i see great partners in carmen policy and wilkes bashford and mrs. fisher is here and the board on behalf of college track, there are so many people that are participating in this because they have the same belief, they have the same knowledge that if we can help take care of those distractions that afford you the opportunity to keep focused on your education, we're going to do right, we're going to succeed, just like randy. randy's going to tell you about his engineering light that's about to be successful. he's going to work on many projects here in san francisco, right? we've got a lot of development going on in the city, successful developments that will have those wonderful jobs, because that, at the end of it, is your prize. going to college is a sacrifice. you will be faced with distractions, no doubt about it. and we've identified those distractions with the college track program we have here so they don't become distractions for you, so you can focus on your education and focus on the goal. that's what i want to do and that will be the commitment o

mr. burns, smithers, and principal skinner, a regular cast member on saturday night live, and fisher king, the truman show, the final tap, and the mighty wind among others, author, director, sadist, radio host, play wright, and a record label owner. a los angeles native beginning acting in his childhood on the jack benny program. it was then he got to know the great mel blank who did voices in his day as well. he appeared on the pilot of leave it to beaver and eventually morphed into eddy. [applause] a lot of applause on that. >> yeah. >> he's been writing about the cause and aftermath of the 2005 new orleans floods. this consumption and others, he's a regular contributor to huffington post and wrote a documentary called the big you think easy. i met him in a screening in town and we discussed having him here today. before that, the stories titled crested city stories talking about the hurricane's aftermath online video were compelling. they are there. see those on the website at mydamchannel. he's focused on the news media's handling on the katrina story. i use the series to focus more o

mr. waller, do i call him within. and then following that, siddhartha mukherjee will be here. he wrote fisher'spulitzer prize-winning general nonfiction book, "emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer." he will be here to take your calls as well. then we will be returning to the history of biography tent in about an hour or so for kristie miller wrote a book on woodrow wilson's two wives, two women who serve as first lady during the woodrow wilson administration. our live coverage several hours ahead. we will be concluding today from the national book festival with bill to prize-winning author david mccullough, taking your e-mails, we can phone calls as well. that will be our final segment today. that is at about 5:00, five, 6:00 is when we will be doing that and that east eastern time. it's national book festival we can hear on booktv, but as we've been showing you all weekend, it is also charlotte weekend on booktv. so here's another look at the literary life of charlotte, north carolina. >> do you sell online? >> yes. we have a website. >> what we've been doing, we go on twitter and yo