yeah. >> charlie: are you happiest with non-fiction or fiction. >> fiction. >> charlie: you are.gan as a fiction writer. i wrote that for ten years and that's where my heart is. i wrote non-fiction -- not to put it down. someone said my non-fiction is the same thing. the loss of values and the -- and injustice. in a way, i'm writing about the same thing but in fiction you can go much deeper. i use the word for this thing, i'm disstilling it. i go deeper and deeper. in non-fiction, you're stuck with the facts or you should be. you should be more or less loyal to the facts. >> charlie: you should be. in non-fiction, more or less loyal to the facts? >> you should be loyal to the facts and you know it well. in fiction you go to a much deeper place. >> charlie: you have always been obsessed maybe about endangered species. >> yes. >> charlie: and endangered planet. >> and endangered people's. >> charlie: absolutely. native american. >> yeah. >> charlie: is there something about the person ideal that you think is in danger? >> i think so. i think what we're settling for, really, in rece

you.iting for >are you happiest with nonfictin or fiction? >> fiction. i began as a fiction writer. where my heart is. i love fiction. i wrote nonfiction to make a living. i'm not putting it down. anyway has the same things. though -- themes. >the loss of values and injustice. but in fiction, you can go deeper. i am going deeper. you can do things you cannot do. in nonfiction, you're stuck with the facts. or you should be. >> you should be? >> nonfiction is less loyal to the facts? [laughter] fiction, you go to a deeper place. writing, you have always been obsessed with endangered species. and endangered planet. >> endangered people. >> is there something about the american ideal that you think is in danger? >> yes. i think so. i think what we are settling for in recent years and decades, is a far the grated for -- degraded form of what was envisioned in the constitution. it seems we are constantly going in and beating up on -- usually darker people, some smaller country, haiti and grenada, vietnam, wherever. it seems to be that we are behaving in a way -- to go into iraq -- putting

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'

and non-fiction. his 1978 work, "the snow leopard," told of a spiritual journey into the himalayan mountains. in 2008, he won the award for "shadow country," a fictionalized account of the real-life murder of a man named edward watson by his neighbors in the everglades of southwest florida. we talked on the newshour that year, and i asked what had drawn him to that character. >> well, i was probably about 17. i was traveling up the southwest coast of florida with my dad. and he loved fishing. he had a boat. and he showed me on the marine chart chatham river coming down from the everglades on the southwest coast there. and he said, "up that river, there's a house. it's the only house in the everglades. and the man who owned it, i think his name was watson. he was killed by his neighbors." >> brown: and that stayed with you? >> that stayed with me. he didn't know much else about it. and i, unfortunately, didn't get around to writing about it for about 50 years. >> brown: but what's interesting to me is

fact or fiction. >> got to be true. dairy is a town in stephen king's novel about a ghost clown that devours children. >> this is rigged! >> we all get that wrong? >> yeah. i would have got that wrong because i had a system to play the game. kennedy: what was it? >> everything is true. every stupid thing that you hear that the government does is true. you can't believe that it's true that portland, oregon was shut down the lemonade stand of a girl and charge her $500, but they did because it's portland, oregon. >> they did it here. you shut her down? kennedy: i see all sorts of things in times square. >> i just presume, it is so terrifying they have probably unionized in that case they passed bizarre legislation that keeps other folks from becoming clowns as well. >> clowns are frightening. >> there are people finding you on twitter, dee dee, what? >> that posse clown, the clown posse. that's okay. those clowns are okay. >> that's different. amateur clowns. kennedy: melissa and dee dee, thank you so much. >> i'm never c

fact or fiction. >> got to be true. town stephen king's novel about a ghost clown that devours children. >> this is rigged! >> we all get that wrong? >> yeah. i would have got that wrong because i had a system to play the game. kennedy: what was it? >> everything is true. every stupid thing that you hear that the government does is true. you can't believe that it's true that portland, oregon was shut down the lemonade stand of a girl and charge her $500, but they did because it's portland, oregon. >> they did it here. you shut her down? kennedy: i see all sorts of things in times square. >> i just presume, it is so terrifying they have probably unionized in that case they passed bizarre legislation that keeps other folks from becoming clowns as well. >> clowns are frightening. >> the are people finding you on twitter, dee dee, what? >> that posse clown, the clown posse. that's okay. those clowns are okay. >> that's different. amateur clowns. kennedy: melissa and dee dee, thank you so much. >> i'm never coming back. kenn

novel in their that may be based on life events because fiction is really a fictionalized tale of whatyou experience. so it just depends again who discovers you. if you start writing fictional pieces, you might catch the eye of an editor or agent that could just be a development between you and me to your agent or editor to find out what the right book would be for you. >> thank you. next. >> i have a question about international market. in films, the word is black films don't do well a broad. what the knockers are really pressing to change that has you in the industry. i would like to know what is the equivalent of publishing? my own experience meeting with a major corporate publisher came when "the new york times" did a front page article about the research and the agent who picked me up had just sold something $4 million. so we met with simon & schuster and the discussion was life-changing because i went in thinking my readership is black readers because that's who had been communicating with. the editor clapped her hand and said fabulous. the genealogy market is 50 million. so even

shortly after graduating with my nsa in fiction i got an agent and was told the fiction i am writing will lessen the patois in order to appeal to the masses. i was actually torn over it and confided in a friend of mine who is a jamaican author and told me that is the way to do it. you got to sell to the market that is what you have to do. my question to you and this could be posed to zakes mda as well because you mentioned your books were translated and one of the biggest concern is if i want my book to be translated elsewhere to i have to fight for that? do i have to fight for the authenticity? i am fighting for the authenticity so may be like finding another agent for publisher who is willing to publish what i want so has that ever happened to you in your careers? i want to hear from you and in that situation. >> i will say this. i have spoken to editors who have told me that they will not published caribbean, they specified caribbean, they will not published caribbean work that is not understandable to the american market and that makes sense. they want to sell books. if that is t

a fictional possibility.it's not. it's happening. >> the federal aviation administration is responsible for overseeing the safety of low earth orbit flights and the content of the payload in the us. but when commercial space activities move beyond this sector of space - it becomes less clear who's in charge. the international treaties that exist are there to govern nations not corporations... >> missions where the private sector does have a lot of capability. pushing more responsibility over to them i think is the right thing, it's something that nasa has gotten more comfortable with as we go forward. >> are you concerned about the idea of exploitation beyond exploration? it seems that nasa does exploration, but another other companies are looking at mining asteroids. mining the moon. these types of activities. does that concern you? >> more better. >> even though mining on the moon, there is no hesitation, like 'wait a second, guys.' >> we don't own the moon, nasa doesn't feel any ownership over the moon eve

. >>> peter matheson, the only writer to win the national book award for both non-fiction and fiction has died. he was 86. during an interview with jeff brown on the news hour in 2008, matheson shared his thoughts about both forms of writing. >> fiction is really what i want to do and always want dodd. i am a journalist, too. i write about the environment. i write about social problems. i work with caesar sesar chavez. i've worked a lot with american indian people. that fascinates me and i want do that, but my heart is really into fiction. >>> we want to take another look tonight at the latest unemployment report. for more about that, we are joined from washington by nela richardson, senior economist with bloomberg. we've heard that all the jobs lost in the recession have been recovered but quite a few people are saying not all jobs are created equal. >> that's absolutely right. actually, it is an important milestone, but it is a milestone that doesn't tell the whole story. the quality of jobs that have been created in the past five years since the great recession are of lesser qualit

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i'm not sure about fiction. i imagine there will be some kind of time left before that stuff gets translated and makes its way over here but she is the one i would certainly recommend to people. >> we have time for a couple more questions. there is one here and there is one over there. sorry to make you wait since you are right there are 5 feet away from us. >> that's fine. >> so with your writings in your poetry in the book dealing with a lot of similar subject matter and general theme i'm wondering what is the relationship between you and the speaker of the poems and the characters in your book and how important do you think personal memory and experience is to the images that you you create in both of those? >> well i mean for me the process of writing personal memory is essential. it's kind of where the germ of every story and every poem is. some experience that seems significant and very often the work is an attempt to discover what the significance is and why it matters. why do i keep thinking about this p

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i don't know if you read fiction or nonfiction, but i think the operating principles and fiction at least for me if there's a huge difference between truth and fact. sometimes they overlapped. often tracks are usually true but truth doesn't have to be comprised of facts. it's important to kind of make those distinctions are not feel masseur setting out to write an absolutely historically accurate novel in every way shape and form, in which the case was the novel, the inventiveness and artfulness is not there if you were to teething. i find fogginess in murkiness to be an aid. >> when you sit on one of these panels and someone asked a question on the other panelists are talking a new frame in your mind what you're going to say, it's really annoying when the person next to you takes your exact words. [laughter] and i'm in your exact words. this is twice now. your left ear with it's my turn now. what i was going to say was -- there is truth and there is facts. i swear on a stack she stole that from me. what i was going to say as there is truth in there is facts and they are not necessarily t

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i've always thought that science takes its cues from all of the great fiction writers and science fiction writers and they see something like that and go i bet i can make that. they are taking their cues from the imaginations of a guy like stan lee. >> there's that and there's also the fact that -- i used to dream i could fly. i used to dream i could breathe under water and all that kind of stuff. i the wanted to do it really badly. now i put on that costume and i fall into that marvel playground and i'm like i'm in heaven. this is happening. i put my eye patch on and i walk out there and i'm invincible, man. >> jon: they create it realistically. in the old days like hulk they find the biggest guy they could and paint him green and that would be -- >> yeah. >> jon: but the effects now and everything else that surrounds it. is it -- when you are doing it, when you are making it is it tedious? is it -- do you feel excite or you in spandex in front of a green flat and they are like now the monster is coming? >> in the beginning you sort of felt that way. in the beginning when i first started

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it's the stuff of science fiction... minus the fiction. and it is mercedes-benz... today.rs through mercedes-benz financial services. >> jon: welcome back. [cheers and applause] two things. two things. two things we all know about the american entertainment industry. one it is full of the country's kindest and most thoughtful people. [ laughter ] and two, hollywood for years has underestimated how much we want to know about the bible and religious. >> why doesn't hollywood turn out religious movies. >> jon: that's how you show respect for religion. get in there and churn some (bleep) out. have you heard the good news because this week's top action here heos are not only captain america but also captain sumeria. in two weeks of release the noah movies vice president earned money worldwide so religious filmmakers must have something to cheer about. >> it is awful. [ laughter ] is. >> jon: did not see that coming. what is the issue? >> they claim that the movie is unfaithful to one of bibles most famous tales. >> there's artistic liberties take innocent film. it's not a docum

as well as fiction, he was a respected journalist, a staunch socialist, he wrote editorials for a number of international titles including colombian spanish, and french dailies. shortly after his nobel win he felt the need to found his own newspaper. >> it is a way of keeping my political commitments alive because there is this risk i will become a statue a walking statue who just goes and collects prizes around the world. i want to be working. i want to be the director of the newspaper to actively participate in what is going on in my country, latin america and the world. >> his political convictions stretched to activism. he was close to fidel castro and supported movements to liberate latin american countries. he even mediated between colombian rebels and bogotÁ. this giant of latin american literature spent his final years out of the spotlight unlike the extraordinary body of work that finds him on university reading lists and bookshelves the world over. >> a bit of news for you stargazers. nasa astronomers say they have discovered the most earthlike planet yet. it is similar in size

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