so, also my novels are set in different parts of the country.he dakotas, down south, georgia, the carolinas, new york city. i feel you might as well call me a geographical novelist than historical novelist. i just like the word novelist. a certain amount of connotations. >> ok, i'm looking for the word "historical novel." >> maybe i over anticipated. >> it says it judges the reader somehow. >> yeah, i think this is not formulated fiction. when you do this work for a while -- >> writing novels? >> you want to find new ways to do it. and then the equivalent to -- and writers have to get. james joyce was a beautiful writer. realistic, sense of fiction. >> he seems to have done all right. >> virginia woolf decided she wanted to write a novel without a plot to forgo that device, that convention and she did a couple of times. the one i like best is -- writers have always had the feeling that formulating fiction is unsatisfactory. the way this book has turned out, i think it breaks a few rules that pleases me. >> who is andrew? >> andrew came to me as

ok, i'm looking for the word "historical novel payday -- historical novel." >> may by over anticipated. >> it says it judges the reader somehow. formulatednot fiction. when you do this work for a while -- >> writing novels? >> you want to find new ways to do it. equivalent to -- and riders been to get. james joyce was a beautiful writer. --listic, since a fiction sense of fiction. >> he seems to have done all right. >> virginia woolf decided she wanted to write a novel without device,o forgo that that convention and she did a couple of times. the one i like best is -- iters have always had the feeling that formulating fiction is unsatisfactory. the way this book has turned out, i think it breaks a few rules in pleases me. >> who is andrew? a figure came to me as standing in the snow and holding a infant's water in his arms in front of a door with a snow-covered down of his yankee ball cap. -- swaddled >> it was some urgency to it as he was waiting for the store to open. i found myself writing that. -- the door to open. i had to find out a way what was happening just what was going on.

>> nicholson basic reads row maps novels too -- romance novels too. >> yeah, i love reading romance novels. i mean, they're dirty now. [laughter] >> for me, it's when effecter that i'm reading. it's when i stop looking at a book and thinking, oh, that's amazing the way they did that, that was so clever. it was a really smart idea, look at the way they're presenting that character. when that part of my brain shuts off and i stop analyzing the book and i just fully enter into it, then it becomes a truly great book. i just finished reading chaste's book, "can't we talk about something more pleasant," and i never read graphic novels. so to have that part of my brain click off, i was just with her every second. >> that's great. >> for me it's about being transported. i don't want to read about, you know, other neuroare thetic -- neurotic people my age in new york, you know, dealing with family and work. [laughter] i want to be, you know, off in the congo. >> i recommend a novel called "the buried giant"? [laughter] >> yes we herald a wonderful -- we heard a wonderful presentation from walter is

it's in the heart of fiction, the novel's concerns. i wasn't thinking of a novel.tell me the story of a jehovah's witness case. he was halfway through the story and i knew i was going to write a novel. >> charlie: you'd found home. yeah. >> charlie: what did you say a few minutes ago? >> i think the family division has pitched its tent in fiction's terrain. it's love and the end of love, especially the end of love, the contested destinies of children, medical and legal ethics, all kinds of issues that don't involve crimes with guns and knives and rapes and so on, but ordinary dilemmas that people face certainly once or twice in their lifetime. >> charlie: obviously, depression -- >> all those things. >> charlie: you set out to write it. what did you do then? >> i read more judgments. the great thing about internet, you can pull them down. i became impressed by the best of them. there were some terrible judgments, by the way. but the best of them, great prose, huge historical, philosophical sweep. love of irony. touch of wit. great compassion and fairness, but the o

. >> i love reading romance novels. they're dirty now. >> for me it's when i forget i'm reading. it's when i stop looking at a book and thinking oh, that's amazing the way they did that. that was so clever. it was a really smart idea. look at the way they're presenting that character. when that part of my brain shuts off and i stop analyzing the book and figuring out how they did and it i just fully enter into it? then it becomes a truly great book. i just finished reading -- can we talk -- i never agreed photographic novels so to have that part of my brain click off, i was just with her every second. >> great great. >> for me it's about being transported. i don't want to read about other neurotic people my age in new york dealing with

and i put up on a slide here, the cover, one of the many covers of theodore's novel, sister carrie which we've been discussing this last week. and what we been considering is a kind of fictional assault right? on the victorian moral order. in this case and theodore's case, in the form of naturalist fiction. naturalist writing. the attempt to get close to urban reality and to record it in the form of a story about a female adventurer. she chose to set this story as you know in the booming bustling town of chicago. and to use chicago as a kind of character in the story. so look at the booms, the bus the individual tremendous vails, the fortunes of the characters in his novel. and just to sort of summarize where we got last time. in the pages, i think we saw the workings of many things. not just a story, right? but a kind of commentary on early 20th century america. and especially urban industrial america. we saw the workings of a new economy, the novel itself as a kind of allegory for capitalism and consumer culture. that was constantly on the move in which styles, fashions identities char

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he wrote the most recent james bond novel. yes. and i haven't read it yet but told it's very good, very witty. so, a surprise like that doesn't happen very often. it's always very gratifying. because you can tell people about a good book and it's -- i think that -- i don't usually go into a book review with any particular expectations. i go into hoping that -- when i picked up "inferno" 650 pains, a couple years ago, about the entire sweep of world war ii, thought, this will be a lot of work. really it wasn't. a fantastic, wonderful book, i -- i couldn't put down, as the sagos. but sometimes you get into a book and you think, oh, lord, i've got 475 pages ahead of me. and i've only two or three times in a long career tossed a book aside, and in both cases it was because the book was so bad i didn't think i wanted to inflict what i would write on that particular writer, who was probably a perfectly nice person. so, i think more positive surprises than negative. when i was writing the series we mentioned, called "second reading." whic

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and that's what makes things happen in the novel. remember that carrie is never satisfied. and recall the department store, right? where he felt as he tells us the claim of each trinket and valuable upon her personally. we talked a little bit too about the moral of the story. a moral for the 20th ench ri maybe that there is no moral, right? things happen to people. good things happen to bad people, right? people aren't punished for bad deeds. in fact sometimes like carrie, they're rewarded. so what he8f kind of success story at vik torn period. that victorian ladder of virtue. the changing of fortunes was not the result of strong character or even of planning and preparedness. think back to the stories, right? but fortune was the result of accident. random occurrences, and here he shows us i think what henry adams feared so much. an economy of energy right, of dynamos but not a virtue. you start to see how he's picking up on the early and finally in this takes it today. he showed us a model of the self. a model of self which is much less anchored than the one in booker t. w

it's the classic novel, obviously.film, one of many great films by the first world war. there's more coming out. one of my favorites is "path of glo glory." >> from the german perspective. if you put the two novels together, you have the one classic anti-war and one classic german aggression. i'm not sure the sense of literature was that -- was any kind of sympathy for germany. we will have one more -- one last question. >> i'm honored to get last question. can any of you talk about the iraq area and the effects of the first world war in the minorities of that area and how that led to the current problems we have, searching -- >> iraq was originally a british mandate after the first world war. and britain was going to use that -- it wasn't as much oil yet as fear of maybe russian aggression towards india. aggression towards india. because of local insurgencies, actually. it was turned over with -- prince fizle was king of -- but kicked out by the french and from syria, which was their mandate, nobody asked what the ara

it's the classic anti-war novel. it's one of several novels he t. wrote.there's a sequel called the road back, and then three comrades. i think it's mosta interestin how it was -- it had a greater influence as a film. i remember seeing it the first time i was devastated by the realism of it.ed b and it certainly reinforced gre pacifism for a great many people. of course, others like the nazis hated it. because it did not glorify war.r when they were trying to show that in germany, they tried to disrupt the theatrical off performances. they tried to set off smoke uld bombs and stink bombs so people would leave the theaters.e it's a classic novel, obviously, and classic film, one of many e great films about world war i. n and more ofg them are coming o. my favorites is "past glory." >> the flip side of that, from the german perspective, of course, is "the storm of steel." which gives this sense. if you put those two novels together, you have the one classic anti-war and classic aggression. i'm not sure the overall sense m of literature was any kind of o symp

we have the novels of pat barker discussing these issues. there is another side of this issue, right? >> we have time for one or two more questions. >> yes. >> how much -- how historically accurate was the novel "all quiet on the western front"? did it promote any sort of sympathy for germans in general? >> i don't know how much sympathy it promoted but it certainly promoted sympathy for those opposed to warfare. it, you know, it's the classic anti-war novel. it's one of several he wrote. there is a sequel called "the road back" and then "three comrades." i think it is most interesting how it obviously had a greater influence as a film. i remember seeing it the first time, i was just devastated by the realism of it. and it certainly reinforced pass fism -- pacifism for a great many people. other people like the nazis hated it because it did not glorify war. when they would try to show that in germany they tried to disrupt theatrical performances. they would set off smoke bombs and stink bombs so people would leave the theaters. so, you know,

some of them were novels that started in the 1840's to the 1890's all over the world. we have examples printed in languages like touch, japanese, italian, that sort of thing. in the 1930's and 1940's one of the things that exist alongside comic books were pulled from magazines, monthly novels such things as the texas ranger. today you see things like the italian version of the comic book down here, which has been in production in italy since 1940's. then we have the belgian children's book of texas rangers we cannot even keep up with them. these are connected to clayton moore, the famous television lone ranger for so many years. each time that they start a new season's production they would have a number of mass and pick out the most comfortable to wear. only a handful still survived to this day. thanks to dr. taylor and montana we have a huge collection of this material, including one of the masks. he had his own gun belts made and presented to her, these identical to the ones that were used in the television productions and movie productions. the gun belt is original

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it's the classic novel, obviously.ilm, one of many great films by the first world war. there's more coming out. one of my favorites is "path of glo glory." >> from the german perspective. if you put the two novels together, you have the one classic anti-war and one classic german aggression. i'm not sure the sense of literature was that -- was any kind of sympathy for germany. we will have one more -- one last question. >> i'm honored to get last question. can any of you talk about the iraq area and the effects of the first world war in the minorities of that area and how that led to the current problems we have, searching -- >> iraq was originally a british mandate after the first world war. and britain was going to use that -- it wasn't as much oil yet as fear of maybe russian aggression towards india. aggression towards india. because of local insurgencies, actually. it was turned over with -- prince fizle was king of -- but kicked out by the french and from syria, which was their mandate, nobody asked what the arab

of the characters in his novel. and just to sort of summarize where we got last time. in the pages, i think we saw the workings of many things. not just a story, right? but a kind of commentary on early 20th century america. and especially urban industrial america. we saw the workings of a new economy, the novel itself as a kind of allegory for capitalism and consumer culture. that was constantly on the move in which styles, fashions identities characters, fall and rise. and importantly they fall and rise without rhyme or reason. all right. identities can be put on a costume and then shed. as characters move on to their new roles. this has something to do right, not just with carrie being an actress and being in her own story, but being in a story of american culture in the 20th century. and especially lay consumer culture. we talked about the motor behind the story, and i think we settled on one word. desire. desire was the kind of engine with the story. wanting what you can't have. always being able to see what is ahead of you that is elusive that you're trying to gr

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and that's what makes things happen in the novel. remember that carrie is never satisfied.recall the department store, right? where he felt as he tells us the claim of each trinket and valuable upon her personally. we talked a little bit too about the moral of the story. a moral for the 20th ench ri maybe that there is no moral, right? things happen to people. good things happen to bad people, right? people aren't punished for bad deeds. in fact sometimes like carrie, they're rewarded. so what he8f kind of success story at vik torn period. that victorian ladder of virtue. the changing of fortunes was not the result of strong character or even of planning and preparedness. think back to the stories, right? but fortune was the result of accident. random occurrences, and here he shows us i think what henry adams feared so much. an economy of energy right, of dynamos but not a virtue. you start to see how he's picking up on the early and finally in this takes it today. he showed us a model of the self. a model of self which is much less anchored than the one in booker t. washin

there should be more americans writing assassination novels. >> not a novel. >> killing kennedy, killingincoln. >> not a novel by the way. >> this is not fiction this is real. >> both are nonfiction. >> okay. >> we'll see. >> you got "killing lincoln." "killing kennedy jrn" and i ass killing garfield? >> how did "killing kennedy" go from an idea to a best selling book? a lot had to do with the creative process. oh, i love game night. ooh, it's a house and a car! so far, you're horrible at this, flo. yeah, no talent for drawing, flo. house! car! oh, raise the roof! no one? remember when we used to raise the roof, diane? oh, quiet, richard, i'm trying to make sense of flo's terrible drawing. i'll draw the pants off that thing. oh, oh, hats on hamburgers! dancing! drive-in movie theater! home and auto. lamp! squares. stupid, dumb. lines. [ alarm rings ] no! home and auto bundle from progressive. saves you money. yay, game night, so much fun. the ultimate arena for business. hour after hour of diving deep, touching base, and putting ducks in rows. the only problem with conference calls: even

how different is it from what we came to know in the novels?when wilder wrote "pioneer girl" she intended to write it for an adult audience, you're absolutely right about that. she was hoping that a major national magazine like the saturday evening post or the ladies home journal would serialize her autobiography. she was hoping for magazine serialization and then a book deal later on. it was a different publishing world than when she finished pioneer girl in 1930. >> brown: what vows jumps out at you from reading her own words? >> the voice in pioneer girl is more mature but also very intimate, very personable. it's almost as if you're sitting across from laura ingalls wilder at her kitchen table and she's telling you her life story. but she's telling it as an adult looking back on her childhood and that's a very different voice than in the little house series. in terms of her life itself, what she reveals in pioneer girl is in many ways similar to what she discusses in the novel, but she presents a tougher life, a harder life, and yet the ing

it's been said many times, television is now like a novel.so much so that there was an adaptation of a novel i have loved, i thought. it was adapted by bbc and tom stoppard wrote the screenplay. the screenplay was so good that made the novel look bad. that's how things have evolved. you know of course that nobody is going movies because all the movie directors are now doing television. spielberg has a television production company. pretty much anybody with the name s. has a tv show. frank and i were great friends of know her as from. before she died when she was in the hospital dying and she was determined to keep working and she's working on a television treatment or it was something that sounded great but it was about a woman who is a compliance officer and realizes her boss is a fraud. i wish she had stuck around but i wish get stuck around to do that. what i was going to say then is that people used to feel guilty about watching television. and now people feel bad about not watching enough because they feel like i can't even talk to my fr

my son was a great reader of this novel -- a graphic novel format. he convinced me to do it. >> but you did not have batman. >> i did not. >> i read it and i really enjoyed it. next step, who is the audience for this book? who you think is more to read it? what difference does it make? >> i have in mind the audience being anyone who has an open mind about this bill. i do not think is going to change anyone's mind if their mind is made up. but this is a really radical transformation of our system. it is complicated. and i think there's a lot of misinformation and disinformation about this bill. i think this is appealing to two groups. one is the cautiously skeptical too cautiously supportive, but just unsure. they want to read it and learn and decide for themselves. i also have a particular audience in mind, which is the people who are inclined to like universal coverage, to like what a democratic president does, but feel like this bill did not get there. it did not meet their needs. they are just not satisfied. i am stunned with the number of self-de

poets reimagine everyone and read back the voice to everyone and that is great novels, great poetry, great art that speaks to us. so this was targeting individual rights and human rights because women minorities and others, the first attack was not because the engineers were really against the state, the ones that were in jail were the politically creating mess. the first thing they did was attack humanity and the first thing that they are doing is attacking it saying that our great leaders, they said it is through humanities that the west insinuates into the minds of the young. in those countries reading banned books and becoming a human being by refusing to look the way that the people want you to look, not whether it is good or bad but the fact that every person and woman has the right to choose how she wants to connect the dots or not connect the dots and she has the right to dress and act as responsible of her own life. freedom of choice the same way that elizabeth cady stanton and others, the same way that they were fighting and people were saying that the bible says a woman's

there should be more americans writing assassination novels. >> not a novel. >> killing kennedy, killing>> not a novel by the way. >> this is not fiction this is real. >> both are nonfiction. >> okay. >> we'll see. >> you got "killing lincoln." "killing kennedy jrn" and i ass killing garfield? >> how did "killing kennedy" go from an idea to a best selling book? a lot had to do with the creative process. my co-author will join me after the break to reveal how we got it done. the am. new aleve pm the only one to combine a safe sleep aid plus the 12 hour strength of aleve. osteo bi-flex® with joint shield™ nurtures and helps defend your joints° so you can keep doing what you love. what'd you guys do today? the usual! the usual! [ male announcer ] osteo bi-flex, ready for action. iit's a lot of haggling and itan stakes so long.ship.ex, craig's experience is completely different than mine. yeah. yes, mike has used truecar. at truecar, we'll show you how much others paid for the car you want, and how much you should. because i used truecar there was no haggling about the price. they treated me

i like novels about characters and stuff like that.ese girls, i tried to bring lake eons adult fiction to these girls. and it's about girls like them. >> host: such as? >> guest: such as a wonderful short novel called a blue-eyed daisy. something about working-class or appalachian girls that would speak to their concerns. my students wanted not being of that. they turned their noses and said we don't want your kind, meaning we don't like your book. not because the person, but what i was bringing in. it turned out their favorite book was horror fiction. >> host: blake vampire? >> guest: some of that. one of my students it turns out she was by the age of nine and then also 10, her favorite author was stephan king. they watch stephen king on television. they read stephen king. here i was trying to be this idealistic teacher trying to change the world and change them and all they wanted to read with stephen king. so i just gave in and said we are going to read horror fiction and staff and that was transformative for me and for my students

(laughter) >> now it is rare for a journalism award to go to a novel, but as the aapg's communications director put it, it is fiction but it has the absolute ring of truth. (laughter) >> stephen: i couldn't have said it better myself. except for all the times i have said it myself on this show. and kudoes to the american association of petroleum geologists for recognizing a book that debunks global warming. not a popular stance with anyone but themselves. no, i'm happy for mike. i know just how he feels. last year my novel stephen colbert alpha squad 7 lady nocturn a tek jansen adventure won the truth in reporting award from the american tobacco association. here is the passage i think clinched it for me. "i rushed to argana's side and cradled her dying body in my arms. even now aware of its taut secretariesiness. blood poured from the wound where the swampi immediate had gorred her. she only had minutes to live and on this planet, minutes meant seconds. thinking quickly, i reached into my medipouch and cracked open a case of cigarettes. i lit one on the still smoking barrel of my magn

>> because it's a completely novel approach to cancer and restoring the tumor fighting proteins is soing and defeating the disease, we think it can be a stand alone company at the backbone or foundation of different types of cancer, of course, that has to be proven and we're early stage yet. we believe the preliminary data and non-hod kgkin'snon-hodgkin' >> i'm familiar with bob because he's my neighbor at cell gene and everyone gets together and says this drug can work with that drug. this is a small community. are you so-called networking with other guys to say listen, you ought to try our drug in congestion with your drug. >> yeah, the good news for us has been that the investigator, the physician community has actually gotten very excited about selling it. you may note we have over 20 clinical trials that have started or are about to start where we have another 20 or 30 sta about to start and this is physician out reach and we meet them in other meetings and people cold e-mail or call us to get us to agree with them that we can try to combine it with other different kinds of thera

he graduates two other novels and becomes a reader and as a transformational impact on him.he becomes better suited and he goes to college, he ends up going to law school, becomes one of the first african-american lawyers and becomes the leader in the civil rights movement, prosecutor and the judge said he becomes a great hero of his school and at one of them he confesses you should know it was more books that transformed my life and made this possible but i also store them and she had a confession of her own. she said when he stole the first book she saw been and she was ready to confront him she was angry why are you stealing it from from you can check it out but she also had a flash of insight. here is here's a tough teenage boy who doesn't want to be seen doing something so soft as checking out a book so she let him than the weekend she drove 70 miles to memphis on her own time, went to used bookstores. the first two didn't have anything but the last one did, bought another novel and put it back on the shelf in the hopes that this tough kid that made her cry might like t

a team of european researchers came up with a novel way of making that possible. technology editor... [ ♪ music ] >> you are now moon base number 1. >> reporter: the idea of a manned base on the moon has been around for decades, and not just in the realms of science fiction. n.a.s.a.'s apollo missions gave the science community huge amounts of information about the luna surface. the vast cost of the program and waning public interest saw it axed in the 1970s. scientists are looking to the moon and to mars. >> once you leave earth orbit and committed yourself to an asteroid or on to mars, you cut off your support and your supply line from earth. you have to be resourceful. >> this honeycomb-like structure was built any a robotic 3d printer. scientists use a mixture of dust, they added water and salt which turned it into a concrete. this can be done on the mon and can form the building brooks of a future moon base. >> the teams say using a robotic vehicle or a fleet of them to mix and squirt into place the moon concrete would be faster, cheeper and safer than using

your first novel. that is like a kid in college be drafted by a major league baseball team on the first time up hit a grand slam. >> that was unnerving. i never expected to get published that first book. i mean, i had one published short story, and i was a very pragmatic person, no, it will never happen, why does this agent want to -- i said, you're never going to make any money off me. and this happens. >> you were a business writer. >> i was a business writer. >> you had a very different life. >> yep. >> and you struck gold immediately. >> and it's unnerving. >> well, it probably is -- >> it's almost spooky. it's like you won the lottery and you didn't enter. [laughter]. something is going to catch up and they're going to say, oh, sorry, we made a mistake. i was actually very upset. i cried the day my book was published because i was afraid something had taken over my life, and i had a very happy life, and it was going to ruin everything. >> right. >> so -- >> did it? >> no, you know, but i had to st

heat watch rated yo, a novel series? >> first we want to educate the community about what human trafficking is. that's where heat watch radio has been a success on itunes. some of the shows are basic human trafficking, what is it. some talk about more intricate issues like a victim that has a developmental disability that's being trafficked and how complicated that can become and make people aware. the other part, our audrey series, is a series of graphic novels, a three-part series. that's really designed to go into the schools so that we're not responding to human trafficking, we're preventing human trafficking. we want kids to be educated, not scared. and we do it in an age appropriate way. we want them to be educated about what this is and what can happen. so if they ever get approached or someone they know gets approached, they have a better awareness for themselves. >> we just of a few seconds left. what can people in the community do? >> well, if you see something, say something. we've adopted that slogan and it's

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lives on a farm in new hampshire where she breeds arabian and quarter horses, writing poetry, four novels, more than 20 children's books. she says, "i don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. i want to write poems that matter." >> this is a little one called after love. afterward, the compromise. bodies resume their boundaries. these legs, for instance, mine. your arms take you back in. spoons of our fingers, lips admit their ownership. the bedding yawns, a door blows aimlessly ajar and overhead, a plane singsongs coming down. nothing is changed, except there was a moment when the wolf, the mongering wolf who stands outside the self lay lightly down, and slept. ( applause ) thank you. >> glad to have you with us on this edition of "newsline." ths thursday, december 25th. i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. >>> japan's lawmakers have decided to give shinzo abe another term as prime minister. abe and his governing coalition had a victory in a general election earlier this month. he has a clearer mandate to pursue his economic and political reforms. [ speaking foreign language ] [ appl

sosee the book take off and do what it's done. >> brown: it's a little different than writing novels.very different. >> brown: in terms of attention, sales. >> attention, sales, money per word, all these things. >> brown: what do you tell your kids, by the way? what do you tell your daughters? does she know about the books? >> she knows all about the books. particularly the second book. a lot of the kids in the book are friends of hers. she's on the cover of the book and on several pages. she's intrigued with the notion of fame, particularly her own fame, which has no effect of her life but she's cognizant of the fact that a lot of people have seen these books. the most unimpressive job in the world to a kid is writer. like, if you tell a kid you're a writer, you write books they look at you like, "i write books. i wrote three books this week." but it's sort of finally dawning on my daughter that writer might be a real job. >> brown: all right, adam mansbach, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> ifill: again, the major developments of the day, oil prices kept falling, to below $61 dollars