this is about 15 minutes. >> on your screen is ishmael beah, author of a long way gone. the second book is coming out, mr. beah. why did you choose to make it a novel? >> first of all, i wanted to depart from the memoirs and nonfiction. second, the issues i read about in the new book, "radiance of tomorrow," it's about a lot of people. experiences going home after war another people six euros, so it is composite of the tanks. i want to have the freedom to play around with words and images. >> what kind of freedom is writing a novel gave you rather than nonfiction? >> with the novel, for me particularly there's room to play with language more than to actually maybe extend the recurrence is. you know, expand them more and traumatize them a little more. they were also in the same time. the runaway coming to us whatever they wanted they wanted to do was this novel i talk about things that existed before the war. after work, and the existed again. so i try to put them together in a way that allows me to do that. >> what is in the novel? >> it was like that semifictional way in

this is 15 minutes. >> ishmael beah, author of a long way gone. your second book is coming out.what did you choose to make it a novel? >> well, first of all, wanted to deport a little bit from the more. secondly, the issue and i am writing about in the new book is about a lot of people. my experience going back home after the war and other people's experience. the composite. no one to be able to have the freedom to play around with words and images more. that's why it's fictionalized. >> what kind of freedom is writing a novel give you rather than nonfiction? >> well, there is room to play with language more. and to actually extend, expand a little bit more, dramatize a little bit more. also tying things and not necessarily related in a way that's when everyone to do with this novel. brown talking about things that existed before the war, and after the war they existed again china put them together. >> what is in theory? >> it's actually looked at in a fictional way. it's in a remote part of the country where people don't really get to hear about it. people go back home. they're

at 9:05, ishmael beah talks about his second book, "radiance of tomorrow." at 9:20 from booktv in london, a discussion with biographer herr myny lee. and at 9:50 best with selling author hah led hosseini on his most recent book, "and the mountains echoed." booktv tonight at 8 eastern here on c-span2. >>> shifting gears to politics, democratic candidates running for new york city mayor take part in a debate ahead of the city's september 10th primary election. watch live coverage beginning at 6 eastern today on our companion network, c-span. >>> early on, you know, we said, okay, we have this 16-acre piece of land, we have to put some things on it or maybe not. it was just an open-ended what do we do with it, right? and everyone wanted a say in it. very quickly leaders promised a public process to receive public input, to generate a master plan. at the same time that that was going on, however, like i said before, you had larry silverstein, the developer who won the lease to the office space, you had pataki who was running the port authority, and they really b

radiance of tomorrow ishmael beah's second book is coming out in january of 2014. >> there should just a flow of communication available to everyone in the country. we turn on the lights and we don't even think about it. it's just input into everything we do as a country. communication should be the same thing but a cause we have been a little there is a lot of fog around this issue people have the sense that internet access is a luxury. what is interesting is electricity was treated as as a luxury too in the early 20th century. people said water everybody needs but electricity only for the rich and it took decades to change the perception of electricity from one thing to the other. we are in this middle point right now where internet access is still viewed as something slightly magical or expensive but talk to someone who is trying to run a business from his home. for him internet access is like like -- he can't even get going without having that reasonably priced connection and now there is no option for it. >> now joining us on booktv from stanford university is a professor of ethic