reading. parents come up all the time and say i can't get my kids reading. and i say, with all due respect, and you get them to the dinner table? you have to make it as a rule your house. we read in our house. we read in our house. that's the coolest thing because if your kids can't read well, if they can't read well, high school is going to be a lot tougher than it needs to be. whatever, science, history will all be harder. maybe you get to nap without reading and maybe not. if your kids can't read well, some of them will not get through high school. if your kids can't read well, choices and opportunities in life will be limited. they're not going to have as many choices. but the cool thing about looks, the great and terrific thing is there's so many really good books out there for them to read. there's a lot of books that will absolutely blow the minds of your kid. you know, harry potter, terrific series. when the kids come and terrific illustrations. books about sports, fine. if you have boys, let them read anything. , looks, great, graphic novels, almanac

reading. parents, to mail the time and they say i can't get my kids reading, and i say you know with all due respecto you get them to the dinnertable? you have to make it a rule in your house. meade in our house. we read in our house. we read in our house. that is the coolest thing. because, if your kids can't read well, if they can't read well, high school is going to be a lot tougher than it needs to be. whatever, science, history, it's all going to be harder. maybe you can get through math without reading and maybe not. with the kids can't read well, some of them will not get through high school. if your kids can't read well, their choices and opportunities in life will be limited. they're not going to have as many choices. but the cool thing about books, the really terrific thing is that there are so many really good books out there for them to read. right here the at the book fair, there are a lot of looks that really absolutely -- to your kids. "harry potter," a turkic series, wimpy kids, terrific illustrations. books about sports. fine, if you have boys let them read anything. comic books, gr

so i will read you chapter 26. w paragraphparagraph s. >> to try to understand in my heart how it could happen to children so closely matched could meet such different fates, i enter a subterranean world of nightmares the sudden panic when nelson's hands slipped from ninth through the crowd the moment, a reason seems a better defense, let me understand in my logical way what made the difference between two children who began almost as twins inseparable and in my own eyes for surely the identical. u.s. smarter and have the father i wished for and why did buy into our or even thrive when he failed with the same dangers that surrounded me? with the culture that pushes boys into the street while protecting girls but there uó more.ÑuoÑóuóuó mentioning that day at the hospital the one thing called it what you like discipline, determination, p erseverance, the force oftóóí will even apart from hiswí saying so i knew it made alltóuó the difference of my life with only i could bottle it i would give it to every kid to kno

i read the newspaper so i know that unusual is the polite word for murdered or murderer.hy else would a poor person's name apeer in the news? why do i think the newspapers then report differently from today's news? i'm here in ireland reading every paper just in case. i will move ahead. the lacies lived in cottage and palace. in 1848 dozens of families left cottage and the adjoining towns of pad ox, dogs town and palace. i find no mentions of evictions in the newspaper. 731 reported people the largest eviction of a town land in one day happened not 20 miles from cottage and palace in april of 1849. the story had one short paragraph about it in the paper. could it be that most evictions did not make it to the newspaper unless someone died? in the news of january 19th 1848, judith was ejected off a small farm by the landlords james and john parker. she wandered in want without shelter and entered her former abode on the 18th of august last. for this forceable possession shes tried and sentenced to 6 months confinement which punishment of and died of natural causes. eventual

i want to read you some and i guess i should read a little and i want to open up for questions about this book or the other books or what i'm doing now or not doing now. basically, for me i think samurai's garden another reason why love this book. everybody says, what's your favorite book? i think, they are like kids. you wouldn't say johnny is my favorite son. we all books at the time we need to write that book. it's hard to be an author because you have an audience and they want you to write particular books. if you don't write the book they want you to write then it's something else. but all the books are different in that way. because samurai's garden gave me the japanese culture and to a large extent samurai's garden taught me how to write. how to write in a way that i don't think i knew as well when i wrote women of the silk. it's processes like that is how i judge each book not so much is, that my best book? is that the best story? but it has to do with, what did i learn from writing that book. i have a friend who is a writer for 3 years trying to finish a novel. sent me an e

i have read all the books you suggested, and i will read them again. do you have any other suggestions for books we should read? >> if you haven't read the mall again read my wife's books, american childhood. [applause] >> nice, thank you. [applause] >> up next, the 2013 literary seminar in florida a panel called how far can the back take us, julie salomon and robyn bracken very sit down for an hour. >> good morning, key west. i am straight man to the stars and i hope the reader's friend. what a pleasure this weekend has been. time is running out. we have a lot of work to do. we are not going to talk about the posted topic exactly but these people, i have three sort of topic sentences i want to be sure we get to and i will throw them out right now. one has to do with the fact the we have a spending of time on the hostile biography. there are lots of them. and thompson's poisonous three volumes on robert frost from which people are still rehabilitating him. i think of clare bloom's book on philip roth and always wonder what in the world would tempt a pe

i hope you will read it 2. -- to find the joy i felt.applause] so i pass on the greatest lesson of this book. to every person in this auditorium who has a living grandparent, aunt or uncle, anyone who was alive who has a memory of your family's history, do what it took me 55 years to get to. sit down and talk to them. re-listen to their stories with an open mind and learn about i know because i do. sunday table or when you are at christmas and you 3]2] [inaudible]"y [laughter] it was very famous and the latino culture, particularly the puerto rican one. one. is that! it here we go again, okay? we all do. how often have you heard the story and you think you know if? you think that you understand the reasons behind it, the wide. you don't really stop to ask why. and so i am giving you a free lesson. don't do what i did. don't wait until they are not here any longer. do it whenever you have the chance. and i have to tell you, i took the time during the busiest part of my life that i had ever had in becoming a supreme court justice, and i di

i am supposed to read some things. i was fretting about that -- what that would be because i wanted to make it very short. i wanted to read from the end of the prologue. one of the things that i was trying to stress in the talk that i gave yesterday and the panel that i appeared on the day before is for all of the undeniable, appalling, dark side of ernest hemingway there was also the light, there was this bone of generosity. sometimes it came out best when a child was involved, and not his own child necessarily and especially an ill child who wouldn't respond to that. but he seemed to respond in a special way. so i was thinking of reading something of a key west passage and i said that would be like a piece of coal offering something to newcastle so i won't read that. i am just going to read this little moment from the end of the prologue and indeed it is the end of ernest hemingway's wife, when everything is lost. but there's still something there. backward, 17 days from his death to june 15th, 1961, at rochester, min

so i read proust, i happened to be ill and i read all of proust in about a couple of weeks and it's truerstand french society reading proust. he is a figure coming from proust, henri, in a way. >> rose: so to understand proust is to understand him? >> to a certain extent. >> rose: tell me about your relationship with him. how did it begin? >> we met through a mutual friend, a mutual photographer called john middy, who was a "life" photographer. his opening line was "i want to see your contact sheets. (laughs) but it's true that he already had the reputation of judging ago photographer by looking at that contact sheet upside down. >> rose: really. upside down? >> yes, he would say you must look at a picture upside down because you can see the construction, you can see the way the photograph has been composed much better. >> rose: so after he shaw your contact sheets? (laughs) >> we got to know each other a little better. (laughs)xd >> rose: your proudest achievement in the service of your country is what? >> well, i cannot, you know, make distinction what was more important than less impo

now that nobody is doing any more reading, i will read. no, i think honestly, it is a question of time, but reading, to bring inspiration, but that is the problem. i get into a book and say that i can make a collection of that after, like, three lines. one time i did an existentialist collection years ago, and i was thinking, so i read a book to no more, to get into it, and sometimes, the explanation can teach you. i read about it and i learned and understood. so i did the collection with my interpretation. i tried to understand the base, the concept, so it is good. you have to read, definitely. >> creativity is so difficult to define by creative people because you just do it instinctively. you were telling me that last night, something inspired you, and you went back andrew your next collection until 4:00 a.m. what inspired you? do you know what set it off? >> i think it is image sometimes. one that you do not expect can be also a surprise. it was not the case here today. yesterday during the night, it was more like an image that i have se

and i read the script. and then i went and got the book and i read the book. and i had a panic attack. i thought why are they trying to ruin my career, which is just beginning now. you know because i'm starting to get parts, character parts, you know, and here is a leading man. and i turned down the audition. i was in new york off broadway,s auditions were if los angeles. and when he heard that this unknown act certificate turning down the audition, he called me up. and he talked me into doing it. >> rose: what did he say? >> he says you don't want to do it because -- >> and i said because, you know i'm a character acker but so far, you know, i am not 6 feet, i'm not blond, you know, and he says did you think it was funny. i said yes, i did think it was funny. he said and you don't want to do it because you're jewish? i said well, that would kind of look underlined if i did it. >> he said well maybe the character is jewish inside, and that was what made me you know, did the audition. he said later, i don't think too long ago in an interview that he never really

i read what i can find.three items in google nusms you are the first person i'm telling this to. >> jon: is that true? >> yes. i would like to say i don't read anything. you actually read half of it and then sit there trying to force out of the artistic process. >> jon: i know for myself i only read things that start with you know his real last name is liebowitz because i know it's a reasonable the critique of what i've done. i'm 50 and i've been reduced to the fetal position under my desk making the mistake of clicking on a blog and saying i'm what? >> you look younger that -- than that. >> jon: really? you are the only person who believes that. >> i really do. >> jon: i'm wearing makeup and -- [ laughter ] >> it's really rough and i'm constantly. i'm unked bien with my twitter. i'm not highly media trained. at the golden globes we went to the endless press opportunity that comes with you won this great thing and work it like you are justin bieber for four hours. >> jon: you are supposed to -- >> i pose for

and he sent it and i read it on the airplane. and it moved me but i would have-- . >> rose: moved y, you were crying. your poor wife looked at you and says why are you crying. >> were you on that plane. how do you know that? it's true. i started crying. >> rose: you said you got to read this. >> and she read it. >> rose: and so what was it about this story? tell us what the story is about and then what was it about this story. >> well, there is a documentary worth seeing called tosca's kiss. and casa verde exists to this day in milan. >> rose: a place like this. >> yesment and this is what sir ronald harwood modelled, in a sense this is what inspired the film he wro was off of this casa verde, was very wealthy, toward the end of its life he built a mansion for himself and stipulated in his will that when he dieds, all of these opera singers and musicians that he had worked with, all his life who at one point had layed lascala who had been celebrated now couldn't pay the rent. he said i want them to have a home. and that's-- that g

i was hearing things, reading things which i have read before. and that sense of admiration and exasperation really resonated with me. indeed, it struck me as a very familiar emotions. and i got to thinking, where does that emotion come from, that combination of admiration and exasperation? i thought of my yale students who sometimes married these contradictions, but i don't think it came from the. i thought of my own effort to connect what i write with what i think is exasperation here being difficulties that i don't know what i think until i write. but the real reason i think that "witness" e-book these mixed emotions in me as i read it, came from the parallels that i saw to it more recently published book, with which i had a somewhat closer connection. it's rather unimaginatively titled george f. kennan and american life. now, i'm chagrined on going back and looking at my book, that in its 800 pages it certainly is not brief. there's not a single reference to whittaker chambers in it. in fact, i particularly appreciate the forbearance of chambe

i read the letters. it was really among the group of very articulate, strong women who were supportive of one another and to a certain extent self sustaining. i thought, how can i do this story just as? and the only way i could figure out to do, wanted to tell the story of these women. i recited to do the trick biography. i felt that was a way to use her as a means to get to the way french and groups of women have a certain time in paris in ourself supportive, self sustaining and extremely important to one another through there lifetime and through old age which i also found very moving. while i was working hard toward the end of working on that book and i was interviewing people. a few people would mention the relationship -- sorry, jen and planned a new cartridge time, and when i would talk about that relationship some people whisper to me, well, you can never mention leo stein in front of gertrude. that is the strangest thing i had ever heard because these were very close. a close family. occur trued l

and then there were a number of works by politicians that i read. his is always dangerous because politicians usually don't write their own books, but i figure they ought to at least be willing to agree with what's in them. so i read several recent oxford newt gingrich on the judiciary. rick perry, governor of texas has a recent book called setup, a states rights manifesto. so that collectively, some politicians on the far right and conservative entertainment complex became the foundation. i probably read 30 or 40 bucks from not wide swath of opinion. >> host: would you expect any more from propagandists and political leaders? is this what we might expect from something as complicated over 200 years ago written about and talked about is people up for election and trying to sell books? is this an inevitable outgrowth of our culture who talks about these issues this way? >> guest: to a large extent, yes. if you look historically, it hasn't changed much over even the last two years. this kind of propagandists use of history, even while the district was

i loved reading it and i quickly found myself a king for help in everything i read. i like ron scanned anna karenina for his devil may care attitude towards paying bills. he throws them all in a drawer and he sits down to pay them three times a year. i learned that the telephone company did not appreciate his point of view. still, with or without the bill paid brodsky's life is more vivid than mine and more vivid than the lives of my friends. and he seemed as real as any character in a biography. and so it was with the book. i fell in love with small boats and sailing through swallows and amazons. my friends and i learned cool from holden caulfield and the catcher in the rye and of course there is poetry. i had more than one teacher whose religion was elliott's four quartets. and the learned attitude from yates and from the greek anthology. we wanted to come proud open night and laughing. and i love this epitaph of any change greek sailor. in a greek anthology translation from a wonderful teacher. tomorrow the wind will have fallen. tomorrow i will be safe that harbor

and i was also not overly impressed by the nature of the hearing process that i read in the transcript. it was not very well-done and i didn't think it was just an issue of language, but what i read into statements. how people were directed. how they were allowed -- and i didn't find it very appropriate to a city agency in terms of how we deal with our citizens, no matter how guilty they may be. so i would probably, based on that, as a counter, and i don't disagree that they have found significant incidents that warrant penalty, but i would reduce the penalty, just because of the due process issues. >> what is your proposal? >> i would reduce it to 30 days. >> you want to bargain 60? >> split it at 45? >> i could get behind 60. >> split it or 60? >> 60. >> i'm comfortable with 60. >> i'm comfortable with 90, but i'm go to 60. >> i accept. i would move to uphold the appeal and reduce the penalty to 60 days suspension. do you need findings? >> would that be on the basis? >> on the basis that the notice was faulty. >> okay. >> i can't get behind that basis actually that the notice was fau

i did read it and said this is exactly what is going on here. that was my introduction to bill buckley who i then met. he was a friend of mine over those many years until he passed away recently. the last time i took the train from washington was to see bill at stanford some years ago. i used to take a all the time to come back and forth, lived outside washington at the time and i always enjoyed writing kindly and i talked about this earlier. the only problem was you had to go through new york and i am always reminded of a little girl who was trying to say the lord's friend got confused and said lead us not into temptation. true or words were never spoken. it is a little better than it used to be. i read "witness" shortly after it came out. it came out when i was a sophomore. i didn't read it at the time, i read and reread it, in rewards careful study. i have approached it as a new book i co-authored that just came out in which chambers the merges as a central character which was not my intention when i began but the more i look into matters the

>> no, but i read it. >> it's right here. >> i move the recommendations. >> we already did. roll call, please. >> have i one question? >> commissioner? >> thank you president yee. this report is annual or every five years? >> it's annual. >> it's actually both. it's done every year and what the government code says is that would like for developers in the city of san francisco to sort of having a non-binding five-year projection each year of what we're spending the money on, so theoretically we're not putting it in a box somewhere. we're not bound by those, but we try to give a listing of work reflect what can be spent on. >> has this group done this every year? >> they have done this report for us every year for the last, i think, four or five years. and one of the other things, by the way, i might add that they are doing for us now is that sacramento has determined that school districts are allowed this year to raise their developer fee amounts that we charge developers. however, the only way we can do that is we need to demonstrate under the government code certain specif

government is the problem. >> i sometimes wish read weed listen to ronald reagan yet again. i think a lot of us would recognize government is the problem and the people, the people with their ideas and their heart, and their passion, they are the solution. i'm not pessimistic about america, i'm optimistic as long as i believe trr there are american that's don't put trusts in politicians and government but put their trust in the lord and in the constitution, and in the future of americans doing great things. the current president keeps reminding us we ought to relie on government to take care of us but that is a very different message from the one john f kennedy made when he was inaugurated. >> to all my fellow americans ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for our country. >> my fellow citizens of the world, ask not what america will do for you, but what, together we can do for the freedom of man. >> you know when i hear that wonderful quote by president kennedy, i heard it all my life. i don't hear a democrat. he was a democrat. but i hear an america

so that was the first book i read, was the glen beck's translation of i think 33, 34 of the federalist papers with a lot of commentary, and also recent biography of george washington and his half reproduction, half commentary on thomas payne's common sense. that's how i started the project, reading those books. i read sean hannity, david barton, the jefferson lies was his most recent book. and a variety of similar works, but those -- and then there were a number of works by politicians i read, and this is always dangerous because politicians usually don't write their own books, but i figure they ought to at least be willing to agree what's in them. so i read several recent books by newt gingrich on the judiciary. mike lee, rick perry, governor of texas, has a fairly recent book called "fed up." and it's a state's rights manifesto. so that collectively, in of the politicians on the far right, and then that conservative entertainment complex who became the foundation -- i probably read 30 or 40 books from that wide swath of opinion. >> host: would you expect anything more from propaganda

i wrote her and said, you know, read the book. i think for me, because i think every book is a learning process for me. in terms of my culture because i am the first, i don't know about all that needs to be known of both being chinese and of course being japanese. i get a lot wrong. i cringe when i pronounce a japanese word because i know i'm not say itting correctly. i can get away with it. here i don't know, it's harder to get away with it in the bay area because we are such a melting pot. and so many people who know japanese where i don't. what i discovered i think on the whole, for all cultures both cultures and the writing process itself is the more i write about different cultures the more i realize how much alike we are. and if you take anything away take that. take the fact that all humanity is the same. you know the -- culturesar a background for me it makes you who you are. if you are japanese you bow. if you are chinese you don't. there are certain things that are specific to each culture. but if you are writing characte

i am supposed to read something. i was forgetting about that with a would-be because i was going to make it a very short. i was going to read from the end of the prologue. one of the things i was stressing in the talk i gave yesterday and in the panel that i appear on the day before is that for all of the undeniable, appalling dark side of ernest hemingway there was also the light. it cannot best when a child was involved especially and ill child who wouldn't respond to that but seemed to respond in a special way. so i was thinking of reading something of a key west passage and i said it would be like a piece of coal offering something in newcastle so i'm not going to read that. i am just going to read this little moment from the end of the prologue of, and indeed it is the end of ennis hemingway's life when everything is lost but there is still something of their. look backward 17 days from his death to june 15th, 1961 at rochester minnesota. a man in the psychiatric ward of the mayo clinic is writing a letter to a 9