and jim wanted his story told and he met john berendt one time only and then john berendt approached him about it doing the book. that is how that came about. >>host: did you make any contributions to the book? were you interviewed? >>guest: let me go back in time. about the movie that is an easy question. about the book? i don't think i had any impact on the book. >>host: what did you find most frustrating about the book? >>guest: the most frustrating this a few portions of the book is the author's world, the world of president assad not jim williams. i find that frustrating. >> what about what he saw and what john berendt was about? >> looking at differences of the two individuals although they are very different individuals one thing that i found very frustrating about the book was that the author chose to present a very serious story, my brother story, a very serious and chose to present that interest rose two of trivial and social finance and finding that interesting but that is one reason it was successful. it is easy to read john berendt is a magazine writer and was when he wr

>>c-span: john berendt has written a gorgeous and haunting blend of a travel book and murder mystery that is enchanting and disturbing and greatly atmospheric. >> guest: i think all four are held in great esteem. it is what makes you buy a book maybe you hear a great review and you are not sure bet you go to a bookstore and you hold the book and look at it the cover may tip the balance if you have been told good thing something will make you tip the balance to think okay. that is where of blurb catches your eye. but it could be one of those things. >>c-span: who named "midnight in the garden of good and evil"? >> guest: the title i came up with as an editor who lot of times thinking of just the right title i gave all of my chapters a title in one of the chapters i go with the murdered defendant and his priest a very expensive lawyer also a voodoo priest and she took up a flower garden because he wanted her to put a curse. and there it is. chap did -- chapter 18 "midnight in the garden of good and evil" so she said to me we both go to the garden and we have to go at dead time. do you

john berendt he knew he was going home. when he talked to jim williams. we knew five days later that he would come home. and john berendt and i have jim snowdon's -- said he wanted to write a story and to draw up the contract and i said wait until you get home on your own home territory and settle down to do that and he was pushed into it and it was four days before he came home. >> host: what are your future plans? >> always used in conjunction with my plan, the word is the vault. just like getting the ph.d. are being on the faculty of the university i always wanted to do that. that is what i planned but on the other hand, you cannot know what will happen. jim's death have been so suddenly so i was the only member of our family who at that point* could come down to settle the estate. my children were in college and my mother was older. i think you have to be receptive to change and have to see how it evolves. i made the decision to open the house as a museum and it took some planning but i did it quickly and in fact, said i will open it with a tour of ho

c-span: he said john -- is it berendt, has written a gorgeous and haunting blend of travel and murder mystery. it's an enchanting and disturbing and to deeply atmospheric those kind of things work? >> guest: i think so. he seldom christine. i think all of the for people who -- know, there are certain things that make you buy a book. maybe you from degree review and interesting review, maybe a friend said you're going to enjoy this book. not sure. to go to a bookstore and hold a book, looking at it and maybe do it two or three times. the cover might tip the balance. certain things tip the balance even told you do good things come something might tip the balance and make you think all right i will read it and that's where a blurb that catches your eye or impresses you might come into play. i don't think you go out and buy a book but it can be one of those things that makes you put it back on the shelf. c-span: named paray midnight in the garden of good and evil? >> guest: because i was and ensure esquire we spent a lot of time thinking of the right title for the peace and so i gave all