i don't care, i don't even read fiction that much anymore. it comes down to a legendary blank page that the writer sees. that blank page for a fiction writer is an absolutely astonishing thing. on that blank page there's no rules at all. it could be about iran or mars or new jersey horrible will be or life or what am i supposed to birth. do? i don't know. applying journalism as well as my history it is palpable or rio something very real that you hang onto minstar with the premise of the real. so i ended up in austin, texas as executive editor of a magazine called texas monthly , essentially learning what i know how to do now. it was in texas were all of his comanche nonsense started. when i told my journalist friends i was writing the history of the comanches. i got a lot of blank stares you can see the of wheels turning in their tiny little news driven brains what the angle was. is there an indian nation health care obama no, no, no just a dusty history something that happened 300 years ago. they would say we cannot wait to , read it. [laug

charlie: how does writing fiction catalyze or stimulate memory?: it is not so much to stimulate memory. i had left japan at the age of five to live in britain. i think all the way through my growing up, i had these memories of this place that was very precious to me and it was the place i thought i was going to return to at some point. i had these memories and it was not like a specific series of memories, it was like a memory of a whole world, a whole life and atmosphere and a group of people. as i got older, i realized that that very personal japan inside my head was somewhere i could not go to. it was fading with every year that i got older. so, i think i started off my whole writing fiction career by actually wanting to preserve these memories. i could not preserve them just by writing down facts. i had to actually rebuild the japan of my imagination and memory in a book. i think right at the foundation in my writing impasse was this notion that creating a world in fiction was an act of memory preservation so i can say it is safe inside that b

[laughter] one thing you learn from science fiction is this. of this universe should be subject not only to the same laws of physics and chemistry but the same rules of right and wrong. if you ever did come across a race that never send how would you know that they have the freedom to sin? the freedom that you need to be truly good. and should anybody think that technical advances actually mean moral advances? you know, is the human race of the 20 century more moral than our technologically primitive ancestors? 20th century with all of its technology also gave us world war i and world war ii. technology is cumulative. the more you have the more you can build on what you have got. hard, beauty ethics are it not so. we have better paint. we have better plaster them michelangelo did. we don't have better artist than michelangelo. and the fact that we have got better plaster doesn't make what michelangelo did obsolete. we can rely on technological advances made by our ancestors without getting into the trial and error of figuring out how make them

it's certainly a worthy subject for fiction. where i think i differ is i regard the struggle between good and evil as being waged within the individual human heart. it's not waged as favent see would have it like the dark lord gathers the evil people together and puts them in black clothing and you know they are evil because they are really ugly and all of the good people are handsome and they wear white and meet on a big battlefield. in the real world, they are not that complex. very few people get up in the morning and say, oh, i am evil. what evil can i do today? i am going to cover the world with darkness and my leak options of evil will rule all. >> that's silly. you know, the greatest mon store of history as we look back on them thought they were the heroes of the story, you know, the villain is the hero of the other side as sometimes said. >> doesn't mean that it's all morally relative. >> doesn't mean all things are equally good and evil. i think there is good in the world but, you know, it's sometimes a struggle to tell

i want to preserve it inside a fictional world. that's how it started. and then i think as i kind of carried on writing i never lost that fundamental idea that there's something -- you know writing is something about memory, and i started to look at other people or other characters in some depth, but i always tended to tell my stories through memory. you know, people remembering about themselves, people putting a memory from 30 years back right next to a memory from 5 or 10 minutes ago or two days ago and right assess these memories and are the memories accurate, are they blurred at the edges or are they being distorted by the person, the thing? i mean it's a way of construct ago sense of one's self. >> rose: and what was the impact of that 14th century poem called sir gay wynne and the green mouse. >> not many people watching know it. it's a very entertaining story poem. most of it is not particularly relevant to my novel though i recommend people read it because it's a very entertaining poem. i took -- there was just one little stanza -- you know the s

i do not even read fiction much anymore. but here is the difference. it comes down to the legendary blank page that the writer sees. that blank page for a fiction writer is an absolutely astonishing thing. on that blank page there's no rules. it could be about iran or mars or new jersey horrible will be or a martian death the more it -- meritor lifer birth. what am i supposed to do? what am i going to put there? i don't know. the differences with nonfiction -- this applies to my journalism as well as my history it is palpable or real, something very real that you hang onto minstar onto. with the premise of the real. -- owned two. with the promise of the real. that is my preamble. so i and up in austin, texas as executive editor of a magazine called "texas monthly." now i know what to do and if there in texas the comanche nonsense started. when i told my journalist friends a few years ago i was writing the history of the comanches i mainly got a lot like stairs. you can see the wheels turning in their tiny trauma news driven -- tiny, news driven brains

it is like the fictional fictional universe. jimmy, you are a comic. can you explain to people that it was about guys. it was like gross speak and it was funny. i feel bad for the percentage of comic book fans that are trying to shed the perception they are a bunch of losers that don't get it. they have come a long way. here we are in a situation where they are setting them back again. they look like idiots. who is the victim? whose life was screwed up? >> there were a lot of tweets. these guys, these numb skulls. the only person that was really screwed over were the two publicists who probably had to work late. someone missed the t-ball game. >> i wail make your birthday. this is the year i am making a birthday. >> he is like, i am working on the uh jeanedders. uh general yes sirs how could it be. >> you are media savy. you know your way around. you have good atence answering questions diplomatically. >> can stars be good at that? >> they just have to be good at their own stunts. >> do they do that? >> sometimes they do. the public apology is the new

so i would say science fiction or fantasy. and you can't do better than the narnia books and lord of the rings to start with. and harry potter who i highly recommend. there's a lot of really good serious stuff that people miss in harry potter, including the fact that the hero that is going save everything has feet of clay and yet is still a hero. that where i'd start. and from there you can launch into the deeper explorations of right and wrong and who is right and who is wrong. >> thank you. >> over there. >> thank you very much for your comments 'at the risk of veering into science i was wondering, with the -- with your expertise in meteors and comets the conception of water coming from cometary find examination the finding there might by organic materials on the comets and meteors, how does that fit into your universal view of life and creation. >> the interesting thing is that those aren't new ideas. they're ideas that come in and out of fashion, and they're coming fashion right now but wait for five years and they'll go o

yes, on tv, he came from fill. >> i fictional charger? >> he moved to live with his uncle snell and he happened to live in bellaire, california very well in the community. so, well okay. it is official. >> corby matthews. >> raised in fill, march hid childhood sweetheart. >> that show was shot in los angeles, of course, on the sound stage. >> always wearing philly shirts. >> number two in. >> always sun any philadelphia. you know, you got charlie you got mack dennis, frank referred to as the gang. >> i guess they are fictional checker, not real that i crazy, but close. >> and number one, to be really of course rocky working guy's hero, the underdog. so we love this. and of course, yes. rocky number one i agree. you know, they are doing new one, new movie. it is being filmed right here in philadelphia now. >> you know, what, alex? stopped filming they finish the project. and they had their rap party saturday night. >> so it did happen. i wasn't sure, i didn't hear anything else about it. >> she and i got to feeling so poorly saturday, excu

. >> fan fiction. >> it was fan fiction. >> right. it is a new party -- >> no. >> -- but maybe not the new party you thought. >> well, i think in a weird way the last six months in american politics have been better for the kind of ideas that were in that book than anything that had happened in the previous five years. >> explain. >> well, basically, the book's argument was that the republican party needed to, in a sense, become on policy the party it had already become democrat graphically, that over the last 30 or 40 years, the g.o.p. has become much more of a middle and working-class party -- >> yep. >> -- that had sort of lost a lot of the upper and upper middle class, and -- but that it didn't have and doesn't have a kind of policy agenda to match. and that the issues that had won middle and working-class voters on, issues like crime, for instance, were no longer as salient. >> right. >> and so i and my coauthor, a guy named reihan salam -- >> right >> -- talked a lot about sort of what it would mean to have a kind of pro-family

. >> reporter: children's books, fiction, non-fiction, the claim from the book lovers is that thousands of them tossed off the shelves, discarded. she played us this video of someone tossing library books into a bin. she says it was recorded by a anonymous employee outside the main branch last month. >> we pay taxes to buy those books. they are controlling our access. >> reporter: the president of the board of supervisors told me there is a moratorium on book disposals till a new policy is approved by the county. >> says nothing about public input. says nothing about giving the public a say. >> reporter: she says the public should not be involved. >> i think the library should know what books are popular or want to be read. >> reporter: officials were not available for comment. she says the moratorium is being ignored. based on the video. she hopes the pages of knowledge no matter how old remain in the stacks. mike mibach, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> san jose airport recognized a good samaritan today who helped save a man who was suffering a heart attack. he is the hero. he says he happened to

there's been a lot of movies about jesus's life the krux i fiction fiction. >> this is the story of thech, the tumultuous crazy decades following theth res you are recollection of jesus. there were twelve apoftles and they took down roman and there's 2.5 billion of us. f >> especially with the influence of religion in our lives today hese and worldwide, these are very your interesting times. you are not doing this for any an other reason except this is your both passion. >> yes.e >> more than -- you both have great credits on your resume but this is what you wanted to do? able >> yeah.bring it's been such a privilege for us as people of faith to be able sm to bring these stories to the small screen and it's been great fun for us as a married couple to get to do it together. >> you don't fight on set or t anything, no disagreements or anything? >> i'm married to an angel, what chance would i have on a set? >> that's a good point and plus she's always right. it's that rule works all the time. >> a happy marriage, right. >> it's a passionto of both of think yours. >> yes. >> to do this. wh

it's pure fiction. >> guest: that's great. i like that. blacks and what not. and the thing that always baffles me is, you know, because griffith defended his think film. this was his view of history. that was what he ended up learning about the war from his father who was a great confederate soldier. but all around him when the protests are happening he's being confronted by the likes of monroe trotter who aren't represented in the film in any way. someone who's smart, articulate, accomplished. it's almost like how blind could griffith be not to recognize that it's one-dimensional stereotyping throughout the film when all around him are now protesters saying, telling the director this is not right, this is not the whole story, this the not even, you know the beginning of the story. c-span: when our local content vehicles move around the country, they do history on local areas and this they found in waco, texas -- >> guest: okay. c-span: this is, this really happened in 1916, and our producer mark vargas suggested we look at this as a way o

they said fiefr and couric are pitching alo fictional tv series. >> greatly appreciate it.iliar. >> it does. i like it a lot. you said something very entretsing. we were showing earlier this guy getting thrown off his horse but you know something about this. >> look at a that this. like an at kro bat. >> you say something like that happened to you in virginia. you said he fell correctly. >> beautifully. look at him rolling. i don't know what his condition is maybe i don't know. >> he's doing fine. >> do they teach you how to fall? it's a dangerous sport. >> it's dangerous and you have to think about it because you have to get away from the horse as much as possible and that was as good as the riding. >> exactly. so what do we have? >> a lot. another busy news today. lawmakers in indiana and arkansas change their bills that critics say allow discrimination against gays. the two likely presidential contenders who have not taken a position on the issue and double overtime in talks over iran's nuclear program. is it time for the u.s. to walk away from the negotiating table and

the object of fiction writing is to say it once. now, both of those are very difficult to do, by the way. but you don't want to mix them. do not mix them. took me about seven years to break myself of writing like a lawyer and get it out of my system. lawyers write passively, passive voice. i had to get all of that out of my system to get an active voice going and get it all in there. so it was a long process. it took me 12 years from the day i wrote that first word until the day i sold my first word. i wrote eight man you scripts during that time, five went to publishing houses, they were rejected. finally on the 86th time the amber room got bought and made it and that was 2003. and i've been very lucky. since that time each book has built on one before it until eventually in 2008 i got to quit the practice of law, and i write full time now. yes, sir. >> [inaudible] do you know where you're headed to? >> yes yes. you have to be that way. i -- it's important that you have an idea. i get asked all the time where do you start a book. t

. >>> i'm evan smith, he's the author of 12 number one national non-fiction best sellers and an associate editor at the washington post where he's been on staff for 43 years. he's bob woodward. this is overheard. [applause] >> i guess we can't fire him now. >> indianapolis we can't fire him now. [laughter] the might i win an emmy. >> being on the supreme court was an improbable dream e dream. >> it's hard work. >> there's no freedom and it's journalist that is provide that information. >> a window rolls down, saying, hey! he goes to 11:00. [laughter] >> bob woodward, welcome. >> thank you,. >> nice to have you here. >> nice to be here. >> let's start with syria, if you don't mind. today, the president gave a speech to the u.n. general assembly. sounded like it could have been given by george w. bush or maybe john mccain. maybe too conservative. but two weeks ago you gave a speaker e speech after the am herself college and questioned whether the president is two enough. is he tough enough now? >> we'll see, when i did the first book on obama's about his afghan war decision making when i in

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using real situations, real historical characters, or living people to bring the fictional reality into some brighter color. that all interested me. i reckon i became maybe the birth of children had something to do with this -- more forgiving, tolerant of everybody who was in my novels. perhaps the strain of optimism, which has always been rather slender -- [ laughter ] >> we shouldn't overstate it. >> let's not get wild with it. [ laughter ] >> yeah. >> but that grew. i think, again, i think once you have children, you become very aware of a strong wish that the human project will succeed. you might not be around for it, but you want the project to go on, whereas back in the 20s, where it's a dark time of the cold war, i used to find myself thinking, full all out nuclear exchange might be rather interesting. >> interesting. yeah. shake things up a bit. >> have a back pack and a pair of boots and i'll hit the road and leave town. >> this is the happy, peppy ian mcewan i'm talking to. >> well, thank god i didn't have my finger on the button. >> yes, indeed. going to try to come back to w

yes, sir. >> [inaudible] historical fiction. that it's a lot of fact in it is the incredible detail in describing places and people. do you research that or do you make that up? >> no. i fry to keep that as close -- i try to keep that as close to reality as i can because i want you to go there and experience those, and most of those things i have been to. like in the alexandria link, we are in portugal, and i needed these people to go from one part of the abbey and the other, and there was no way so i just created my passageway, but i told you that in the writer's note. so caseally i have to trip up, but i try to keep it as close as i can. here at the national gallery of art ors accurately displayed. the cruise ship, the boat very accurate. venice is very accurate, the croatian sites are very accurate. i've found that readers of my books enjoy that because they want to go and see them too. somebody had a hand up. yes, ma'am. >> [inaudible] probably got to the point of being very good at keeping track of it. i'm curious how you d

did a lot of historical research for my book and my fictional title.g> how does someone come to have an interest in the confed raddos? the answer is marriage. i married a localruy buckingham county who had=m t ann set offer who fought in the civil,8éj and months rangers and who afterward for various reasons was compelled, he was a bachelor, young guy +! was compelled to leave the country. and going back to bert's comment, reconstruction4bw these various surrenders it's a time of uncertaintyãça lot of southerners are very concerned. how are we going to be treated? will it be marshall law? are we going to be hungó6k as one of the generals seemed to hopedií that his solders would be? what's going to happen? and how long is marshallt÷r law going to last? are we ever going to have any measure of freedom again? so you have to kind of put@uçg yourself in thatz mindset to understand why there were these people who were desperate enough to leave the south, which they fought for desperately in many cases for several phdyears. so inq?9ky my wife'ssqñ an ses ters

a reminder every weekend booktv features 48 hours of non-fiction books beginning at 8 a.m. eastern on saturday. go to booktv.org for the schedule. and with congress on recess the booktv prime time continues on wednesday with a focus on technology. at eight, a discussion on the topic from the boston book festival and then the co-founder of paypal is here on his book. and then a look at the $2 trillion global automotive industry and the chal fangick of china, u.s. and russia to develop a better car. >> you need to be firm in the principles but firm in details. that reflexes the polarization we are seeing and the methods of if all of the senators congress men and women, and state legislatures can adopt we can come together as a country and solve many important issues. >> my favorite quote was from julie adams the secretary of the senate who said be humble and have a strong work ethic and be kind to the people you meet up you will meet them on the way down. >> in congress we have a lack of true statesman. as much as i disagree with john mccain he did something impressive and co

that's why i like bellamy, basically a science fiction writer about america under 2,000, right? he missed -- he was not a very accurate science fiction writer neither was space odyssey. >> well, we lost mr. spock this week. >> yes. >> dean, i want to ask you about something because i don't think you're right about something which is we should have a national discussion about race. in my experience every time you bring it up the room goes cold african-americans and whites, mostly african-americans are very uncomfortable about this discussion and what it is about in day-to-day terms is bigotry, not liking the looks of the other person. people don't like talking about it because it's embarrassing to everybody. you can't get a it on tv. let's talk about the intellect intellectual aspect. people pull back. >> maybe we're really finding that -- >> help me here. >> obviously i'm sure it makes bad television. my experience though, i have been in conversations about race with -- you know, with a diverse group of people that have been carefully moderated and they've been very transformati

brian grazer, your favorite, bullly idol joyce carol oates patton oswald, john scolazzi, the science fiction writer, tavis smiley, it is something for everyone families, foodies, hipsters students spanish-language programming more than a hundred conversations on everything from california, digital privacy rights to the future of the american identity. >> host: what kind of reaction do you get from the community to a book fest? >> guest: you know, it's been an immediate success. it's one of the -- when it was started 20 years ago it right away became a cornerstone event in los angeles culture. people mark it out all year long. it's been a signature event. it's been kind of a way the los angeles times inviolates all kinds of -- invites all kinds of folks around the community come celebrate this great city. it's grown to one of the largest festivals of its kind. there's really nothing like it anywhere in the united states, you know? it started very simply as the goal of bringing together people who create books and people who love to read them, but it's grown into this much broader celebration,

. >> and you're exploring it as fiction? >> right. artist, i don't have an agenda, i'm exploring something and inviting you tokes ploar it with me. that's the difference between fiction and essay. >> brown: you have characters here who are part of fringe groups in the hills, against the government, anti-authoritarian, that exists in our world. do you research it? do you look into it or do you start with something and then just imagine your way through it? >> i take choice b. i've never come from journalistic tradition, i've only simply been an artist. i just write fiction. it's kind of a miracle for me because i don't know what it would be. i dream it up. it's so very exciting. >> brown: and what is it that interests you about this underbelly or this violence you see in our culture today? >> again, i read the newspaper every day and i worry about everything. i've written a lot about the environment and environmental degreedegradation, global warming. i just wonder what's happening to our society, how is it dissolving? what's wrong wit

that's why i like bellamy, basically a science fiction writer about america under 2,000, right? he missed -- he was not a very accurate science fiction writer neither was space odyssey. >> well, we lost mr. spock this week. >> yes. >> dean, i want to ask you about something because i don't think you're right about something which is we should have a national discussion about race. in my experience every time you bring it up the room goes cold african-americans and whites, mostly african-americans are very uncomfortable about this discussion and what it is about in day-to-day terms is bigotry, not liking the looks of the other person. people don't like talking about it because it's embarrassing to everybody. you can't get a it on tv. let's talk about the intellect intellectual aspect. people pull back. >> maybe we're really finding that -- >> help me here. >> obviously i'm sure it makes bad television. my experience though, i have been in conversations about race with -- you know, with a diverse group of people that have been carefully moderated and they've been very transformati

it was fiction. >> same impact on the rape on campus story which was gaining so much momentum based on -- >> probably wouldn't land nightly news but she could have made the point she sought out to make and not risk a lawsuit for the magazine. >> the story came out. a lot of people knew it was fishy. richard bradley who is a journalist was one of the first people to say something's up. and then the "washington post." a lot of these guys got greech for it. i think bradley got beat up. people saying hoy dare you do this. even the reporter expressed doubt about the story when she heard the victim. how did people continue to buy this when they knew at the start? >> i think if people were afraid to go against this claim because then you would be against women? wouldn't be taking crimes against women seriously or the idea of rape on campuses in america seriously. you don't want to be the one to be the nay sayer because then there is something wrong with you and doesn't fit the politically correct mode. that's a problem because you are going to lose out and will not have the benefit of good jo

christian calendar ends with easter sunday the day christians were from the dead following the crust fiction. -- crust fictions. >>> christians may not realise that their bibles are made in a country that is officially aith exists. >> reporter: there was a time when china's communist leader matsy tongue's book was the only seller. now there's another one. it's been around a lot longer. more than 130 million copies of the bible rolled off the production line. 13 million last year alone. many exported but the majority were for the domestic market. purchased for churches sanctioned by china's atheist government. >> the first principle is serving our churches serving our brothers and sisters. if we still have the capacity we will serve the overseas churches >>> the factory publishes bibles in 90 languages from arabic to russian. such is the demand it remains a round-the-clock operation. >> according to official figures, around 30 million people are christian. unofficially it's 100 million of more than the communist party. while religion is tolerated, the government is aware of its growing popula

. >> i think you got to realize that government accounting is fiction writhe. senator coburn thanks for coming on the show. so good to see you. >> thank you, god bless you good to see you. gerri: thank you, thank you so much. and still a lot more to come this hour, starting with the fact you're not imagining things, you are paying more for medical costs, no kidding and will you pay more to unbundle your cable? we'll separate facts from fiction facts from marketing when it comes to verizon's new plan. tweet me send me e-mail go to our website. we'll be right back. when a moment spontaneously turns romantic why pause to take a pill? and why stop what you're doing to find a bathroom? with cialis for daily use, you don't have to plan around either. it's the only daily tablet approved to treat erectile dysfunction so you can be ready anytime the moment is right. plus cialis treats the frustrating urinary symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently, day or night. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy eno

it ranges from fiction to academics stories to academic stories this service the underground of queerell, history, or culture. >> and there are so many different literary circles in san francisco. i have been programming this reading series for nine years. and i still have a huge list on my computer of people i need to carry into this. >> the supportive audience has allowed michele to try new experiment this year, the radar book club. a deep explorationer of a single work. after the talk she bounces on stage to jump-start the q&a. less charlie rose and more carson daly. >> san francisco is consistently ranked as one of the most literate cities in the united states. multiple reading events are happening every night of the year competing against a big names like city arts and lectures. radar was voted the winner of these san francisco contest. after two decades of working for free michelle is able to make radar her full-time job. >> i am a right to myself, but i feel like my work in this world is eagerly to bring writers together and to produce literary events. if i was only doing my ow

. >> it may sound like science fiction are now a reality. complex organs like the heart and the liver can be created in the near future. andy gallagher is in the northwest american state of north carolina. >> here at the wake forest institute for regenerative medicine bioprints which are being used to build human organs. it takes about five hours for this machine to manufacture a human ear. >> this is made out of polycapalactone or pcl. >> a technique the institute is using to build bladders heart valves and even muscle. much of the work is done by u.s. department of defense. but funding is always on researchers minds. >> everything we do here will eventually move towards human trials and hopefully enhance their life. through the work that we're doing. >> luke marsala is one that benefits from early research. he was given a bleard more than a decadebladder ten yearsago and now lives a healthy life. it is the human impact of the research done here that keeps scientists pushing and breaking new barriers. in the future it is hoped that the work

>> i'm done writing on the iraq war, a short fiction that is set in the right. it wasn't a really delivered like i was sort of shutting an examinatiexaminati on of some the things that happened in iraq but i was or interest by a lot of the things that come up while i was in a pleasure to afghan troops and this story was coming at me. and a lot of times i feel as though, it's kind of like the story i'm writing will not be denied. so i wasn't shunning one person. this just happened to be the one that got my attention early on. >> could you talk more about iraq speak with sure. you have any good ideas? [laughter] spent you were there i wasn't. >> did you ever personally dodge the green on blue attack or feel you were very close to having her life in danger through whatever gulf soldiers from afghanistan? >> i never personally dodge to one or had one take place were i work. but as an adviser yes coming something you knew was out there. they were happening while i was in afghanistan. one thing you could always tell some guys would wear like a small pistol in the smal

. >>> it sounds like science fiction but researchers getting closer to being able to actually clone aly-mammoth and they have been extinct but they are using tissue samples from two carkuses in the ice and maybe will explain what happens to them and it didn't but it's a major step to cloning them and i'm randall and more news coming up in a minute. >>> welcome. >>> saudi arabpao he, two policemen in the capital earlier this month; and, the foreign minister says there will be no peace,until the rich bells surrender. >>> another migrant vote reaches, sicily, and they were ready to stop, at

he didn't like his work to be categorized as either fact or fiction. it was a blend of these two things. he also mixed up poetry prose put recipes in his stories, put illustrations in his stories, so very innovative as a writer. steve: whited his work the tin drum resonates so profoundly? guest: it shocked the germans. some of them were disgusted by it. the german people weren't victims of the not tease rather than being involved themselves. the tin drum talks about life the german invasion of poland with ordinary people deeply involved. it is great with his character a boy trapped in the body of a three euros but with the mind of an adult with his tin drum and a cry that can break glass. he's telling the story from a mental asylum. it is very wacky. there is a scene where an official uses a horses headed to catch eels. there are eels swarming -- six stages long, shocking imagery's of sex and death. it is a great book. >> he believed it was important for a writer to be engaged in public political discourse. tell us about that aspect of his life. guest:

my sense is that the genre most comfortably ploys and science fiction. science fiction is great sometimes the predictions turn out to be right. space travel radio and credit cards and a lot of what is in his book may be correct, but i do not think that we know that, and i think we want to be helpful. the vision is an optimistic one. second, maybe a slightly more substantial part kevin suggests, if i read correctly that we have learned a great deal in the last 20 years or so about how cognitive science has made a great deal of difference. i am on thin ice year. but when i am reading the book that education is a deliberate process of rewiring your brain i am reminded a chapter on habit in the book principles of psychology in which essentially says the same only his metaphor is water and pipes rather than signals going through wires. he says. he says learning is about removing obstruction the one little until they are swept out of the way and we have created a natural channel of understanding. i also think socrates says something about how the mind works wh

emily: fiction? malcolm: yes. it has been a fun digression from my normal stuff.ly: you are selling it. malcolm: i will probably write another book soon. playing with various ideas. and i have a bunch of things i want to write for the "new yorker." same kind of meandering progress, the course i had taken over the last 15 years. emily: i can't wait. thank you so much for joining us on the show. it's really been an honor and a pleasure to have you. malcolm: thank you. ♪ announcer: bloomberg television coverage of the itu world traffic on series -- ♪

eastervilleith math celebrates the day christians believe jesus rose from the dead after his cruise fiction>> mean while the pope also celebrated easter village at the vatican. he presided over the last night act and baptized ten people from five different countries. christians 'hands of extremists of islamic. preparations for easter sunday were in full spring tonight. >> here it terminates bakey in ouj philly wereer is madeed as he tikes up goods tomorrow morning. staffers kokdzp up on beautiful cakes. and more to come tonight on "action news." easter fashion is not just for human anymore, we'll take you to bring fashion show for best. first cleanup is underway at kentucky? not waders rush not waders rushing through neighborhoods, plus phillies wrap up their season on an encouraging note. "action news" at 4 komingz >> they're cleaning up in kentucky. more than 160 rescues were reported after people became stranded in homes and high water. storms dumped 7" of rain leaving many neighbors overcome by water. one trech of highway went away and is expected to be shut down for months. >> in india

. >> we take science fiction and turn it into science fact. >> addressing nasa's critics. >> we are the best nation in the world when it comes to exploration. >> and mankind's next giant leap. >> we can become multi-planet species. >> every sunday night... >> i lived that character. >> go one on one with america's movers and shakers. >> we will be able to see change. >> gripping... inspiring... entertaining. "talk to al jazeera". sunday, 6:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >>> despite u.s. potential, china is boldly rewriting the rules of global finance by creating a development bank to rival the international monetary fund and the west bank. it is called the asian infrastructure investment bank. the aiib, you may hear it referred to as. china says 57 nations may be founding members. countries are signing up in the face of american opposition. including u.s. allies. china's goal is to raise $100 billion and provide financial support to infrastructure projects in asia. all has come as they refuse to give china a bigger say. the former treasury secretary says that failure paved the

science fiction just got a little more real with a the latest state-of-the-art humanoid robot. meets hahn, robot wowing crowds at the hong kong electronics fair. hahn's human expressions are human like. he smiles, winses, frowns, link, all controlled with an app on your phone. who is freaked out right now? raise your hand. >> it's scary. >> hahn can hold simple interactive conversations. >> i think that's a little frightening. >>> 4:57. putting life over grades. peninsula high school is ready to do something new to ease the academic pressure on students. but will it hurt more than help? >>> plus, a major announcement involving super bowl 50. we'll have much more. >>> right fights off an attempted kidnapper on the peninsula. the latest on the investigation. >>> plus, a popular bay area hospital closing its doors today. it will impact up to a quarter million people. >>> good tuesday morning to you. i'm meteorologist christina loren. light showers and drizzle on the way for today. then we might see some thunderstorms as we head throughout this afternoon into tomorrow. full details

. >> we take science fiction and turn it into science fact. >> addressing nasa's critics. >> we are the best nation in the world when it comes to exploration. >> and mankind's next giant leap. >> we can become multi-planet species. >> every sunday night... >> i lived that character. >> go one on one with america's movers and shakers. >> we will be able to see change. >> gripping... inspiring... entertaining. "talk to al jazeera". tomorrow, 6:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> fall of saigon, forty years later. >> we have no idea how many were killed. >> unanswered questions, a botched withdrawal lives lost. examining the impact that still resonates today. a special report starts tuesday, 10:00 eastern. on al jazeera america. >> welcome back. i'm shiulie ghosh. a reminder of the top stories. the number of the peep killed in the nepal earthquake continues to climb. at least 3910 people are known dead. the scale is expected to rise as the entirety of the situation is clear. >>> quake triggered an avalanche at the mt. everest base camp. killing at least 15 people. bad weather is pre