for the fiction and the nonfiction? >> so that was for me as a fiction writer, that was definitely one of the challenges because i remember my first draft because my characters had so many secrets that they were keeping from one another for very different reasons -- much of it, for example, on the side of the parents and throughout different generations -- it's really out of protection and it's out of love. and yet what does that mean about, you know, does that mean the book was -- like they're not talking enough? you know, like things have to still happen. for me the challenge was look beyond, i just felt like, well, we're not only defined by the secrets we keep, we're also dined by the things that -- defined by the things that we do even as we hold them. and there are secrets in our lives and people who i know and love, i know i will never know all their secret ises. and i think a lot -- secrets. and i think a lot of family members who aren't trying to take -- they don't want to take credit for the sacrifices that the

fiction t, nonfiction, poetry, young people's richer and the newly adde added translated literature, which allows us not only to look at what is happening in the country but around the world. some of our authors that have been celebrated our ralph alvers and we are so proud of all of the authors that have been a part of the work that we do. not only celebrating the work of the office with the finalists and long listers we are also trying to make sure the american public is reading the actual books, which is more challenging. so we work year-round coming to festivals, going to universities, working in the public housing authorities with young people in small groups in schools and doing whatever we can to give people not only a list of books that we think will tell them more about the world we live in but also the way to contact with the work that is within the pages of th the book that we support. tonight's program is called in the pursuit of truth, and i am proud that we have three national book award finalists and long listers that are here with us today to talk about the world we l

fiction addiction. 748200, 748-8201 as we make our way through 50 books and he has written some nonfiction as well. we would love you to join us in this conversation. i asked the question, and seen more black men of authority at this time. >> he is seeing it, but recognizing what you have to give up in order to move into that level of the story. as easy as the guy who does favor, nobody telling him who you can do favors for.

.. >> the stated mission of published serious nonfiction was hardly a sure bet to succeed the new venture came in several venture companies with political economic and social event to close down the list to become increasingly difficult for authors and former washington post journalist, peter osnos switched careers spending time as a senior publishing executive had a vision and saw an opportunity so public figures journalist historians and social critics by the then chairman along with a number of other investors. public affairs has brought since its founding many important issues of the day with public discussion and in some cases with constructive controversy from 1998 which featured bestsellers and blind man's bluff as a world of three zeros. public affairs has continued to provide with thought-provoking works. as a general with the washington post when i was sent overseas by the post i met peter and working with him with the days except there are many more pages to write and rewrite. because the company has special significance for this bookstore many public affairs titles do very wel

how safe is it to write about it, fiction or nonfiction? [applause] thank you. >> i don't, i don't censor my writing. if there is something that is talking to you, a subject, and you feel a need to write about it, write about it. never, ever censor yourself as a writer in that way. the question is when and where will you publish and how you will get that, that work out to the the people that need to hear it. but that's a different question. i never think about the construction of a piece of writing and the publication of it at the same time. i allow myself to write anything, but when and where it goes out, that's something different. i would send it out. >> and i think -- >> write the piece, send it out. >> yeah. i think all good writing is dangerous. if you're writing something and you're not shivering or trembling at the thought of, you know, what you're going to bring into the world, you're not writing something that's really going to engage people. so you need to be a little afraid. sometimes you need to be very afraid. but you can writ

i work on so much nonfiction for work, and i read a lot of nonfiction for work so that i'm aware of, you know, what the market will bear. and sometimes i just want something that's going to -- i don't think anything that's related to work. also some of the most beautiful writing is in fiction just for pure craft. >> right. >> so that's the role it's got for me. >> i'm sorry. >> go on. >> our imprints, one of our sort of missions is being able to look back at the past in ways to understand it different ways and find ways to imagine different futures, and i think fiction is a great vehicle. obviously, you don't want fiction to become overly didactic or sort of argument-driven because it ruins it, but fiction is a great way to re-examine the past. right now i'm working on a first novel from tan has city coats -- ta'nehisi coates, it's a historical novel, and it's brilliant and amazing. but at the same time, it's helped me think about the period that he's writing about and think about, you know, the possible paths in a more imaginative way. i'm also working on a book, one of our editors

of nonfiction content and who is the best at monetizing?better than a set some areas and in others we are better than them. we put these two together. billionspend 3.5 dollars on content. maybe growing to more than that. this is a hard business. we are in the business of creating stories and characters. getting people to turn on their tv and love it. host: what is it like to have john malone as someone to call up and say, should we do this or that? david: i think about my last 30 years in this business and, it is sort of like what you want for your children. you are who you hang out with. it helps to define the narratives and questions you hear. i look back over the last 30 listening to years why jack didn't want to do an acquisition or what we need to do with cable, how we do it, bob wright, the newhouse family, and bob miron who is a genius. and john malone. when i think about where people should be spending their time, you would like to get the right job, to think you were going to make some money, but i took a 50% pay cut to go to nbc b

what is creative about nonfiction? it takes a whole semester to try to answer that but here are a few points. the creativity lies in what you choose to write about, how you go about doing it, the arrangements through which you present things, the skill and the dutch with which you describe people and succeed in developing mammoth characters. the rhythms of your pros, the integrity of the composition. the anatomy of the piece, does it get up and walk around on its own? the extent to which you see and tell the story that exists in your material and so forth. creative nonfiction is not making something up but making the most of what you have. or if my daughter jenny said last week, it's not fake news . finally, i would like to pay all my to the new yorkers william sean whose particular interest in the potentialities of factual writing was a lucky thing for me. mister shawn understood the kinship of creative work, every kind of creative work and time. the most concise nation of it i've ever encountered was his response to

it would never be as explicit as they write and nonfiction. >> host: from the book i know best, political tea leaves and a form of obfuscation is being performed but is intended to blur and a dusty situations that are not there that should be and that would be consistent in their worldviews and power. what are we talking about? >> guest: that is exactly what happened. i think in general political elites in the extreme sense stalinists are here and everywhere and their primary interest is power and therefore they are manipulating ideas to use power all the time, but the moral narcissism makes them feel good about it. all those people that say trump colluded with russia, they never bothered to check it out. i remember they ask dianne feinstein whether she had found anything and she said well, no. it's almost comical if it isn't sad. it's sad for the country but a lot of time and money was wasted. >> host: what was your opinion of ronald reagan contemporaneously and his debate for your opinion of him today? >> guest: that is a great question because of course content or any of the mighty opi

see, this might get to your fiction/nonfiction. if you see this propaganda for different reasons by different emperors, it might explain a lot of the fiction/nonfiction aspects. >> host: thank you, sir. >> guest: yeah, it's a good question, and the truth is that according to evidence we have a lot of gaps in the record. there's a lot of things we just can't know. but there's a lot of ideas that we can discuss. so, you know, the writings themselves will, you know, talk as if sort of, you know, contemporaneous history. until we get to the dead sea scrolls, we really don't find those writings, specific evidence. those are our earliest evidence for the writings, so we have to extrapolate back about what can we know, what can't we know. so it's complicated. and certainly, different people are going to have different ideas. you have jews that are going to take early dating in the hebrew bible as well as late dating. both of the new testament, early dating, late dating, also the old testament, so it's a very complicated topic. and i think

when it comes to nonfiction, who are the best producers of nonfiction content and who is best at monetizingooked and said, in some areas they are better than us, in some areas we are better than them. we will put these together. we will spend $3.5 million on content and maybe more. we are in the business of creating stories and characters, and getting people to turn on their tv and love it. david w.: you have referred to john malone, a shareholder that you know well. johnis it like to have malone as somebody you can call up and say, should we do this or that? david z: i think about my last 30 years in this business and it is sort of like what you want for your children. you are who you hang out with. you, the helps to find narrative that you here, the questions you hear. i went back over the last 30 years, 15 years listening to why jack did not want to do an acquisition we brought or what we need to do with cable. family, and bob miron, who was a genius and has been in the cable business and built bright house, and john malone. when i think about where people ,hould be spending their time y

were critical into the war a former staff writer from the washington post and named her the top nonfiction books of 2012 by the washington post she writes for publications including the atlantic, politico, new york times, slate and time and again i'm sure that is not all of them. all things considered talk of l the nation and other television and radio shows a senior fellow at new america and nonpartisan think tank and in s arrington virginia were some of the army code breaking women worked so those are our panelists for the day. [applause] so the first question is about the fact you all three have written books that exposed or brought to life very important stories that most of us have not heard of before that.t. and all about winning doing extraordinary things. what inspired these projects? >> . . . . the academic books y people and i was astonished there were no books about a the girls because for me they were the most important part of the story and these women -- because i think whatever topic we are writing on a is when you're able to appreciate the strength of the people we t are wr

that happens on book tv, 48 hours of nonfiction books every weekend now how high-tech tools punish the poor. [inaudible] >> my name is -- and i'm happy to be here tonight. we have three or four events per week and sore season is full. there's always a few that are care s

[applause] >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >> on booktv's afterwards program, >> that is all this weekend on booktv, television for serious readers. for a complete schedule, visit booktv.org. >> here are some of the current nonfiction audiobooks according to audible. topping the list, the unsolved murder in west cork ireland from investigative journalist sam bundy and documentarian jennifer ford. >> them of these authors have or will be appearing on booktv. you can watch on our website, booktv.org. >> former fbi director james comey's new book a higher loyalty is set to release tuesday, april 17th. the washington post, new york times and other media outlets obtained copies and reported on its content this past week was the washington post quotes the book as saying with regard to the trump administration, what is happening now is not normal. it is not fake news, it is not okay. the post also reports mr. comey calls atty. gen. sessions both overwhelmed and overmatched by the job. according

creative nonfiction is not making something. but making the most of what you have. >> or as my daughter said last week, it's not the news. x finally, i would like to pay homage to the new yorkers william sorin, whose particular interest in the potentialities of actual writing was a very lovely thing for me. mister shawn understood this kinship of creative work and every kind of creative work and time. the most concise summation of it, i've ever encountered was his response to a question i asked him just before we closed my first new yorker profile and he sent it off to press. it was about billbradley and the college basketball . and after all those one on one sessions with mister shawn, discussing door plays the role of the left-handed, in the architects tonics of the game, while the new yorker magazine towards its deadlines. i finally said in wonderment, how can you afford to use so much time and go into so many things in such detail with just one writer when this whole enterprise is yours to get together? >> .. >> you can watc

shakespeare from richard iii to shylock and now king lear, and you have also written fiction and nonfictionlays, so what do you see yourself as, an actor or a writer? i quite like the fact that i do both and in fact i'm an artist as welcomer i paint and draw —— as well, i paint. many of the illustrations are in the books. i have a restless personality and i'm a workaholic. so just one of those things wouldn't be quite enough to feed my habit. it is good to be able to keep going between the three. does the writing and painting and acting, do they complement each other? yes, well, the drawing and sketching, i do when i'm developing a character to work out how they might look or even how they feel. and the writing, well, in the theatre journals, it is a diary adapted from my diary, and ifind doing a diary every day very cathartic. you off—load all the stuff that might be troubling you or indeed exciting new about the work, so they do we've into one another. here you are, keeping this diary as you embark on what you say is one of the most challenging roles you have ever played. for people who d

this and other programs online at booktv.org. >>. >> here are some of the current best-selling nonfiction books according to the new york times. stopping the list, secretary of state madeleine all right warning about the rising fascist tactics by world leaders followed by russian roulette, a look at russian hackers attempted to influence the 2016 presidential election by journalist michael is a cough . after that, physicist neil degrasse tyson's astrophysics forpeople in a hurry and i'll be gone in the dark . true prime journalist show mcnamara's first-hand account of research for the golden state killer. who was responsible for a dozen murders and 50 sexual assault in california during the 70s and 80s. in fifth, swedish physician on throttling rights on human progress. a look at some of the best-selling books according to the new york times continues with educated, tara westover's account of her childhood in the idaho mountains and her first introduction to formal education at the age of 17. in seventh is barbara ehrenreich's thoughts on the fear of death, natural causes followed by jour

the top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. book tv, television for serious readers. >> tonight, authors of books on business and economics. next, susan on, i am not a tractor. law professor writes about creativity and intellectual property >> susan is vice president of innovation at the rand corporation. she is the author of i am not a tractor. about a group of farmworkers who organized to improve working conditions. this is an hour and a half.

because in nonfiction you keep editing things out. you talk about a real event, but you keep editing things out. people usually only talk about one side of a story when there might be six or seven different sides of it. so i appreciate that. though i think it's a big challenge to write nonfiction, i love the people that do, but it's really hard. >> host: vicki in paris, -- in perris, california. >> caller: hi, hello. a pleasure to talk to you, mr. mosley. i love your books because it brings back mymy childhood of living and visiting my sister during the summer in l.a. in the early '60s, late '60s. but my question to you is have you thought making a movie out of black betty and maybe getting a director like ava duvernay, spike lee, john singleton, something like that? >> guest: yeah, you know, i would love to make more movies about ez rollins. it's not an easy thing to do, no pun intended. i try, i keep trying, you know, doing television shows or films. you know, i get to a certain point, and then it doesn't work. i figure there's like

shakespeare from richard iii to shylock and now king lear, and you have also written fiction and nonfictionnd plays, so what do you see yourself as, an actor or a writer? i quite like the fact that i do both and in fact i'm an artist as well, i paint and draw. many of the illustrations are in the books. i have a restless personality and i'm a workaholic. so just one of those things wouldn't be quite enough to feed my habit. it is good to be able to keep going between the three. does the writing and painting and acting, do they complement each other? yes, well, the drawing and sketching, i do when i'm developing a character to work out how they might look or even how they feel. and the writing, well, in the theatre journals, it is a diary adapted from my diary, and ifind doing a diary every day very cathartic. you off—load all the stuff that might be troubling you or indeed exciting new about the work, so they do we've into one another. here you are, keeping this diary as you embark on what you say is one of the most challenging roles you have ever played. for people who don't know king lear

for nearly 20 years, in depth on book tv has featured the nation's best-known nonfiction writers for live conversations about their books. this year as a special project, we are featuring best-selling feet -- fiction writers. join us live sunday, may 6 at noon eastern with david baldock he. his most recent book is " fallen." his other novels include and games, absolute power which became a major motion picture plus 30 novels. he has written six novels for younger readers including, "the width of the world." during the program, we will be taking your phone calls and tweets. sunday, may 6, live from noon eastern until 6:00. on c-span2. on 1968: morning america in turmoil, we look at the role of the media in shaping how americans experienced the events of 50 years ago. our guest, former cbs and nbc journalists and founding director of harvard university center on media, politics, and public policy. and the pulitzer prize winning photographer who covered senator robert kennedy's presidential campaign, the vietnam war, the white house. watch 1968: america in

known nonfiction writers. this year we're featuring best sell fiction writer knows program, dep depth fix -- "in depth" fix. we'll have david baldacci, with the book, fallen. his other novels include end game, the fix, absolute power, which became a major motion picture, plus over 30 novels. ... >> here are some of the current best-selling nonfiction books according to the new york times. topping the list. madeleine albright's warning against the rising fascist tactics by world leaders. followed by russian roulette. a look at the russian hackers. after that, after and i'll be gone in the dark, the late true crime journalists michelle mcnamara's search for the golden state killer who is responsible for a dozen murders and 50 sexual assaults in california during the 70s and 80s. this wieners position. a look at some of the best-selling books according to the new york's time continues with educated. in seventh is barber's thoughts on the fear of death, natural causes followed by the report on business deals made

. >> for nearly 20 years "in depth" on booktv has featured the nation's best-known nonfiction writers for live conversations about their books. this year as a special project with featuring best-selling fiction writers for our monthly program "in depth" fiction addition. join us live sunday may 6 at noon eastern with thriller fiction author david baldacci. his most recent book is the fall of which is number one on the "washington post" bestseller national fiction list. his other novels include the fix, absolute power which became a major motion picture plus over 30 novels. he's written a six novels for younger readers which include the finisher, the keeper. during the program would be taking your phone calls, tweets and facebook messages. our special series "in depth" fiction addition with david baldacci sunday may 6 live from noon to 3 p.m. eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> look, the ethos of texas, look, let me put it another way. travel outside this country and ask somebody describe an american to you. and the image that they're going to conjure somewhat in the back of their mind is

. >> for nearly 20 years, in depth on book tv has featured the nation's best-known nonfiction writerssation about their books. this year as a special project, we're featuring best-selling fiction writers for a monthly program in depth fiction edition. join us live today at noon eastern with walter mosley. his most recent book is down the river on to the sea, other books include devil in a blue dress which was made into a major motion picture, gone fishing, and fearless joe, plus over 40 critically acclaimed books and mystery series. during the program, we will take your phone calls, tweets, and facebook messages. the special series in depth fiction edition with walter -- author walter mosley. live from noon to 3 p.m. eastern on book tv on c-span two. lacks a discussion on

>> we look at some of the books of than nonfiction list. some of these authors have or will appear on book tv. you can watch our website cb.org. the festival features many authors. for complete schedule visit booktv.org. live tv on c-span2. >> we have author panels going on in this free event would not be possible without the support of all our sponsors. thank you for coming out and to all our supporters. we will engage. we will be talking about a host of topics throughout the day. i'm very excited to kick this off with daniel pink. he is one of the best-selling nonfiction authors. i think maybe the truest testament of how far he has made it made it on a flight that i had two weeks ago to ireland with 18. i think that everyone and pretty impressive. >> i should point out that audiobooks on flights, especially overnight . [inaudible] in order to read it, i had to write it. i was curious, having written some book about social science in the past, i was curious, there had to be some research on timing. thit turned out there's a huge amount of

the books that laura has done, unbroken, you know, the genre of historical nonfiction of which is false in, those books kind of pave the way for publisher and commercial interest in books like this. taking what ostensibly is a sports story like rowers in the olympics almost 100 years ago but making it into much more of a cultural story, a human interest story, in no way and by comparing my book to theirs. their books are phenomenal, but yes, this all falls in the genre. the publishing world goes in cycles of book works so than ever wants to write a book in that genre, and maybe in a few years this genre of historical nonfiction related to sports may die away and maybe in 20 years it will come back again. so it just depends. and i'll take one more question. [laughing] [inaudible] >> well, one more question. i'm going to ask myself the question. and say, ryan, what is your one take away from writing this book? ryan, that's a great question. i think the take away is that everybody's life is amazing, and to me, whether you fought in war or didn't, whether you lived a very quiet life here in

it happens tonight as c-span2 "after words". 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. television for serious readers. now, here is nick adams on elites and president trump. ... we're looking forward to what we're getting ready to do. which leads me to my next assignment, which is the pleasure i have in introducing our speaker, nick adams. we also want to welcome c-span here today. they've come to broadcast mr. adams' speech across the nation and a testament to his rise and great life journey. this is the first time we have had c-span at our convention so we thank nick for bringing him with him and appreciate the honor to have him here. at the age of 33, nick adams has lived an extraordinary life. he is a four-time best-selling author, fox news commentator, and currently serves as the surrogate for the white house. he is born and raised in australia, but he is a legal immigrant to america, and receiving the rare and extraordinary ability green card. otherwise known as the einstein visa. he is a first author to ever have book endorsed by a sitting president of the united

[laughter] so, creative nonfiction is a term that is currently having its day when i was in college,who put those two words together would have been looked upon as a comedian or a fool. today, creative nonfiction is the title of the course i teach-- the college course i teach, same college. required to give the course a title i named it for a quarterly edited and published at the university of pittsburgh work of the title asks an obvious question, what is creative about nonfiction. it takes a whole semester to try to answer that. here are a few points or could the creativity lies in what you choose to write about, how you go about doing it, the arrangement through which you present things , the skill and the touch with which you describe people and succeed in developing them as characters, the rhythms of your prose, the integrity of the composition, that anatomy of the peace. doesn't get up and walk around on its own? the extent to which you see until the story that exists in your material and so forth. creative nonfiction is not making something up, but making the most of what you h

a lot of kids are liking nonfiction history now. a lot of kids are reading it, so whenever i see younger people, whenever i give a talk at a book signing will they go to a school, i am encouraged by how many have an appetite for historical knowledge. if they were carrying on tv shows, i think that. what could be more interesting than becoming one of the leaders in the world. what could be more interesting than the story of john kennedy or other forgotten names. it wasn't just doctor king. he would be the last person to say that it was trust him. it was also ralph abernathy, it was malcolm x., it was a whole bunch of people. it was an ensemble of leaders and that is a message i try to convey in the book but it was an entire group of people and also this, people have forgotten the rights of the movement. martin once admitted and she accepted the life that she didn't have to. she didn't want to move that way. she wanted to be a part of the movement. women were an indispensable part of the movement and i don't think that they have been

book was named book of the year 2017 by npr and barnes & noble and voted the librarians favorite nonfiction book the 2017. i'm a librarian so i loved it. british writer she's purchased numerous bestsellers across many different genres. she spent more than 15 books and her work has been translated into more than 12 languages. this is kate. [applause] liza is a journalist and author of four books most recently coded girls, the untold story of american women codebreakers of world war ii. it's a national bestseller that reveals the secret work of thousands of women, thousands literally, who work critical in ending the war. liza is a former staff writer for "the washington post". she writes widely for publications including atlantic, politico, new york times, slate in time. again, i'm sure that is not the whole list, either. she's appeared on all things considered, talk of the nation, other television and radio shows. she's a senior fellow at new america and nonpartisan think tank and she lives in arlington, virginia just down from arlington hall were some of the army code breaking women actuall

fiction or nonfiction. or name a few. >> well, i just want to -- >> is there a rebuttal? go ahead. >> saying something about music. i think bill -- he was a tonist in this sense. he thought good, the true and beautiful music and sailing and faith really all belonged together. so i think we should mix those things up. bill always did. i remember some of these recitals at 73 east 73rd street, once bernstein came and played the goldberg variation which was an absolutely magazinical evening. another time, i can remember if you were there, jay, andrew cho plays bach and played something else that evening. this was the kind of thing that used to happen in people's hows, very rarely does happen now. i found it magical. i live fairly close to where bill lived in stamford and for various reasons on sunday afternoons my wife and i would often go back to the point and he and she would play the piano or harpsichord together. they were great experiences. snum experiences. maybe not musical experiences. and i just want to draw a line under and put in bold face here your characterizatio

because in nonfiction, you keep editing things out. you talk about a real event but keep editing things out and people only talk about one side of the story who then plight be six or seven different sides if appreciate that. think it's a big challenge to write nonfiction but it's really hard. >> host: vicky in paris, california. >> caller: hi, hello. a pleasure to talk to you, mr. mosley. i love your books because it brings back my childhood of living and visiting my sister during the summer in l.a., in this early '60s, late '60s. have you thought about making a movie out of black buddy and getting a black director, spike lee, john singleton, something like that. >> guest: you know, i would love to make more movies about easy rawlins. it's not an easy thing to do. no pun intended. i tried. i keep trying, doing television shows or films, and i get to a certain point and then it doesn't work. i figured there's a nine-month window with "black panther" having been made of talking about a black male hero in film so i'll try again with easy.

fiction or nonfiction. or name a few. >> well, i just want to -- >> is there a rebuttal first? >> not a rebuttal. >> go ahead. >> i want to say something about music. i think bill was -- he was a tomist, really, in this sense, that he thought the good, the true and the beautiful music and sailing and faith, really, all they belonged together. >> yes. >> so i think we shouldn't mix those things up. bill always did. and i remember some of these recitals at 73 east 73rd street. once simona came and played the goldberg variations. it was an absolutely magical evening. the other time, i can't remember if you were there, jay, he plays bach, but he came and he play -- these are the kinds of things that used to happen in people's house. it very rarely does happen now. i found them absolutely magical occasions. you know, i live fairly close to where bill lived in stamford, and for various reasons on sunday afternoons my wife and i would often go back and she and he would play the harpsichord together or play the piano together. it was, you know, they were not great musical experiences,

here to welcome the number one "new york times" bestseller across many joggers including fiction, nonfiction, children's, how-to and graphic novels. he helped define the 9/11 flag at ground zero and also the host of decoded. we all know why you are here. without any further ado, let's welcome mr. bracknell there. [cheers and applause] we are having some fun now because we are hearing just so you know, you all have your cameras out. c-span is here. you know what that means? all of us book nerds are being watched by all of our favorite book nerds. with this amazing group we have as many viewers as espn. that joke does not work in sports places. the washington area was our home in a beautiful place for us where we had our children here, i started writing here and he would always go yes, i'm here for brad meltzer's new book. my favorite new author. we know he's your son. what do you mean john grisham is in the front window? not anywhere. now meltzer was in the front window. we have a couple thank you to do that are local but ones that are fun. i write a character named beecher in the inner circl

. >> here are some of the current best-selling nonfiction books according to the los angeles times .opping the list is daniel townes financial advice, and invested followed by i've been thinking. a collection of inspirational quotes, prayers and reflections from maria shriver. after that it's russia and roulette, look at backers who attempted to influence the presidential election by journalists michael isikoff. next is a day in the life of marlon bundo by jill twist, a parody of the children's book by karen and charlotte pence. then the former communications director for hillary clinton as our thoughts on how future women leaders can succeed in deer madam president. our look at some of the best-selling books according to the los angeles times continues with mark stanton's advice on leading a happier life followed by clinical psychologists jordan peterson's self-help book 12 rules for life. next is charlotte peter weiser's report on the business field made by prominent political families, secret empires, then the late true crime journalist michelle mcnamara's first-hand account of re

. >> you are some of the current best-selling nonfiction books according to the "washington post." topping the list is journalist peter schweizer's report on business deals made by prominent political families, secret empire spirit after that, russian roulette, you look at the russian hackers attempting to influence the 2015 u.s. presidential election by michael isikoff and david corn. next is clinical psychologist jordan peterson self-help locus followed by a pretty mask him him him more from real housewife erika jayne. and mark manson's advice on meeting a happier life. i look at some of the best-selling books that the "washington post" continues with a collection of stories to improve self-confidence from jensen shirov. next is educated. recount of her childhood in the idaho mountains in her first to formal education at the age of 17. then it is i've been thinking comic collection of inspirational quotes, prayers and reflections for maria shriver followed by gary chaplin's the five love languages. wrapping up a look at some of the books of the "washington post" nonfiction bestse

logistics, and the love of natural beauty and in his last book that he saw through press, and the last nonfiction book of miles gone by, he has an epilogue which is about windfall and about that last account of his sailing across the atlantic, and the last time that he did that just stepping down from the national review. they left from lisbon to madera, and he called that the end of the affair, and this epilogue rather is a meditation on what the end of the affair meant. i would like to read by way of conclusion the last kocouple of lines from that epilogue. i think that they are quite moving. " "the sea has always something lying in wait for you. perhaps in my last years, i'll deny it the opportunity to vex me. but if so, how can i draw from it those fleeted moments. you shortened the sail a little moment, because you want more sure ti thty than the wind up t speed 20, 40 knots and late at night and there are only two of you in the cockpit. you are moving at racing speed parting the buttery sea as with a skcalpel and the maneuvering through the waters with your way to command them. powerful, an

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tells me and what i know from speaking with a lot of people is there is less reading of fiction and nonfiction, more sustained reading among adults than there was. a lot of people are doing facebook. a lot of people are doing communicating on their phones. the truth is that our time is less than what it once was. many of us, especially in the bay area which is so tech savvy, bring our office home at night. we have all of our e-mail, all of our documents in the cloud. we are not making the same leisure time for reading that we once did. i think our reading is suffering. one of the things we do in the library is really try to call attention to the importance of reading. i think it is quite important. we create opportunities for people to want to read, to read in order to share their experiences, to learn about the books they read from other people's perspectives and share experience with authors. we have lots of opportunities for people to make reading more central to their lives. that's a priority. >> interesting. you said sustained reading. meaning part of what you observe is maybe i am just -

i will say there's something wonderful about nonfiction about the confines. i sit down to write fiction anything is possible. it is this terrifying abyss. whereas with this i really, i can stick to what is true. but yes, i just want to say i think sometimes some of the truest stuff that i read is actually fiction poetry. >> please help me think -- thank our office. we welcome you to the book tent your book sales, book signings as well. thank you. >> thank you. >> next up from texas is an altar panel on class in america. the sixth annual san antonio book festival. >> hello and welcome to the 20 18th san antonio book festival. the sixth annual san antonio book best. this is a panel discussion. what we do not talk about when we talked about poverty with the authors -- a reminder that as we wrap up here, the authors will sign copies of their books at the signing tent adjacent to the barnes and noble book sales tent. a portion of proceeds from the book sales will benefit the san antonio public library foundation. we will have 10 minutes at the end of this discussi

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teachers demand tries to write a nonfiction and poetry. she published five books. to the democratic norms. it now has more than half a million followers each week. compiled in one volume for the first time, one big volume, the list is a first draft history and comprehensive account of donald trump's first year. it reminds us that trump is imposing an incalculable harm on america. not only must he be resisted but we must never again allow our democracy to be imperiled by a demagogue. our first line of defense is knowledge of what he's doing to americhe is doing toamerica and. here it is. please join me in welcoming mr. collins and amy. [applause] thank you, everybody for coming. this is my first book event so i'm not really quite sure what to do we learn as we go. all of this, this whole journey has been unplanned without expectation including starting the list right after the election when my daughter's friends were saying this is the worst day since 9/11, what do we do and as a person that runs the organization the more i read about the authoritarian regimes and s