. >> up next, the william least heat-moon postal its malton america in his first road trip books since "blue highways." mr. heat-moon this is towns in various states including mr. beacom kentuckian wyoming. the event hosted by the seattle public library is 70 minutes. >> this is one of my favorite cities in the country but it is many people's favorite city including yours i trust. the last time, the next, the last time i was here on a book tour was 1991 for my second book, perry aref. i'd been on the 40 city book tour ended in seattle as some money towards do, starting in the east. by the time that i got to san francisco i was stating a by the time i got to portland i had the flu and by the time at the seattle i thought i was probably near death than it came time to go to the l.a. bookstore downtown here and give a talk. i thought i'm not going to make it. i can do this but i didn't have enough nerve to face those new new yorkers and tell them that. they can be abusive you know. so anyway went into the l.a. bookstore, dragging, and i got in there and even though the crowd was about the size of the looked