that non-fiction doesn't. think that the stories you can tell and for me fiction doesn't mean it's a lie but i think fiction can be truer than non-fiction. if i wrote non-fiction about the war, i would have to protect people's identity and think about the ethics of telling certain stories and so i think for me fiction just seems much more, i don't know, much more powerful way of getting to certain stories that are difficult. >> what for you then is the blessing, the joy of being a /i writer? i hear your point you're surprised people pay to read your stuff, indeed they do and pay well to read your stuff and this being in paper back, if they weren't buying it it wouldn't go to paper back. what's the blessing and joy for you in being a writer? >> i think it's that people read what i wrote and it mean something and not just entertainment, which i think is important but that women read it and they say to me, you make me feel stronger. i feel validated or somebody said to me once that half of a yellow son was part o

there is good science fiction and bad science fiction. some of the best science fiction i think does raise interesting scenarios. sagan's "contact" raises those. it is the conventional i do you will get a radio signal. it is depicted in both the novel and the movie. the discovery was made by scientists but very quickly the government is involved in the military is involved in the and thingsinvolved are quickly taken out of the hands of the scientists. i think that is a likely scenario. six a fan of the polish science fiction writer who believes it will be difficult to recognize much less communicate with the other. they could be so different that we may have trouble even recognizing intelligent life, much left dealing with and communicating with it. >> how would the discovery microbes differ from the discovery of intelligent life in the way we perceive ourselves and the creatures similar to ourselves? >> a lot of people say if they discover a microbe, so what? there will be a big election. ---there will not be a big reaction. go back to h

there is good science fiction and has science fiction. some of the best science fiction i think does raise interesting scenarios. sagan's "contact" raises those. it is depicted in both the movie. the discovery was made by scientists and very quickly the government gets involved, the military gets involved, and the media gets involved. it would be difficult to recognize, much less communicate with extraterrestrial life. >> out of that ever from the discovery of intelligent life? >> a lot of people say if they discover a microbe, so what? look at 1996. they could be so different out there that we would have trouble recognizing intelligent life, much less dealing and communicating with it. >> a lot of people say, if they discover microbes, so what. but look back at history. look at that discovery of the nano fossil in 1996. and those were just fossils. not just real life. government, the scientists, the media, the theologians, there was speculation on what this can mean for theology, especially if there were microbes out there, microbes on t

or works that are at least partly fictionalized. what is a famous example of that? >> guest: this'll make you sad. court a while involved a lot of composite characters so popular and so much of an inspiration or people who do this work later on that i had to include it. acting sinclair with the jungle of course is a work of fiction. if you read the literature and also his own writing about it at the time contemporaneously, he says that there are almost no elements of the books that were fictionalized, the most of it was the reporting he received we documented after the five weeks he spent in chicago. so he would make the claim that it is not fiction except for the weaving of the narrative, the storyline. >> host: what was the effect of the jungle? >> guest: think about this. we are still talking about it and i can't tell you how many times since then someone has done in undercover exposÉ. there is something about the food chain that's really important to eyes and people really are viscerally affect the psc said, site, you sat throug

it is strictly non-fiction. and i respect that. but still, i didn't want this book to be just a painful, gruesome duty or an important scary book. i wanted it to be a pleasurable reading experience with a page turner and moments of of suspense and heroism from the people studying them and yes, even moments of humor. it isn't a very funny book but i hope if might be the funniest book about ebola you ever read. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> booktv is on twitter. follow us to get publishing news, schedule updates, author information and to talk directly with authors during live programs. twitter.com/booktv. >> booktv asked bookstores and libraries throughout the countries about the non-fiction books they are most anticipating being published this fall. this is a look at the harvard bookstore. starting off the list we examine the role feminism played in the creation of a super hero in the history of wonder woman. and charles blow recalls growing up in louisiana in the 1970s. lawrence wrights "13 days

. >>> and from fiction to reality, designers show off a flying skateboard. until now only seen in a movie about the future. captioning funded by cbs >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for wednesday, october 22nd, 2014. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. well, this morning millions of drivers are wondering if a feature designed to keep them safe in their cars is actually putting them in danger, and they're not getting much help from the government agency whose job it is to protect them. last night the national highway traffic safety administration or nhtsa is warnin inwarning. but drivers are not getting their questions answered. >>> the new warning covers more than 6 million vehicles in the united states. the problem for many is finding out if their car is affected. at last check a website set up to check your vehicle information is not working. last night the agency updated its list of affected vehicles, however, on its website that still appears to contain mistakes. on monday they issued a consumer advisory urging drivers with takata

no movie has ever blended fiction and reality as much.t on the road and so it says you're doing a documentary film following gary hart around; we were following mike murphy or jack tanner around. and we put a staff around him and we operated as if that's the way it was happening. no, i think it's going to be you and me in the final stretch if i can hang on that long. good luck see ya in november. (robert altman) we had a fictional character that we were passing off into a world of real people. where i seem to feel i get the best results is by finding what the arena is and then set up that event and let it happen. i'm trying to give the audice a sense that, "oh, this is really happening maybe." and i'm trying to just break that fourth wall out. so our techniques became the same way. our lighting reflected that. we didn't want any good movie lighting because you say, "well, how could they get that with hand-held videocams?" so suddenly we were -- the medium was the message. (haskell wexler) whenever there's a device which has a recordable i

lucid dreaming is something right out of science fiction.it's when you are conscious while you are dreaming. it was once considered a state and with blood flow experiments in germany we have proven it's real. you can now control your dreams while you are dreaming and prove it using mri flow. how many people by many people that we have ever had an episode of lucid dreaming where you knew you were dreaming while you were dreaming? raise your hand. hundreds of people have done it. you can train yourself on the internet the way you train yourself to become a lucid dreamer and it's true. these are pictures of an elephant, pictures of the human and then on the right it's the computer reconstruction of what you are looking at. and the big one, mental illness. why is president barack obama and the european union dumping a billion dollars into the great initiative to solve one of our most ancient disease -- diseases mental illness? millions of americans at some point in their life will suffer some episode of depression, mental illness, anxiety. what

sometimes you just get a shiver and a throb and you think, i could write fiction about this.t is what makes you go forward. it is not any determination to investigate a historical event. it is just this gift from your subconscious. , and it is expended on the very first page of the novel , is a love at first sight moment against a violently implausible background. wrote the page, and as sometimes happens, when all is going well, the rest of the novel just sort of a appears to be there. you are sculpting away at it. >> you said you were liberated when you read, it is the sacred duty not to understand. moment.s a real eureka i had been reading about this for a quarter century and i was thating frustratedly aware when i knew much more than i used to, i hadn't penetrated it, not an inch. it seemed just as incomprehensible, as unbelievable as it had when i started seriously looking into it. gilbert and in compared the two editions that i read. the same exclamation marks in the margin. the same undiminished incredulity. i thought, i cannot penetrate it. then i read that one must no

christa says fictional creations seems to channel a lot of anxiety. sebastian you tweeted in, i welcome our new robot overlords. you'd be a trainer. >> you'll stick around for the next segment. the pictures and text that you share online with friends may seem like a private affair, but when it comes to the nsa, they're fair game to collect and store usually facial recognition software in the name of national security. up next, how the same technology is also being used by local law enforcement in catching criminals and how stores might be the next in line making your ever. is your privacy, though, worth it? >>> later, you may be able to tell what anyone around you is feeling with the click of a button. we have all the details. see you in two minutes. >>> welcome back. we're discussing the latest mind-blowing advances in artificial intelligence. facial recognition software has been around, but with recent advances we're seeing effective results of use in law enforcement and other sectors. this month a chicago man became the first person to be convicted

and basically originally i thought i would do a fictionalized play. i wanted to write a story based on members of contact-- come in contact with. >> you work for are a long-time congresswoman from maryland, the old-time rockefeller republican. sort of created to find her. he you worked as an aide to her. >> loved her. she was amazing. in that job i got to see mark foley close up and got to know him a little bit socially. i thought it was so weird how he lived these really very separate lives, very out socially very not out politically. i wanted to write a fictionalized play of a congressman who's living a double life. reading the transcripts i realized you can't make this stuff up. nothing i could write in a play would would be believable. people have to actually see what these guys said for themselves only from the actual texts. >> watching what's been happening in pop culture, whether playwrights, the lbj play took off, this is more humorous. there are more serious. why is there a new fascination of the entertainment world of sort of enjoying politi

primo levi, his fiction and poems.t to elaborate on why i think novelists and poets should be welcome, it says open -- it shouldn't say "poets and novelists not welcome." poets, novelists and historians are like the team that goes to investigate the crash of an airplane. they can't say there will be no more crashes. planes don't crash because this happened again. that itself is enough to justify any sort of person for visiting this subject and reinforcing that investigation. >> thank you. martin amis, the book is called "the zone of interest." thank you for joining us. see you next time. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> live from san francisco, welcome to "bloomberg west" where we cover innovation, technology and the future of business. i'm emily chang. first a look at the headlines. canadian police say the gunman who killed a soldier outside parliament recently apply forward passport to travel to syria. here's stephen harper, the prime minister, talking about extremism. >> let there be no misunderstanding, we will not be intimidated. canad

>> as my favorite pulp fiction character says, dead is dead. she invokes for constitutional rights to secret ballot. another bad performance by her. i think it is all over. >> this is where the committee start to make choices with three weeks to go. look to see if republican start to spend money in minnesota, a state that is getting closer with natural tightening. let's see what happens in places like north carolina, places like arkansas. what the hall the money starts to be spent as we get down the home stretch. president obama's focus today on his public event was isis. he held a photo op with military leaders from almost two dozen countries as well as his own national security team to figure out a way ahead against isis. here's what the president said at that meeting at andrews air force base. >> as with any military effort there will be days of progress, and there are going to be times of setback. our coalition is united behind this long-term effort. >> on the one hand he is talking about the coalition being united, and he is also talking a

. >> he was one of the early inventors of science fiction, the idea of time travel, the possibility ofnvisibility, of intergalactic struggles and then he came up with ideas of how we might reorganize the knowledge apparatus of the world, which he called the world brain. for wells, the world brain had to contain all that was learnt and known and that was being learnt and known. >> they were frank in their ambition and dazzling in their ability to execute it. >> the google books scanning project is clearly the most ambitious world brain scheme that has ever been invented. >> the nightmare scenario in 20 year's time would be google tracking everything you read. >> google could basically hold the whole world hostage. >> this is no remote dream, no fantasy. it is a plain statement of a contemporary state of affairs. >> it's a library, a public library, where people go to look at books, and read them and take them away. that girl works at the library and she checks on books that are going out and books that are coming back in >> i love libraries ... i like the smell...the smell of paper prop

still to come on tonight's program, fighting for fiction in american society. the author of "reading lolita in tehran" joins us to discuss her most recent work. katy perry, lady gaga, rihanna, they are all queens of twitter. but there is a new queen on the block. her majesty, queen elizabeth, has sent a new tweet. she signed it elizabeth are. this report contains flash photography. clean -- queen an exhibit on the changes in communication. andncluded her coronation gallery,formation age her majesty used the technology of the moment, sending her first tweet. from the telegraph to the telephone to the birth of the , along the way, visitors get a reminder of how things used to be when a telephone operator had to put your call through. >> you could not just chat to anybody, and the thing you never did was say hello. this is intended to show how radically communications technology has changed our lives, from the telegraph to the smartphone. great -- the roles of great british inventors are also emphasized. bbc issued its first radio broadcast in 1922. the first e-ma

>> jon: that was fiction. first the weather report from the writer of sharknado. we heard from experts who say this is a dangerous but manageable situation. now the opposite of a expert. a congressman. >> we are once again asking the administration to reestablish a view point of stopping these flights to the united states, dallas, texas, is reeling from the problem. that needs to be handled where it is, in africa. >> jon: the republican from texas suggests we close africa's door and hopefully they feel better. he makes a valid heartless point. why not stop people from africa from flying here. >> if people can't leave the country by air and they're sick. what do they do? they will go into other countries by land. they're harder to trace. contract trace. we know that's the tried and true way to stem a out break. >> jon: okay. quarantining west africa would be worst. congress is accustomed to doing that. >> i am a congressman from dallas, texas, of the united states of america. i'm here to speak for americans. >>

of fiction. i like to deal with facts. ideal with primary sources, not secondary sources. if and maybe when we go to court we wi >> i welcome that opportunity because truth is the ultimate defense . >> on these revisionist -- >> i am harold denton, i want to ask mr. dean if you could comment on your involvement or your knowledge of the high-level meetings that occurred and the people who attended those meetings that led up to the war on drugs and the operation intercept in el paso. >> i had absolutely none. >> no knowledge of that? >> none. >> none whatsoever. >> do you have an opinion of what occurred? >> buried the letters and newspaper -- >> you don't know the causes of the war on drugs. >> i do not. >> if you don't mind let's move on. >> sorry i can't help you. i must say in post watergate are was running everything. >> i have always thought one of the more interesting episode of the nixon administration was the nixon administration's out reach if you want to call it that to the south vietnam

sometimes you just get a shiver an a throb and you think i can write fiction about this. and that is what makes you go forward. it's not any determination to investigate historical events. it's just this gift from your subconscious. and all i had was, an it's expanded on the very first page of the novel, is a sort of love at first sight moment against violently implausible background. or anomalu background. and i wrote page and as sometimes happens, when all is going well, the rest of the novel sort of appears to be there. and sort of bureauing, sculpting away at it and getting into shape. >> rose: you said you were liberated when you read what-- had said it is the sacred duty not to understand. >> yes, it was a real-- eureka home for me. because i had been reading about this quarter of a century, an i was becoming frustratedly aware that what i knew much more than i used to, i hadn't penetrated it, not an inch. it seemed to me just as incomprehensible as unbelievable as it had when i started seriously looking into it, in fact, i reread martin gilbert's the holocaust. and

which is eerily similar to my science fiction series "slow magazine dred scott in the tirs 21st century." ( applause ) dred scott, of course, was the enslaved plaintiff in the supreme court case that found african americanafrican america, which the white man was bound to respect, which, coincidentally, is also the city motto of ferguson, missouri. just like the dred scott decision, these gay marriage cases will inevitably lead to a civil war. and i've taken the liberty to predict what it will be like to remember that war in my new landmark documentary, "the gay civil war." jimmy. ( applause ) jimmy, let's-- ( cheers ) jimmy, let's break hearts. my dearest sara, indications are that we will soon move out against our vast and fabulous enemy. i do believe in our cause. as jefferson himself said, "it's adam and eve, not adam and steve. and i loves me the brown sugar. though death may come, i'm willing to lay down my life to make sure lesbians can't register at bed, bath, & beyond." sarah, my love for you is depthless. it binds me with mighty cables that nothing but omnipotence could break--

nephew having a conversation about how a real bear and a fictional bear affected the narratives of our. >> a final visit to london zoo to remember harry, who survived the war, and winnie, whose story lives on. >> back when winnie the pooh was published, printing was a completely different world. greatnew technology, some traditions have been lost. for the last 30 years, john has been acquiring equipment from printing houses closing down. while printers used to be primarily men, young women are now a part of his shop. we paid him a visit. >> a need little store in western mass geared toward letterpress printers. presses,ls, supplies, ephemera, anything to do with letterpress printing. this here is an experience. personality unto itself. >> it is like being a kid and having an allowance to spend. it is really exciting. hopefully it will be there when i get back. it is indescribable. , ae a kid in a candy store record shop, all that and more. >> you will be searched on your way out, ok? [laughter] what we do here is preserving things that are old, no longer being manufactured. if they go

. >> it is a work of fiction.t was opposed for years by black people because of the way it portrayed the black community. >> all that means is that they can do it. we are in agreement. they can do it. the question here, the judgment we are entitled to pass, the issue we are entitled to discuss, is whether they should do it, not whether they may do it or if people might see it. i think, my view is that the issue of whether he should have been killed is never an issue. >> this was a question. peter gelb had called "the death of klinghoffer" arguably the greatest operatic writing from america's leading composer of contemporary opera. the literary editor of "the new republic" says it is beautiful writing, but the idea it is original genius is absurd. mainly, the problem is it is fascinated by the perpetrators and bored by the victims. the perpetrators are dark and mesmerizing and romantic and tragic. the victims are whiny and cliched. >> leon is entitled to have his opinion. there are 37 reviews that have the opposite

and nonfiction doesn't necessarily mean the absence of fiction and reality i don't -- i don't even getve no idea what reality means. >> what was the ultimate goal do you think? people get entertained by these shows, they learn something. >> yes. >> is there an overarching goal for you? what would make you the proudest if somebody watched your show and said this adjective at the end of it? >> well, authentic is the word. and i -- you know, i've seen what you do, and i love it because you're industry and so much of historic news comes from a place of authority. because you have to be correct. the stakes are high, you know, you want the facts right, you want the diagnosis to be right. but what's for sale today in a weird way is not authority. it's authenticity. and so, you know, to be believable today on tv in my view anyway you need to first and foremost be consistent with who you are -- >> yeah. >> -- when the viewer sees that they begin to trust you. so, you know, the kind of shows that i do and the kind of work that i've done over the years i try and focus on a couple of basic things.

you've dealt with some adult fiction? >> i do.re, but i do make a living doing audiobooks. >> can i hear how you sound? >> well, for instance... i arrived in stanford today in a beat-up ford focus and then i met this tall, dark, handsome man who said... >> audience: ooh! >> ooh! uh-oh! >> who said...

and of course that's how she writes, including her non-fiction work. in fact, it wasn't her gifts as a novelist that first caught my attention. it was her essays, in such collections as "the death of adam," "absence of mind" and "when i was a child i read books." those drew me to the way she writes and thinks, and to her strong belief in the power of grace and faith, and her devotion to democracy, which she fears "we are gravely in danger of losing." marilynne robinson, welcome. >> thank you. it's wonderful to be here. >> and congratulations for those reviews. >> well, thank you. >> i was particularly struck with one from "the new york times" praising you for frankness about a "truly shocking subject: the damage to the human personality done by poverty, neglect and abandonment." and i wondered, why should anyone be shocked to discover today what can happen to a young girl like lila? >> i was also struck by that. it seems, you know, when you, you know, read dickens or something, i mean, the great subject really of the democratization of western culture

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fiction. we have a doctor live in the studio as well. . >> sure, it's possible that others will come in contact with ebola, but it doesn't mean that we should stop going, stop praying, stop giving. >> that was ebola survive dr. nancy writebol just an hour ago talking topy colleague andrea mitchell. we are here in dallas live, of course, this is now the location of the very first person-to-person transmission o ebola on u.s. soil. we just learned the president is about to be briefed on his staff by the ebola situation and the nation's response to it. >> that should happen at 3:00 p.m. what we know so far is that the president called for a thorough transmission you this occurred. for the latest on the white house response. i am joined by chris jansing. she is following this story. tell us, what are you hearing from white house officials at this point? >> reporter: this will be the second update the president is giving if 24 hours. he was on the phone yesterday with health and human service secre

you can count on nbc 10 to separate fact from fiction on ebola. we are answering your questions live now on our nbc 10 facebook page. just look for the ebola q&a section. we have a doctor answering your questions. also, stay tuned. we'll check in with an expert coming up at 6:15. >>> and septa workers are clear to strike. last night the union voted to authorize the move, but we're not there just yet. nbc 10's matt delucia joins us live to explain where things stand in the contract negotiations. poung lfer the strike could happen? >> reporter: that decision is up to leadership unit at twu local 234, but first step was authorizing the strike, and that happened yesterday. local 234 has 4,700 members. they operate the buses, the trolleys and the subway service. the union has been working without a contract since march. both the union and septa individually say they are working towards a resolution, but union president willie brown says to continue working without a contract is simply unfair to the workers. now, septa says if a strike should happen, a

let's do more fact from fiction.y like this, it's a big story but on a day like this bowling alleys, that's he went to, it's closed out of abundance of caution. is that going too far? >> you know, jose. people panic and we can't fault people for panicking. what we need to do as medical professionals is reassure people there is no need to panic. i understand the bowling alley being closed, they are going to investigate it. they're going to sterilize it, going to use bleach solution then it will reopen. thing is really for the public persona more so than the fear of actual ebola virus being at the bowling alley. >>, you know, it's interesting. i can't tell you how many people asked me over the past 24 hours, can you get ebola from a bowling ball? >> of course. >> that's have i've heard it over and over again. >> of course. people are concerned. but remember ebola is a difficult virus to get. it has to be in copious amounts of either vomit, blood, or fee cease. it is not just from touching a surface. it needs to be in a

if you want to go beyond the recommendation, you might wt to add water pure fiction tabls or just bleachtion to water pure fiction you may want to have a reverse osmosis mp. >> a fire extinguisher is good to have around. >> this will boil water in five minutes you may want to consider a solar charger. >> that is a good idea. a good time to check for the batteries, food, water is when there is a time change which is also just coming up. >> yes. >> this is a perfect time. >> yes. >> abc7 news anchor taking a look back at the quake friday night at 6:30 right here on abc7 with apecial report. >> that is a great report. >> lots of cloud cover now up in the north bay. rain is getting clor. in san joaquin valley we have a dust storm warning and a report from ker county of vehicles pulling over to the side. good news is that that warning will expire. tomorrow, we expect highs from mid-s on the coast to mid-70s inland dry day thursday. more rain or showers and monday, into tuesday, another period of rain and showers. thank you, spencer. >> what a fun game. >> thankfully rain held off today. >> ye

ebola fact versus fiction. >>> now to some violent weather. dallas also dealing with the aftermath of a major storm this morning heavy rains and high winds knocked out power for hundreds of thousands. power outages forced 41 schools plus the university of texas arlington to close today. tv crews covering ebola crisis had trouble keeping their tents up and equipment dry. storm ripped roof off arlington college. storms bu pushing into the ohio valley. they're not expected to be as powerful. out west the heat is on. it calls for 100 degree temperatures and humidity warning prompting red red flanginflangg areas. >>> we learn about the attack on jpmorg jpmorgan. it affected nearly 7 million small businesses that use the online services and mobile apps. names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses all stolen. but jpmorgan said there's no indication account numbers or passwords were taken. they haven't seen any fraud activity stemming from the breach. >>> what it means to be bilingual. it was the president reaching out to the latino community la

>> that's fiction.mething, there's a couple of states where it's becoming fact. in new jersey, connecticut and new york over the last couple of years if you want to go to preschool, your kid to go to preschool or day care they have to take a flu shot. there's an advantage to that. it decreases the amount of flu that is circulating. we know our preschools are like petri dishes, spreading and touching each other. there is a decrease of hospitalization of young people who take the flu shot. the flu shot doesn't usually prevent the flu but it decreases how severe a flu you get if you get the flu. for a young child or old person especially important. >> by law? >> right now. in those states. not across the country yet. very controversial but i think it is very valuable. >> if you're trying to get pregnant you should avoid the flu shot? fact or fiction? >> fiction. there's three reasons you should have the flu shot. flu shots do not cause miscarriages. flu shots when you're pregnant protect you. if you get th

this is the dream of science fiction writers and this is now conceivable. so let's talk about the brain. first of all, blood flow. the blood flow on your brain tells the truth. but on the right if when you tell a lie, oh, yes, when you tell a lie you have to know the truth and then you have to create the truth. in any have to cover up all the previous life you have been telling throughout these years. and so there is your brain on the right telling a lie. we learn from these brain scans? well, we went to the most recent part of the brain is the so-called reptilian brain. evolving from the back to the front. the back of the brain is most developed. and that is the brain. and your balance and your sense of territoriality, aggression, about things like that in the back of the brain are affected. and as the brain grows from infancy to adolescence, the center part of the brain develops. the monkey brain. the brain of emotions in the brain of etiquette and politeness and social norms. that's the center of the brain. finally when you become an adult the prefrontal

ok's, inre dreiser for naturalistic fiction. -- in theodore dreiser's case, in naturalistic fiction. he set his story, as you know, in the booming, bustling town of chicago. and to use chicago as a kind of character in this story, to look busts, thems, the travails of the characters in his novel. just to summarize where we got we saw the workings of many things. not just a story, but a kind of commentary on early 20th-century century america and especially urban industrial america. we saw the workings of a new economy. the novel espoused as a kind of allegory for capitalism and especially consumer culture that was constantly on the move, in which styles, fashions, all --ies, characters fall and rise. and importantly, they fall and rise without rhyme or reason. in identity that you put on like a costume and shed as costume -- as searchers move on to their own world. this has to do with kerry being in the culture of the earliest 20th century. and we keep this moving. we focus on one more. desire. desire as a kind of engine in the story. wanting what you cannot have. always being able t