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we're here for the j anthony lucas prize pride project ceremony will be honoring excellence in nonfiction book writing with four awards. i'm nick lemon. i'm x dean now faculty member here at columbia journalism school, and i'm especially happy to be here because i was back in 1997. i guess 25 years ago part of the founding crew that set up this this program. tony lucas was a wonderful nonfiction writer and reporter who was not only great at what he did, but also cared a lot about the field. this kind of work is not part of mass culture shall we say but it's a distinct community of people who really care about it and are devoted to it and help and support each other and it was very important to tony to be part of that community he put on with me as his sort of deputy a big conference on nonfiction writing at new york state writers institute in albany back in 91 or 92 called telling the truth at the time of his death. he was the president of the author's guild he just, you know did as much as he could possibly do not just for his own work, but for other people who do this work, and and i th

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. ♪♪ >> nonfiction book lovers c-span has a number of podcasts for you.t-selling nonfiction authors and intellectual interviewers only "afterwards" podcast and q&a wide-ranging conversations with authors and others making things happen. book notes plus episodes for weekly hour-long conversations that regularly feature authors of nonfiction books on a wide variety of topics. on the about books podcast takes you behind the scenes from the nonfiction book of insider interviews. updates and bestseller list. find podcast by downloading the free c-span now out or wherever you get your podcast and on c-span.org/podcast. >> welcome back to american history tv and special series, speeches that define the president. this week our focus is followed megan. president reagan was in office 1981to 1989 and we are going to show you this evening to speeches. 1981 in our full dress the west front of the capital. in this address declared government is not the solution to the problem of government is the problem. after that, we will show you his 1984 dj address. the 40th anni

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and we'll talk about the current nonfiction and books featured on c-span book tv. and in today's program, we'll visit with harvard history and ty emails. the author most recently of all that she carried, which has won numerous awards. but first, here's a look at some publishing news. publishers weekly reports that after two years of strong book sales during the pandemic, print book sales fell about six and a half percent last year compared to 2021. nearly 789 million books were sold in 2020 to compared to. about 843 million the year before. now, adult fiction outperformed other categories and tick tock book talk drove sales for numerous fictional authors, especially for colin hoover, the prolific novelist had the top three bestseller books of 2022 and five of the top ten bestsellers. more publishing news from the new york times. new york mayor eric adams has proposed funding cuts to the city's public libraries. the proposed cuts of $13 million this fiscal year and more than $20 million next year have sparked concern among families elected officials and library lead

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do you have another nonfiction coming? kurt: i have another fiction coming. it will be out in a couple of months. as far as nonfiction, i will write something great. peter: you can read kurt

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nonfiction. and i agreed in august 21 to publish me and happily there were no there was no turbulence there. and the book was published in the uk. in fact, second in february of this year. and how is it doing? fantastically, since you ask it. it was in the the top ten nonfiction bestseller list of the sunday times, two weeks running. um, it's. it's been published now for about eight weeks. it's sold 79,000 copies, hardback only. the u.s. edition is yet to be published in may. so it's doing extremely well now. you wrote an article about this experience of being canceled in the compact magazine. and in there you wrote that bloomsbury took the path of least resistance in not publishing your book. what does that mean? i was told by someone inside bloomsbury who should know that what had happened was that junior members of the publishing company had protested about having to publish my offensive views. and it's seems from this account that senior management decided to yield to them and cancel me. not

nonfiction. and fiction.his year we have special guests helping us from afar to introduce each category and the panel. first, we have jimmy fallon, award winner and coauthor of for you with jennifer lopez to introduce the finalists for the. 22 national book award for people's literature and panel chair dr. jewel rhodes. books for young readers. simply put, changed lives. this year's finalist for the national book award for young people's literature explore what it's like for young people and people of all ages to tackle grief, anger and discrimination, whether in a magical realm or closer to home. through and illustration, these books portray characters on journeys of self-acceptance and self-discovery and some have even changed the course of history. the panel chair for this year's national book award for young people's literature is dr. joel parker rhodes, the award winning author of several books, adults and young people. she's the virginia piper endowed chair in narrative studies professor at arizona stat

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. >> nonfiction book lovers, c-span has a number of podcasts for you. listen to best-selling nonfiction authors and influential interviewers on the "afterwords" podcast and on "q&a" here wide-ranging conversations with authors and others who are make things happen. booknotes is an hour-long conversation that feature authors of nonfiction boongs a variety ofics. and behind the books takes you behind the scenes. down led the -- down load the fre c-span now app or find them wherever you get your podcasts and on our website. when congren session, we like to look at the week ahead and we are joined by a reporter and as the clock ticks down on this u.s. debt limit debate, what is the latest on where we are? did anything happen over the weekend to move this forward? >> negotiators met over the weekend on saturday and they will continue today but speaker mccarthy and leader schumer and leader mcconnell are expected to meet tomorrow. it seems like the white house is approaching this optimistically. there were comments from the president and other senior official

q&a your wide-ranging conversations with nonfiction authors who are making things happen . book notes loss conversations regularly feature authors of nonfiction books of a wide variety of topics and the about books podcast takes you behind the scenes of the nonfiction book publishing industry with industry advocates and bestseller lists. find all our podcasts by downloading the free c-span now and on our website, c-span.org/podcasts. >> for the next several weeks on american history tv we will be looking back at the speeches that define a presidency. you'll hear chief executives make their case to the american public and to international audiences. so george washington's farewell address in 1796 to barack obama's 2015 charleston south carolina speech at mother emmanuel amd church. will start with george washington. his famous 1796 farewell was actually on public letter announcing his retirement. it was first read aloud on the senate floor during the civil war and become an annual tradition in that legislative body since 1896. we will hear now from the republican and a democ

nonfiction clint smith who. i see as my brother and my luck charm.is is our third award together. nonfiction runner andrea elliott and wil haygood. the whole book award recipient. so as i sometimes say to, my students, when i'm informing them that their papers are not yet graded. i'm going keep it real. your. i only found out last night that i had to prepare these remarks. and when i thought about it. i was i was real nervous and then i decided a black woman from the south, i would speak plainly. some of y'all are old enough to remember the comedian flip wilson used to say. what you see is what you get. so no matter where i am, i always try to be myself. and so evening, my spoken remark will hopefully reflect that. i will speak a word tonight and word is speaking. your piece. when i was young girl of 14, i was always afraid. i know now it was because i was black in a female body that the world was not a comfortable for someone like me. it wasn't meant to be. and that was the point. but everywhere i turned in real life or in the books i read, there wa

talk about the current nonfiction books featured on c-span's booktv. ♪ ♪ to about books.w minutes, we'll talk with an author and professor who found a new outlook on education through her work teaching the humanities to inmates at a maximum security prison in new york. but first, here's some of the latest stories from the publishing world. a recent focus on gifts given to supreme court justice clarence thomas has led to fresh scrutiny of the financial arrangements of other supreme court justices and the judicial reform group fix. the court recently highlighted the book deals of justices sonia sotomayor and neil gorsuch. fix the court notes that both justices sotomayor and gorsuch failed to recuse themselves on copyright infringement cases involving penguin random house fix. the court reported that justice sotomayor has earned more than $3 million from books published through penguin, and the group said justice gorsuch, who's a republic, if you can keep it memoir was published by penguins forum books in 2019. earned over $500,000. in other book news, the 2023 pulitzer priz

she is -- has a nonfiction book out called the nine. i am reliving one of her previous books that is out of print. it's a fairytale book. it's called trail of stones. it is for all ages. it is illustrated by a fellow named anthony brown. i love the story tells because it can take us other places and this particular book that i am reliving -- rereading, from time to time we all find ourselves at a crossroad and we have to make these decisions in flight. i want to say that i would like to see more authors like gwen strauss and illustrators as well. i don't see too many illustrators on tv, are there any plans to bring more of these types of writers and illustrators to book tv? >> zachary, what is the topic of her newest book the nine? >> the nonfiction has to do with , it's a story of a band of women who survive in nazi germany. i believe it is based on the life of her aunt. >> thank you very much, we appreciate that. i love the idea of the illustrators as well. our next guest from california. what's on your reading list? >> hold on for a

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and now i tend to work on more serious nonfiction and a lot of classics. but i think, you know, it's it seems to be the same where wherever i am, you know, often will get, you know, we're working with a book that might not yet be written or we'll just have a few lines about it and not know that much. you know, hopefully there's a manuscript that we can get our hands on, but that's not always the case. but it's yeah, it's been such an instructive, an amazing experience. you know, i've got to read incredible works of literature. i've learned so much more than i ever did when i was at university about, you know, the art of writing and putting together a piece of writing and i think that, you know, writing these very short paragraphs can actually teach you a lot about, you know, writing as a whole and, you know, writing a whole book. well, what makes a good blurb? oh, the million dollar question. i would say that a blurb is a lot more than a synopsis. you know, if you want a synopsis of a bookstore, you can just look on wikipedia. the author, iris murdoch, sai

>> nonfiction book lovers c-span has a number of podcasts for you. listen to best-selling nonfiction authors and influential interviewers on the afterwards podcast. on q&a here wide-ranging conversations with the nonfiction authors and others for making things happen. booknotes+ episodes are a weekly hour-long conversation that regular feature fast and officers of nonfiction books on a wide variety of topics. and the about books podcast takes you behind the scenes of a nonfiction book publishing industry with insider interviews, industry updates and best-sellers list. find all of our podcast by downloading the free c-span now app or wherever you get your podcasts and on a website, c-span.org/podcasts. >> my name is kathryn harris. i am from beautiful downtown springfield, mr. lincoln's hometown, as in illinois. and i didn't write this but i'm going to read it to see what kind of lies were told. of course the first i have to find my name. okay. kathryn harris, member of the forum executive committee was a long time division manager of library services

>> nonfiction book lovers, c-span has a number of podcasts for you. best selling nonfiction authors influential interviewers on the after words podcast. q&a spirit wide ranging conversation of nonfiction authors and others who are making things happen. footnotes plus episodes weekly hour-long conversation feature fascinating authors nonfiction books on a wide variety of topics. the about books podcast takes you behind the scene of the nonfiction book publishing industry with insider interviews but industry updates and bestsellers list. by download the frequencies that now app. or whatever you get your podcast, on our website c-span.org/podcast. it is my pleasure to introduce doctor r scott stephenson will be speaking tonight greatest talk is entitled among his troops george washington's work kent. pittsburgh, pennsylvania outs history experience expands nearly three decades has been marked by public and professional acclaim. it's great innovative approach to engaging audiences. he has developed and collaborated on films, interpretive programs for nume