dhonielle clayton and kwame alexander we need diverse books. i think you for being on book tv. >> here is a look at some upcoming book fairs happening in september. it is the brooklyn book festival. we are the annual baltimore book festival. it is life from the national book festival. the coverage encourages that talk. as well as your phone calls for authors and others. and for more information about the book fairs and festivals they will be covering and watch previous coverage put the tab on the website. >> i want to thank you for being here. we are here to talk about the book "way of the reaper". >> i really appreciate you guys heading out. i will make this really open. i don't waste too much of your guys time. if you had questions i will deftly read out of the book. you look like that. long cut. we will open up will tell you guys the back end of the story. in 2009 we were in afghanistan and it was the height of the whole war. my unit was tasked out. they were going around to eliminate as many bad guys as we possibly could within anan eight h

. >> kwame alexander how did you become a writer. it started with my parents. they were the first librarian and teachers. that is the foundation but ultimately you can talk about anything here. it was trying to be able to learn how to communicate. i did not get cool until very recently. in college it was literature i was able to write poetry because i had been immersed in them even though i load that. i know it. it was second-year. i faction myself able to take that because i had written this. so in the classroom i was able to see her as a model on this is something i think i can do. and here's how you do it. it's really where it began. you have to go through life saying yes. and we understand it's all part of life. knowing this can happen. you have to learn how to say yes to yourself for example the crossover that has a lot of nose. i believe it was a good book. i'm an essay guest myself and i'm in a publish the book myself. i believe it's where the one week later i think you have to say lot yes to life that's what i learned directly. he is the ultimate say ye