fiction elements to it, but you don't pigeonhole this book necessarily as science fiction? >> well, it's -- that's, as they say on facebook about relationships, is complicated. >> okay. [ laughter ]. >> well -- well-played. >> it's very compli -- >> explain. >> it's very complicated indeed. well, science fiction is absolutely my native literary culture. i can no more not be from science fiction than i can not be from southwest virginia, and i both from southwest virginia and science fiction, but that's not -- >> that's not the totality of who you are. >> yeah, it's no longer the totality of -- the totality of who i am, and i'm -- i'm, i like to think, quite self-aware -- >> right. >> -- of both of those aspects of -- >> right. >> -- the origin story. >> right. well, but of course, it is the horse you rode in on, right? >> yeah. >> in some respects -- >> yeah, absolutely -- >> -- science fiction genre has been good to you and you've been good to it. >> oh, it's -- it's -- it's been -- it's been -- it's been very good, and so i find myself emotionally sort of on both sides of

a broader point of what i call the resurgence of the right to parade was not just limited to year fiction but a brighter for american of comics, arch, a video game designers. it is a broad cultural movement and it is back. bid amount is but they feel that their perspective is some reflected in the national media of the panoply of popular culture. so a counter cultural energy or spirit prices and that is what has animated the neo-conservative right to swing -- right wing and the item that you quoted refers to the experience that i had as a young person to go to a science fiction writing workshop back in 1976 when i was 19 for the first time the ideological point of view that was progressive and i was told by advocates there were certain words you cannot use our idea is you could not express that it was wrong, harmful, a dangerous and i realize that first of all, words and do have consequences as language is important there is the struggle over the meaning of content. and diversity. and three have to do argue but is this a power struggle going on within the creative part and i found conserv

you can call it crime fiction. it doesn't matter. >> it's essentially a piece. >> yeah, right. >> what would you like to be doing after you get done with this quartet if you look ahead to something. >> a trilogy. i have a trilogy in mind. >> go ahead, tell us about -- >> i'm thinking of the post war era again. >> right. >> so this book, call it a prequel to the last two big series. first big, second l.a. quartet. if i go on and do a trilogy after this quartet is complete, and i decide to reprise characters from the first three bodies of work. i'm dealing here with preceding action. >> right. >> i would be dealing then with concurrent action. >> you're going to go all star wars on us it sounds like here. you lose track of what came before what. >> i would have to make a month by month chart from 1946, when "the black dahlia" begins to 1958 when white jazz concludes. >> no small feat. >> thank you. >> okay. well, i was going to say, you know, you're going to have to keep up with it, it's so interesting. you are more

they are thrillers, political potboilers science fiction, fantasy science fiction, fantasy detective novels, what we call pulp fiction or genre fiction's play classic instances of the genre with some kind of conservative theme or cast. maybe the private eye is a conservative. like sam spade makes cracks wise once in a while. his commentary is you know, conservative cast. so it is not, you know, like novels about the keystone pipeline for example which is one of the obsessions of the political right today, but just sort of a sensibility your.of view that informs and infuses the work of narrative fiction. so at a certain time i started looking into this and realized that it wasn't just a hue an issue, writers here and there. it was dozens, scores hundreds of people who right wing, libertarian, many libertarians actually who had, it seemed to me, been inspired by the advent of amazon, the advent of digital self-publishing technology to write and publish their own works of fiction. and yet they were having a lot of difficulty's finding and connecting with the natural audience. it seemed

so within fiction you want to have, let's say you know, science fiction. you might want to have a british novel, something in translation, include poetry, and then nonfiction you want to have a mix of biographies, policy, science hard science mathematics. we are kind of balancing on so many in so many different ways that you don't really think about is positive or negative. i would say i would say that's one of the things that we don't pay a lot of attention to what were figuring out. >> you are an author as well have you had your books reviewed? >> i have. they have been reviewed in the new york times. i got one of my nastiest reviews ever. yes. thank you for reminding me. yes. i have been on the other side. >> how does that feel? >> it feels terrible. i remind myself that we are not a focus on. we love the publishing industry and support what they do but really we are here for readers. readers are trying to make a decision about what they should spend their time and money reading and buying if they are buying a book. a book. is important for us to tell u

. >> reporter: now she's addressing the fiction. fact or fiction, most of the high-rises in l.a.st coming down, fiction. a few potential facts. >> you'll feel it on the east coast. >> reporter: fact or fiction, they're going to feel this in new york? >> no, absolute fiction. >> reporter: she spent time today on reddit telling an online audience what the movie got right and what it got wrong. huge tsunami hits san francisco? >> tsunami was too big for anything. you have to have from the creator that we don't have in san francisco. >> reporter: still, she sees the movie not as a disaster, but as an opportunity to force the message be prepared. >> it's great to see the seismologist ordering people out of the doorways and under the table. >> reporter: the movie version is the big one may not match reality. but one thing is colleagues the impact at the box office will be seismic. john blackstone, cbs news, hollywood, california. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," the latest on the flooding rain on the east coast. we'll get your forecast. >>> plus, more on caitl

>> i read fiction. i am almost exclusively a fiction reader. in the course of the day, especially when you do research there was a lot of really awful non-fiction out there -- sex and you know things very dry stuff i have to go through in the course of the day -- so i love to just read fiction. >> anybody in particular? >> well you know i just finished a book on the plane called missing person -- very good. i love detective fiction. i love anything that is well written. that is my thing. anybody read this is where i meet you? the first 25 pages of scenes are funny and then you have to be a guy to appreciate it. the guys i always go back to are like hemmingway, dashal hammond, west mcdowel i loved. he is a detective writer too. and i have been reading dark scandinavian detective stories. i couldn't find steve larson. there was this creepy iceland story. think about the scandinavian authors. they know how to kill people. >> erik larson you know how to write a narrative. dead weight the most recent. you know what his other books are. if they are n

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>> most coming down: fiction. a few potentially fact. >> you'll feel it on the east coast. >> reporter: fact or fiction they're going to feel this in new york? >> no, absolute fiction. >> reporter: she spent time today on reddit telling an online audience what the movie got right and what it got wrong. >> i see it! >> reporter: huge tsunami hits san francisco? >> a tsunami, you have to have a subduction zone to create it. we don't have it in san francisco. no. >> reporter: still she sees the movie not as a disaster but as an opportunity to push the message, be prepared. >> it's great the see is seismologist ordering people out of the doorways and under the table. >> the movie may not match reality, but one thing is clear its impact at the box office will be seismic. john blackstone, cbs news, california. >> rose: it is a movie. that's the "cbs evening news." for scott pelley, i'm charlie rose in new york. i'll see you first thing tomorrow on "cbs this morning." good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by

. >> here is a look at the best-selling non-fiction books according to the chicago tribune. the life changing magic of tidy up. the job to simplifying life. and david mccall, a two-time winner of the pulitzer prize recounts the birth of flight in the wright brothers. bill o'reilly and david fischer come in third with a campanion book leanlygendlegends and life. and then fox contributor shares her life in "the good news is" and american wife, the wife of chris kyle recounting hoar her life after her husband's death. and in the road to character, david brooks looks at the live of ten individuals as examples to achieve success. and the inventor of tesla and paypal. and tom broke caw discusses his personal battle with cancer in a lucky life interrupted. and that is a look at the current non-fiction best sellers according to the chicago tribune. >> here is a look at recent books featured on booktv's afterwards. one recent guest was april ryan whitehouse correspondent for the urban radio networks

. >> here is a look at the best-selling non-fiction books according to the chicago tribune. the life changing magic of tidy up. the job to simplifying life. and david mccall, a two-time winner of the pulitzer prize recounts the birth of flight in the wright brothers. bill o'reilly and david fischer come in third with a campanion book leanlygendlegends and life. and then fox contributor shares her life in "the good news is" and american wife, the wife of chris kyle recounting hoar her life after her husband's death. and in the road to character, david brooks looks at the live of ten individuals as examples to achieve success. and the inventor of tesla and paypal. and tom broke caw discusses his personal battle with cancer in a lucky life interrupted. and that is a look at the current non-fiction best sellers according to the chicago tribune. >> here is a look at recent books featured on booktv's afterwards. one recent guest was april ryan whitehouse correspondent for the urban radio networks discussing her life and career. and we spoke with mike huckabee. he talked about poli

>> i love science-fiction. i wrote a piece for the week magazine, books, four science fiction books i was recommending all of them concerned with religion in one way or another. that is what is important about science fiction, it is about human people it is about emotions, real problems of human life. is not about science. it doesn't matter whether the science is right or wrong. the important thing is whether the people are well drawn and present a serious point of view. the four books i was recommending all of them were written by friends of mine. [laughter] >> octavia butler, the parable of the talent, two written by mary russell, the sparrow and children of god, they are all wonderful stories but people primarily concerned with religion than science and that is the truth, religion goes far deeper into history, goes far deeper into our way of thinking than science so i am an advocate of science fiction not because it has anything to contribute to science but because it has a lot to contribute to wisdom. .. >>

fictional places, $400. dan. what is panem? good. fictional places, $600 please. dan. middle earth? yes. fictional places, $800 please.

his more recent titles include a look at manuel noriega in "god's favorite," a fictional account of the dictator's last years in power before 1989. he also wrote "the looming tower," an examination of the rise of al-qaeda, osama bin laden and the fbi agents responsible for tracking their actions prior to september 11th.

at times it looked like something out of a science fiction movie. the ominous clouds moved in and so did the drenching rain and fierce winds. >> and i saw that the lower clouds were moving very fast underneath the top clouds and i ran back to go get the kids and i said -- >> reporter: you knew that was trouble. >> i knew right away that was trouble. those skies -- you got that

. >> there's a blurring between fiction and reality. because they have a political agenda. >> no new pipeline? >> no. actually this time no. >> americans control and own their own energy. >> and recycle. >> i am so empowered. >> shut down sea world. >> are your whales being in prison here. should they be free? >> they are succeeding. >> this is green (indiscernible). the that's our show. >> you can love nature, but still hate the tyranny the green movement now imposes. >> the proposed mind is a disaster waiting to happen. >> that ad comes from one of the richest environmental groups the nrdc. the national resources defense council. >> image the natural paradise destroyed by a 2,000 foot gaping hole in the ground. >> the man who wants to dig the hole is tom collier. he once once managed environmental policy for al gore and bill clinton. >> you consider yourself an environmental list? >> he saw opportunity in alaska. >> this is the single largest deposit of gold and silver that is not being developed in the entire world. >> not being deve

. >> there's a blurring between fiction and reality. because they have a political agenda. >> no new pipeline? >> no. actually this time, no. >> americans control and own their own energy. >> and recycle. >> i am so empowered. >> shut down sea world. >> are your whales being in prison here. should they be free? >> they are succeeding. >> this is green (indiscernible). the that's our show. >> you can love nature, but still hate the tyranny the green movement now imposes. >> the proposed mind is a disaster waiting to happen. >> that ad comes from one of the richest environmental groups the nrdc. the national resources defense council. >> image the natural paradise destroyed by a 2,000 foot gaping hole in the ground. >> thants to dig the hole is tom collier. he once once managed environmental policy for al gore and bill clinton. >> you consider yourself an environmental list? >> he saw opportunity in alaska. >> this is the single largest deposit of gold and silver that is not being developed in the entire world. >> not being developed beca

fall down. >> most coming down, fiction. >> huge tsunami hits san francisco. >> here where we are entering. they can't be bigger than the ocean is deep. >> it happens in california, you will feel it on the east coast. >> feel it on the east coast? >> sorry it ain't going to high pressure. the great 1906 earthquake that devastated san francisco was felt into neff. >> that was 2.2. our models predict. >> a seismologist who is hero of the movies. >> busy predicting the earthquake. that is absolute fiction. at this point we have no way to tell you the time of an individual event. there goes the dam. that sort of complete collapse of the dam extremely unlikely, people have worked very hard to prevent that. >> jones made it her mission to urge californians to prepare for big earthquakes. >> get down! >> part of the message that i like of the movie is that competent young woman. knowing what to do made every safer. one of the guys, competence became sexy. >> drop, cover hold on, ordering people. >> scaring people too much could be

we'll talk to the author of the fiction book, the palace of treason.ll talk to him a little bit about that book. just so our viewers know jason, i spent three decades as cia operative. you spike six languages and managed cia stations and this area of the world we'll talk about. nice to have you on the program jason. >> good morning, jenna. jenna: what is your reaction of this news of us moving equipment to eastern europe just in case with the intention of sending a message? >> listen, vladmir putin is concerned with only one thing. that is to preserve the russia he has built and to protect his kleptocracy. if therefore he thinks that he is in for a ruinous fight in the baltics or eastern europe, he won't do it. but, he is constantly assessing u.s. resolve and if he feels that the administration does not want to engage, then i think we better leave the keys to those tanks with the estonians and the poles because they are going to need it. jenna: how good is our intel network inside of russia, inside of eastern europe? >> i have been out of the game for

so it is my latest effort at fiction and enjoyed writing the book. >> host: one nonfiction. how many total? >> guest: one nonfiction five kids books one collection of stories two books about football one book about baseball one book about christmas a childhood memoir and then probably about 20 legal thrillers, i guess. the total number is about 3435. friends 60 bucks and i can't kitchen. he works too hard. >> host: is he a friend of yours? >> guest: yes. >> host: how did you come to know him? >> guest: n91 the firm came out and was a bestseller. i get a letter saying steve king was to say hello. he calls me. have you ever been to the national book award? and never been invited. well, they didn't invite me to. going to buy a table this year for 10000 bucks command i want to buy -- invite a bunch of commercial office, popular authors. are you when? i i said, how can you resist that? we went to a national book award, not really our crowd. got to be buddies. after that he came to oxford mississippi for a book festival down there and then came to charleston virginia. he visited t

race is a social construction and then she is lying about the fiction we've all adhered to. the question is how do you talk about the truth of one's identity and how one develops an identity. flip the script. are there black people who for all intents and purposes white? and they may be culturally eviscerated by biologically and physically represent as black. so there is a certain kind of privilege for rachel to move in and out of these communities at will that really underscores the difficulty for black people do the same. >> i want you to listen all of you do how rachel dolezal addressed discrepancies in stories she's told about her past. here it is. >> some has been a little bit of creative non fiction with regards to what happened and the sequence of events and dates and so forth. >> doctor does this weaken her credibility when discussing what shaped her identity? >> and this is where i think it really hurts her. it would have been one thing to say this is what i identify with. this is what i believe i am. but when you start going now into a realm that is certainly ficti

. >> that's every word in "pulp fiction"? >> you've got to be kidding me. >> reporter: with every line every hand gels tour every expression memorized, they assign parts and perform. their only audience is themselves. scenes from "reservoir dogs." from "pulp fiction." >> don't be look at me like that. i can feel your look. >> "batman." every punch choreographed. >> reporter: macunda creating costumes from anything he can get his hands on. >> we had an oxygen tank from "no country for old men." >> reporter: after living his entire life cooped up in the tiny apartment, macunda, then 15 years old, found the courage to break free. >> it was a saturday morning. i just thought, you know what? i've got to do it today. it's now or never. >> reporter: down the 16 flights of stairs. outside without his father for the first time in his life. >> what do i do? i'm out in the open it's all out there, there's no going back now. >> reporter: their tale of family fortitude, and survival is told in a bold new documentary, "the wolfpack." but w

it was bad fiction. i learned my lesson.i think i can make a good president, but i write fiction pretty poorly. >> and that's your morning dish of scrambled politics. 22 minutes past the hour. i am joined now by best selling author ellis hen can. have you read that book. >> yes. >> let's talk about lindsey graham. he announced he's running for president and that he has more national security than any other candidate including hillary clinton. is that true in. >> i guess technically speaking it is. 12 years in the senate. 8 in the house for house. it's kind of an odd way to judge your abilities. there have been in people in congress for decades who don't know squat. let's find a better way. how about this. i'm john mccain's best friend. >> speaking of national security a new report shows the tsa failed to uncover weapons. >> i get caught every single time i bring four ounces of shampoo. how can this work? >> bye bye to the acting director of tsa. very embarrassing if his guys only find things 5% of time. >> i don't understand

in fact, it is "minority report ," science fiction. katty: the tunisian economy -- the state unravels and becomes more fragile if it does not have a viable tourists are her. william: that is exactly what the goal is. a greater effort has to be made to try to track and keep track of those suspected of harboring these terrorist ideologies and try to prevent them before they happen. but that again raises an issue. can you establish a police state and still have a functioning country where everybody is watching everyone else and the state is controlling all the movements? it is something we have to be concerned about. he had a lone wolf here in south carolina walk into a church and killed nine people. he is called a lone wolf, but he is part of a larger pack of wolves, just as this individual is part of a larger pack of terrorists. katty: your novel, "collision," is about an asteroid. there is so much happening in the world, a crazy year of crises. this fiction give you an outlet for looking at the world differently? william: ideally, it h

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it's amazing we can make it happen. >> not so much fiction anymore. >> yeah. you might want to climb on one and fly away if you don't like rain. we have it again. the moving green very light rain, but enough to make all of the pavement wet across most of virginia. much of maryland. we have a little bit of drizzle where you don't see any of the green. there's a little bit of a light drizzle. that's around the bay and on the eastern shore. but it's raining moderately. a few pockets here in yellow. that's right in southern fairfax county. down 95 toward quantico, woodbridge and the dale city. it's all wet there. wet along 66 coming in from front royal all the way to the beltway. getting some moderate showers as well right in southern fauquier county. that is also farther south near fredericksburg in spotsylvania and stafford. a few light sprinkles in loudoun county and panhandle of west virginia from martins burg to winchester. another cool morning. only in the mid 50s. it will hover in the mid 50s for another couple of hours so have the umbrella handy today. you

>> i read fiction. i am almost exclusively a fiction reader. in the course of the day, especially when you do research there was a lot of really awful non-fiction out there -- sex and you know things very dry stuff i have to go through in the course of the day -- so i love to just read fiction. >> anybody in particular? >> well you know i just finished a book on the plane called missing person -- very good. i love detective fiction. i love anything that is well written. that is my thing. anybody read this is where i meet you? the first 25 pages of scenes are funny and then you have to be a guy to appreciate it. the guys i always go back to are like hemmingway, dashal hammond, west mcdowel i loved. he is a detective writer too. and i have been reading dark scandinavian detective stories. i couldn't find steve larson. there was this creepy iceland story. think about the scandinavian authors. they know how to kill people. >> erik larson you know how to write a narrative. dead weight the most recent. you know what his other books are. if they are n

>>> when we come back, how much is science fiction and how much is science fact in this weekend's big blockbuster, "jurassic world." next at 6: a south bay home invasion that made national news. ===take vo=== now -- a stunning twist. the person police are calling... "the mastermind" of the crime.. ===janelle/take vo=== plus, blobs on the beach. why these creatures are washing up on bay area shores. ===next close=== next. >>> it's been 22 years since "jurassic park" thrilled us and terrified us by bringing dinosaurs back to life. this weekend, audiences are lining up for the highly anticipated sequel, "jurassic world." so why do dinos still hold so much fascination for us 65 million years after they went extinct? our joe friar put that question to experts, both young and old. >> reporter: unlike the movie "jurassic world" -- >> is that a t-rex right there? >> reporter: -- there is no pg-13 rating for the dinosaur exhibit at l.a.'s natural history museum. >> that's the nose right next to the big teeth. >> reporter: all ages are welcome here. >> crocodilians are crocodiles that ate birds

you have written fiction and the more.w is your mother in the character different from a fictional character? >> oh, you know, my mother interestingly, i think, has made it into a couple of my novels as a character one way or another. if you take a look at the novel i did about family during the seizure of sarajevo you will see a little bit of my mother. i think if you read political comedy i wrote called windy city. you will see my mother and a couple of characters. you know, i would have to reflect on that. i used to roll my eyes about was soon say well, the characters begin to talk you when i interviewed them i would say you want to see someone about that every maybe they should but the.is i think characters do begin to speak with you. if there was a pleasurable aspect it was being reunited they have a the help of the capture a sense of her and become aware of the fact that the continuing dialogue -- she said to me in the hospital she said we will this go on forever? and i said no. by that she met the pain and the dread

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bernie sanders and his weird erotic fiction. it mi be a weird time that this is the absolute worst. >> was that fiction? >> god i hope so. >> no it was an essay. white men were writing about weird sexual things all the time. >> so joanne, so rubio himself had four tickets since 1997. that is pretty good. >> there is a single tear going down his cheek. i think that's what happened. >> he is so cool. he is so cool. i love it. these are simple misdemeanors. like you said this is all of the digging they could do. it could be the least important issue for a president. when was the last president that went out to cvs to pick something up? >> it couldn't be a less important issue and that is pulling pranks on your fellow crass mates in high school. >> yes in high school. >> another big breaking story by the "new york times" on mitt romney. >> and candidate spouses are now fair game as in this article, that's not good news for hillary. >> it is fantastic news for us. >> john, the fast and the furious movies are incredibly popular as the

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"pulp fiction." "batman." every punch, coreographed.ain prop master, creating costumes from anything he can get his hands on. >> we've got an oxygen tank. from "no country for old men." inside, if you want to feel that, that is little milo tin cans. it's like a raisin bran or quakers. i'd tape it all together and get the shape and just color all of it. >> reporter: that's great. >> when we do it i have to get into the mind of the character, it's a responsibility, that sounds pathetic to some people because -- but to us and to our world it's very personal. >> reporter: did you guys ever look out the windows at other people on the street and wonder what their lives were like? >> it was kind of like, oh, look at that, that's a school bus, these kids are going to school just like in the movies. >> reporter: as for the neighbors they never saw. >> we'd make up characters out of them. if we hear, like yelling or like loud music we'd be like, uh, that sounds a little bit like "goodfellas" partying, maybe. maybe robert de niro's living in there

. >> no, it was bad fiction.e fiction pretty poorly. >> seth: okay, now, there's something else that i would like to address that i think -- [ applause ] that i would really like to stress that if this president thing doesn't work out, i also do not think your fallback plan should be as a folk singer. now, this is -- this says to me more burlington, vermont than anything. this is while you were mayor of burlington, vermont right? 1987 is this when -- you released a folk album. >> well, that's one way of looking at it. >> seth: okay. >> there was a great band and they said hey, bernie, you know, why don't you join us? big mistake. >> seth: big mistake, yes. >> you will hear if you play it. >> seth: let's hear it real quick and you tell us if you think this is a big mistake. ♪ i went walking that ribbon of highway, i saw above me that endless skyway ♪ [ laughter ] >> seth: there you go. [ cheers and applause ] >> so now we have learned that i do bad fiction and bad music. but i do have some other attributes that ar