a science-fictio science fiction berkeley science-fiction was popping in the area the time he was therethe collection now has about 300,000 items. the qualitative measures are relevant to the science fiction collection what is great about the collection in a research library like this one is what research can be done with it and by any measure of magnificence in terms of research that can be done here. this is the oldest book in our collection. it is a utopia by mr. thomas more. he was a churchman who disagreed with henry the eighth about who was the head of the english church and was beheaded by henry the eighth in 1535. utopia is a pun that means nowhere or no place but in his book it has come to mean the perfect society or the ideal society. it's better than they are in the world baseball around them. this is the one that is considered foundational for the utopian narrative. it's been very influential and speculative infection. there is another genre that's a big in science fiction called dystopia which is a worse for society than the one we live in so utopia founded the two major ch

it was much loved in science-fiction adventure, science-fiction. but the impact it had, the biggest impact it had came in 1938 where on halloween 1938 there was a radio drama of war of the worlds in which orson welles was involved 's ladies and gentlemen, here i am to the stonewall and from here i get a sweep of the whole thing . there's something happening. something rising out of the pit. i can make out a small beam of light against a mirror . it strikes him head on. quick's it was so realistic that there was panic across the us thinking that this wasn't a radio drama. this was alive news reports of martians invading earth and its spread the idea of other planets, aliens, martians far beyond the science-fiction readers of 1938, not that people didn't know that mars was out there in 1938, not that no one had ever imagined being from other planets, but this puts a science-fiction scenario in the brains of nearly every american. it reflected the time, this was 1938, thoughts of war, invasion, conquest were very much in the news. so that's one really

read science fiction for that, what if. people who read science fiction and -- all sorts of other things, but these speculative genres, what is important to them when the ask the hard questions is they don't let us get complacent, get stuck. the thing about science fiction is it keeps you working intellectually, analytically, imaginatively, and that's an important part of being human. >> what start ode as citrus research facility in 1907, the university of california riverside is a school of over 23,000 students and hosts one of the countries most diverse campuses it's here on campus we spoke with awe cor cliff to learn more about the history of native americans in riverside county. >> a qwia indian, grew up on the reservation, the village in the town of ansa, and rupert came from a leadership family. his family were the nets, the chiefs are called nets here, and so he came from a leadership family of cattle people and so he grew up as a cowboy, and he attended college. he lived in the riverside area. he supported the forma

science fiction but speculative fiction. he is a great writer. word after word after word, he just pools you write in in a way that i think is amazing. >> host: your favorite sci-fi books, the city and the stars, hothouse. >> guest: brian aldus. really, he understood things about plants when he wrote that book, putting it like 1 billion years in the future, he understood things people didn't start getting to until decades after he wrote the book about the life of plants, how they think, how they move, how they respond. we think plants are plants, but no. they have an interesting and different intelligence. >> host: the those books inspire your signed section writing? >> guest: every science fiction i ever read influenced, beginning with any done when i was 10. >> host: how and why did you decide to write science fiction? >> guest: it is interesting. science fiction is so important. look at someone like jules vern who defined the following century with his inventions in his novels it became real, submarine, rockets to the moo

there was a story that was fiction embedded in it. unlike schindler's list, which we know the story was authentic itself. miller, played by hanks, the leader of the squad, is your teacher, plainspoken, could american young man. again, a little old for the position with his biological age. he took on this absurd mission head on -- not really that absurd, as you know, general patton went behind and enemy lines and lost a lot of guys trying to rescue his son-in-law, so maybe it was not absurd conceptually, but in any event, there is a heavy theme of sacrifice that comes forward. as you begin to move forward to are the climax of the movie, there is the bridge scene, which in a way goes back to that metaphor, and if even used the bunkers, the alamo myth, fight to the last man. the larger theme goes back to talking the persian war. there was a great scene where theoretically xerxes is looking at 5000 troops coming down and marching for seven days and seven nights, and crossing this epic thing. it was portrayed as the civilized versus the ba

four days of non-fiction authors and books on book tv on c-span 2. television for serious readers. for more scheduling information check your cable guides, our website book tv other, and our social media pages at book tv. book booktv recently visited the national press club annual book fair in washington, d.c. and spoke with author will haygood about columbus ohio during the civil rights area. >> host: what is "tigerland"? >> wil: everyone inside the shyst hurt, and full of pain because martin luther king, jr. has been assassinated, and robert frvetion kennedy has been assassinated. the school has the first black principal, the segregated school, and they wanted to do something special and the school principal tells them everybody is watching us, so we can't show anger, we can't walk out like some other high schools are doing. so first, they went won the state basketball championship, and then 55 days later the all-black school went to state baseball championship, first time in the history of the state that the same school wins two championships in one year. the fact that they won

. >> host: is it hard to translate those into science fiction format? >> guest: the next question format?guest co. the next question everyone asks is how can you write fiction in this era where do you worry that you will be left behind by the margin of history and i kind of feel like if you don't hav have seven ideas for novels each day you are not really trying. >> host: you said all writers to extrapolate the future is to comment on the now. can you expand on that? >> guest: it reaches into the world and does this diagnostic thing. if you go to the doctor with a sore throat they will swap your throat and then tell you what's going on with your body but she hasn't been able to do that because she made this incredibly unfaithful replica of your body and science-fiction writers build a kind of toy world where that technology is a way of surfacing the emotional properties of it before 1948 we didn't have a way to talk about it and george orwell gives an incredibly useful narrative for talking about the emotional impact of living under the conditions of ma

nonfiction and of course fiction.ause] to present the national book award for young people's literature is robin benway whose book, far from the tree, one last year's national book award for young people's literature. her six novels for young people have received numerous awards and recognition, including starred reviews from kirkus, booklist and publishers weekly and they've been published in more than 20 countries. it gives me great, great pleasure to introduce robin benway. [applause] >> hello, hello. so good to be back in my approximate 1000% less nervous than i was at this time last year. i'm so privileged to be at the young people's literature category and on that note i didn't do it alone and i would like to thank my fellow judges for not only reading hundreds of books this year, but for doing so with critical eyes and festive hearts and incredible amounts of humor. it's been an honor to work alongside them this year and i will miss her lengthy conversations are very much. they are lamar giles. [cheers and appl

i don't do scientific work but i do think that fiction is. necessary for asking those questions how people choose given moral dilemmas like my father did. during the second world war. those choices and how we make those choices or to me the most central theme of all my books are actually one of the characters in. prisons that choice between hitler and stalin as a choice between the sister nation germany and variance the russians and i think have geopolitical choice is back and it is even framed in the same way this thing and their regions may be faced with the same. your father faced two years back. i think the choice will come back. you know time after time whenever there's a conflict of interest we sometimes come tuesday with moral choices. but the conflict of interest will always be there of course that what we're striving for is to is to make our interest internationally common that we share interest but working to towards that goal is of course a long long way to go and along that way i'm sure there will be people over the world having t

no fictional mammy she. one of her sons was born either shortly before or shortly after the civil war. he did learn to read and write, and by 1900, he was listed in the alabama census owning his own home. his first wife, alice, had a son named robert. annie.married they had two children. after robert disappeared, and he moved to chicago during the great migration. nurse, and married a they had eight children. their granddaughter, michelle obama, moved into the white house as first lady. this story was only recovered recently, broken in the new york times and expanded into a book. for many decades of commemoration, we have visited battlefields. some suggest we turn our lens to encompass a broader view of the battles of that era. jim downs has offered new insight into the cost of war, along with the gains for black women. i would suggest that from kitchens to courtrooms, from torches to pedestals, american women -- from porches to pedestals, american women survived after peace was declared. other stories have

that's the fictional idea. as i watch the increase in the popularity and the contracts going to private military contracting firms like black water and other ones 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 where it allows the u.s. government to have plausible deniability. i thought this is the next big thing coming. i got introduced to somebody who is retired from the cia. i dedicated actually last summer's book to dewey, who just passed away sadly. and dewey had something that he was doing, where he was outsourcing intelligence gathering in multiple different ways, whether it was gathering atmospherics on the ground in afghanistan to help inform the dod about how to keep the troops safe. he was a fascinating guy. i based his boss on dewey. >> do cia intelligence operatives have the unlimited funds that scott >> [laughter] >> no, they don't, unfortunately. there was a great book

. >> anyway richard was my brother and wrote a book about it's a true book about a fiction it's a you to novel about fiction which is my family fick -- it's a true novel about a fick son which is my family dick -- fiction which is my family fickson. >> and have you discovered folks like yourself who later in adulthood discovered they are jewish? >> many. turns out it's very common narrative. there's been lots of box and memoirs madeleine albright and we have been on panels called new jews of many people who have discovered as adults that they had joyish heritage. >> so, i am wondering as part of your -- the ark of your narrative so far, how did you begin to integrate and make choices about jewishness and jewish life to the life you already have? how do you understand jewish who will a days in how do you understand jewish approaches to biblical narrative and jewishethical values about being in the world. that kind of thing. can you talk about what that is for you? >> for me it's very much been inan evolving process where i pulled on one legging at a time of jewishness and put something

that is why we love it in fiction. we turned to fiction for consolation.g, no matter what the odds are and that gives us consolation and satisfaction and makes a still better about the world. what about guns? guns feature prominently in a lot of the books and jack reacher is not adverse to shooting people in the front and indeedin shooting people in the front and indeed in the back. if necessary. i just wonder whether there is a danger that you fetishise, glamorise, i'm not sure what the right word is, but your relationship with violence and indeed gun violence is complex. it is. and i make reacher make the point many times, never tell soldier that guns are fun because that word you use, set as a jay shannon, is the problem. gun ownership in america is huge. maybe i—handed million people. —— fetishisation. i know people will shoot a couple of beer which then feed theirfamily shoot a couple of beer which then feed their family through the winter. —— deer. 0n the other hand, the sort of person who fetishises is a serious problem. they are not all the same. y

two thousand and one a space odyssey the mother of all science fiction films. in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight director stanley kubrick rewrote the rules of cinema in a way that continues with mates and inspire. this conversation can serve no purpose anymore today on kino we're doing a deep dive into two thousand and one we're devoting our entire show to stanley kubrick's saif i class a. film turns fifty this year but two thousand and one is still way ahead of its time. when kubrick began putting his son fine masterpiece together in the mid one nine hundred sixty s. americans and c.v.s. were vying to be the first to reach the moon to do. that a visionary but believable set design kubrick hired nasa experts who had worked with rocket pioneer than a full blown the frankfurt show explores how meticulously every technical detail was planned. i'm. the book was the first to use product placement that's futuristic watch from the luxury brand hamilton went on sale as the film opened. but only a few original props are preserved cooper destroyed most of them. th

i love the fiction books.that is the house i built with my own hands but for me my greatest legacy will not be about writing. it will be my children. i wanted them to have heroes to look up to especially in today's times when we are starving for heroes. whatever your politics are we are starving, we need better heroes but they are there. they are there. just got to find them and teach your kids who they are. i love that people take our i am books, build libraries of real heroes, kids and grandkids, nieces and nephews. i love that this holiday season or the past halloween, all these kids write me letters, this is the first year my daughter didn't go as a princess thanks to your books, she went as amelia erhard or albert einstein or rosa parks. in my most necessary moment i could never anticipate i would be responsible for someone's howling costume. thanks to chris heliopolis, our amazing artist, kids followed up with these characters. he is the super star of the show and he has a style like charlie brown meets

i love historical nonfiction and fiction.gree with her totally on how important words are. it amazes me sometimes how the english language gets distorted, and, you know, 25 years ago, a word is different use than it is today. and the other thing -- the question i want to ask her is, why does she think that all of the -- i want to say great, but in a way i want to say large religions of the world are basically male dominated because throughout history there are women, such as cleopatra and queen elizabeth and throughout history, these women are so influential, their countries were at peace most of the time that these women were the leaders of their country. so i'm asking her, why are all these religions so male dominated? thank you. >> well, darlene, i just want to say you have one of my most beloved names. my older sister is a darlene, and it is not such a common name. so it's nice to hear from you. and the question of the suppression of female religious power is -- it's really a question, you know, for somebody like karen ar

>> throughout the year book tv attends author events conferences and book fairs to speak with non-fiction authors. at the national press club's annual book fair in washington we spoke with vanity fair editor david marglic about the relationship between robert f. kennedy and martin luther king, jr. >> he's a former legal affairs reporter from the "new york times," mr. david margolick, you're the author of "the promise and the dream," most people will link those two from those deaths in 1968, but they had a robust relationship, is that correct? >> david: robust is one way to describe it. complicated, difficult, sir ptitious, undercover, tense, evolving, those are all words you could use to describe it too. it was a relationship that was fraught -- i think from the would be one more good word and it changes greatly over the eight years they knew each other. they're bonded together in the public mind because they were killed in such a short period of time, in 1968 within a few weeks of one another, and linked in the public mind sentimentally. abraham martin and john walking over the hill toge

i think if we are talking about --fictional venues platforms, that is a different story from fictional. -- can get inre more trouble with fictional because you can distort perceptions. >> i can't necessarily pick apart a case study in terms of what not to do, but i can tell you that the pitfalls and the things i would like to avoid moving forward and making movies together and looking at continental said -- continental justice is stereotyping, generalizing. the storyu can't tell -- you have to always aim for authenticity of experience. authenticity of the motion. too often there is a great story the stereotype. it is the caricature. it is not diving deep into the authenticity of the experience and what are you trying to say? pitfall is being too preachy. we are trying to engage people and bring them into this and experience and emotion. to be too finger wagging, a think, is offputting for a lot of folks. how do you say what you are going to say in a way that people can hear it? the aims and pitfalls. a balancing act. claudia: how about for you, bill? try to deal strictly in nonfiction.

i write in spanish, well, fiction.tion happens here, it doesn‘t happen in the brain. so i would not be able to process fiction with dictionaries. no. what does that feel like? you still think in spanish? yes. and i dream in spanish, i pray in spanish, i make love in spanish. i would feel ridiculous panting in english, actually. laughter. loss, obviously is a thread that does run through your literature. if it‘s loss of home, country, loss of family. butjust tell me about the house of spirits. because it started first as a letter to your grandfather. yes. what did you want to say to him? that i remembered everything he had ever told me, because he was dying and i knew that he had told me so many stories, in a way i had been the receiver, the beneficiary of all those stories and i did not want him to think they were lost. i had them with me, all of them. he died, he was almost 100. but it was the natural order of things. but the loss of your daughter, paula, which was so unforeseen... yeah, well, you know... there is a q

if you think the country is creepy now, i like their calling fiction writers.i was honored to do it. they called my friend brad thor. they called these producers and directors and they would have us with a secret service agent and a chemistry it would give us a topic like washington, d.c. they would say destroyed. i would come up with my we destroyed. the secret service agent i was with would say no, here's a better way to security. the chemist would say no, let's use this chemical instead you want to spend less quickly in there and do more damage. we would destroy a place like washington in a matter of an hour. you don't go home feeling good. you go home terrified because you realize how easy it is to kill us. but on its do it. love doing to get what i was bill was whiny? why did they call me of all people? i could call anybody, but what would writer? i traced it back through history to a man named george washington, and george washington i found out had his own secret literally i mean, it's crazy to me it still happens but he had his own secret group come his

tell us a little bit about your decision to actually sit down and write fiction.and how they came to you and how the impetus for writing "the joy luck club" actually happened. >> there was no single moment that i said i'm going to write fiction. it's almost hard to think if there was a one day revelation, but one of the times when i was motivated was after reading the book, love medicine, which is about a community of people and they're in different voices but i realized i had the stories but they're all in different voices. they were primarily my voice, but i had different ways that i wanted to see my life to the voice of mother, daughter, different situations. there was another moment when i started reading again, and i was writing the corporate business articles. i was good at it, i had to say, i was good at writing the corporate things or employing automation materials, why you should work harder for the same amount of money. [laughing] very, very good at that. i had a lot of clients as a freelancer, but i was unhappy. i would go down to my office every day an

i think fiction is powerful that way.spent a lot of time telling, expecting my two parents to tell me details. the beautiful thing about details, fiction, you don't need the details. your outline, you're still telling the truth. [applause] >> i identified with grace in a strange way. i don't remember the exact age i picked up the book, it seems like i always knew about it. think about grace was, i identified with her story. i loved hearing stories, telling stories, i them out on my own. she possessed this quality that i wanted so badly. outgoing and brash. i was always a very shy, quite child. it felt like, this is how i'm supposed to be. the way i am is wrong. it was a very mixed, i had a very mixed emotion with this story that i also really loved. grace stayed with me throughout my teenage years, into adulthood it was only recently that i got another copy of the book for my daughter. when i was reading it to her, i started crying because i remembered the feeling i had my entire life. this was somebody who i wanted to be

interestingly enough the novel was by the only foray into fiction of bonita mussolini. the book was called the cardinal's mistress. what did dan brown, scott turow and wilson ribeiro -- richard wilbur oh have in common? they are all graduates of amherst. when bob dylan won the nobel prize in literature in 2017 he became the second nobel laureate to be rewarded that prize and an academy award? who is the other? george bernard shaw won the academy award for best writing screenplay for the 1938 version of pygmy alien with wendy hellard and leslie allen. when this news was brought to him in london he reportedly said i have never been so insulted in my entire life. who invented the phrase stream of consciousness? william james. what naturalist has more than 300 plants and 1000 animals named for him and more places on earth and heaven than any other person? alexander von humboldt whose marvelous book by andrea wolf called invention of nature, his biography which i recommend. and this one is for i am sure, all of my fellow graduates from catholic high school in the bronx who w

burgess meredith: isaac asimov is a prolific writer of science fiction and a professor of chemistry. thinking in terms of an earth to move. as has a special point of view. the feet of apollo 8 has a secured interest to myself because it places me in the unaccustomed position of being over conservative. in 1939, i wrote a story describing in essence this light. i placed it in 1973. if someone asked me then, do you suppose people will fly around the moon and back by 1973, i would have answered, not really, but it makes a good story. they did it in 1968. i am more happy than i can say. burgess meredith: isaac asimov stands with one foot in the world of science and one in fantasy to take it that -- a fictional look at the future. the practical world now includes outer space. a comment from the returning space capsule during a tv transmission starts us off in another direction. >> with with we have you about 180,000. >> all right. >> looking from 180,000 miles in outer space. >> i keep imagining i am a traveler from another planet when i think about the earth at this altitude, whether i t

it is in his fictional world and that's how we started the show. . . . .one of the great places in washington, d.c. that has declaration of independence, the u.s. constitution to concede the magna carta for rubenstein is there, incredible things to go see. anyone can walk in and see things. the archivist of the united states is one of the most incredible people and what they told me when i was there is it's not just that it's so much stuff they can't just put it in one building so there are hidden caves all across the country that house or documents. it's not because they did it and batman thinks it is awesome. it's because the temperature down in a cave can make sure to keep it coolt' like that we have these caves all across the u.s.. st. louis, all over the place and they let me go see them and i went out there like i want to go check on them so at this point there isn't one or two, there are many and some in the library of congress i l found ot that have recordings and ones that have military documents and the one i went to was a place called iron mount

from science fiction. from science science fact... separate science fact... from scie once thought to be pure science fiction.... a year ago this month... the pentagon admitted it has secretly been studying u-f-os... and released a few videos recorded by military pilots. (grant) it's triggered a newfound interest in the phenomenon.... including a new documentary film about a u-f-o whistleblower.reporter george knapp was at the los angeles premiere. c2.5 g 0 c2.5 g 0 c2.5 g 0 (grant)that was george knapp reporting.knapp, by the way, has a consulting credit in the film.he's the one who brought lazar's story about area 51 to light about 30 years ago.knapp says he remains skeptical ... but thinks lazar's story is worthy of investigation. (vicki) a 62-year-old college student getting his college diploma after years away from school is impressive enough --- but one student at u-c davis is going beyond that. michael o-hearn is not only three times the age of most of his classmates --- but he's also in a wheelchair. but ask him and hell tell

narrator: isaac asimov stands with one foot in the world of science and one in fantasy to take a fictionalk at the future. and underestimates. the practical world now includes outer space. a comment from the returning space capsule during a tv transmission starts us off in another direction. >> looking at yourselves as seen from 180,000 miles in outer space. >> i keep imagining i am a traveler from another planet, what would i think about the earth at this altitude, whether i think it can be inhabited or not. narrator: friday, december 27th, re-entry, splashdown, acquisition, recovery. the last 15 minutes of the flight began at a speed of almost 25,000 miles an hour. then only five miles from the appointed rendezvous in the pacific, it ended. speed zero. if a machine may be said to be born when it performs a useful function, perhaps it is said to die when the function is fulfilled. having died, it will be enshrined next to its young ancestors, the aircraft of wilbur and orville wright, lindbergh's spirit of st. louis. this is not an end, far from it. it is the start of a longer plan. music

as what they have seen in science fiction movies and that's part of the problem so on one hand we have to educate people. on all levels of what ai really is and what changes brings to the economy and to the welfare of the society we're talking about the changes i mean what a lot of people seem to know is that ai can take over many many jobs are we heading towards a society with very high unemployment and. there has been changes in job structure ever since if you look at the structure of jobs and comp right now and compare it to the situation twenty or even ten years ago we see totally new wood jobs totally different jobs a lot of changes and that this will continue with ai as well and the challenge here and the task that we have is to manage this change from the driver's seat if we are scared and don't do anything that is a real threat we have to actively look into it develop concepts and manage the change now of course you say we have to do this we have to do that reporting also that the gemini lags behind asia and the u.s. when it comes to exploring ai what's at stake here. the u.s.

. ♪ >> isaac asimov is a professor of biochemistry and prolific writer of science fiction.years he's been thinking in terms of an earth to moon to earth trip. he has a special point of view. >> the feat of apollo 8 is of interest to noomyself because i places any the position of being overconservati overconservative. in 1939, i wrote a story describing in essence this plight. i placed it in 1973. i suppose if someone had asked me then, do you really suppose people will fly around the moon and back to earth by 1973? i would have answered, not really, but it makes a good story. well, they did it in 1968 and i am more happy than i can say. >> isaac asimov stands with one foot in the world of science and one foot in fantasy to take a fictional look at the future. and underestimates with both feet in the practical world and now includes outer space, a comment from the returning space capsule during a tv transmission starts us off in another direction. >> we have you about 180,000. >> all right. looking at yourselves, seen from 180,000 miles out in space. >> mike, what i keep ima

so what is true and what is fiction? does it matter when you have someone in this position dealing with very vulnerable people, does it matter whether or not he's joking and thinking of people as subhuman or whether or not he's doing this, which could be a criminal offense if he is literally terrorizing people on purpose that, is all being investigated at this point, brooke. >> follow the investigation for us. sara sidner, thank you. >> you are watching cnn. i'm brooke boldual baldwin. the president is calling michael cohen a liar. a short time ago he appeared on fox news. >> i never directed him to do anything wrong. whatever he did, he did on his own. he's a lawyer. a lawyer who represents a client is supposed to do the right thing. that's why you pay them a lot of money, et cetera, et cetera. he is a lawyer. he represents a client. i never directed him to do anything incorrect or wrong, and he understands that. >> that goes against what is in this prosecutor's filing. they say cohen did indeed make the payments, quote

but guys, james bond is a fictional character. he's not real. what's next for you researchers?or perversion since he never wears pants? or criticize the hulk because he keeps destroying his. while four drinks per movie does sound like a lot, with fiction, you've got to remember time is different. a movie could take place over a month or a year. i once watched "love actually," and it seemed like a lifetime. to say that bond is a drunk for having four drinks and a two hour movie, it's like saying how awesome it is we can get across the universe in a couple hours because that's how long the last "star trek" movie lasted. what is this stupid study tell us? summed scientists are starved for attention. and that the gender cops of academia are spreading their wet blanket across any behavior they deem masculine, and that's what bond was. what do these people want? a completely sanitized politically correct james bond. the folks at the greg gutfeld shall have given you one. take a look. >> this christmas, bond is back like you've never seen him before. >> are you hungry? >> violence is

join us for in depth fiction addition with brad meltzer. today from noon until 3 p.m. eastern on book tv, on c-span2. coming up this weekend on book tv, today at 7:30 p.m. senator bernie sanders talks about his book, where we go from here, two years. >> you can watch. you can watch television from morning to night. that question will not,. is it appropriate that the top 1/10 of 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 90%? that in theriate wealthiest country in the history of the world, we have the highest rate of child poverty. of almost any major country on earth. are we concerned that a handful of media conglomerates control what we see, hear and read? announcer: tonight at nine eastern, national review discusses the book melting pot or civil war. the sun of immigrants makes the case against open borders. when you think about the next births, with a falling rates among native born americans, immigration is a driving factor, not just as a discrete matter of immigration policy but in terms of human capital. the character of our school and future workforce. it is an importa

>> is on a truee story. >> a novel is fiction, okay? in history is not.u adopt something that happened in the past and take it in fictionalized the zero and stay true to it fresh and mark >> that's a good question. maybe the right way of thinking about that is not how, the question is why. the reason why i did it is because every time i tried to figure out a way to write a book that people would read about black history, and figuresac in his ac black history they're going to write to the comedy section. who stole my cheese or whatever it's called. [laughter] i wanted to write a book that - would sort of change the mythology of or at least challenge the mythology of the white world war ii veterans. because the mythology of a soldier is the kind of mythology that has really gotten us to where we are now, which is a problematic place. i wanted to change that are challenged up with a book that was interesting and also had some of the dynamics of race and class in american medicine that we ignore because we have this wonderful culturalha tapestry tt america is

media today so they're going to write some salacious headlines that are just frankly going to be fiction so remember that number one but number two go out into any grocery market or or church or workplace or just in your street your local town and you'll see people of all races and all ethnicities and all religions and all political persuasions by the way walking talking and working together that's the real society we have right now and that's very promising to me you're living in california you can california kind of to the to the soviet union really so that your neighbors have a sort of law is a liberal laws you mention and they'll say to conserve water won't serve it at restaurants you have to us for it whilst wasting billions of gallons of water in the ocean yeah that's exactly true that the hypocrisy in the government and the way it preys on the people the way it taxes them in insidious in secretive ways is driving people in droves out of california california has gone very far down the road to socialism at this point and i don't think that most californians would deny that whether

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