c-span: jill krementz, photographer, you have a book out called "the writer's desk." what's it all about? >> guest: it's a collection of my photographs over it period of 30 years of writers and i photographed over 1500 rider so of course it's not all the writers. my favorite pictures of a lot of the writers at their desks but they are all writers that there had desks or near their desks or behind their desks. somewhere there's a desk in the picture. literally or figuratively. c-span: why did you pick this for the covert? >> guest: i suppose because it's one of my favorite photographs. i think it's pretty recognizable now so people would know it was my book and because i think that it is a picture about a writer. it's a picture about a writers place and i think you feel looking at that picture that of course this is where she would write. it's like her writing. c-span: here's a picture that's not in the book that you gave us to show where she is not at her desk. why did you -- i guess why didn't you use this one in the book? >> guest: first of all i hadn't taken it the