well, i wanted to write a serious novel, but serious novels are boring. i'm a professor of english. read boring books for a living. and i acknowledge that a lot of things we call serious literature can be boring. i also am a fan of ona, genre literature. i'm a believer in that we have a genre that doesn't call itself a john a which is literary fiction if if you reed enough literary fiction you realize it's a genre, it's really boring. but if you read explicitly described genre fiction like deckty novels, thrillers, science fiction, fantasy, romance novels, you rafaelize that the best of these books are better than the average of literary fiction and they're very entertaining if don't read these books anymore because if i did i'd literally be up all night reading them. it's like candy. have too stop myself from reading these books and genre fiction in this country on the average is actually mere political than literary fiction. i think that's because there's no -- again, i go back to the idea that the writing work shop propagates a certain set aside literary fiction. it removes polit

so -- the novel is my revenge. also my attempt to also tell the history of the vietnam war of the story of the vietnam war from the perspective that most americans have never heard of be fair which is how their own allies, friends, south vietnamese experience this. my narrator is a communist by was but was also giving us the communist perspective on it. when he arrives in the united states he is telling, giving us the viewpoint of how the vietnamese see american culture. which is not necessarily in a positive light. there's a very satirical dimension of the novel as well. as i get why people to see what it looks like outside of this country. i think the topic has been hard to exhaust for me. that is why i wrote another book about it. nothing ever dies, my attempt to look at the vietnam war in a larger context of 100 years of american warfare that has been wage since 19 -- the korean war, the vietnam vietnam war and now iraq and afghanistan as a extension of century long campaign. that's where i needed to turn to no

i write novels centers for adults and last year a graphic novel for middle grade readers. i am a recovering library worker and a recovering bookstore worker. i also do part-time work for the electronic frontier foundation, which does civil liberties work on privacy and surveillance in free expression online. i mention that because a month ago we brought a suit to repeal a particularly pernicious last century internet law and we are asking the court to invalidate on the basis of its violations of the first amendment. >> by name is jonathan hill. i was the illustrator for the book americas, which is a graphic novel about a book banning in a small town and i'm also a teacher. i teach comics. >> and charles brownstein can executive director of the comic book legal defense fund investor share of the banned books week coalition. i also write nonfiction about comics in the most recent pieces are the one -- [inaudible] >> i forgot to mention i'm a retired librarian, so we have good representation on this. the first question is why you said that we call it the end books week even t

>> well, definitely so, because i wrote the novel to criticize everybody. so, there's something fob everybody just like in the move. criticizes the communists and the south vietnamese, the americans, and i think the theme of the novel is sympathy for the sympathizer and the easiest thing to do in war or conflict is to sympathize only with our own side. right? and the virtue and the flaw of my character, he simple theses with everybody, which makes him a great spy and also going to lead to his downfall as well, and that's what i learned from writing the novel, if we have -- if there's any hope forward for piece and reconciliation and things like that, it requires expansion of sympathy and empathy beyond our own closed communities to a much larger human community. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> in 1979 chance was created and brought you by your cable or satellite provider. >> this week's "after words" program takes a look at social media marketing and advertising on consumers and the marketplace. columbia university professo

experience and wrote it into several novels. he describes the transformation as well as the many. >> at this point, both with the american letters and broader american society, immersing himself in the outdoors was approaching and apogee in the early 20th century. like john you're in california writing about how important it is and how wonderful it is for thousands of nerves shattered over urbanized americans to go out and immerse themselves in these landscapes where they could save their souls. -- thes kind of expansive scope of this kind of perception of what this nature means in opposition to the city, while i wouldn't argue is necessarily the principal thing pushing london out the door in that regard, it is certainly incredibly common within the society and the time. and californians in particular, specially the middle class and are looking at breaking the outdoors in that at bringing the outdoors in and breaking the indoors out. these are things, as several my co-panelists have said, these are concepts very much in the air.

novels fixed all the exploits of the northwest volunteer army.and the scenario, america has been in terminal decline, outsourcing and other harmful economic trends have decimated the working class. the u.s. military was overstretched and bogged down in a series of inlets small wars in the middle east. that put the federal government in a predicament. opportunity. they create a racially exclusive homeland for whites. essentially the insurgents mount the war of attrition that persuades the u.s. government to relinquish a limited amount of territory. president chelsea clinton agrees to an armistice and seize territory for them. in 2010, covington began broadcasting and internet radio program called radio free northwest. he exhorts whites to relocate to the pacific northwest to form a community of like-minded activists. he does not advocate violence under current conditions, only after severe crisis arrives will terrorism be called for. but even carving out a territory consisting of a few american states would still be a very tall order. some activis

why a novel?my whole life is very under interesting frankly whereas the novel is my revenge on hollywood, francis ford coppola and also my attempt to also tell the history of the vietnam war and the story of the vietnam war, the fact that most americans never heard of before which is that their own allies, their own friends, south vietnamese experience this and my narrator is a spy and he's also giving us a communist perspective and then when he arrives in the united states, he is telling the, he's giving us the viewpoint of how the vietnamese see american culture which is not necessarily in a positive light. there's a very satirical dimension of novel as well as i get white people to think about what white culture looks like the people from outside this country. but i think the topic has been hard and soft for me which is why i had to write another nonfiction book about it, nothing ever dies, vietnam and the memory of war which is my attempt to situate the vietnam war in a larger context of hundr

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isn't new anymore but we call it the novel.etimes names are not descriptive. >> thank you, it was really interesting. i am also curious about what determines what kind of stories, a big piece with a large arc, is it something where you have enough of an attention span to make it worth the effort. i understand the ethical pushback you brought up and curious about because your book came five years later were you tempted to bring elements of a conversation that iraq had changed in your work? >> definitely. i have an epilogue a year later, when it already started but the mandate of my projects was to report on reporters at the time they are there. i am not an expert in what has happened in syria or iraq afterwards. i had to stay limited even though it is something i care about. when it comes to -- you are asking, what was the other part of the question? >> the kinds of stories you tell. >> next a difference, what you are reporting on and the kinds of comics that are interesting. for example there are lots of comics that are info gr

then they and a few others began to criticize the novel. by the time the criticism was done, it became one of the major intellectual racial controversies -- the kind where black and white are largely divided and cannot understand each other, writing each other in public. there was an extraordinary book published called " respond" and many attacked the book as a deeply racist book. karen: one of the things that we see in the novel and the movie, nat turner was not portrayed as being married but someone who thought white women -- which was a big bugaboo -- he did not mention the fact that he was married. there are records that six suggest he was. is really important. i knew this, styron did not know this. there was one record of him having a wife in a newspaper account. everything else is speculation about her. even the identification of cherry. in this record, you cannot go back and find the details of the relationship. that's one of the problems of doing african-american history. he may have had an extraordinary relationship. he may have ha

publishedin 2003, he a series of novels.set in the not-too-distant the novels extolled the exploits of the northwest and america has been in long terminal decline and other trends have decimated the white working class. worse, the u.s. military was overstretched and all of that really put the federal government in a terrible fiscal predicament. and they create a racially exclusive homeland for whites. they mount a war of attrition that eventually persuades the u.s. government to relinquish a limited amount of territory. president chelsea clinton agrees to an armistice if the rebel cede territory to them. itsngton began broadcasting program called radio free northwest. in the program, he exhorts go to a community of like-minded activists. but even carving out a territory would still be a tall order. as the native cell african explains,rthur kemp they begin to take over local governments and as numbers higher tiers of government, under the control. inset as examples of colony postapartheid south africa and -- a zionist project

"the girl on the train" is the latest best-selling novel to reach the big screen. the movie stars emily blunt and is out in theaters tomorrow. take a look... "my wife is scared of you." "of what?" "let's start with child abduction." "that's not how it happened." "you and i both know what you're capable of." "i think that's the allure of this film: the perfect, white cookie-cutter picket-fenced houses, and the underbelly of what goes on behind closed doors. i think that's what i like about it: suburban bliss maybe not being what it seems." divorcee whose perfect suburban life has fallen apart. throw in a murder mystery, and her character's alcohol-fogged memory... and she becomes desperate to learn the truth, no matter what it is. take a look at this... a youth football player pulling off an amazing catch in a florida football game.... he throws the ball-- and the kid goes to catch it, after a few bobbles, he td! he may not have been flash-- but he was sure acting like it. a runner from wales-- running a half marathon dressed as robin. he and a friend-- who of cours

enot: al is always obsessed with his novel. he's writing constantly on his novel, and i feel like i'm always coming in second. lafleur: i'm doing something that i love doing, and that's the only thing that matters to me. i think she could support that and eventually be a good spouse about that. enot: if al doesn't change, i'm ready to put an end to this chapter. ady for marriage, and i'm ready for a further commitment from him. catalano: divorce court is now in session. judge lynn: good day, ladies and gentlemen. i'm here with haely enot and alfred lafleur. the two of you have been together for four years. you're living together. this case is designated as a dissolution of cohabitation, which means you're living together but you would want to separate. but i really don't think that's what's going on here.

it was like reading a spy novel. corporatecription of doings, or miss doings, in some cases. well, i did not realize my friend at the bar -- he had not

yo, "the butcherbird song" is still a popular novel, right? i mean, it's 25 years old, reading in most high schools. then why was he living in a one-bedroom apartment and working as a janitor for the past five years? i'll call the publisher, have them confirm who he is. no need. we can do that for you. uh...castle, what are you doing here? meet my client. this is wendy johnson, wife of dave johnson, also known as famed novelist p.j. moffet. we're here to make a statement. well, we'll...escort her to captain beckett's office. t, castle? please don't tell me you ambulance-chased this woman. beckett, that is an outrageous accusation. i, as a member of the writing community, merely went by her home to offer my condolences. hmm. and i suppose you told her that you're a p.i. who just happens to have connections with the nypd. the topic may have come up. you look gorgeous, by the way. [ chuckles lightly ] i felt like i'd known him my entire life. probably because i grew up just loving that book. beckett: uh, yeah, about that, mrs. johnson -- consider

loftus)) in the "alice in wonderland" room, students discuss and debate quotes from the lewis carroll novel ((nats: briefly, a student discussing any of the quotes from the book.)) ((brian loftus)) the inner circle sets goals based on listening and speaking feedback. this is called a socratic seminar, a spirited and respectful discussion with open-ended questions.... ((nats: one of the kids saying something like: "i respectfully agree/disagree...." they do it in the first sentence every time they talk.)) melinda taffanelli 6th grade "i like to share what i think about my thoughts, and how i feel." donte sykes 6th grade "learning what other people think, between the two quotes that we're debating on - so i get to see how other people feel." ((brian loftus)) students listen closely, think critically, articulate their thoughts, and their responses to others. this is a building block - students supporting book. melinda taffanelli 6th grade "what i like about the socratic seminar is that i like to share my opinion and what i think, and kind of expressing what i think, and how i feel about the to

it is a concept explored by a novelist in his latest novel. the book is set in the not-too-distant future, in the year 2025, and examines the impact revolutionary technology can have on humankind. he joined me a short time ago. in your novel, a reporter uncovers the fact that scientists have discovered the secret to living longer and a multinational will stop at nothing to get their hands on the technology. in real life, is science close to extending our lifespan? >> absolutely. the signs of age extension is advancing in fundamental ways. the first piece of that is understanding the human genome, and we are 13 years away from the end of the human genome project but we are understanding more and more of the genetic foundations of age and the rate of aging and the more we understand that, the more we are going to figure out if the human body is hackable the way an iphone is hackable. laura: that is a terrifying concept, that people could hack into our body? >> it is good and bad. the bodies do good things, and bad things, like get diseases and d

. /// ((brian loftus)) >>> students are jumping into the world of their favorite novels... how the classroom is being trano book... in this week's what's cool at school. ((kirsten joyce)) >> and, another ramp shutting down near mccarran... what you need to know, if you plan on heading to the airport soon, in "what's driving you crazy?" /// ((you're watching the valley's news leader... i'm catherine cortez masto and i approve this message. they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists. narrator: and joe heck says "i have high hopes we'll see donald trump become president." ely supports" trump. i would bomb the [bleep] out of them. narrator: and heck? reporter: you trust him having his finger on the nuclear button? heck: i do. reporter: why do you say that? heck: why wouldn't i? narrator: donald trump and joe heck. as a marine combat veteran, i understand the sacrifices our military makes. our benefits are earned, and we rely on them. politicians like joe heck should understand that. narrator: joe heck voted to shut down the federal government, risking criti

because evelyn a lot of horror novels.really scares me is alzheimer or pre-mature senility or losing the ability to read and enjoy and write. you do it and some days maybe aren't so good, and then some days you really catch a wave and it's as good as it ever was. so it's tough to imagine giving it up. >> brown: stephen king, thank you very much. >> thank you, pleasure. >> woodruff: now to another of our brief but spectacular series where we ask interesting people to share their passions. tonight, we hear from b.j. miller, a palliative care doctor in the san francisco bay area. he explains how working in end of life care can help inform the way we live. when people find out i'm in palliative care, they say, what is that? interdisciplinary quality of life and the context is always advanced or serious illness. palliative care is irrespective of the clock. you don't have to be dying anytime soon. the curiosity from the public tends to be -- and i hear this all the time -- wow, you know, that must be so depressing. you know, yo

a fantastic novel in translation from chinese to hugo, that maybe the first novel in translation ever to win a hugo, it's an amazing book. then the last thing i wanted to mention is to understand chinese censorship, there's a good book called consent of the network by rebecca mackinnon and she use to cover china for the wall street journal and now works for the new america foundation and one of the points that she makes is that a major source of chinese censorship is not blocking things international firewall is having a giant troll army of people who search out comments that are contrary to party doctrine and rubbish them. just say like, you're an idiot, i think you're lying, that's forged evidence . i know you, i went to elementary school with you and you are always trouble then and to cast so much doubt on those subjects and make them into such a difficult area to discuss that they disappear from the discourse and that's been super effective . what's interesting is two years ago, hb there was a huge us military contractor was hacked by someone from the anonymous group who dumped al

you know, write the novel or write it as nonfiction. i get a little worried about when they're mixing the two unless it's really clear that's what's going on and you're learning something from that by their doing that. >> you may -- you just alluded to this, but when talking about the draft riots and all of the violence and conflict between the anti-slavery and confederate defenders, etc., what role does immigration and does white ethnicity, the different factions of protestants, catholics, irish-germans, etc., play in that? because it always seemed to me that even though it's often put many overwhelmingly white-black racial terms, that the experience of the massive immigration and people then being all of a sudden drafted and sent to a war in the country they just arrived in played a huge role. >> yes, absolutely. the irish especially. well, the germans had a somewhat different experience, but both -- they're the new people, they don't speak english, you know? a lot of the irish didn't speak english either. they were still gaelic speak

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i want to read more before i write any novels and right now television shows are like novels to me. i don't want to insult anybody by saying that. but that is just how i feel currently am but who knows. again, no limits. i want to do everything. >> rose: thank you for coming. >> thank you so much for having me. >> rose: "insecure" on hbo. issa rae. for more about this program and earlier episodes visit us online at pbs.org and charlie rose.com. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning by vitac, underwritten by fireman's fund >>> announcer: the following kqed production was produced in hi-definition. ♪ >> yes, "check, please!" people. >> it's all about licking your plate. >> the food is just fabulous. >> i should be in psychoanalysis for the amount of money i spend in restaurants. >> i had a horrible experience. >> i don't even think we were at the s

i want to read more before i write any novels and right now television shows are like novels to me. i don't want to insult anybody by saying that. but that is just how i feel currently am but who knows. again, no limits. i want to do everything. >> rose: thank you for coming. >> thank you so much for having me. >> rose: "insecure" on hbo. issa rae. for more about this program and earlier episodes visit us online at pbs.org and charlie rose.com. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. ♪nformation services worldwide. >>> this is "nightly bure with . >>> house of games. netfli shares soar on a strong quarte people around the globe sign up to watch its original shows. >>> ballot battle. why the fight is playing out not only on the campaign trl but also in the state of california. pepsi pledges to trim the fat and e salt and the sugar from many of its popular products. those stories and

write the novel or write it as nonfiction. get a little worried when they're mixing the two unless it's really clear that's what is going on, and you're learning something from that by their doing that. >> when talking about draft riots and all of the violence and conflict between the antislavery and confederates, what role did immigration and white ethnicity, the different factions of protestant catholics, irish, germans can et cetera, play in that. always seemed to me that even though it's often put in overwhelmingly white-black racial terms that the experience of the massive immigration and then people being drafted and sent to war in a country they just arrived in played a huge role. >> absolutely. the irish especially. the germans had a interest different experience but they're the new people. they don't speak english. a lot of the irish didn't speak english. they were gaelic speakers. they were thrown into the dirtiest urban center in the country, so they're at sea. and they're set pop and preyed pop. tamine hall was in

james mansfield novel, or thomas bertrum is a plantation owner and he appears in the novel halfway through, he comes back to england from antigua. many of them never left from france and home countries. they were run by overseers. and merchants, a few professions. this was the class in which hamilton's parents belong, james hamilton, rachel, he was merchant's agent, she owned a small store and christian stay. but the vast bulk of the population of slaves, the population with hamilton lived there was 10,000 10,000 slaves, 500 white people. population of st. croix was 22,000 slaves, 2,000 white people. the average life span of a field hand who was brought to the west indies from south africa was seven years before he was worked to death or died of diseases. the plantars were not so concerned with that, there was always another slave ship coming in. beak man and kruger sometimes dealt in slaves. the slaves fresh from africa were held before they were sorted out, put on smaller ships and sent west of the british west indies. >> this was the social system hamilton grew up in. heavily skewed, no

. >>> clinton cash is the new graphic novel inspired by the new york teams best seller. if you can't stand the clintons and you hate reading even more this is for you. i am here with the editor and the creative director of clinton cash, brett, i am -- thank you. >> i want to go through some of them inside. i selected the lincoln bedroom goes global. tell me what this book is about? jay the first book is clinton cash and retell it and format. the lincoln -- the clintons had a dry run in the white house with charlie tree and taking foreign money and foreign donations. >> i almost forgot about those scandals! >> once they were out of the white house they were shackled. >> another picture. hillary clinton and she meets with putin. we have heard a lot about trump and what people don't realize is clinton has gotten close. she was secretary of state, the transfer of all of the u.s.'s uranium to russia of at the same time, there were investors funneling $145 million. this is the pay to play and we make it more understandable. >> the russian investments were made by the cfiu. tha

i knew this was the beginning of the novel, set in instant bowl -- instant bowl -- instanbul. and i began to feverishly right the outline.>> that is the only time i have ever spent the night feverishly riding in my life. usually i am a donkey with a huge load on my back, do every morning for a couple of hours, and i chip away at it toward that end goal.>> so many people that write want to know the difference between or the interrelationship between the discipline of writing in the inspiration of writing. i know that is a big question, but for you and how to that interact?>> you have to have inspiration, a reason that you come to the page. it is a very hard job, and it does not pay particularly well. in addition to the inspiration, you have to have the discipline, as you say. the desire to come to the workday, day after day, and you will not be inspired every morning at 8 am, but you have to have some way to access the reason that you are writing, your inspiration, and sit down and do it. not every day will be good.>>> howard, one thing the library likes to do is to find a feat

it is for his novel called "encounter" and it is all about, what else -- love.ter: it is the story of a man and a woman, both in their 50's, retired and lonely. they meet each other and suddenly decide to take a trip together to italy. >> it seems as if time has left these two people behind but together they experience something that abruptly catapult them to the here and now. reporter: the travel farther and farther south and suddenly they discover something they no longer expected. love. >> where would we be without a little audacity? everyone would stay inside their shell, it's -- shell, fleeing from life. reporter: but then reality intrudes. bank counter a girl, begging. is she a refugee? they decide to take her along with them, a dire mistake. they find other dream of a happy life is just an illusion. >> i wanted to tell a tale about what the wider world does with us come about how our private lives and the public world do not go together. reporter: his novel depicts two people who set off on a lighthearted adventure only to be confronted by the reality of

you couldn't write a novel. treason is a novel. i couldn't write a novel that had all of these different pieces that would be believable. people would say, no, it can't possibly be this sick. but the truth is, we're learning it is this sick and that's why i believe in the end hillary loses. i don't believe the american people is going to send somebody to the white house who ought to be indicted and facing severe personalities for what she's been doing. >> drawing on your experience as speaker in leadership, as a historian, we also have another name now in the fbi thanks to the extraordinary reporting of the wall street journal and that is andrew mccabe, the number two man, deputy director of the fbi whose wife was selected by the clinton's longest ally in politics, of course, and that is governor mccauliffe who selected her to run for the virginia senate, backed her with half a million dollars, as then mccabe himself is being promoted within the fbi and has some oversight responsibility, if not direct management over, the investiga

there's something for everybody, just like in his novel. i criticize the communists, south vietnamese, americans and i think the theme of the novel is sympathy with a sympathizer and what i took away from that is the easiest thing to do in war or conflict is to sympathize with our own side. and the virtue and the flaw of my character is that he sympathizes with everybody which makes him a great spy and is also going to lead to his downfall. that's what i learned from writing the novel is if we have any hope forward for peace and reconciliation and things like that, it really requires an expansion of sympathy and empathy jan are owned closed community to a larger human community. >> watch this and other programs online@booktv.org. [inaudible conversation] good afternoon everyone. i have the honor of serving as the conference and i'd like to welcome both of you to the 2000 16 national book festival to the biography state which is sponsored by wells fargo. we at the library of congress are thrilled to be presenting national book festival for t

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. >> that's something we are cheering on throughout the novel. that something can get resolved from it. >> definitely. it is such, you know, bureaucratic, terrible struggle for a lot of people. and i wanted to kind of showcase one person's journey through the but show little bit of hope, and little bit of luck. something hopefully can change, you know, your fate. and you don't want to give up. you want to fight for your did he say -- >> why the switch from par paranormal. why the change? >> i write fantasy and i write a big disney series. i wanted to write a serious story something that had little bit of substance for teenagers to learn about an issue that they may not know about. might not know that their classmates or friends may be going through. if you are born here, you don't know about the immigration it. people are really shocked to hear that it takes a long time to become an american. >> it is a struggle. for more information, can we head to your website? >> yes, it is melissa de la cruz.com. and on twitter, when i'm not writing or when i

write these paperback novels that the young girls read? how old are you in that photograph? >> oh my gosh, i don't know. i look like -- 13, 14? >> jimmy: what happened to the other part? "the two of us." and only you. >> i know, yeah. >> jimmy: here's another one. there's the two of you. >> that's lovely. >> jimmy: "once in california." do you remember that guy? >> i don't remember -- i remember you go and you do these things and they tell you a little bit about the story and >> jimmy: so you can get in the mindframe? >> get in the spirit of what's happening in the novel. yeah. >> jimmy: we have a couple of others. you did a lot of them. "rock 'n' roll romance." loving rock 'n' roll doesn't mean you can't fall in love. >> the scary thing is these are real. >> jimmy: what? >> these pictures. >> jimmy: the pictures, yeah. i thought you meant the hair in the pictures. then this one is great. "annabel starr author of "hey do you remember fat glenda." [ laughter ] [ applause ] this is the reason i put these together, i wanted to show you i was also a teen model at one time. and i

. >> it's the inspiration for the stephen king novel the shining. the university of colorado offering new advanced horror fiction writing class at the stand any in january. consists of two weeks of online work and then a week in residence at the hotel. steven graham jones hopes the haunted house and the haunted hotel, rather, will inspire his students to write some of their scariest works. >> scary stuff, you know? lots of lights out. lots of nights where the students don't want to turn the lights out, and hopefully nights where the people they write to don't want to turn their lights off. the course costs just over $3,000 and includes a room at the stanley. king's novel published in the late '70s after he visited that hotel. >> very good writing. the movie hit the big screen in the 1980s. in my job, i see a lot of fires that could've been stopped before they started. that's why florida's firefighters support amendment 1. amendment 1 does solar the right way, commonsense safeguards for the health, safety and welfare of florida's consumers and it's f

>> guest: one of the finest graphic novels of his generation. piece of north little rock and lives in bloomington now. he's our artist on this book. he's like a brother. we are sorry he's not here today but he's home with two little girls. he's been good cookies been on the road with us and working as hard as anybody on this team could. >> host: we have a call from midland to georgia. this is fred. >> caller: how are you doing? john lewis, i am very proud of you, with your life history. but my question is, in reference to your book, because like all three of your books, why can't we have a national march for what's going on in today's world? for all the resources and how fast the country is motivated to do something about white, black and everyone asked why can we the march on washington now with you and other civil rights leaders? >> guest: i think the best march that we can have right now in america is on election day november the eighth for all of us all over america, black and white, latino, asian-american, native america, young people, to m

>> yes, philip roth novel, the screen adaptation of his berlin novel and pulitzer prize winning novely about a family, the mother and father are the generation of post war america, they represent post war american hope and aspiration, i suppose. the generation of the 50's. and they have living the american dream. and they have a daughter, one daughter, played by dakota, jennifer conally plays my wife, dawn on the film. and during the six's the daughter maris, falls in with a political group in new york city and becomes radicalized and disappears into the underground after a terrorist act. >> sounds like very, very interesting plot. this movie is even bigger for you, because you waited 15 years, to do what you did for this movie, and that's direct. >> yes, that's right. yes. i wait add long, long time. i wanted to direct for 15, 20 years. i've always felt like a film maker, actor, i think we're involved in the film making pros else, obviously, but i've always had an interest as to what the director's doing, what he or she is doing with a camera, why the camera is moving the way it does

students do seem swept into a world, as they turn the table on the traditional study of a classic novel... keri carter teacher "this is why i do this. my passion is teaching, and i want to be able to see those moments where i can tell kids are getting it, and also having fun, at the same time." ((brian loftus)) and that's what's cool at school brian loftus >>> to vote for this program or if you know something that's cool at school just head to las vegas now dot com.. it'll be under the community tab under sections. or send us an email... cool at school at las vegas now dot demetria, what's driving people crazy? demetria obilor >>> >>> tonight at 9:00 p.m., the demetria obilor >>> >>> tonight at 9:00 p.m., the eastbound 215 ramp to the airport connector will shut down through 5am monday. this is so crews can continue working on phase 2 of the after this closure, the ramp will close down nightly from 9pm to 5am through october 21. you the county is encouraging drivers to follow a detour to windmill lane, then get on westbound 215 to access the airport connector. the county says drivers sh

he published his first novel centered on the oakland water front.he takes readers on twisted rides through the city. >> i have no idea when i write a book where it's going to end. it's like life. it just happens. i developed the characters and put them in situations that are fun and i make up crazy things happening and put them in a mess and try to get them out of it. >> reporter: he's a story teller. he honed his skills telling tall tales to his daughters and grandchildren. the rest comes from live experiences and an imagination that at times goes to the dark side. >> reporter: where does this come from. >> if you think this is twisted read the newspapers today. >> reporter: he said if you want to live a long and happy life, stay busy, keep learning and marry well. >> of all of the girls that i dated in high school, i wed the right one. >> he dated a lot of them. >> he is a person that has to be our website, -- to be busy. >> reporter: he's months away from publishing murder mystery number five sovment so many men . >>> men. >> so many many do not