and genre fiction some look down on genera fiction better than any writers on planet since john who is another one of my favorites so we're going to talk wide ranging about a lot of -- a lot of things these men have written about and think about. but i'm going to start with the issue of -- genera because we're not exactly all crime pays at the same time and then the same ways same category. so i'm going to start with my dear friend rick patterson known as richard north to many of you. i would like you to talk about your ark about what you started to write actually rick -- scott and i are all lawyers first, and then became writers. so rick is not writing crime fiction. i love to be called a crime writer. he would shoot me if i said here's a crime novelist. so why don't you open district by telling us what you do now and that your book swamp fever is in the bookstore down the road. >> well, i'm now -- concluded after the election 2016 that fiction is redundant so -- [laughter] so i'm writing a weakly political column for the boston globe and a by monthly column longer for "huffington

i majored a lot in horror fiction and science fiction. and love the zombie genre from going back, no, i wrote terrible stories in college and i really didn't start writing fiction until my mid-20s but the obsession with zombies does go back to my childhood. i had parentswho love movies, we watched horror movies together and i remember seeing night of the living dead at an early age stayed with me , to refresh your memory, it's a story about the eve of the zombie apocalypse.people are trying to hide, they don't know what's happening and the main protagonist is a black man being pursued by white people want to devour him and eat him which of course is part of the story of america. so that growing up as a horror and science fiction fan, five books and i thought i was ready to spread my influences and trymy hand at a horror story you say you watched horror movies but the impression is that there is session with horror movies . >> sure, i don't know if i want to get all georgie. but yes, >> a real interest. you know, my brother and i, we were

we are doing a special fiction addition. with the best-selling fiction authors. i want to give you a full list. the intuition is that came out in 1998. john henry days. apex hides the hurt. the noble hustle which we've talked aboutut a little bit. and of course his most recent we want to have your participation this afternoon in our conversation. here is how you can participate. for those of you in the mountain and pacific time zones now we have several social media sites that you can also contact. we have with facebook, twitter instagram. at book tv is the handle it you you need to remember for those three. you can also e-mail us as well. the caesar approach core. she said no. i always do the outline before i start working. i have that look with this book.at it came very quickly. and organizing the book.ck and survive the whole book --dash -- horrible vetting process. it's genius. and i don't know why i did it that way. in this case the first aligned was adorable. and in that one sentence and stayed with me. in depth the negro became a human being. only thenthma

so then i go back to fiction. but i grew upew on tv that is important to me i have a lot of ideas coming from science-fiction i was a tv critic for a while but i don't have the chops to leave those two genres. >> what about "the underground railroad"? >> guest: with black people to be adapted but this book has been embraced we sent it to hollywood various people looked at it we got a call from a young filmmaker who had some great ideas he did midnight it had not come out yet. we saw the early version of it. so i wondered if i felt good working with him. so sometimes you find inspiration. he said slave movie? i was thinking there would be blood and the master but then he oscar in the contract so he was pitching and then amazon studios will do a miniseries. >>host: are you in new jersey? >> caller: 6 miles north of princeton. see were kind enough to autograph my copy last year at the schomburg center. kevin young was your classmate was he ahead of you? >> guest: yes. a nonfiction writer also. >>host: i'm sorry we ar

i wonder if you know about is fiction? >> guest: i do.ish department in college was very conservative and that's where he first came across slave narratives and charles, very early black fiction writer. it's a great has a great grouper. it was black southern slang for magic so someone through -- dust in your eyes you would be bewitched. it was kind of a crazy word and i was lucky i was able to use the word in the underground railroad and talking about there is slave masters with higher people which is to make a heck surround their plantation that would prevent slaves from running away so people would be afraid to run away because they were cross this magical line and be sickened by this bad magic. i assume the magic didn't work. >> host: pulitzer prize winner national book award winner, macarthur grant genius. colson whitehead.com is the website he's been a guest on depth. here's a list of your books, intuition is, john henry days follow the colossal of new york, apex hide the hurt in 2006, sag harbor 2009 zone 12011 the noble hustle by p

literary fiction are the world over. literary fiction are the guys who went the prizes. connect with the audience whether it is literary commercialfiction, you audience whether it is literary commercial fiction, you have audience whether it is literary commercialfiction, you have to audience whether it is literary commercial fiction, you have to tell a good story. that was the reason why one of my characters 5aid a good story. that was the reason why one of my characters said that comment. ijust why one of my characters said that comment. i just wondered, why one of my characters said that comment. ijust wondered, you write heartwarming stories about love and friendship and relationships and romance and i wonder if you think you might be taken more seriously as a writer if you wrote about politics, for example? a writer if you wrote about politics, for example 7|j a writer if you wrote about politics, for example? i do not think you have to write about politics to be taken seriously. my next book is completely different. i do is tell people, wait for my next book because

i get asked all the time — do you write commercial fiction? do you write literary fiction?arp divide. i would presume it is the same in the uk and the world over. commercialfiction are the guys who sell. literary fiction are the guys who win a prize. but i think it is important for your story to have the connect with the audience, whether it is literary fiction or whether it is commercial fiction, it doesn't matter. you have to tell a good story. that was the reason why one of my characters said that comment. ijust wondered, you write heartwarming stories about love and friendship and relationships and romance and ijust wonder if you think you might be taken more seriously as a writer if you wrote — as we talked about earlier — about politics, for example? i do not think you have to write about politics to be taken seriously as a writer. because my next book is completely different. i always tell people, 0k, wait for my next book because i always feel i better myself with each book and, as regards to serious writing, i have been published in the world, and my short stories

deadly space between is between the documentary and the fictional, the historical and the fictional.and bob really taught me a great deal about how to, you know, tread dangerous path between narrative and the research. so in many ways, thank you, bob, for, you know, making it possible for me here. [applause] >> [inaudible] of course i share everything that's been said about bob. we've only done two books together, but it seems to me it feels very much like we've done many more because we've known each other well before i became one of your fortunate clients. i thought since i knew that we would all say what we've said, which is that we are terribly indebted to bob for his illegible corrections of -- [laughter] and suggestions of our manuscripts, that his range of knowledge, historical and cultural, is really a gift. and that his personality is rather hard to sustain, but at the same time it is priceless. i mean by that that bob is manic, bob is obsessive -- [laughter] bob is a workaholic, and sometimes he doesn't listen because he is so intense upon correcting and helping -- [laughte

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compare the fiction biography but i always believe that his famous coral and fiction and what he callsthe deadly space between documentary and bob taught me a great deal about the path between narrative and the research. so anyway, thank you for making it possible for me. [applause] >> i share everything that is being said, we've only done two books together but it seems to me feels very much like them anymore because we've known each other well before he became one of your fortunate clients. i thought since i knew we would all say what we said that we are terribly and dented for bob for his corrections and suggestions are manuscript and his range of knowledge is start on cultural is really a gift of his personality is rather hard to sustain. at the same time it's priceless no about what i would do is re read, wrote it seems on the 24th of october 2010, a first book together was monster. it was god's crucible. islam and the making of europe. none of us was confident to edit or write such a book but i felt it had to be done. i had gone to morocco turned a small book on the invitation of

we publish a little bit of fiction. we publish kids books and we have been called regnery state. >> let's break that down a little bit. you say you publish books for conservative audience. has otherwise been the case? >> guest: that's always been the case from the beginning. henry regnery started the company 70 years ago was dedicated to publishing books for conservative readers and at the time and for a long time he was one of the only if not the only book publisher who was started off publishing some of the works of the modern conservative movement in his early years of regnery publishing. he published william f. buckley's first book "god and man at yale" and the conservative mind. we published witness by whittaker chambers and all of those books are still printed today and we still sell them today. >> host: does that say something about the publishing industry that those books weren't being published necessarily? >> guest: it definitely doesn't henry regnery recognize that and saw an opportunity in the marketplace. h

depth: fiction edition. joint join us live sunday noon eastern with jeff sarrah most recent book is "the frozen hours." "the final storm," plus 11 more novels which recount the military history of america from the american revolution to the korean war. during the program we'll be taking your phone calls, tweets and facebook messages. our special series in depth: fiction edition with author jeff shaara sunday live from on to 3:00 p.m. eastern c-span2. >> we'll take you live now to the floor of the u.s. house on the legislative agenda today, seven bills including one allowing indian tribes to set up amber alerts. and another on sickle cell disease prevention and treatment programs. this is live coverage from the house floor on c-span. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend vincent derose, st. francis xavier catholic church, washington, d.c. the chaplain: o god who are the hope of sinners and joy of the holy, grant this house a spirit of c

there's great pleasure to do so the prize in american fiction for 2018 upon edmund white.lcome to the stage, the winner edmund white. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] [cheering] i've always relied on the kindness of friends to listen to my first draft. i was always writing reading. i wrote longhand and no one could read my writing except for me. at the age of 15, i wrote my first novel ultimately the dark. all about a teenage boy named peter cross who ends up with a handsome college boy because his girlfriend rejects him. at the time, i have never read a gay novel. if you existed but they were not for sale in my suburb. although i was ashamed and was seeing a psychoanalyst to be cured, i was far more driven and open in my writing them in my day-to-day behavior. edwards literary exhibition although in my life i was more or less closeted i must have written five full-length novels and scores of plays before my novel was published in my early 30s. but all this time i was plaguing my friends at school and other writers in new york throughout my 20s with my writing almost always g

>> it's science fiction with a black lens. >> and this film takes place in a fictional country that never and has a different point of view. why is that so important for the african-american community? >> to see a space that hasn't been colonized is amazing. because it allows us to imagine what a black future can be that isn't oppressive, that includes all people, recognizes and respects them and actually show what is think're capable of. we hear about the slave labor and how we were repressed, but we also hear,the scientists, the inventors and the writers and the poets. >> the stories of innovation and triumph that get pushed aside when people choose to tell the story about the history of slavery. >> exactly. >> this film is just the beginning, with the kind of hype this film is expected to generate, what do you anticipate coming forward with this movie? >> i think we're going to see more science fiction that is inclusive of black people. that shows black lives outside of the box. that shows them on different worlds, different planets, in more substantive science fiction. we see it happe

depth: fiction edition. joint join us live sunday noon eastern with jeff sarrah most recent book is "the frozen hours." "the final storm," plus 11 more novels which recount the military history of america from the american revolution to the korean war. during the program we'll be taking your phone calls, tweets and facebook messages. our special series in depth: fiction edition with author jeff shaara sunday live from on to 3:00 p.m. eastern c-span2. >> we'll take you live now to the floor of the u.s. house on the legislative agenda today, sen

big-name prize for debut fiction is awarded to a writer whose work of fiction represents distinguished017 and suggests great comments. this award is generously funded by the bingham family and they are in the audience this evening. [applause] i would like to also thank our judges. meow her, leon, scotch adjusted florez and sergey watkins. the finalists are hannah is funny. [applause] , and need a blackbird annalee friedland. carmen maria wauconda. [applause] and jenny zach. [applause] they gave me a red envelope. and the winner is ginning sign for shower heart. [applause] [cheers and applause] ♪ >> while, thank you. the last time i won an award was in fourth grade. i had no idea what was going on. still down, but thank you so much to the bingham family. thank you so much to the judges, to everyone else who was nominated. thank you for raising the bar. i grew up in a community that was considered alien if it was considered at all. it's really hard to love yourself when the world is signaling how much they don't. and i guess that is where the collective struggle is more important than my

fiction addition. in march on the tvs in-depth special patient addiction will be live with historical novelist other of gods and generals as well as to the last man a story of world war i and his most recent book the frozen hours on the korean war. visit booktv.org for more information. >> c-span where history unfolds daily. 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies it is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> [inaudible] authors would take it as a books that no new york publisher would publish them and they would come out as best sellers. one of which my favor of that was trend is real divorce editorial privilege about senator kennedy and how he drowned that girl and it's the truth about leo devore got one of the cousins to talk to him and he was kicked off that he was coming out at the river and could you say you were driving so years later leo to more guesses on the record and no new york publisher would publish it but they publish it

even though this is a fictional you know country a fictional african nation i do think it's really important to see the depiction of an african nation as a superpower as technologically advanced as you think it's really cool to see people kind of taking pride in their culture and dressing up in their their native garb and stuff to go see this movie i think is that's really important and i think that it's amazing to see with that is doing for people on the continent as well as for consonantal africans that live here in the u.s. and as well for for people that are of african descent that want to feel that connection back to africa i do think that that's really important and i agree that it is really a cultural moment that is kind of changing the landscape of moviegoing i don't know if i agree that it's an unexpected moment i did have a budget of two hundred million dollars. margolese disney films a lot into this project there are a lot but the marketing campaign. like i wouldn't say that i feel is this is unexpected. but i do think it's super important for people to see i would also say though

. >> to think anyone could take what we've been doing and label it as object fiction makes me sick. >us superman flying after a lifetime of overcoming adversity. >> watching him die, literally, can't describe it. >> battling back from a near fatal illness to win gold in the x games now is olympic glory the next chapter in his story. >>> and the top dog show, the competition was, sorry, rough, so which of these lucky dogs took home the best in show. first the "nightline" five. htline" five. ♪ >>> good evening. in recent years the "sports illustrated" swim suit edition has been challenging societal standards of beauty and body type featuring plus size models and even mother daughter with christie brinkley now do these objecti objectify or empower women. here's my "nightline" co-anchor juju chang. >> daniel herrington was just crowned cover model of this year's "sports illustrated" swim utah edition. >> it's amazing i feet "sports illustrated" is iconic. >> huge. >> the 24-year-old from compton, california, is only the third african-american to grace the cover ever. after tyra banks. >>

>> when i started writing, i found it very hard to write fiction. it took me four years to write enigma and archangel in five years to write pompeii. then i started to speed up. i became more aware of the techniques of writing. i enjoyed it more and because i had more books under my belt, i didn't feel each time i had a book that i would be judged just on that one. people would say i like that one but maybe not this one. i did find things that interest me and they came out of nowhere. i was interested in the election of the pope and i saw the pope on the balcony and all the cardinals peering out, looking at him and i thought who are these people voting and how did they vote? it was. curiosity that led me too write that book. i had always just been interested in the moral compromises of munich and had the sense that it wasn't quite as people thought it was. it was written to satisfy that edge. in most my books i think that's what i do. i was a journalist and i naturally look out for the world in present and past and there's always a story to write ab

fiction is probably close to 50%. e-book versus print, but overall for the industry and for our program as well, about 25%. >> how many books a year do you publish? >> we are growing and we have planned 50 books, 50 new titles for 2018. about an increase of about 10% over 2017 and an increase of about 20% over 2016, so most of that growth-- all of that growth is outside of our current events political category. we are growing our history line and we are growing our faith line and we are growing our fiction line, but our sort of poor political conservative current event books stay about the same and that will be somewhere around 25 titles next year. >> so, you have got 50 books in the plans for 2018, when do you start working on those books that will actually be in book-- bookstores and 2018? >> we started work on some of those books earlier this year, but we also are well known for crashing in titles and rush e-books to press because of our focus on current events and breaking news and we have-- we are negotiating rig

readers and you'll see that almost across all fiction books. they read the book because of who the author is. nancy houston is not so well known so the subject math for the audience, the christian audience is following more important. that's pretty self-explanatory there. that goes along -- i don't know if i have any others. david limbaugh. >> does david limbaugh have a say. >> he says that we love what we do. >> does ann coulter have a say in anything that you do? >> the very first book i did for her -- aye only been here three years and i would admit i didn't know what ann coulter was three years ago. my very first book, one was ann coulter's book, looking back doing researching, why do all of her books look like sex and the city meet politics, she's attractive, thin, nice body and i don't want sex -- i want it to be about ann coulter's. it broke away from her mold, just her face and the look on her face basically follows you everywhere, the eyes and it was -- she said it was her best book ever. best cover ever. i was really happy with that,

readers and you will see that almost across all fiction books. they read the book because of who the author is. nancy houston is not so well known, so the subject matter for the audience, the christian audience is probably more important. pretty self-explanatory there. that goes along, i don't know if i have any others. david limbaugh, everybody knows david limbaugh, boy, even though they are equally in size, top to bottom, left to right. we will see him first especially if he's on the shelf. >> does david limbaugh have a say on how that cover looks? >> david limbaugh says he loves everything we do and i'm not kidding, he absolutely loved it. >> does ann coulter have a say in everything that you do? >> you know, i've only -- the very first book i did for her, that's a very good question. i was hoping -- i've only been here three years and -- and i will admit i didn't know who ann coulter was three years ago. my very first book, one of them was ann coulter's book and i had to ask myself, looking back and doing research, why do all of her books loo

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the author of two books both published by university press missed out to third getting an british fiction 1810th 1870 and reading and neuroscience and he also writes on contemporary literature and the humanities novel reading etc. for many publications including the atlantic and "new york times" book review, the nation and public books. that leads me into sharon marcus who is orlando professor of english and dean of humanities still pray she ended her deanship. her first book apartment story city and homes in 19th century london was published by california press enter second look was published by princeton university press. and also i should mention public books again because in 2012 sharon and katelynn at nyu cofounded public's books and on line magazine that features really great accessible writing by scholars but also other people in the community, activists as well as writers on arts and ideas and it's a great publication. and then all the way over there to my left is eric schwartz my colleague at columbia university press the editorial director and he's the editor of sociology and co

how do 12-year-old girls fall for a fictional character? what would drive them to try to kill one of their own friends? and, what should happen to those two girls now? >> hey, morgan. >> reporter: it was just this month, the final sentence handed down. >> please be seated. >> reporter: after what you are about to see play out here tonight. >> breaking news, a 12-year-old girl is stabbed. >> the girl was lured into the area by two of her classmates, who allegedly stabbed her 19 times. >> the girls would hope the attack would earn them a home in slender man's mansion. >> slender man is a fictional horror character. >> reporter: we have been there for the journey. two different mothers now visiting their daughters locked up since they were 12. >> we try to visit at least once a week. on a good week i can get out there two to three times. >> anissa was actually sent to the washington county juvenile detention facility. >> reporter: kristi weier, her daughter is anissa. >> most children are only up there for an average of there for an average of

fiction edition. join us live, sunday, march 4 at noon eastern with jeff shaara whose novel "gods and generals" was made into a motion picture. his other books include "the final storm" "to the last man" and 11 more novels that recount the military history of america from the american revolution to the korean war. we'll take your phone calls, tweets and facebook messages. our special series in-depth fiction edition with author jeff shaara, live noon on march 4. >>> vanderbilt university divinity professor james byrd talked a test ban trea ed ed ab the founding fathers. he argued the bible was influential on the founders' decision for war, regardless of whether they believe it was the word of god. this talk was part of the symposium hosted by the museum of the bible in washington, d.c. it's 45 minutes. >>> our third session today is the bible and the american revolution with james byrd. in this presentation based on his latest book, james byrd shows that the bible was a key text of the american revolut

this year we are -- featuring best-selling fiction writers for our program index fiction addiction.n. his most recent book is the frozen ours, his other books include the final storm, to the last man, plus all the more novels which regard to military history of america from the american revolution to the korean war. we'll be taking your phone calls come tweet and facebook messages. this will be sunday, march 4. >> next, house and alton biographer and chairman of the museum discusses hamiltons ms. on the national debt and fiscal responsibility. he compares those used to the greater history of american economic policy. this talk was caused by the museum of american finance and alexander hamilton awareness society. it is an hour and 10 minutes. glass good afternoon everyone, welcome to the museum of american finance. our planet in today's event is the house hamilton awareness society which is a group you turn to for all things hamilton. we also want to thank and welcome john herzog who was the founder of this

played by social media in spreading malicious propaganda and fake news in this search saga reality fiction becomes fact monies become truths and political consensus becomes almost impossible. in the second of two special reports. investigates allegations that russia and the far right have been using the technology to undermine democracy. america's two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign highlighted new threats to democracy posed by social media platforms in the internet. the u.s. congress is investigating how the russians used facebook twitter and google to wage information warfare and a special counsel is looking into whether the russians in the trump campaign actually colluded in their digital strategies. there is also a growing concern that the business models and algorithms that drive social media companies are fueling extreme partisanship and opening up the floodgates to phony news but america isn't alone challenges to democracy posed by social media also surfaced last year in european elections we begin there in the second part of our investigation into why social media platfo

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the only fiction around in relation to brexit and the european union is the labour party's front benchnnot even agree with themselves what their policy is. and the health secretary announces a review into the way medical problems caused by nhs treatments are handled. patients and their families have spent too long feeling they were not being listened to, making agony of a complex medical situation even worse. but first, the exchanges between theresa may and jeremy corbyn at prime minister's questions are usually a brexit—free zone. but the cabinet will be convening at the pm's country residence, chequers, on thursday to pin down the uk's future relationship with the eu. and so the opposition leader made an exception. he began with david davis's assurance that post—brexit, britain would not descend into a war—ravaged desert where society has collapsed. yesterday, the brexit secretary assured the country that brexit will not plunge britain into a mad max—style world, borrowed from dystopian fiction. doesn't the prime minister feel he could set the barjust a little bit higher? prime minis

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fiction addition. during a live sunday march 4 at noon eastern with jeff was novel gods and generals was made into a major motion picture. his most recent book is the present hours. his other books include the final storm, to the last man, plus 11 more novels which recount the military history of america from the american revolution to the korean war. during the program we will be taking your phone calls, pete and facebook messages. our special series in depth fiction addition with author jeff live from noon to 3:00 p.m. eastern on tv on c-span2. >> rule number one on this conspiracy is that under mining your aspiration and when i say your aspiration and i need to be clear because this is primarily an audience of color but i said the same thing for mainstream caucasian audience last week in new york city and i'm going to say to everybody is that your problem today is not that you are black or white but that you're part of what i call the invisible class. you are invisible to power invisible 12 invisibl