pico iver colm toibin julie salamon and rosalind brackenbury sit down for about an hour. >> good morning key west. i am christopher the straight man to the stars and i hope the readers friends. what a pleasure this weekend has been. time is running out. we can see the end that we have got a lot of work to do. in not going to talk about the posted topic exactly but these people can be -- i have three topic sentences i want to be sure we get to and i will throw them out right now. one has to do with the fact that we haven't spent enough time on the biography and there are lots of them. i think you are fern yesterday to the three volumes on robert crossed her much people are still rehabilitating him. i think of the actress claire bloom's book and i always wonder what in the world would tempt a person to declare war and made book form against philip roth but in any event. it was the hero worship thing book and then when he found one of his own books signed and ascribed he founded in the used bookstore. he had shed from his library and he wrote a scathing piece and examination of mentorship.

. >> colm toibin, rosalind brackenbury, pico iyer, julie salamon, thank you. wonderful audience.[applause] >> i feel it is great with predators on writers but maybe it is too broad. told reuters on told reuters. station -- writers. but i am pleased, more pleased with myself that i manage to get here that eyes we can on this biographers saying without having written a biography. and to talk about the "the novelistic essay & the essayistic novel" and i hope you have that hand out which i hope succeeded to grab your attention. i will frame the talk about the essay and the novel with the compatibility or incompatibility between the two with a few quotations. that is one of the great things of the essay form you put things in quotations to show how clever you are. that would be a good idea considering this big question to know that i will begin by indicating of expanded so the first before petitions are like to read, i think of myself as the essayist producing essays is a novel form war novels is an essay form. that is straightforward. instead of writing i fill them. i think it is use

pico iyer, julie salamon, colm toibin, rosalind brackenbury. i think you all to this panel. >> coming up next, at the key west literary seminar, trent eight talks about his book, "the novelistic essay & the essayistic novel." >> hello, i feel that it is great being here with other writers. so many writers here are so tall. will ferrell, i don't know. [laughter] i feel really pleased that i usually do. the fact that i managed to get here and sneak in on this kind of biographers thing. without having written a biography. it's one of the great things. today i'm going to move slightly to one side of the biography issue and talk about a related thing. and i hope you have that hand out which i hope exceeded and grabbing your attention. i would like to frame this talk about the essay and the novel and the supposed compatibility or incompatibility between the two with a few quotations from different people. that is one of the great things about the essay form. he put in quotes to show how clever you are. especially when you narrow it down. i'm actually