. >> then you have john grisham on the front of your book. >> guest: yes a wonderful author who knows a lot about the courtrooms and counties that i work in every day, every year of my career. >> host: bryan stevenson, just mercies the name of the book the story of justice and redemption. we won't tell the ending to the narrative about walter macmillan. if you want to see it you can pick up the book for yourself. thank you for being on booktv. >> guest: you are very welcome. james cobb jr. talks about "flood of lies"

. >> year john grisham on the front of your book. >> yes, yes, a wonderful author does a lot about these courtrooms and counties that i work in everyday and every every year of my career. >> bryan stevenson. "just mercy: a story of justice and redemption" is the name of the book. we won't tell the ending. the narrative about walter

." >> john grisham.emember your first year or second-year law firm, you're wokking through the night. >> all the time. that's why i love it. some of that stuff is considered a spa treatment. >> how do they expect to be good lawyers when they get out. maybe they will be good federal lawyers, working for the government. you get your time off. >> i blame the parents. >> really? >> millennials, god bless them, they've got a lot of great things going for them. i understand all that type thing. but these are kids whose parents let them stay home from school because they were stressed. the parents were like, you can just stay home today, you can take a personal day. >> what about a dog day? what about an issue with the dog. >> can you imagine paying for law school and paying for this and all of a sudden the kid saying, i can't show up for -- >> i can't do it. you're not teaching them a good life lesson to be resilient. it's hard for them even if they have a law degree to find a job. >> were they allowed to take

there's john grisham. there's james patter son.o i wouldn't say completely but i would say in the -- outside of the blockbuster range, this year there wasn't one big blockbuster like there was last year. >> sarah, you know the publishing industry really well. you're the editor of publisher's weekly, lately there seems to be a recalibration in digital. taylor swift pushing back. some questioning the value of lowering prices on books. what do you see as the key issue? >> i don't really -- i'm not sure i'm the best person to answer that. i mean, i'm not -- i'm not involved on the pricing side or on the business side. and we are really platform ag s agnostic on our team. we want the content that we want. and don't pay attention to the publisher or the format necessarily. and most books are available on both ways. so that's what i'm concentrating on. >> how did your team have to adjust editorially when the content say earlier this year wasn't available for presale? >> as i say, we're pretty publisher blind so we pick the books we wanted

they thought this was going to be a john grisham and then for the turks, that they would just get everythingthat they wanted at the end and they really be the difference only a matter of time before assad with paul. about a year into the revolution , assad was beginning to waver and it looked like the fact that they were allowing them to go in to the regime they were beginning to wobble and so why not benefit as well from the sanctions. there was a moment where the united states learned about the sanctions and the gasper gold scheme and allowed it to continue for another six months raising questions about whether the united states was allowing this as a sort of unofficial sanction for the sanctions release became cool. okay. and so there were a lot of questions that were being raised. but if you look now, i would argue that the iranian and turkish relationship is very much on the rocks. they asked the foreign minister to visit the other day. they disagreed very publicly about the syrians of war. they've been in arguments about the price of gas that is coming from iran into turkey. you get th

. >> host: john grisham on the front of your book. >> guest: a wonderful lawyer from mississippi and he knows a lot about these courtrooms and counties that i work in every day and every year of my career. >> host: bryan stephenson "just mercy: a story of justice and redemption" is the name of the book. we won't tell the ending. walter mcmillan, you want to see it, pick up the book for yourself. thank you for being on booktv. >> booktv is on facebook. like us to get publishing news scheduling updates behind-the-scenes pictures and video, author information, talk about authors during live programs. facebook.com/booktv. >> tell me about the golden hour. what is and how did you come to write it? >> the golden hour is a thriller about crisis manager at the state department cast to respond when there is a coup in west africa. a close american ally has been deep posed. figure out what happened and fight through washington bureaucracy. it was inspired by my time as deputy assistant secretary of state for west africa under secretary condoleezza rice. when i left government i wanted to tell t

john currence's place on the square. there's the brilliant author tom franklin and his wife, the poet beth ann fennelly. grishamriter on the series "treme," chris. novelist ace atkins. poet derek harell is originally from milwaukee. crime novelist billy boyle from brooklyn. downstairs, currence's restaurant city grocery cranks out many delicious things. the man known as big bad chef, aka johnny snack, is sending some of those goodies upstairs as there's nothing professional writers like more than free food. usually, you put five writers in a room, it's an ugly, hell broth of envy, hatred -- >> we all hate tommy. >> yeah, that goes without saying. >> even me. i hate me worst of all. >> around here anyway the writers are really supportive of each other. for writers to argue would be like arguing over a piece of dirt. i mean, what are we fighting about? >> the stakes are too low. >> the stakes are so low. why would you be a jerk about it? >> if mississippi were a country and there were a national hero, dead or alive, by consensus, statewide, who would the statue be of? >> elvis. >> really? it wouldn't be b.b. king

. >> year john grisham on the front of your book. >> yes, yes, a wonderful author does a lot about these courtrooms and counties that i work in everyday and every every year of my career. >> bryan stevenson. "just mercy: a story of justice and redemption" is the name of the book. we won't tell the ending. the narrative about walter

>> then you have john grisham on the front of your book. >> guest: yes a wonderful author who knows a lot about the courtrooms and counties that i work in every day, every year of my career. >> host: bryan stevenson, just mercies the name of the book the story of justice and redemption. we won't tell the ending to the narrative about walter macmillan. if you want to see it you can pick up the book for yourself. thank you for being on booktv. >> guest: you are very welcome. james cobb jr. talks about "flood of lies." [inaudible conversations] >> do you want to set? >> good morning. my name is sharon and i'm a volunteer for the book festival. on behalf of the state library of louisiana and louisiana center of the book. i welcome you to book festival the 11th annual book festival. there will be a book signing with jim cobb afterwards in the bonds -- barnes & noble tent. so if you want to carry on after that he will be happy to sign your books. we are happy to have with us this morning james cobb jr. who has written "flood of lies" the saint regis nursing home tragedy. he was a managing p