tavis: the new one from perennial best selling author ian mcewan, the book is called "solar." good to have you on the program. i appreciate it. um next on this program, former "deadwood" star, timothy olyphant. stay with us. tim estimate a talented actor whose credits include "deadwood" and "damages." his latest spronlt the new fx series "justified." here now a scene from "justified." >> let him go. >> just wait one second. consider the situation, shall we? i am a deputy, a united states marshall. we don't do these things alone, either. you know i got back-up. listening to everything right now on a little microphone here in my shirt collar. you're going to die unless you let me go. you won't be the only ones. tavis: [laughter] you're in a serious situation right there. >> yeah. yeah. that's what makes drama. tavis: that's one way to put it. i was talking to somebody about the show. it is pretty simple. shoots people. >> yeah. tavis: beats people and says if i see you back here in 24 hours i'm going shoot you. >> yeah. it is great. tavis: you enjoy this character, i take it? >>

i am pleased to have ian mcewan back at this table. welcome. >> thank you. >> rose: my god. listen to this. also by ian mcewen. "in between the sheets, the cement garden, the comfort of strangers, the child in time, the innocent, black dog, the daydreamer, enduring love, amsterdam, atonement, saturday on chesil beach. then the dedication is to polly? >> yes, my first love. >> rose: and then this, from rabbit is rich, john updike. "it gives him great pleasure, makes rabbit feel rich to contemplate the world's wasting, to know the earth is mortal, too." >> rose: >> great line. >> rose: it is a great line. >> yes, if you put a fairly unsympathetic carkner the heart of a novel then the shadow cast is either full sfaul staff or rabbit. and updike did an extraordinary thing, a man of no great education, no great wit. not a particularly nice guy. and yet he is the vehicle for a colossal journey through 40 years of american change and personal drama and so on. it's a beautiful rhetorical trick that updike pulls off in his thousand pages and we all live in its shadow i think. >> rose: