[laughter] >> host: john grisham, where do you recommend how do you like? >> guest: the structure is disciplined when i am writing. i start i start a new book each year on january the 1st finished by july the 1st. the topics are rattling around. i just finished the book this year a little bit early i have two or three ideas notes, files, stories about issues or whatever and that we've that out through the ball. and i write in the morning from about 7:30 a.m. until 11, sometimes 12. right for about four hours nonstop, your brain can turn to mush. same place, same desk, same cup of strong coffee, a darkroom without much like no phone facts, internet the best time is from 730 to 930 the 1st two hours. i get a lot of work done. five days a week. finish and turn it in july 1 by late august am pretty well shut down. after labor day i get bored and start writing a kids book. that's the process. >> host: does your wife of a role? >> guest: she has a big role two different ways. i bounce ideas off for. we will we will be watching a new show or something about the tr

. >> host: john grisham, we appreciate you stopping by book tv. >> you're watching 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on c-span2 book tv television for serious readers. >> this is book tv on c-span2. we want to know what is on your summer reading list. you can post it on our facebook page or you can send an e-mail. what is on your summer reading list? book tv wants to know. >> good evening and welcome i am director of the matt mcauley author series. i am pleased you are here aware of this beautiful building in the phenomenon institution that host a series. i don't know about you but there is no place i would rather be except on governor,'s trip to cuba that he is not on that trip anymore. i'm happy to be here. in the presence of andrew was latest. according to readers and reviewers most accomplished biographer. one of the most accomplished political biographers in a long time. someone else who has also follow the governor's career since long before he was governor is national affairs and political reporter best-selling author columnist, and television commentator jonathan alter. abl

charlie: john grisham said "in hold still, sally mann wraps her prose around the pictures revealing ae talent for writing." sally: bless his heart. charlie: wwereere words hard for you? the pictures spoke so intuitively. you show us the hard reality or the beautiful reality. sally: thank you. i try to. yeah. charlie: but are you using mortality and death and what happens, what remains? because that is what you titled it. "what remains." sally: you mean that show? yeah. you do ask that question. it is like laurie anderson saying, i feel like a library had burned down when i lost my father. you do. it is sort of a proustian notion of what finally is memory about and what does remain, how to preserve the moment? can you? is there such a thing as an afterlife, so to speak? charlie: antietam was in that, "what remains." the largest number of casualties ever in american war on one day. you end, because you go back to the living. in that. you went back to the close-ups of your children. to say there's hope and a future. sally: exactly. the vitality and the fearlessness of those faces. that i

. >> of john grisham they said the pictures reveal a fine talent for writing. >> bless his heart. >>ose: were words hard for you to match the pictures? because the pictures spoke to intuitively and insightfully to what, you know -- you show us the hard reality or the beautiful reality. >> well, thank you. >> rose: that's what you try to show us. are you using mortality and death and what happens and what remains? because that's what you titled it, "what remains." >> you mean that show? >> rose: yeah. yeah. you do ask that question, don't you? that's like laurie anderson saying i feel like a library burned down when i lost my father. you do. it's sort of a notion of what finally is memory about and what does remain and how do you preserve the moment? can you preserve the moment? is there such a thing as an afterlife, so to speak. >> rose: and the largest number of casualties ever in an american war in one day or two days is part of that. >> yeah. >> rose: you end because you go back to the living. you went back to closeups of your children to say there's hope and a future. >> exactly.

. >> it is like a john grish sharp sharp -- grisham novel. we end things with the random question of the day. pick a question there. >> got it. >> i usually read them. >> question of the day. if you found someone's diary jour that will would you read it -- if you found somebody's diary journal would you read it? >> i it has their name and address in the front. do you return it or read it? >> i would say it is wrong and hope i got a good anecdote. >> we will close things out with a bedtime story. thank you so much, jeff ross. they are clapping at home. >> the music is playing plug it? where are you going to be? >> west -- westbury. come on down and get roasted. >> in the round! ?ai when i was a little boy i used to wake up to "captain kangaroo." and then i would go back and hide under my bed. i was sure his mouth would swallow me whole. he was the scariest creature any earth ling could think of. until now. meet the new mascot for the new thistle futball club. one tweeted all hale the demented sun god. i am one step ahead. that music is still p