most of james joyce. not all of p.g.odehouse because i have to say there's some books that aren't worth keeping. it's seems bad. noam chomsky and it's a bit different. i like to think that i have a life rather than a job or a career. and it's also due with reading and writing. the only two things i was ever good at and public speaking which i can also do. and that's how i make my living but it's also what i am, who i am, what i love. and i'm fortunate at that it's nothing like i can do. it's not like i could have been a lawyer and a doctor. i didn't choose it. it chose me. >> in depth airs live at noon eastern on the first sunday of each month on book tv on c-span2. log onto booktv.org for information about upcoming guests. >> we're at the 2009 bookexpo america booksellers convention in new york city. we're here with johnny temple, a publisher. do you want to tell us what you have coming out this fall? >> this fall one of the books we're most excited about is a graphic novel by the great black filmmaker melvin van pebble

most of james joyce, not all of what house because i have to say se books of his are not worth keeping. they are blasphemous. neil trotsky, karl marx thomas salmon rushdie, i have pretty much all of what they have written. i like to think i have a life of the job or a career and it has to do with reading and writing. it is also what i a who i am and what i love. and fortunate that that because there is nothing else i couldo it is not as if i could have been a lawyer or a doctor and i chose this. it chose me. >>an i ask you if there is a young person watching who wants to read their first book what advice you give to people likehat? >> to make the mistake of spending thr years in paris that because i studied by teeing and creative writing courses at harvard, and i had wonderful teachers coming down make the mistake of thinking you can just go and write a book. if you never lived through anything that is worth writing about. there are a lot of novels which i am sure none of them get published but what would they write about? what it is like to be in a creative writing class? i essentiall