you know there was recently a controversy about huck finn. and the use of the n word. and there was a professor who took it out of the text. and this sparked a controversy about sanitizing american history or in the context of my own book, sort of politically correct speech code and how inappropriate it was given the fact that mark twain, samuel clemons wrote it with the power of that word intended. so i want to just take a look at what the sanitized, if you will, text looks like. i've picked up that book. again, that's sitting on my desk. and then there are -- there are two books. i'm trying to remember their names. it's such an opportunity to help out our authors that i'm reading. but one is a book by lawrence block who's a mystery writer. and i think it's called a drop of the hard stuff. it's a mystery novel. and lawrence block is to me just a terrific, terrific mystery writer. that's actually at the top of my list. if i wasn't here tonight, i'd go read lawrence block. yeah, i think lawrence block is terrific. and then george, who's a mystery writer who writes about

there was recently a controversy about huck finn and a professor who took the n word out of the text and this sparked a controversy about american history in the context of my own book, politically correct speech codes and how inappropriate it was given the fact mark twain and -- samuel clemens wrote it with the power of that word intended. i wanted to take a look at what the sanitized text looked like. i picked up that book and it is sitting on my desk. and then there are two books. i am trying to remember their names. and opportunity to help out authors i am reading. lawrence block is a mystery writer. i think it is called a drop of the hard stuff. it is a mystery novel. lawrence block is to me a terrific mystery writer. that is of the top of the my list. if i wasn't here i would read lawrence block. he is terrific. and george pellicano writes about mysteries in washington d.c.. has a new book coming out. his wife told me about it because she exercises where i go. i am looking forward to that. he has seen its on streets i travel every day. >> tell us what you are reading this summe

there with a controversy about huck finn and the use of the n word and a professor who took it out of the text. this sparked a controversy about sanitizing american history for the context of my own book politically correct speech code and how inappropriate it was given the fact mark twain wrote it with the power of the word intended. i want to look at the sanitized text so i picked up that book and is sitting on my desk. there are two books. i am trying to remember their names. and opportunity to help authors i am reading but what is called -- by lawrence block called a drop of the hard stuff. it is a mystery novel. he is a terrific mystery writer. that is at the top of my list. if i wasn't here tonight i would read lawrence block. and a mystery writer who writes about mysteries in washington d.c.. his wife exercises the same place i do and i am looking forward to that because he said scenes on streets i travel everyday. >> tell us what you are reading this summer. send us a tweet at booktv. >> jason ryan sat down with booktv when we visited charleston to check out the city's rich li

you know, there was recently a controversy about huck finn and the use of the n word. there was a professor who took it out of the text. and this sparked a controversy about sanitizing american history. or in the context of my own book, sort of politically correct speech codes. and how inappropriate it was given the fact that mark twain and samuel clemons wrote it with the power of that word intended. i want to look at the "sanitized." that's sitting on my desk. and then there are two books, i'm trying to remember their names. and i -- an opportunity to help out the authors that i'm read being of one is by lawrence block. i think it's called a drop of the hard stuff. it's a mystery novel. lawrence bloc to me is a great mystery writer. i think lawrence block is terrific. and lawrence who's a mystery writer that writes about mysteries set in washington, wa, d.c. he has a new book coming out. his wife told me about it, because she exercised at the same y i do. he set scenes on streets that i travel every day. i want to see what george has done. >> tell us what you are rea

it's the same issue of the "n" word coming up in huck finn and when we talk about it in class, which we do, i tell them that you have to see that in the context of the whole work. and much of what susan was saying before, in terms of how hemingway, as we have heard over and over again today, was a listener and he picked up on real speech, that he heard, and he didn't try to fluff it up or destroy it. he wanted, as we said over and over again, he wanted to write truly. and it had to be true and so, he didn't play political games, either. but it is a difficult issue. >> many of the photographs and the original film that you have seen today have come to us from the j.f.k. library. wea talked earlier about how his collection came there and also the library of congress. we thank them for letting you see and hear hemingway. john denninger is with us, with the staff of the hemingway home. where are you right now? >> i am standing on the second second-floor balcony just after the master bedroom. >> every time i told people i was coming here, anyone who has been here actually tells me the sto