and it's very subjective and very personal as ted said, so you are really getting the view of someone who was there and saw it. i feel that til television, war coverage in particular, has gotten quite impersonal. more happens in the studio with the anchorman pointing at maps and interview subject. and it'

fact or fiction.overload. the object is to spot the fake stories. our people faired better than day one. they guessed that soil was pure fiction. the hobby of football was real. savannah, what is your first story? >> finding a reasonable place to live in manhattan is a convenient challenge. one enterpriseing new yorker decided to give up apartment living altogether. you will not believe where he ended up. the big apple is one of the most electric and expensive cities on the planet. and one new yorker, writer dave rodriguez, was so stressed by the constant buzz, he says he had to think outside the box. >> you hear that? that's right. >> reporter: rodriguez created a private refuge in the most public of places, where he lived under the radar for two years until the release of this documentary. >> my name is dave, i'm 27-years-old, i live inside the cube. >> his home an iconic new york city landmark passed by thousands each day. i was invited in for an exclusive look at life inside his extraordinary home

. >> separating fact from fiction of all about the affordable hit care acabout the affordable car openrrow on the affordable care act and a lot of people are confused about what that means. we spoke to people who will be affected by the new law trying to sort out fact from fiction. >> the affordable care act has induced a fiery debate on both sides of the aisle since inceptioits inception. >> my first opinion i'm not really favorable of that. >> most people agree that there is a lot of confusion around it. >> i do not know enough to have an opinion on it. >> we decided to put people's knowledge to the test and separate fact from fiction. obama care puts government in charge of health care? the answer is fallse. families and individuals without access to coverage will have ... >> under the new laws insurers can no longer pose lifetime limits on care. insurers are required to provide preventive services without copays or deductibles. they cannot deny you based on a pre-existing condition. in 2014 the pipeline will be cheapefine will be cheat will increase each year. if the total cost of

by deborah treisman, fiction editor a the "new yorker" magazine. she's worked closely with alice munro for the past 12 years. welcome to you, for those not familiar with the work of monroe, what characterizes it? what makes it nobel worthy? >> >> well, it's just the depth of its insight on human relationships. on how we interact with each other. how we fall in love. how we betray each other. all sort of carried to us in this exquisite perfect prose. it's not showy, it's not glossing over anything, it's just -- it goes straight to the point and it goes straight to the heart of what we do everyday of our lives. >> brown: the nobel committee cited what all lovers of literature know, that she is the master of contemporary short stories. now the short story is not always honored. it's often admired but not honored and she's helped change that, right? >> she certainly has.

. >> he rained marcel lues wallace in "pulp fiction." >> reporter: a picture of the passed-out 16-year-old being carried by two players from the town's legendary football team showed up on instagram. it continued later with these comments on twitter. some people deserve to be peed on. never seen anything this sloppy, lol. the images were soon removed, but not before being captured by crime blogger alexandria goddard. two players were arrested a week later, but she began blogging about the case, afraid that the popularity of the town's big red football team would prevent the attackers from being brought to justice. her blog came to the attention of anonymous, a loosely

it was also a finalist for the national book award in fiction.alls "the yellow birds" sat in an important way. the sadness comes directly out of what the author learned at iraq. he told the guardian in aye, one of the reasons i wrote this book was the idea that people kept saying, what was it like over there? seen as not an information-based and he can tenuous with a lot of information around. what people really wanted to know was what it felt like physically, emotionally and psychologically. so that's why i wrote the novel. kevin powers tells us more than we can bear to know at times. this book is a reminder that the cost of ignorance is too often the water and bad peer for this powerful chronicle of life during wartime, the anisfield-wolf book award for fiction goes to set up to a substrate. caught that [applause] ♪ >> hello, thank you also much for taking an evening to come to this fantastic event. i'm so honored to be here coming to be recognized by an organization that believes this idea that the written word can have great meaning a great i

. >> reporter: it's the stuff science fiction movies are made of. tarantula spiders mating season. the males will be out in force looking for a little arachno- romance. >> this weekend are going to be the biggest spider movements of all. all the males are going to be looking for the girls. so it's going to be eight legged love or spider romance! >> reporter: this weekend's expected warm weather right in the middle of mating season is expected to have tra land chew la spiders crawling throughout the east bay hills and especially on mount diablo. al says, folks shouldn't be alarmed. they look ferocious. >> surprisingly the most tarantulas at least in the united states are harmless. we pick them up in the correct way, we can look in here and they got some pretty good sized fangs. but they really don't use them on us much. >> reporter: i would prefer not at all. but that's just me. tarantulas are found throughout

or the historical fiction abraham lincoln ninja [bleep] master, daniel-day lewis, return my call. (applause) so a big tip of the hat to amazon for putting the power of the press in the hands of the people, especially in their finest new genre and again this is real, dinosaur erotica. (laughter) it's for anyone who has been to the museum of natural history and said to themselves, i'd tap that. (laughter) the genre-- (applause) the genre includes such actual works as taken by the t-rex. rafished by the triceratops and in the velociraptor's nest, here is an excerpt. azog felt the kiss of sharp claws against her skin as the hide slid from her shoulder and exposed one naked heaving breast. azog gasped and relaxed as her body warmed to the intoxicating sensation of the beast flesh against her own. that is the hottest story of a prehistoric creature taking advantage of a young woman since hugh hefner. (applause) who among us-- (cheers and applause) who, who among us has not thought about getting it on with a lady triceratops. i mean we're all a little tri-curious. i mean when you see a s

textbooks and fiction flourished. but today the interest in pick fiction seems to have waned.more chinese readers are going on-line because it's here that the new book, new writers and the literary debate can be found. but beijing literary blogger is pessimistic about the new generation. one o of the young authors that she blogs about is joh jiang fa. fangaz. she is very well known. two and a half million readers follow her microblog. at the age of 22 she has already written several books. she wrote her first one at the tender age of nine. today she studies journalism in beijing. she has her own column in the magazine "new weekly" where she also writes editorials. she is currently working on a new novel. she find herself unable to resist looking back. this young writer is trying to process the history of the people's republic of chinanat stand with your country, do you stand for your country? or do you want to take it down this evening? >> reporter: ankger in congress and part of the government starts to shut down. you are watching al jazeera live from doha and in the program

would you rather do something fiction or nonfiction? was watching it with somebody who didn't know it was ale a real story. >> i'd like -- i've always been interested in nonfiction. i started reading it very young and i thought what really happened by and large is more interesting than anything you can say. even, like, reading like fiction books but set in nonfiction areas like "in cold blood" or leon you are reus novels. >> stephen: the da vinci code." ripped right out of the day's realities. you take a map around, you've got da vinci code. that's all you need. >> stephen: when you go to rome do people in churches go "please get out"? (laughter) well, tom, thank you so much for joining me. tom hanks, the movie is "captain phillips." we'll be right back. (cheers andwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww (cheers and applause). >> stephen: well, that's it for "the report," everybody. >> from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with jon stewart. ["daily show" theme song playing] [cheers and applause] >> jon: welco

the opposite with literary fiction. researchers say it has to try to understand his or her intentions making the reader more empathetic. >> there you go. >> a man is in the running for honor of hottest husband in america. >> so cool. he says his wife entered him without telling him, oh, yeah. he's hot. you can finish this. >> his wife says her husband is selfless whit comes to their relationship and parenting their 4-year-old daughter. >> voting ends october 28th if you want to vote for matt we have a link on our web site. >> well, she's a lovely wife to do that. >> he's okay. >> good luck, matt. >> good job. >> and we hope you win. >> that is going to do it for us. i'm cheryl jennings. >> i'm not petty. just jealous from. all of us here... >> thanks for joining us. have a good night. tonight, on the move, the giant tropical storm bearing down on the gulf coast. evacuations underway, state of emergency declared tonight, plus the early winter out west. and a tornado outbreak tonight. we have it all. chaos at the capitol

writers, we have the fiction that a tv show's written by the one writer. in fact, as with movies whole teams write these shows, and i've talked to some writers. they play off each other. they don't go into it knowing what they're doing or having a full developed intention, but by the time they're through, they have developed a work of art that has intentionality. that's my decision. that may sound too scholarly, but i think a work can have intentionality without a single person having a simple intention in creating it. if it holds together as a work of art, i'm happy. >> host: in the preface you write: america was born a rebellion, and its popular culture has embraced rebelliousness ever since. >> guest: yeah. and i think that's true. and that's why many cultural elitists don't like popular culture. they find it unruly and rebellious, and one of my themes is that popular culture is itself an expression of american freedom. and, sure, a lot of it's garbage and often that freedom gets misused, but i love american popular culture because i think it is very gr

. >> reporter: the difference between fiction and reality, tom clancy once said is that fiction has to sense. anthony mason, cbs news, new york. >> pelley: the cause of death has not been announced. that's the cbs evening news for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> does george clooney have a new girlfriend? what he told us last night in new york. >> plus, miley's late night in manhattan. we have the details. i'm nancy o'dell. >> i'm rob marciano. >> miley getting ready to host snl. but are the sensors ready? >> miley, that vma performance, how could you? >> i know, how could i. >> then "e.t." with sandra and george. is this croatian sensation george's new girl? >> plus kim's jaw-dropping dress straight off the runway.

and he would always seed his confessions with fact but also with a liberal amount of fiction. the funny thing is, this was really his last major confession. and in it, he claimed to have killed 27 people. unfortunately, some of those he claimed to have killed were still alive and came forward. many of those he claimed to have killed were, in fact, dead and were, in fact -- the police did suspect ultimately that he had done that. it is also assumed, by the way, that he killed many more than 27. my guess is probably several dozen over the course of his life. the "new york world," in all its exuberance, estimated 200 alone during the fair, but i don't buy that at all. it just gives you a sense, though, of what people thought about this guy and how, after the fair, when he was captured, the suspicions of what he had done, how they just became -- just dominated the american imagination. c-span: the jacket says that you're married to a doctor and live in seattle and have three daughters? >> guest: yes. c-span: where did it all start for you? >> guest: where did what all start? c-spa

we need to set fact to fiction. the fact is, we will not see the government shut down because it keeps coming here and $250 billion a month. >> we won't default. >> that's right. they don't last that long. what's interesting -- we will always make our interest payments. social security payments -- we will always make them. but the white house does not want to acknowledge is that we have the power to allocate to set priority to decide what is going to be funded and what isn't oh out of the revenue available while the congress and the congress is working on a permanent solution to our physical problem and addressing the obamacare saying i believe it's a huge disaster. >>> let's talk about pw-pl and obamacare and what the president just said there. >> he said a fraction of the party is willing to burn the house down. you hit the's not a bad thing? >> u i think because the machine so broken, they have no choice but to use the opportunity on the revolution or the -- to extract and get some kind of dethey in the emil impl

showing women who are successful mothers and look origins and we fall into believing that these fictional lives are somehow accurate depictions of what our real lives should be about. >> what responsibilities are women thrusting upon themselves? >> what women are doing to themselves is that they are seeing these different images of perfection. the perfect wife, the perfect mother, the perfect career person, the perfect movie star and they are thinking they should be all of these things. that is the problem because i want to be ambitious for women. i am ambitious for myself. women can definitely find areas in which they want to excel at we need to keep in mind that if you are focused on one thing you're not able to be perfect or even very good at everything else. tavis: if the paradigm has shifted and you are calling for a new construct, help me understand how women reframe the conversation and this agenda for the 21st century? rex one thing that women can do is be more honest with themselves and friends and be more willing to say i am excited about this part of my life but i am screwing u

. >> reporter: the difference between fiction and reality, tom clancy once said is that fiction has to sense. anthony mason, cbs news, new york. >> pelley: the cause of death has not been announced. that's the cbs evening news for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> good evening, i'm derek mcginty. >> house speaker, john boehner, has spoken with the president. they in fact, just got done with a meeting and they are speaking right now. >> and the president has announce thad he is not going to negotiate. speaker boehner, i think, stepped to the microphones and he just walked away, actually. just a minute ago and we'll have more on that story in just a moment. there will be no negotiation. so -- >> let's take a look at your world in 90 seconds. >> we're having technical difficulties right now. it is day two of the government shutdown. and the u.s. senate adjourned for the day. again, we just discussed president obama did meet with house speaker, john boehner. speaker bo