to get invitation letters within the country to hold book events and other speaking events and harpercollins wrote me a letter and i was able to get a special visa to come. so the requirements, in addition to the visa, you need to take a covid test three days before your flight. so i did that and when i got on the flight, i wore my mask, pretty heavy duty. a surgical mask inside andab wes before i couldn't take it anymore. everyone else was wearing surgical masks and my section of the plane was less than 25% full and i flew at 1:00 a.m. everybody was sleeping the whole time. felt very safe. so we landed in taiwan. >> how did they start tracking? >> yeah, as soon as i landed, i brought an extra cell phone just for it but i was required to buy an taiwanese sim card to have a taiwanese phone number. every day, i get an email or text message from their central epidemic command center to check on my health and still in quarantine. they use this to track my location and make sure i haven't left. i know people in quarantine, if they don't touch their phone for a certain amount of time, they'll get

. >> at harpercollins, echo in partnership, created a publishing diverse city, at columbia publishing, that is still a smaller organization than the one you are talking about. it segues nicely to the bounty of jobs in publishing that we don't necessarily all know are there without education in the field, writers and editors, you want to talk about that? >> somebody told me, and it is a complicated industry and i am still learning, i didn't start working at literary magazines until i was 33 so i came from outside the industry though i had been within it since then and it was a real education in all the things no one has told me. we have to think about diversifying the industry with decision-makers, executives, publishers and editors and marketing folks, and design, legal, hr and all the things that go and fail. and it has a title as an author, this person made this book and takes an enormous team to make a lot of these books, if you don't have diversity at every level you don't have the checks and balances that prevent this from happening or diverse city of information where there are

out now with harpercollins.e are joined today by author jack fairweather a former one report in iraq and afghanistan and the office of a war of choice and the good worker he has served as "the daily telegraph" baghdad bureau chief and is a video journalist for the "washington post" in afghanistan. interviewing jack today is robert robert jan van pelt. from 1997-98 he presided over the team that developed a master plan to preserve visit auschwid participate as an expert witness in the famous case against the british historic author david irving, holocaust tonight. robert has published widely, serve as a struggle advisor and cultured the evidence room which was exhibited in 2016. before we get started i want to make a few quick housekeeping notes. we will have time about 15 minutes or so for audience q&a at the end of this program. so make sure to hold your question for the and if you can't and will try to do her best to get to as many as possible. and please note that this program is being recorded and will be av

viacom cbs and is the third largest publisher in the same trailing only penguin random house and harpercollinsamerica, a nonprofit literary organization that champions free expression of writers around the world has named novelist and pulitzer prize-winning playwright actor as its new president he succeeds novelist jennifer egan who led the organization for the past two years. also in the news, mpd bookscan reports that print book sales were up just over seven percent for the week ending august 29, adult nonfiction sales continue their recent gains up four percent led by john meacham's new book about the late congressman john lewis titled "his truth is marching on" the estate of t.s. eliot has donated 20,000 pounds to help keep the brontc personage museum childhood home of 19th century novelist emily charlotte and brontc open, the museum has forecast a loss of 500,000 pounds due to the coronavirus pandemic. booktv will continue to bring you new programs and publishing news, you can also watch all of our archived programs anytime at booktv.org. >> during a virtual event hosted by the commonweal