it was more difficult actually converting from writing non—fiction to fiction because when i submittedd, this is a riveting story but it's faction and you've got to come off the fence and stop being a historian and start being a novelist. and what did that make you do? it made me go back to square one and realise i needed learn my craft from the beginning. i thought i knew all there was to know about...well, you know, you publish a few books...but you learn with every book, anyway. but even so, i had to learn to show rather than tell so that the reader experiences what is happening, they can have a mental picture of what is happening, rather than just using facts where they occur, and using credible inference. well, it has to spring from character rather than from the sources. it does, it does. so you work really hard on character. when i've actually written the first draft of a novel, i will go back and work on the character threads, right the way through, so they are consistent and so these characters live more vividly. something else that is intriguing and it's this, having worked o

character ina real creating was a fictional character in a real space. creating was a fictional character so creating was a fictional character in a real space. so i honoured the space in the reality of it but the stories that were built on top of that were completely fictional. your film won five awards at the fifth african movie academy awards but don't you want a wider audience to know about this? because it was a dreadful act of terror yet it's not have the same kind of focus, arguably, that similar acts elsewhere in europe and the united states have had. prudence bushell, the american ambassador in nairobi at the time, has given an interview to n ewswee k at the time, has given an interview to newsweek recently, she is written her memoirs, yet to be published, about what happened and she says, it is forgotten. yes, it is largely forgotten but that so often happens with tragedies that happen on the continent, is that we quickly move past them in news cycles and we quickly move past them regardless of the people who have been injured and need help and would need some sort of assistance

well, it was mostly fiction, but it was based on fact.he stories about the people who were bombing, who were secondary characters in the story, and how they came into the building, what their psyche was, how they decided and how they used their faith to make decisions about their extremist measures. so that was factual, but the story about the girl herself was fictional. how important is it, though, for you, to stick to facts when you're making a film that is based on true events? because a lot of filmmakers say it's very important to do that, to not play fast and loose with the facts. i think it depends on the story. if you're making a biography, obviously,it‘s important to be as close to the character as possible. but in this space, the space that i was creating was a fictional character in a real space. so i honoured the space in the reality of it, but the stories that were built on top of that were completely fictional. and your film won five awards at the fifth african movie academy awards. but don't you want a wider audience to know

or nonfiction if you write historical fiction it is expected to be fiction. this box -- but the shop was several publishers who handled historical fiction they would say we love it but it's not historical fiction historical fiction as you make everything up and then stick it into 1861 but this is not fiction. publishing contracts and agency contracts wanted me to sign a contract to say this is either friction or it is nonfiction it is not one or the other. the book you are holding in your hands is 517 pages what you are not holding is the other 400 pages of 1000 source endnotes that tell you in this book what really happened and here are the sources to prove this really happened. apparently nobody has done that before and no publisher wanted to take a chance with it because it didn't fit the paradigm. so make it all up and don't .1000 notes. they were so extensive they could not print them they had to do a second volume so they created a dedicated website. it is in the book. if you read something and think this is no way it could happen, if there is an endnot

the futuristic visions of german movie makers keynote by for us our pick of germany's best science fiction film. produced in the mid one nine hundred sixty space patrol a rhine was the very first german so i fight t.v. series it was hugely successful in two thousand and three as the front testicle adventures of the spy ship ryan splashed onto the silver screen. on cedar told discount for me it was cool to start school and chose the toy to know for sure about the fringe kind of china. so this is what the future looks like but at least they can still down them like they did in the one nine hundred sixty s. on a land mission here was just going. round petrolia roy and a cult classic. the world in twenty twenty the european union has collapsed. a few core countries build a huge wall to keep out masses of refugees from africa. chaos reigns in the cities as fears of a new war consumed the populace rarely has such an horrific dystopian vision of the future been as close to reality as in the coming days. the film has an interesting political edge and boasts a high caliber cast but the love story i

nonfiction that is also very lyrical lyrical and poetic with fiction there's fiction or nonfiction, there's a lot of crossing because people are thinking communally and they are thinking like the concerns of the #metoo movement are closely coupled with the concerns of the number of other kinds of like you can pick about the problem of sexual harassment without thinking about violence, without thinking about what happens on our borders and the way that women in particular are greatly imperiled in those situations because they are without power so if you think about immigration and at the same time thinking about sexual assault you are already a mindset where you are writing to have that sort of political and that is interesting literature. [laughter] >> i'm so glad you talk about intersection alley because it's like a segue into the next section so while i was reading everyone's book i was struck by out each author's ability to balance both universal killing story regarding womanhood, but also the intersections of various forms of difference whether be sexuality, gender performance, age, abi

it was more difficult actually converting from writing non—fiction to fiction because, when i submittedd start being a novelist. and what did that make you do? it made me go back to square one and realize i needed learn my craft from the beginning. i thought i knew all there was to know about...well, you know, you publish a few books...but you learn with every book, anyway. but even so, i had to learn to show rather than tell so that the reader experiences what is happening, they can have a mental picture of what is happening, rather than just using facts where they occur, and using credible inference. well, it has to spring from character rather than from the sources. it does, it does. so you work really hard on character. when i‘ve actually written the first draft of a novel, i will go back and work on the character threads, right the way through, so they are consistent and so these characters live more vividly. something else that is intriguing and it‘s this, having worked on the period historically for so long and now having spent a lot of time writing fiction set in the period, how

i'm not a big fiction fan. i like nonfiction. i like his style of writing and i have enjoyed this and i've enjoyed finishing this. i started another but that's the general versus president talking about general douglas macarthur and president harry truman. when they were in world war ii with the possibility of a nuclear war, so i just started that just this past week i'm excited to read it as well. >> are there any books that you recommend to your fellow members of congress or any books that you would turn to? >> my favorite is great expectations. i think i read it three times and know all about it so it is one of my personal favorites. but as i mentioned before, devil in the white city is a fascinating read and i enjoyed it quite a bit. >> we want to know what you are reading. send us your list on twitter at booktv were instead graham it's different because it is making capital goods, things used by other industries as opposed to the consumer products. and america depends on it. the key is the railroad system. they need rails an

and now it's time for our number one pick science fiction films in the euphoric post moon landing era when anything seemed possible if we could hope to the moon mars and jupiter could soon be next operation looks at what can happen when too much faith is placed in technological progress. five astronauts return to earth after several years of space exploration only to find that no one is reacting to the radio signals they are not happy. from some other from an afterthought one of many of you know me that we had always i. myself. when the space ship finally lands there's no one there to welcome the astronauts instead there's a long hard trek through the desert ahead of them. doesn't the books over those. observing. the relief when they finally find a village but here too there are no signs of human life. oh. gradually dawns on the astronauts something band has happened on earth but was it a plague a nuclear war or something quite different. the answer only comes in the final scene. humankind's faith in ever improving conditions brought about by technological progress turns out to be a s

this is the biography of a fictional character. how do you do that? one of the great things is there are so many right ways to do that cause there's a right way, that means there's no wrong way to do it either and you can make it up as you go along. i do that to a degree. it is an interdisciplinary work of scholarship that primarily informed on my expertise in southern history and politics but it's also, there are period's where i do literary analysis and there is no kind of theory to it or there's no -- i just do the best i can and try to think deeply and historically about the context in which harper lee was writing cause as a historian, that's central to our understanding that whatever we write whether it's fiction or nonfiction, we are shaped by the times in which we are writing and that really, there's a fundamental insight i bring to bear, that it and i tried to be very precise about the period in which she is writing and what's going on that might have shaped the kind of choices she is making. >> hi joey. great talk. and so the top you've just

that's why i mainly stick to fiction.ifficult subject matter and fiction is easier for readers because, in a way, they can read it and say, this is made up. i mean, i think they understand that something of the truth is in fiction, that it is a different experience for the reader between reading a made up story that has some difficult subject matter and reading a story that is based in real life. i think people are resistant to it a little bit. i think it is easier for them to sort ofce a painful story in fiction than it is in creative nonfiction, in memoir. why works oft's creative nonfiction about difficult subject matter, i think they are harder to sell. sometimes people just want to escape, right? i think fiction allows a certain amount of escapism. whereas creative nonfiction really doesn't, in a way. you are able to escape into someone else's experience, but if you know it is based on real life, i don't think it feels like an escape. >> i am so happy to be here and to tell you who the winner is. unburied sing. >> th

this is not fiction.publishing contracts and agency contracts, they wanted me to sign a contract saying, this is either fiction or it is nonfiction. it's not one or the other. the book you're holding in your hand is about 517 pages. what you are not holding are the other 400 painings in 10-point font of 1,000-source end notes that tell you in this book what really happened and here -- and here are the sources to prove that it really happened. no one apparently has done it before and no publisher we wanted to take a chance with it. so if you're going to write fiction, make it all up and don't put a thousand end notes to it. the notes were so extensive they couldn't print them in the book, they had to do a second volume of end notes and the publisher wasn't going to do that, they created a website, if you get the book, if you read something and you think, there's just no way that could have happened, this sounds too far fetch, if there's an end note, i defy you to look it up and one guy had e-mailed me who

that is the fictional idea. as i watch the increase in the popularity and contracts going to private military contracting firms like blackwater and other ones like that i thought the next step in this process is outsourcing intelligence gathering and even analysis and direct action assignments that allows the us government to have plausible deniability so i thought this is the next big thing coming and i got introduced to somebody who is retired from the cia named duane -- do we claridge. he had just passed away and he had something he was doing where he was outsourcing intelligence gathering in multiple ways whether it was gathering atmospherics on the grounds in afghanistan to inform the dod how to keep the troops safe, he was an interesting fascinating guy and i based his thoughts on do we claridge. >> the cia intelligence operatives have the unlimited funds? >> they don't unfortunately. there was a great book written, nonfiction called the human factor and it was written by a cia operative who was very unhap

. >> science fiction author will be our guest on in depth fiction edition live sunday august 5th at noon eastern. discussing his latest book walk away. interact with him by phone, twitter or facebook. our special series in depth fiction edition with science fiction author, sunday august 5th, live from noon to 3:00 p.m. eastern on book tv on c-span 2. >>> the group christians united for israel met with washington, d.c. for their annual summit and reflected in 2018 on the 70th anniversary of israel's independence. this 25 minute portion features remarks from the founder and national chair pastor john hagee. >> thank you. we gather here tonight to celebrate our 13th annual christians united for israel summit and 70 years of miracles for the state of israel. r from the rebirth of israel in 1948, to the reunification of jerusalem in 1967, the jewish nation has experienced a glorious parade of unending miracles. fast forward to the year 2017, and the parade of miracles surges into overdrive. for decades, the raging geopolitical question of the world was, to whom does the city of jerusalem belo

it was more difficult actually converting from writing non—fiction to fiction because, when i submittedd what did that make you do? it made me go back to square one and realize i needed learn my craft from the beginning. i thought i knew all there was to know about...well, you know, you publish a few books...but you learn with every book, anyway. but even so, i had to learn to show rather than tell so that the reader experiences what is happening, they can have a mental picture of what is happening, rather than just using facts where they occur, and using credible inference. well, it has to spring from character rather than from the sources. it does, it does. so you work really hard on character. when i've actually written the first draft of a novel, i will go back and work on the character threads, right the way through, so they are consistent and so these characters live more vividly. something else that is intriguing and it's this, having worked on the period historically for so long and now having spent a lot of time writing fiction set in the period, how has your view of henry hims

and stephen said no, it is great.od, it is i get the fiction part, i know what you are doing with it, but it is tremendous. spielberg insisted. said, get hanks out of there, he is too old. [laughter] than spielberg says, "he is the star. says, that there was too short, so when he is coming out of the water, he should bend down so the snipers don't get him. spielberg says while we can't do then stephen says, get rid of the guys having a conversation. then spielberg says but i have to have time for dialogue, we cannot cut that out. then stephen says, i told you. don't change anything. spielberg says finally, i understand all of that. the script went ahead . he volunteered to assist with , and championing the movie, and he went on the road -- went on the plane for a few more weeks around the country. and, he brought veterans out to add to the authenticity, not necessarily for the movie itself, but for experience, and from the point of view of the guys who were there. stephen ambrose did not really want to be identified by the movie. he had his own book on d-day and others coming out -- c

>> and now live on booktv, our year-long fiction edition fiction in addition of en additp continues with novelist brad thor whose novels include the last page create and post recently "spymaster." >> host: brad thor over the course of 18 books, how many people hasle sought killed? >> guest: i think i lost count after book number one. one. he's killed a loss. >> host: y.? >> guest: my children's godfather is a special forces group who works for the state department and he had a whiny and he got from a commander somewhere in his career in the army that said some people just need killing some people you will not be able to reason with or negotiate with and that is the kind of approach he takes. he doesn't like it that when it needs to be done hehe does it. >> host: is he based on a real person? >> guest: he is a combination of multiple people that i have known in the world of government diplomacy from a part of government and h she's named afr somebody right here in dc who processes warrants for the department of justice, so there is a real-life one that i knew and i thought it is a great n

our series fiction edition with science fiction author cory doctorow a panel at the national press club in washington, d.c. discussed the u.s. relations with north korea and the state of negotiations over the nuclear program. panethe panel includes former u. ambassador to south korea kathleen stephens

our series in the fiction edition with science fiction author cory doctorow from noon to 3 pm eastern on book tv on c-span2. >> earlier yesterday un ambassador nikki haley and ron dermer spoke at a dinner mark the 70th anniversary of israel's independence posted by christians united this runs about an hour. >>. >> our first speaker is ambassador ron dermer, ambassador to the united states. ron is an american-born israeli political consultants and diplomat. he has served as the israeli ambassador to the united states in october 2013. ambassador dermer has been deeply involved in american and israeli politics most of his life. and his influence has helped shape the us israel relationship for decades. during his tenure in dc, ambassador dermer has worked closely with cf o leadership to strengthen support for israel among americans. he opposed the terrible iran nuclear deal and has made israel and america west safe and encourage residents to move the us embassy to jerusalem. this is his appearance at the washington dc summit on behalf of the state of israel. will you please make welcome a

the science fiction author will be our guest on in-depth fiction addiction. live sunday, august 5 at noon eastern, discussing his latest book "walk away." his other books include down and out at the magic kingdom, little novels. plus 14 other interact with him on twitter or facebook, or by phone. our special addiction with the science-fiction author cory live from noon to three eastern on c-span two book tv. advocateirs taxpayer nina olson on irs reform, tax law, and how to resolve tax problems with the irs. she joined us on mondays "washington journal." your cable or satellite provider. >> washington journal continues. host: each >> each week, we like to look at how your money is at work carried we will focus on the irs with the help of national taxpayer advocate nina olson joining us. olson joining us once again. -- irs national taxpayer advocate nina olson joining us once again. i had an organization, the taxpayer advocate service that is inside the irs but also independent. we help taxpayer solve their problems with the irs. it could be something the irs

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. >> the good fight is unusual in that in our fictional world, trump is the actual president. >> the show was supposed to open on election night. >> the president-elect of the united states of america. >> a week and a half into shooting the pilot, trump won. we went back and started over again. >> in the trump era, last minute script changes are the new reality for scripted tv. >> we will see what we will see. >> there is this impulse to be relevant and comment on what's going on. >> alex gonza is the cocreator of homeland. >> when a story breaks, do you talk about how to make it part of the show? >> it's the first thing we discuss every morning, especially now when the news cycle is so crazy. >> breaking news, defending putin. >> a stunning shake-up at the white house. >> is this something to the story? >> a porn star and a staff departure, just another day in the trump white house. >> we were all utterly blown away and trying to adapt to trump's america. >> eileen jacob. >> is it fair to say hollywood is a hub of the so-called resistance? >> it's no secret that hollywood leans prog

that's the fictional idea. as i watch and the in the popularity and the contracts going to private military contracting firms like blackwater and other once like that i thought okay, the next step in this process is going to be outsourcing intelligence gathering and maybe even analysis and maybe even some direct action, assignments were it allows the government to have plausible deniability. i thought this is the next big thing coming and they get introduced to somebody was retired from the cia. a man named duane, do we. i dedicated last summers book to him for just passed away sadly and he had something that he was doing what he was outsourcing intelligence gathering in multiple different ways. whether was gathering in the ground in a a consent to and fm the duty about how to do force protection, keep the troops safe. he was an interesting fascinating kite and i based scot harvath boss on dewey. >> host: do cia intelligence operatives have the unlimited funds that scot harvath has? >> guest: no. they don't. un

first of all, how do we define fiction? fiction, we defined, as taking information you have to generate information you do not have. that includes what most people would traditionally call fiction, like demand forecastint five years of sales to protect or forecast next quarter sales so that is an obvious form of prediction but a less obvious form that we would still call protection is classification so for example, i mentioned, looking at a medical image that is the information we have for the pixels in the image and the information do not have is whether the tumor is benign or malignant. the ai generating that classification we would call fiction. prediction is taking information you have to generate information you do not have. we have assisted drop, a plummeting in the cost of production and what does that mean and what are the applications for business? ... >> better, faster, cheaper. so we'll just start seeing a.i.s coming in and replacing the traditional statistical techniques we use for doing prediction. at the same

our special series in-depth fiction addiction with brad. this will be on book tv on c-span2. >> this year marks the 50th anniversary of robert f kennedy's assassination. next, from the robert c byrd center for congressional history

sources or proof, many of the stories written about me and the good people surrounding me our total fiction. the problem is when you

we hope this remains fictional and combining with the author james patterson. [applause] it would take all night to enumerate his contributions but to summarize briefly he has written more new york times bestsellers that than anyone in history and has 350 million copies sold worldwide is books of the major television shows and movies is most famous characters are household names and mr. patterson has an entire category on jeopardy and his publishing success is a case study at the harvard business school here is one more important thing that as successful and prolific he is equally as a philanthropist and defender of poor american values and unwavering champion of reading and writing and civic engagement and discourse james patterson has establishments and grant to support students and teachers in public libraries and colleges and universities independent bookstores and sellers with millions of free books as u.s. men and women are deployed overseas i hope you join me to think him for those contributions. [applause] moderating tonight will be an old friend and co

. >> science fiction author corey doctorow will be our guest on in-depth fiction addition live sundaygust 5th at noon eastern discussing his latest book walk away. his other books include down and out in the magic kingdom, little brother, 14 other novels. interact with corey doctorow by twitter or facebook, our special series in-depth fiction addition with corey doctorow sunday, august 5th live from noon to 3:00 pm eastern on booktv on newseum. >> german chancellor angela merkel held her summer news conference in berlin where she talked about domestic issues, trade relations with the us and donald trump's recent meeting in helsinki with russian president a putin. this 25 minute portion of the news conference also includes analysis and reaction from the english news desk. >> translator: to everyone, welcome. to a further press conference with the chancellor. you have the floor. >> i am glad someone is counting the number of press conferences. good morning, ladies and gentlemen. it is indeed the case of the encounter is a bit of a tradition. you want me to wait until

by social media in spreading malicious propaganda and fake news in this alternative saga reality fiction becomes fact lonnie's 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 council is looking into whether the russians in the trunk campaign actually colluded in their digital strategies. there is also 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

if you are a fiction editor you always want to be with public taste. you want to be publishing books with people that want to embrace large numbers and publish books that turn people off. now there are people who've made important careers out of publishing books that were banned and censored and suppressed, considered dangerous in the literary spear, dh lawrence. these books had to be published. they violated the public taste of their time and had to be published by small countercultural houses. in political publishing, there's always two sides. you have the choice and you do both in my experience. you take a position regarding certain principles or outlook. you defend it, criticize it, you argued against the other side. then as things change and there are shifts in what people care about and are arguing about, you move to a new era. i'm not sure i have answered the question. >> give an example of a cultural war going on today. >> is a huge war going on about donald trump. i was asked not long ago whether the domain publishing was going to client. in m

my goal is to separate fact from fiction so let me hit you with a few facts. the pony express route was roughly 1800 miles. they were taking shortcuts for maybe 110 miles were 1798 depending on who was writing that night as you can see it goes from st. joseph all the way to the san francisco where the headquarters were down river to san francisco. most generally. a lot of the routes of public pony express is the same route that was used by pioneers and was used by the 40 niners to get gold and settle down in salt lake and was also part of the oregon trail. a lot of it has to do with geography but also the men starting t the express, there we three of them he started three parent companies of the pony express and they were the major movers, alexander majors who was a hands-on guy and he was a teamster who dealt with the people in th the office has enad superintendence. he was the fellow who would make sure everything was working on the trail. then there was a man named william who was more kind of the inside answer to mr. majors and the one in charge of the sto

i have a fictional president peoplele understand it's important i try toct make it fictional it isn't about trump or obama certain things are happening in the world the timing is unbelievablele president trump with the nato summit coming up in a couple weeks but the idea would america agree to get into another war to protect a country that they could not find on a map or have never even heard of it would be very difficult the way russia set up to get them back what does that mean for nato? because the disease united states and nato if he can weaken that alliance he thinks that is good for him he wants to reconstitute the old soviet union and these breakaway nationsso back so that they let him take the crimea peninsula that encouraged hitler to do more and that is my worry aboutt putin. we willl see history. >>host: the discussions about nato will they learn some history? the neck i am a thriller writer my job is to entertain you but i want you to have a great white knuckle ride i don't want it to be hard h just get across the ways i only wanted to read one chapter but i read 12 so tha

you will appreciate his taste in books is serious and voracious and bath from history to literary fiction and current affair and biography and philosophy and i could go on and on imagine that. a president. [laughter] [applause] >> those were the days president clinton had read more than a few best-selling books but his latest work is his first four into fiction he studied extensively on cyberwarfare and he knows more about the most anybody on the planet what it's like to be president of the united states when your country is threatened with an attack so he teamed up with america's most successful author james patterson. [applause] it would truly take all night to enumerate his contributions but to summarize briefly he has written more new yorkk times bestsellers than anyone in history and has sold 350 million copies of his books worldwide his books have been made into dozens of television shows ands movies his characters are household names he has even been a category an entire category on jeopardy and his publishing successes are a case study at the harvard business school. here is one r

the real crime fiction writers are much more convincing at this than i am. they're much.. is a very important thing, and these people have got edge. i'm very low on the edge front, so we don't really have villains. i can't do villains without making them actually really quite nice, in some respects. irene in the scotland street books, she's this very, very pushy mother who makes the life of her little boy, bertie, really very difficult, and she's got a good side. again, she's doing her best. so it's difficult to create a good villain. i want to move on to 44 scotland street, which i thought was a totally breathtaking series, first of all in its ambition. i mean, there you are, publishing in a newspaper, as charles dickens did, and you haven't got to the end of the novel. you don't know where it's going. no idea at all. were you scared? well, i was, when i started. i was asked by the editor of the scotsman newspaper to write a serial novel for them, and i said, in a fit of absentmindedness and machismo, no problem. i'll do this, of course i will. and they said, fine, and th

and we sort of came up with a fictionalized version of a lot of the adventures that he had experienced. and it's a fascinating story about sort of the inanity of our drug laws the racism that he went through and the extraordinary measures that we that we our government goes to to keep people from trading in a drug that is now illegal in a lot of states so it was it's a really fun bizarre interesting suspense filled story that i couldn't figure out how to tell except this fiction which is sort of a new thing for me as we're going to break our quarters don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter and see our poll shows that are dot com coming up we intercept the intercept handling of whistleblowers with former cia analyst john kiriakou and then journalist maxim woman vol dissects the journalism of cnn's jake tapper so you better stay tuned to watching the whole. goal make this many a factor to send to the public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. the family. lives and be the one person. in the middle of the room sick. reall

it wasn't a fiction that they were offering the prices, it was, but what was a fiction was that thatwas a business model that can work and that the company could actually make money that way. there really was no secret way they were going to make low prices profitable. it had the same cost as other labs and lab testing, there's an enormous cost of equipment, cost of personnel, cost of shipping, the blood shipping is enormous. >> and regulatory costs. they had made none of those costs really go away so, that was a mirage, the low prices were not something that was sustainable. >> we are out of time, but there's two ways free to follow up on this. number one is to get this book and read it, and the second is wait for the movie to come and tell us. [inaudible] >> thank you very much. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> here's a look at books being published this week. in the case against in teaching trump, harvard law professor looks at the constitutionality of impeaching the president. lynn and sarah describe the sinking of the uss indianapolis, one of the worst disasters in u.s. lab

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a lot of the deer will take some fiction seriously. a lot of us are inspired by two books we read, whether it's a note crash or ready player one. there's lot of us they get out inspiration on the weird ideas built by these amazing authors write science fiction. it's about how does the rule change with all the rules go away when you can make copies of yourself and send them over the virtual reality scape we can have expenses that could otherwise and hit a button. i was inspired by this book and i decided to leave cognitive science and a cut a postdoc where he learned the incident to build the hardware for virtual reality and do the coding to create content dancing, i stopped asking questions that were really focus about how the brain works and shifted to larger questions come things about social interaction and communication and training and even entertainment and starting to understand how virtual reality can use out in the world. >> host: so $6 billion a year you report is being invested in vr now. how is a quaint increase, or is it?

, were replacing facts with fiction, we we re were replacing facts with fiction, we were peddling liese reason, the issues are also personal, he resigned from my party. i don't wish to join are also personal, he resigned from my party. i don't wish tojoin him. he cause he was disgusted. discuss was not primarily political, it can be personal, too. let's leave it at that. why am saying so, he sees the totality of india as a global power and global leader. from queen elizabeth to the whole of europe to others, because of democracy, for farmers and good governance. today the renter modi's voice was heard on issues of climate change, on the issues of climate change, on the issues of climate change, on the issues of system and development, climate justice. why don't you see that emerging gold? we have to end there, but ravi shankar prasad i thank you very much for being on hardtalk. thank you. hello there. at long last on friday the rain came down. for most of us that is. over the next few days it is back to a story of the temperatures heading upwards. sunny spells to take us through this w

if you are a fiction editor, uis went to be with public taste. you want to be publishing books that people want to reason-- read in large numbers. you don't want to publish books that turn people off. there are people who have made important careers of publishing books that were censored, that were suppressed, considered dangerous in the literary spearhead, henry miller, james joyce. these are great books, but they violated the literary public taste of their time and-- and political publishing there are always two sides and you have the choice to do both, in my experience. you take a position regarding certain principles or certain outlooks. you defendant. you criticize it. you are you against the other side. then, as things change as there is a shift in what people care about and what people are arguing about you move into a new area. i'm not sure i'm answering your question. would you mind restating it? host: give an example of a culture war going on today. guest: there's a huge culture war about donald trump. i was asked to not long ago whethe

but his latest work is his first into fiction. he studied about cyber warfare relied on something he knows more about than anyone on the planet. but it is actually like to be president when you're country is under attack. he teamed up with america's most successful author, james patterson. we would truly take all night to renew merit the contributions to the literary canon. to summarize, he has written more new york times bestsellers that anyone in history. he has sold 350 million copies of his books worldwide. his books have been made into television shows and movies. his most famous character are household names. he has even been a category on jeopardy in his publishing successes have been a case study at harvard. here's another really important things about james patterson. the successful and prolific as he is as an author he is equally so as a philanthropist. as a defender of core american values, as a fierce and unwavering champion of reading and writing, civic engagement discourse. he has established generous funds and grant

the president often times does that, con fuse fact and fiction. so later i think you're saying that the story came down or not. for me, it doesn't matter if the story shows up at sputnik after the president says it or if they take it the other way. the idea is if our government leaders are using propaganda and false information and putting it out from a public stage, we cannot have public debate, and we cannot have democracy. >> ith see. and to sum up, the third part of my question is you have on one hand you have mentioned your very big -- your great experience with extremists online. but on the other hand, you published an article defending the group -- >> oh, i'm so glad you brought this one. bring it, buddy, let's do it. [laughter] >> thank you. so ill like to ask how -- i would like to ask how on the one happened -- >> you know, i've been waiting for this for a few years. >> -- on the other hand, you defend them online, and also you claim that you were target, a target of a big trolling and harassment campaign against you which is, again, unv

the in-depth fiction edition with science fiction author corey doctorow from noon to 3:00 pm eastern on booktv on hart senate office building 0. >> part of alaska weekend, we are talking about hunting regulations across the country. people who feed their families against those who see certain types of hunting as inhumane. that talks about the department of interior proposal to undo obama era rules restricting controversial hunting methods on federal lands in alaska. what is the history of this fight? what happened in 2015 and what is happening now? >> the nbc summary captured the long entangled history. in may the national park administration proposed rescinding obama administration rules that had been imposed that restricted or prohibited certain hunting practices and preserve land managed by the national park service in alaska, practices include using baits to kill black and brown bears, killing black bears indents, using dogs to kill black bears, and a few other provisions. that was banned by the obama administration. in may the trump administer asian proposed reinstating those ta

our special series in-depth fiction addition with author cory doctorow sunday noon to 3 pm eastern on tv on c-span2. >> next, secretary of state mike pompeo speaks at a forum on religious freedom, joined by sam brownback, us ambassador at large for religious freedom and spoke and took questions from reporters. this is 20 minutes. >>. >> good afternoon everyone. since the earliest days of his presidency, president trump has directed his administration to defend the rights of religious freedom at home and abroad. religious freedom is a god-given right to which all people are entitled. there's also a sense of essential building blocks of all three societies. ensuring religious freedom arouhe

. >> "the good fight" is unusual in that in our fictional world, trump is the actual president. >> theed to open on election night. >> the president-elect of the united states of america. >> but a week and a half into shooting the pilot, trump won. so, we went back to the drawing board. we just started over again. in the trump era, changes for scripted tv is the reality. >> there's an impulse to be relevant and comment on what's going on. >> alex is the creator of "homeland." >> do you talk about how to make that part of the show? >> it's the first thing we discuss every morning. especially now when the news cycle is just so crazy. >> breaking news, defending putin. >> breaking news tonight, a stunning shakeup at the white house. >> is this germain to the story we're telling? >> porn star and a staff departure, just another day in the trump white house. >> we were all utterly, utterly blown away. we were trying to adapt to trump's america. >> is it fair to say that america is a hub of the resistance? >> it's no secret that hollywood leans progressive. and there's a certain, dangerous p