pÑvÑpt kÑ bachmann in other words non-fiction category of comics is pretty darn small and too much of is by harvey and myself. [laughter] so we are very much hoping that this kind of comic will be a gateway drug for young people to go ahead and read the books, but also that the art which is made by comic artists would be taken seriously as a form of art and understood as such and appreciated as such and it may overcome the great difficulty which is these books are expensive to produce because you have to pay artists. writers don't have to be paid if they teach some place and generally are not paid. artists me to be paid and secondly these books don't cost so much because they can't have a heavier price themself been over someone. these are serious disadvantages but at least in terms what critics are beginning to say we seem to be going some place. >> i think that especially younger and readers are enthusiastic for graphic novels, and they have sort of gandy cultural and critical legitimacy allyson beck -- becktell's book was a finalist, will persepolis -- people are reading them. >> t

every weekend, the latest non- fiction books. on saturday, how do you run for congress with $7,000 endorse sixth grade students managing the campaign? she is interviewed by the washington d.c. delegate. . . if we have a lawyer here in town, if i wanted to get title for, he said it wouldn't be any use, could not read it. earlier today the president congratulated congress for passing the bill to regulate tobacco products. he also expressed hope that the election in iran would lead to an expanded dialogue. from the white house, this is five minutes. >> good afternoon. i just wanted to give a quick statement about the tobacco legislation that passed the senate yesterday. this bill has been in long time coming. we have known about the harmful and deadly effects of tobacco products for decades. each year, americans pay $100 billion in added health-care costs due to smoke, each day, 1000 young people under the age of 18 become regular smokers. for over a decade, leaders of both parties have fought to prevent marketing companies to preve

realize what kind of a book to this is because this is not a history book, not a novel or a work of non-fiction, a serious analysis, it is a book of stories broke and i think this is how long they are. sometimes they are half a page, most of the time they are between one and one 1/2 pages. just for fun would you read it the first tory just to give us an idea? >> guest: born of desire life alone no memory, it had hands but no one to touch. it had a town but no one to talk to. by four was -- it was when life was known but then he spoke the arrow split the lives down the middle and a life was to. when they caught sight of each other they've lost and when they touched each other, they lost again. >> host: that is a great example. of course, it made me think of genesis. >> guest: yes. our part to a real-life is part of daily life. >> host: it is one of the most affectionate pieces in the hundreds of pieces i think you said there are 600? >> guest: very, very short stories. who finally survived after a process of for announcing and sacrificing. there are some other short stories in the first version

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. >> coming up, more non-fiction authors and books throughout the weekend with books on the economy, former investment banker john talbott exposes myths concerning the recession and what it will take to recover, and jay richards and what it will take to ease poverty and help the environment. also, concerning overeating. david kessler explains how americans program by too much sugar, salt, and junk can control their eating habits. afterwards, from the garden of eden until today -- this author recounts the history of the world through a collection of 600 short stories. he speaks with columbia professor john dinges. our website has the entire schedule and great features including streaming video and easy to search archives in simple ways to share your favorite programs. booktv.org. >> the sec should be a model for fairness. monday, on the communicators, a discussion on president obama's choice to lead the federal communications commission with andrew of broadband census.com and with this other guest of the news wires. monday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. "washington journal" co

so, some of the new non-fiction we have got. >> so the book tv viewers know city lights as a bookstore and your offices are on the second floor. how did city lights start and who founded city lights? >> city lights publishing was actually started in 1955 by lawrence burman get a and many people know who he is. he is one of the most renowned poets in the world. he began the publishing company with a collection of his own poems called pictures of the gain world. that was the first book in the city lights poets series which has gone on to continue publishing. we have about 60 books in print right now in a series. >> so, tell me a little bit about the bookstore and the publishing house. how does that work? is there synergy between the bookstore and the publishing house? >> yeah, i would say at one time most of the people that worked in the publishing company had worked in the bookstore. the person that is now the editorial director worked for over 15 years in the bookstore and is now leading the way publishing excellent books for city lights. we are in the same building. it is quite symbio

where do you off load those >> every weekend, though it is non-fiction books and authors on c-span2's "book tv" twoonie cave hill gave an interview on sunday. and joel rosenberg discusses his book. and what is next for the economy? stephen maur and former reagan economic policy advisor. and later, foreclosure nation, sherry olson on the housing crunch and where it is heading. look for our entire schedule online at booktv.org. >> here is our present policy. and we are really anxious and eager to stop the bombing, just as the reader to stop the war. >> telephone conversations with the nine final months of lyndon johnson cozy presidency on vietnam, you and appointees, and his troubles with picks for supreme court justice. listen saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span radio in the baltimore area at 90.1 fm, online ad c-span.org and on xm satellite radio channel 132. >> how did house and senate negotiators were cut their key differences on the spending bill? >> in the house, the chairman of the appropriations committee said that this conference report was not going to pass the house if i

>> we have publish non-fiction primarily. one of our missions is to make sure they books fit into our core areas where we know we are going to be able to find success for readers. it is a lot of military history for us, a general history, a little politics, a little current events and a lot of pop culture to mix it up a little bit, music history. >> speaking of pop culture what is this book? >> this is a book called goodbye 20 a century ago it has been favorably reviewed in hardcover and which is part of the paperback edition. it is about the band and the whole grunge music movement. the. >> allyssa born is vice president of da capo press. >> sunday on c-span's to's booktv, former reagan advisers marden and and les anderson on why the president believed destroying nuclear weapons would bring an end to the soviet union. on after words nicholas schmidle talks about his two years in pakistan. he sits down with "new york post" columnist ralph peters and next weekend for the holiday three days of booktv starting friday morning at

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. >> more non-fiction books all weekend. inside the revolution. how the followers of gee hawed, jenniferson, and jesus are looking to dominate the world. also ahead, arthur lapper on taxes and the end of prosperity. and later, foreclosure nation. the housing crisis and where it is headed. after wards, how do you run for congress. and are six grade students running the campaign. she's interviewed by washington, d.c. delegate eleanor holmes norton. every weekend is filled with books and authors on book tv. look for our schedule online on booktv.org. >> how is c-span funded? >> i have no clue. >> advertising for products. >> public money, i'm sure. >> taxes? >> how is c-span funded? 30 years ago america's cable companies created c-span as a public service. no government mandate, no government money. >> mental health leaders gathered for a conference in the developments and challenges in the industry. the session featured a look at america's opinions on health care. speakers include tipper gore, who is the honorary chair of the group mental health ame

it's not an awful, it's non-fiction but it's a great piece of writing and nicholas schmidle, the book is "to live or to perish forever," and as a fellow writer im just plain jealous. congratulations. >> guest: thanks, ralph. ..  >> let me begin at the beginning. i am not bill buckley or writing for him. i europe around in new york close to rochester a midsize upstate city with my parents and my older brother bob. in the fall of 1969 that i was a freshman in the public high-school i did not know anybody who went to a private one. my brother was a junior at yale. every weekend since he had gone away to college i wrote him on a small black middle typewriter that belonged two mom, a letter rehearsing the events of the week. basketball games, school plays, a little tryouts and tidy disasters bullets of adolescence and dramatize. one week the news barged in the home theater. with the vietnam war called for a nationwide moratorium on october 15. the moratorium look to be on the big campuses with boycotting campuses and glasses were planned. some kids and my high school decided to join him.

. >> every weekend the latest non-fiction books and authors on "book tv." saturday, how do you run for congress with $7,000 and your sixth grade students managing the campaign? tierney cahill gave it a shot. she's interviewed by delegate eleanor holmes norton. sunday, joe rosenberg takes you inside the revolution. how the followers of jihad, jefferson and jesus are battling to dominate the middle east and transform the world. and what's next for the economy? steven moore and former reagan economic policy advisor arthur lafer on "the end of prosperity." and later, a real estate attorney on the housing crunch and where it's headed. every weekend's filled with books and authors on "book tv." look for our entire schedule online at booktv.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: senator coburn, senator baucus says that when it comes to this fall that a health care bill will be on the president's desk. do you think that will happen? i hope so. we have problems in health care that we have to address. we have to address costs, access. but we also have to addre

if we are going into the fiction category, although this is non-fiction fiction, quirky, some people don't necessarily appreciate his sense of humor. i personally find him hysterical. when you are engulfed in flames is a book that came out i think probably a couple years ago that has been sitting on my nightstand, that one will get red especially. a good play in a book or a pick me up for those days when i just can't slog through much else. what is also going to get read this summer because i have a two and a half year all the, in a lot of bugs that i don't have any choice but i will read them every night and for those of you with young kids nine to recommend little neighbors on some sense street, it is a little bit quirky, it doesn't really make any sense but those are most books for kids. i have a lot of things to look at which distracts him for a good long time. by the end he is so exhausted navy on have to do one. the scary books are high on the list as well as for the wild things are, all is a classic so is to be moved a movie. so those are my summer books. i just hope i get thr

some religious books, some non-fiction, self-help, literary, mass-market said representative. there is a huge variety which means that spectrum we have and publishing also means it is somewhat slower to change radically as the music business did which had more or less a single cohort, let's call it 15 to 25-year-olds and so the audience changed and the tastes changed fairly rapidly and trends could reinforce themselves with that audience much more easily. the second reason the books are different and this is also not a subtle reason, is that the reading of books on devices is going to be a kind of slow transition over many, many years in this country and other countries. it hasn't really even started in other countries. that is because, as i have certainly heard a lot of times, there are a lot of devices were you read on them, it is like looking at the flashlight. it is a lot more significant than heisting get from ignorable-- normal page. many of the reading devices coming out now use a stream that has very low eyestrain but also not the same kind of contrasts so you need the