this book -- why creative non-fiction? i was doing lecturing out in australia and it turns out it is cheaper -- australia is about the most expensive trip you can take from the east coast of the united states but it is cheaper if you just keep going. my wife and i out went to perth and i lectured a little, started writing a novel and i wrote it and finished it just about after the 28 days of going around the world finished. i haven't found a publisher for that. it is a medical murder mystery taking place out in arizona where i lived. i went to princeton for undergrad and somebody was writing my website, and i asked for his advice and he referred me to writer in tucson and she said i don't do fiction anymore but if you get a non-fiction idea i would love to see it. i went to cambridge, england which is a long trip and i could not go just for a lecture and come back. so i got on a train and went to scotland, got off the train and played a famous golf course, and they hooked me up with a couple canadians who told me a story a

it's non-fiction. she wasn't able to secure a publisher until one of her white abolitionist friends, and that was lidia maria child, wrote the preface for the book and sort of gave it her endorsement. which was kind of typical among slaves. people say oh, you write so well, how could you have been a slave. you speak so well how could you have been a slave? lydia maria child gave then dorisment to say this was a true story about harriet jacobs. it was published v published in 1861 on the eve of the civil war. and it's one of the few, not the only and not even the first but one of the few slave narratives that was written by a woman. most of the ones that we're famt with, that we calm across were narratives written by male slaves. they wrote about their confrontations with slavemasters, their quest for freedom as a kind of individual activity. have any of you read like frederick douglass or any other slave narratives? i'm seeing one. so we'll talk a little bit about sort of what the difference is between

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. >> booktv has 48 hours of non-fiction authors. here are some programs to watch for. this weekend joining us for the 22nd annual festival of the book in charlottesville. author bruce hillman will talk about his book the man who stocked einstein. and then saturday at 7:00, patricia bell scott on the fire brand and the first lady portrait of a friendship. the book explores the relationship between poly murray, co-founder of the national organization for women, and first lady eleanor roosevelt. and we talk to nel irvin tate at the roosevelt house. more on send from the festival of the book. george carlin's daughter talks about her life growing up. and after words with nancy cohen. author of break through; the making of america's first president. she is interviewed by the chair and co-founder of cornel law school's women and justice center. >> for a woman to be at the head of the most powerful countries in the world when one of our keypkey allies doesn't allow women to drive and a key problem is about taking rights away from girls this is pretty interesting. >> watching t

. >> watching the non-fiction authors on booktv is the best television for serious readers. >> on c-span they can have a longer conversation and dive in the subject. >> booktv weekends bring you author after author and spotlight the work of fascinating people. >> i love booktv and i am a c-span fan. >> here is a look at books being published this week. in the envoy, it contributions as u.s. ambassador to afghanistan, iraq and to the u.n. and natalie more reports on racial segregation in chicago in the south side. in john quincy adams we look at the life of american's sixth president. and also being released this week is the great departure in

garbology; a non-fiction book about the problem of too much trash. you have "march" a graphic memoir of john lewis and a comic book written at a fourth grade level. we have "enrique's journey" and the account of an illegal immigrant and it is meant to influence current policy. a great many of these common readings do. ... common reading. what the report is, something about what the common reading programs are. i would like to emphasize they lean toward the problems with the books they choose, which are very limited and not as good as they could be. all that en route to what we could hope for and i will be unduly optimistic and hope for something better despite all that we have been hearing about the problems. you know what common reading is, summer reading, everybody reads it. it is everywhere. 360 colleges a year, elite colleges, public, private, half of the top hundred universities of liberal arts colleges. it is meant to build community for a reason. because, this is what they are aiming at. it is important to talk about what they want to do with

and it was when she was with playboy that i worked with her on some non-fiction - [evan] yeah. - pieces. and then she moved over to a new venture which was an online thing called byliner. - yeah. - which was going to make a space for longform journalism and-- - [evan] longform journalism, know it well. - [margaret] and longer short stories. - yeah. - and it's since been swallowed up by other bigger fish but at that time that's what it was doing and she was doing it with them. so she talked me into doing a thing for byliner which was the first of a series of four that i ended up doing. - right. - and by the time i had done the fourth one, my book publishers, books with covers and pages publishers. - i remember those. - look they're back. - i can touch it there you're right. - they're back. right. - they started becoming agitated in the way that they do. - [evan] right. - they'd wring their hands. - why are you doing that and not this. - yes exactly. - [evan] yes yes yes. - yes why are you doing that and not this, and can't you make that into this? - yes. - so i thought that was quite a g

things about it, but i loved about it the most, was that it read like fiction even though it's non-fiction. it's such a literary, memoir. you've written books before, or not? - no, this is my first book. - what a debut, then! - thank you, thank you. i'm from new orleans, so the characters of my life and my family and my community, you couldn't even find them in fiction, so - right, not credible as fiction, not believable - not credible as fiction it was, something that was, very special to me, in a shapshot - [evan] intensely personal. - intensely personal. more personal than anything i've ever done before. people say that film lasts forever, but i feel as though to actually put it down on paper in a book is something that's going to be even more lasting. - now, you have an event that is the catalyst for this book, the katrina hurricane, which we all outside of new orleans, and outside of the area that was impacted, think we understand, we think we know what happened, and we think we know what the aftermath was. but one thing that's totally clear to me is, reading this book, we don't know

. >> book tv has 48 hours hours of non- fiction books and authors every weekend. here are some programs to watch for. this weekend, join us for the 22nd annual virginia festival of the book in charlottesville. starting saturday noon eastern. programs include author verse hillman who discusses his book, the man who stalked einstein. how nazi scientists change the course of history. then, saturday evening at seven, patricia bell's scott, the book explores the relationship between civil rights activist paula murray adverse lady, eleanor, eleanor roosevelt. patricia bell scott speaks with author and historian at roosevelt house in new york city. on sunday, beginning at 1:00 p.m. eastern, more from the virginia festival of the book including kelly carlin, george carlin starter who talks about her life growing up with the comedian in her book, a common home companion. then sunday night at nine p.m., afterwards with historian nancy:, author of breakthrough, the making of america's first woman president. ms. : looks at women political leaders, the advances the air making

>> when i tune in on the weekend it is authors talking about their new releases >> watching the non-fiction authors on booktv is the best television for serious readers. >> c-span gives them a longer conversation to dive too conversations. >> they bring you author after author spotlighting fascinating people. >> i love booktv and i am a c-span fan. >> and booktv is live again on the campus of the university of arizona for the annual tucson festival of brooks. several hours of coverage coming up today. you will hear from many authors and have chance to talk them as well. find the full schedule at booktv.org. human rights, immigration, voting rights, race in america and politics are some of the subjects we will talk about. we are kicking off with a panel on human rights. you are watching booktv c-span2 live from the university of arizona. ...

you all so much and thank you three wonderful gentlemen. [ applause ] >>> book tv has 48 hours of non-fictionbooks and authors every weekend. here are some programs to watch for. this weekend, join us for the 22nd annual virginia festival of the book in charlottesville starting saturday at noon eastern. programs include author bruce hillman, who discusses his book "the man who stalked einstein." how nazi scientist changed the course of history. then saturday evening at 7:00, patricia bell scott, professor of women's studies at the university of georgia, on the fire brand and the first lady, portrait of a friendship. pauline murray, eleanor roosevelt and the struggle for social justice, exploring the relationship between a civil rights activist, co-founder of the national organization for women and first lady eleanor roosevelt. patricia bell scott speaks with author and historian nell painter at roosevelt house in new york city. sunday at 1:00 p.m. eastern, more from the virginia festival of the book. including kelly carlin, george carlin's daughter who talks about her life growing up with the

>> seth: right.nk that it helped me in the sense that i had been a non-fiction writer for a long time. so, i understood that i would f a lot things that i wrote. not everything i wrote was gonna be in the book. and i didn't feel very precious about what i was writing, any years, i didn't have ownership of what i wrote. >> seth: sure. >> and then i think that --i think all of that stuff just made it a little easier to really invest in this because i didn't need it.eth: that's a nice feeling. >> i didn't need it? yeah. yeah, it was something, it was like, almost like an experiment, like let's see if this works.ow, the first thing i thought as i was reading this book, because it's about four dysfunctional siblings. and my first thought was i wonder if you have siblings. >> i have three.e three. so, you were four as well? >> yes. >> seth: is this you? >> no. >> seth: okay.ve and not nearly this interesting. >> seth: that's great. [ laughter ] but were they nervous when they riting a book about four siblings? >> well, i didn't tell them. >> seth: okay. was that strategy? >> yes. >> seth: o

it's non-fiction. she wasn't able to secure a publisher until one of her white abolitionist friends, and that was lidia maria child, wrote the preface for the book and sort of gave it her endorsement. which was kind of typical among slaves. people say oh, you write so well, how could you have been a slave. you speak so well how could you have been a slave? lydia maria child gave then dorisment to say this was a true story about harriet jacobs. it was published v published in 1861 on the eve of the civil war. and it's one of the few, not the only and not even the first but one of the few slave narratives that was written by a woman. most of the ones that we're famt with, that we calm across were narratives written by male slaves. they wrote about their confrontations with slavemasters, their quest for freedom as a kind of individual activity. have any of you read like frederick douglass or any other slave narratives? i'm seeing one. so we'll talk a little bit about sort of what the difference is between

. >> watching non-fiction authors on book tv is the best television for serious readers. on c-span they could have a longer longer conversation and delve into their subject. >> book tv weekends. they bring you author after author after author. it's the work of fascinating people. >> on the book tv and i love cspan. >> of next it's book tv on prime time with books on politics. first matt lewis talks about his book on the state of the republican party titled too dumb to fail. then elaine kmart discusses her nonfiction work on the presidential primary process. later, he shares his book when liberals when the culture wars. in his book too dumb to fail, matt lewis explores how the republican party has it changed through the years to its current state today. he he recently discussed the book with conservative commentator sc cup on "after words". this is one hour. >> so matt, first, when did you start writing this book because it really predicts the landscape of where we are today with the selection. it's so timely. take me through the process of when this all formed in your hea

watching the non- fiction authors on book tv, they have a longer conversation and delve into their book. book tv weekend, they bring you author after author. it spotlights the work of fascinating people. i love book tv and i am a cspan fan. >> next on watching tv "after words" program, washington post columnist ej dionne talked about juan williams of fox news about republican politics. >> ej dionne, the author of why the right went wrong conservative is the. thank you for doing this. you are a much esteemed columnist for the washington post, but people but people think of you as a liberal communist. is this intended for liberals, conservatives or both? thanks for doing this, i really appreciated. it's for both. i make the point that a healthy conservatism is in the interest of everyone. i grew up in a conservative family and only became a liberal in my early teen years and my dad and i had a lot of great arguments. he encouraged them. i always loved him for that. he thought it was a good thing for kids and parents to argue about politics. so i say that because i don't look at conservati

host: the book is, watching the non- fiction authors on book tv, they have a longer conversation anddelve into their book. book tv weekend, they bring you author after author. it spotlights the work of fascinating people. i love book tv and i am a cspan fan. >> next on watching tv "after words" program, washington post columnist ej dionne talked about juan williams of fox news about republican politics. >> ej dionne, the author of why the right went wrong conservative is the. thank you for doing this.

of my books had felt as if it moved closer and closer from fiction toward the boundary line of non-fictionone got closer and closer to the truth of my life and my family, and i realized that what i was trying to get at was who am i? who is my family? who are my people? who did i come from? how did we come to be who we are? how did i come to be the person i am? >> rose: did you answer all those questions? >> i asked them. i can't say that i answered all of them. but i answered them -- as many of them as i could, and i think that, in order to answer them, i had to be honest in a different way than i had been in fiction. >> rose: you're taking us on a journey, too. i mean, is it simply to say to those who know you and those who knew your family and those who live within a family, you know, that this is one man's account of life inside a family, but it is a story written so many times in the life and experiences of family that deal with conflict, dreams, memories, tragedies, alcohol, infidelity, all of those things that make up the fabric of so many families. >> and i think so many of those th

thank you. [ applause ] >>> book tv has 48 hours of non-fiction books and authors every weekend. here are some programs to watch for. this weekend join us for the 22nd annual virginia festival of the book in charlottesville. starting saturday at noon eastern. programs include author bruce hillman, who discusses his book "the man who stalked einstein: how nazi scientist phillipo leonard changed the course of history." then saturday morning at 7:00, patricia bell-scott, professor emerita of women's studies at university of gra ga ga on port raitt of a friendship, eleanor roosevelt and the struggle for social justice. the book explores the relationship between civil rights activist paulie murray co-founder of the national organization for women and first ladies eleanor roosevelt. patricia bell scott speaks with author and historian knell irwin painter at roosevelt house in new york city. on sunday beginning at 1:00 p.m. eastern more from the virginia festival of the book. including kelly carlin, george carlin's daughter, who talks about her life growing up with the comedian in her b

this next room is all non-fiction. a huge stand of local books, cleveland authors, cleveland history. one of the best greeting card collections in the city, i dare say. - absolutely. - [harriett] thank you. - [natalie] oh, someone agrees on that one! (laughing) i'm sure people are like blown away kind of when they walk in here and they want to just keep coming back for more. - [harriett] there's always more to look at. and we have events twice nightly each week. wednesdays and thursday nights we're open late. we have book signings, annex gallery openings, we'll get there. book club. - very awesome. okay, let's keep because, oh, what is this, is this art area here? - lit arts is where the special events are. and all our fiction. - [natalie] wow the shelfs, the shelf after shelf after shelf. everywhere you look. and who did you find here? - this is otis. - [natalie] is otis part of does he, is he for sale too? - he is not for sale. - [natalie] okay. - he's one of our chief workers, he's our main greeter here. - claws out

combined print and ebook, non-fiction is more my style. do you read ebooks or -- >> i like a hard copy. unless i'm traveling then i put it on my ipad. i find if it is on my ipad i tend to drift. >> right. because there is other stuff to look at. >> right. >> like a book buying machine. you buy all the books and have to get around to them. look at this guy. new york city marathon. he ran the whole thing in suit and tie. >> 13 miles in suit and tie. we'll talk with me. he actually did pretty well-running by the way. >> looks like he is running for the let the games begin. experience the power, the passion, and the pageantry of medieval times. tickets starting at just $29.95. (mailman) what are you guys (receptionist) it-it gets boring so i make phone music. (security guard) she has a gift. (receptionist) i'll bust out some sample beats for you. new york lottery scratch-off (receptionist) i'm incredible at this. (avo) take a break from the play scratch-off games from the brought to you by mazda, driving matters. >> okay. we have our inis it g

thank you. [ applause ] >>> book tv has 48 hours of non-fiction books and authors every weekend.ere are some programs to watch for. this weekend join us for the 22nd annual virginia festival of the book in charlottesville. starting saturday at noon eastern. programs include author bruce hillman, who discusses his book "the man who stalked einstein: how nazi scientist phillipo leonard changed the course of history." then saturday morning at 7:00, patricia bell-scott, professor emerita of women's studies at university of gra ga ga on port raitt of a friendship, eleanor roosevelt and the struggle for social justice. the book explores the relationship between civil rights activist paulie murray co-founder of the national organization for women and first ladies eleanor roosevelt. patricia bell scott speaks with author and historian knell irwin painter at roosevelt house in new york city. on sunday beginning at 1:00 p.m. eastern more from the virginia festival of the book. including kelly carlin, george carlin's daughter, who talks about her life growing up with the comedian in her boo

. >> watching the non-fiction authors on book tv is the best television for serious readers. >> on c-span, they can have a longer conversation and delve into their subject. >> book tv weekends, they bring you author after author after author that spotlight the work of fascinating people. >> i love book tv, and i'm a c-span fan. >> next, france's interior minister talks about how his country has worked to combat terrorism since the attacks in paris last year. he also takes questions on relations with turkey. and accessing encrypted phones and other digital devices. from george washington university center for cyber and homeland security, this is about an hour. [ applause ] >> cyber and homeland security director, ambassador, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, i would like to thank you for welcoming me today. i am honored to be speaking in front of you at the prestigious george washington university where so many great american political figures honed their skills. i am thinking of former secretaries of state, john foster dallas and colin powell as well as former first lady jackie kennedy.

. >> booktv has 48 hours of non-fiction books and authors every weekend.here is some of the programs this weekend. on saturday night at 10 eastern: >> the first sentence of the book is the history of american conservatism is a story of betrayal. >> discussing the history of republican politics in the book called "why the right went wrong; conservatism from goldwater to the tea party and beyond" he is interviewed by juan williams. and indepth live with jane mayor "dark monemoney" is her lt book. we will take your questions and comments and tweets till noon eastern. watch booktv every weekend on c-span2. television for serious readers. >> next the supreme court oral argument concerning the texas abortion clinic law. then the cachair of the national intelligence counsel talks about u.s. efforts to combat terrorism. after that, a discussion on the fbi, apple and access to phone encryption data. on wednesday, the supreme court heard oral arguments in whole woman's health versus hellerstedt; an abortion case from texas. the court is considering a texas law requi

. >> booktv with 48 hours of non-fiction books and authors every weekend. here are some programs to watch for. >> the donor class through the people who are in office and who are running for office are, those same people over and over very often. >> right. >> in the state legislatures and the local things and the families and so on. they are the one who is are corrupt. >> right. >> and they are the ones who are corrupting democracy. the other people are not getting benefits of it because they're not acting collectively to counteract it and haven't found a way to counteract it in all of these years. >> on sunday, "in depth," live with guest steve forbes, author and publisher of "forbes" magazine. we will join to us talk about his life and his latest book, reviving america. he argues for repealing the nation's health care law, replacing the tax code and reforming the fed. other recent titles include, money, freedom manifesto and how capitalism save us and power, ambition and glory. join us in the conversation, we'll take your phone calls, tweets and emails at

. >> watching the non-fiction authors is the best television. >> the cy can have a longer conversation >> book tv weekends. they bring you author after author after author that spotlight the work of fascinating people. >> i love book tv. i'm a c-span fan. [ applause ] >>> the interior minister of france was in washington, d.c. he talked about france conducting count erterrorism attacks after the event. >>> ambassador, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, i would like to thank you for welcoming me today. i am honored to be speaking in front of you at the prestigious george washington university where so many great american political figures honed their skills. i am thinking of former secretaries of state, john foster dallas and colin powell as well as former first lady jackie kennedy. i also would like, of course, to warmly thank the members of the center of cyber and home security, especially the director who was kind enough to invite me to give you this lecture on france and the terror threat. france and the united states have a very long-shared history. and despite the occasional quar

"guantanamo diary" is a powerful non-fiction book and a mystery. when a hand written manuscript was published after the hard fight theresa duncan will tell you about you could not read between the lines in some places. thick bands of black ink modified the text in 6,000 places and at one point eight pages were blotted out. the question is answered with fast growing frequency since 2001; why do they hate us? the book is about the non-american man and by american women and man and government. slahi was in the wrong time at the wrong place and after 14 years of torturing, suffering, and humilitation in guantanamo bay no one has proved otherwise. the review in the new york times makes it clear that the damage torture does to a society that condones it. i will sight this review in the garden. guantanamo bay diary reveals more vividly than any other book in the shock of this subject how ould slahi and others became victims with a sense of individual collective. the captures tried to establish full spectrum dominance in a lot of ways. among them, it is an

h we have a serious coffee program called non fiction coffee that's the bar and us soleal bella eateryuse it's shaped like an okro gone. >> are you going to take overr the mall.al >> it would be the next logical step.ep. >> listen why people because,, you know, george and hollyndol putting the touches on thises o greek dish and you have cape c notice and all these greekhesere restaurants. you are not a greek heritage, i, that correct. >> that is correct. t i'm italian but i did train coha cooking with greek chefs greekhk restaurants i fell in love withe the food. my mom was a vegetarian i eightg a lot of eastern mediterranean foods, a lot of lamb, a lot of egg plants, the flavors havevo been in me. >> delivers are distinctionable. >> i think we need to check witw these guys.uy you found another ingredient idi wasn't aware of.wa what was that ingredient.reent >> that's the sauce.he sauce and this right here is thisthis cheese -- kind of like the greee version of parmesan.of parsa >> it's called what, holly?lled, >> i don't know. >> sheep's milling. >> i didn't catch that name.ca >> is t

. >> watching non-fiction authors on book tv is the best television for serious readers. >> on c-span they can have a longer conversation and delve into their subject. >> book tv week ends. they bring you author after author after author that spotlight the work of fascinating people. >> i love book tv. and i'm a c-span fan. >> michigan governor snyder and gina mccarthy testify this week about contaminated drinking water in flint, michigan. the same committee held a hearing today on flint water contamination. witnesses include former flint mayor walling and former epa administrator headmund. >> do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? thank you. let the record reflect that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. each of your written statements will be entered into the record in its entirety in order to allow time for discussion and questioning by members, we would appreciate if you would limit your oral testimony to 5 minutes. m ms. hedman you are recognized for 5 minutes. turn on the mike. >>

. >> watching the non-fiction offers on booktv is the best television for serious readers. can have a , they longer conversation and delve into their subject. weekends, they bring you author after author after author. it's the work of fascinating people. love booktv, and i'm a c-span fan. >> this year's c-span student cam competition was one of our competedet as students for over $100,000 in prizes. students produced documentaries road to the white house theme answering the question what issues they most candidates to discuss during the 2016 presidential campaign. the students told us that the economy, equality, education, and immigration were all the top issues. be sure to tune in this at 8:00 morning eastern during "washington journal" when we'll announce the grand prize winner, our first-place winners and the fan favorite selected by the public. and live on c-span c-span.org. "washington journal" continues. host: eleanor smeal joins us now fornternational women's day a discussion about feminism and female voting in campaign 2016. of the feminist majority and the feminist