at 9:00 p.m., mary eberstadt argues that the western world has lost god and has had an overall decline of the traditional family. at 10:00 p.m., lawrence leamer talks about his book, the price of justice. we conclude tonight's primetime programming with intellectuals and race. as a booktv.org for more information on this weekend's television schedule. next, we bring you the public industry tradeshow. .. >> host: is the guild just best-selling authors? >> guest: know, the guild includes everybody from self-published authors who make money at it to begin no a number of best-selling authors. but it's frankly, best-selling authors don't need anywhere near as much help as the people who are starting out and the people who are struggling to make a living. so that is where our interests are concentrated these days, trying to make sure that writing remains a livelihood for as many people as possible. >> host: recently in "the new york times" he wrote an op-ed the slow death of the american author as president of the authors guild. can you capitalize this for as? >> guest: yeah i think it's rea

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at 9:00 p.m., mary eberstadt argues that the western world has lost god and has had an overall decline of the traditional family. at 10:00 p.m., lawrence leamer talks about his book, the price of justice. we conclude tonight's primetime programming with intellectuals and race. as a booktv.org for more information on this weekend's television schedule. next, we bring you the public industry tradeshow.