and the first novelization i bought was a novelization for the burt reynolds movie "w.w.tephen: there you go. >> who later won an oscar for writing the screenplay for "coal miner's daughter." i read that novelization, and i loved it. i thought it was fantastic. and that got-- set me on a whole thing of reading novelizations. now, it was interesting, though, i didn't see "w.w. and the dixie dance kings" when it came out. two years later-- movies hung around at least as the lower half of double features foalong. i loved this book and had read it three times already. it was playing at a theater in the lower half of a double feature so i went and saw it. and i didn't like it anywhere near as much as i liked the novelization. then when thomas rickman won the oscar for "coal miner's daughter," they did an interview with him and asked him how he got started. he said, "the first script i wrote that got made was a movie called "w.w. and the dixie dance kings," but i thought they really messed it up. but then they asked me if i wanted to write the novelization, and i said yes. and

the famished road was a trilogy of novels. i wonder- was a trilogy of novels.t, you have won the _ answer. you don't have to be modest, you have won the booker— answer. you don't have to be modest, you have won the booker prize. - answer. you don't have to be modest, you have won the booker prize. i - you have won the booker prize. i would say it continually inspires, i keep meeting people for whom the books, the nature of the innovation and the way i constantly wrestle with reality and how you express reality and the novel form itself, as was said earlier, it is the constant stretching of the form, which is one of the great responsibility of the artists of our time, is something ifeel passionately about and is embellished in those works. i wonder how ou embellished in those works. i wonder how you think— embellished in those works. i wonder how you think the _ embellished in those works. i wonder how you think the prize _ embellished in those works. i wonder how you think the prize and _ embellished in those works. i wonder how you think the prize and the - ho

her last two books are poems and a new novel "breathe." this is a really phenomenal novel. i urge everyone to pick up a copy of this n after the progra. it's very moving. it's difficult at points. it's hugely insightful. you willl all grow from this. i promise you. paul is an author. he is the morecipient of awards and prizes.ti his work has been translated into more than 40 languages. heas lives here in brooklyn. hisag latest book "burning boy"s just now being published in october. i had the privilege, since i'm moderating this program to get an. advanced galley of the book. it's a jaw dropping powerful biography of steven crane that will make you immediately go out and snap up copies of steven crane's owork. you will a get a little taste o it s tonight. our books -- are copies on sale? >> it's not printed yet. >> there will be other copies of paul's previous books for sale today. when this comes out, i expect many of you to go up and grab it up. it includes such alluring sentences as, the linotype machine giveth and the linotype machine taketh away. [ applause ] between t

the novel is so constructed. it has a kind of linear, realistic narrative and then it has a hallucinatory that belong to the whole process of losing somebody and not being able to do anything about it. it is like an acceleration. you start getting a little crazy instead of losing your bearings in the world, this is only about four pages, you start to have a lot of fantasies of the alternative life. him and his wonderful business novel for three, two, one. i explored the phenomenon of the alternative life. just a little tiny turn. these are all plausible. they are not implausible. even probable. sometimes what actually happened was less travel than what may have been. >> or than a few times. almost always it seems. >> it is just fascinating to me. it is called good news. notable for interruptions for often times you laugh into exhausted without knowing where you are or even while you are, where you are. no clear idea. there is a pulsing pressure in your ears, in your head, trying to determine where, why. not at yo

i know we should never compare one artistic form to another but there are longform novels. text pros and its more usual to find biography or nonfiction forms but here we are successfully with your leadership doing biography and nonfiction in graphic form so why is this a better form for this story? >> in a lot of ways, this inherent strength to narratives that run through and a lot of it involves unpacking the information you're getting out of it as you are reading. a fundamental level, comics have an unparalleled ability to bring out empathy in the reader. the reason images rain is working on multiple levels and a lot of play you are not conscious of observing different information, most nonfactual of nonverbal but if i'm correct, is in which they identify the people they need about a level that takes them out of a place for judgment leader in the subject like young people's role in civil rights movements, it allows them to project their experiences, their own time spent on what they thought was important as a young person, hopefully there's a lot of protection and reflect

it was a science fiction novel because it's about the procedure where you -- all the black people turn white. but also, there's a novel in heaven which has like this glossary and all of these, but has all of these jazz terms that you're supposed to -- i don't know if you're supposed to reference them as you're reading the novel but it's like, honky is a white person. but it's all in that setting and it's very inflict bid jeff and really thinking about the sort of cross racial of that. but that is just to say that i'm not a jazz expert but there's so much interesting stuff there that i think resonates with the way that hip-hop works today. >> great, well, thank you so much, lauren, for being here and thank you for your work. >> oh, thank you for being in conversation with me. places, memoir of struggle with lyme disease. >> new york times columnist, author

jazeera, philadelphia, and a south african novelist has won the book a prize for the best english novel is the promise by dan joe diamond, gal guy who wrote his 1st novel at the age of 17, have been nominated 3 tongues for the world. but he finally took home the prestigious prize for his novel, the promise cutting depiction of a white family in post apartheid south africa. ah, suffolk of a headline 0 now to 0 talks to revive the 2015 iran nuclear de la shuttle to resume at the end of november in direct negotiation stole in june off to iran held elections. but the announcement of more talks happened hours after iran reported a naval incident in the gulf of oman. it accused the united states of trying to capture tanka carrying its oil. the u. s. denies the claim. i've seen the iranian claims, they are absolutely totally false and untrue. there was no such effort by u. s. naval assets to seize anything with this refers to is back on the 24th of october u. s. navy assets did monitor iranian forces, illegally boarding and seizing a merchant vessel and international waters in the gulf of rome

[applause] so i have written some novels was the cofounder she is asked congratulations. this is a beautiful bowl book, the hard copy is in transit. it's very apropos it is in transit. it is right on brand for this book tv currently traveling. i think books on a barge is your next instagram. >> books on a barge, no intake that it is mine. >> so i met you when we launched and you interviewed me and emma with the book we were holding. i have known about subway for a while. one of the things i did not know was the first book you saw on the subway. i was wondering if you can start that little anecdote the first book on the subway. >> sure, the first story of subway book review is a long one. i will give you the condensed version when i arrived in new york like many people who just said goodbye and wanted to start fresh. i do not know where you can find a place that gives you the chance to somewhat start over. i was going to every event you could imagine. i was going to dinners i was going to industry, whatever. really wanted to find a community of people or i could belong and

something totally unexpected like a fantasy novel.ho can say. >> inks for spending the last two hours with both tv. >> it's been a great pleasure. thank you for having me. ♪♪ >> weekends on c-span2. every saturday american history tv does an american story. on sunday, book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. funding for c-span2 comes from these television companies and more. ♪♪ ♪♪ along with these television companies support c-span2 is a public service. on a recent episode of our author interview program afterwards journalist lindsay johnson discussed her new book called paradise. california's 2018th campfire. she was interviewed by terry baker ceo of the society of american foresters. here's a portion of their discussion. >> do i think there were decades of decision-maker being that wanted to play where people were not planning for the fires? those fires never burned all the way through town. they were always stopped. there was always that sense of security. there were decisions that they could have made, it is

, an antislavery novel and it came out in 1827.t the eye of the man in boston who was starting a magazine for women in out of the blue he asked her to be the founding editor and she had to make a tough decision whether or not to move to boston because -- >> maybe you could speak to that, explained the difficult decisions she had to make. >> this was a tough one because she had five kids and couldn't afford to take all of them so she took the baby with her and the other four children were parceled out to relatives with whom they lived for quite a few years before they could join in boston at her boardinghouse. >> i can't imagine what that must have been like. >> she had to make choices she decided the only way she'd be able to afford to educate the kids as she and her husband dreamed for her to take the job and succeed at it. >> magazine starter, they are not known for succeeding. >> beginning of the 19th century there were some for women, she was determined to do something very serious. >> you write that she kind of changed the gen

the headline is, "hillary clinton's debut crime novel"" it is not really a crime novel. "hillary clinton's debut crime novel is actually good." people did it to me when i wrote my first book. reviews were like, hey, wait, this doesn't suck. for me that's a favorite kind of review, people who are ready to hate you before they look at it. they have to begrudgingly concede it is good. you must be buoyed by how well it was received, even from people that were prepared to dislike it because it is you, no matter what it is. >> i'm used to people underestimating me and thinking that i'm something that i'm not, so i can't say i was surprised when i got headlines like that. but i was really gratified that people actually read the book and looked at the characters and followed the story and plot line. and so it was, it was really gratifying to have so many people say, "wow, i wasn't sure i was going to like it or not sure what i thought, but it is a great read." and it has been fun talking to people, you know, in this country, canada, the uk, literally all over europe about it, be

and then starting at fall, i was writing a novel at the time. and then put it away because i couldn't write. i mean, i couldn't write anyway because i was juggling my children and trying to do school. and things like that. but the book that i was writing just wasn't right anyway. just given the world and the way i felt. what i actually ended up writing was a time travel novel where i went back to high school. >> i didn't know that. >> i mean, it's -- but i guess you're right. it just goes to show you that, like, everything you read just goes in. you know, it just goes in, and it accumulates. and when you have conversations with people, it just -- it all stays in there. and it is so meaningful. it's so meaningful, what you do, uli, to actually talk to people about what they're reading. i mean, and we did this in the book store. it's not just like, oh, you read this, oh, great. right. i mean, that's where it starts. but the meaningful conversations, why was it great, what did you love about it, what did it remind you of? like, those are the conver

then she wrote a novel. this novel was an anti slavery novel. it came out in 1827.it caught the eye of a man in boston who was starting a magazine for women. and out of the blue, he wrote and asked her to be the founding editor. so, this woman, she had to make a tough decision about whether or not to move to boston because -- and maybe you can speak to. >> explain some of the difficult decision she had to make. >> this was a tough one, because she had five kids. and she couldn't afford to take all of them. so she took the baby with her. and the other four children were parceled out to relatives with whom they lived for quite a few years. before they joined her in boston eventually. at a boarding house. >> i can't imagine what that must have been like. that she had to make a salary. >> well, she had to make choices. she decided the only way she was going to be able to educate the kids, as she and her husband had dreamed, was for her to take this job and succeed at it. >> right. >> and magazine start-ups are not known for being a sure thing and succeeding. >> this was

said maybe i should actually read the novel. novel is approximately 1400 pages i believe i have read 500. i cannot guarantee i will finish. i struggle a little bit to read m novels of my everyday existence so this is a real challenge but it is remarkable to step into that kind of novel there is no novelist that writes like this today. you have the basic story and then what strikes you most is just the extraordinary confidence that hugo has that the world is totally incomprehensible it's getting better every day you can put the french revolution together with catholicism and then we will pause and he will tell you about g the battle of waterloo all about the battle of waterloo so it is an immersion of a non- decadent society defined by this reckless confidence and also a literary style with aggressive arrogance if you pick up a contemporary novel is a very talented irish novelist and it was very minimalist and the characters say the universe is mysterious and i have some radical ideas and i would like to be religious but i cannot

in 1985, i arrived here after struggling to write a novel in margarita off the coast of venezuela. that never materialized but i made it back to new york, and that was 1985. one year later i was at marie's house in charles harris was there. we had a discussion about his dream of putting this will amistad thing together, so we talked about the word, and i told him how much i was in touch with amistad, being the spanish word for friendship, and of course when the film came out, i had already been pretty much grilled on the history of that mutiny of the 1839 and the whole film that followed after that. at that time we talked about it and figured we need to have a publication out there that all opened opportunities for aspiring black writers so i said maybe there is an opportunity for me but i've already been hooked up with a number of other press out there. tracy and i, we bonded because first of all, she's a michigander. for me in a real sense it started with don davis. we were struggling with the whole biography of sugar ray robinson. she was a strict editor. i have 500 pages i turn

i feel like if i were to give you a novel and say it's just so realistic, it's so real, that would be a compliment. but i feel like the fundamental thing like you're on a sort of granular level. yeah, there are details that could go just because they're observational into either format depending on what i'm working on personally. but in terms of where you going in general, it's like, well, what's difference between, like, italy and montana. i've actually never been to montana, so maybe it's just like italy. [laughter] i assume vastly different. you go to the operate the same way, just to belabor the analogies, there are certain techniques that are same, but once you're there, you're in an entirely different country, so it's just a matter of where you want to go. >> do you think it's easier to do analysis in an essay than in fiction? and that sort of analysis and speculation is part of the attraction of essay? >> yeah. and i love the kind of cameo thrill of the essay, that it's not just analysis, but like this person is vulnerably revealing that this is their analysis, and it might go

and if you pick it up and then pick up, you know, a contemporary novel, i was also reading a novel by sally rumi who's a very talent ared irish novelist of relationships. that novel is this thick, and it's very minimalist, and the characters are all, like, hmm, the universe is mysterious, and i have some radical ideas, and i would like to be religious, but i can't make it all come together. and then you turn to hugo and it's the students are mounting the barricades -- [laughter] and hugo is monologuing about, you know, ma nast schism. it's just different modes of civilization, our own versus the 19th century, and it's really interesting to have that feeling even if i don't actually get to the end of the book. and i do know how it ends because i've, obviously, heard for soundtrack to the musical. many times. [laughter] >> host: i think that soundtrack is about 1400 pages long too. >> guest: it's an extends thive soundtrack but very, very good, i have to say. >> host: bo is in stuart, florida. hi, bo. >> caller: hi. i -- thank you very much for the program. it's very interesting. excuse

at one point maybe you should read the victor hugo novel.t's approximately 1400 pages and i believe i've read 500 pages. i cannot guarantee you that i will finish. i struggle a little bit to read, in spite of their influence on me to read novels in my everyday existence as someone who's always reading twitter instead. so "les mis" is a real challenge, but it's remarkable to sort of step into that kind of novel because there's really nothing, no novelist who writes like this today. and you have the sort of basic story and then what strikes you most about the book is just the extraordinary confidence that hugo has that he's right about everything, the world is totally comprehensible, it's getting better every day, you can put the french revolution together with ref ka catholocism and they will work together and they're going to pause and tell you about the battle of waterloo and all about the battle of waterloo. so it's just like, it's really an immersion in well, i would say to go back to one of my own books, a nondeadent society and also a l

an acquaintance shot novell's mother and another man before driving off with the drive. this man, joshua yuego, took the boy. we are waiting word on whether yuego is in police custody. >>> turning now to our pandemic coverage. yet another county will allow anyone 18 or older to receive a covid-19 booster if they want one. sonoma county is now joining san francisco, san mateo and santa clara in opening up the booster to all adults, not just with those of higher covid risk as the cdc recommended. here is today in the bay with sergio quintana. >> reporter: nights are getting longer and cooler and more people headed inside. that combination is a growing concern in the bay area. >> there is a lot at stakes, we have been through this before, it's the winter time. it's getting colder, what do people do? holidays, parties, get together. >> reporter: even with booster shots and high vaccination rates here, doctors say we should stay expect new cases. >> it would prevent upticking cases but not like last year. >> reporter: the idea is boosters will fortify immune systems and preve

and last year or so and in some point like remediation actually read youul know read it this novel.he victor hugo novel is about 1400 pages not believe that i've read 500 pages and i cannot guarantee you that i will finish printed and i struggle a little bit to eat in spite of influence on me novels in my everyday existence at somebody's voice reading twitter and static. so thech real challenge but it's also a remarkable sort of step into that kind of novelty because there's really nothing, there's no public to write this today and you know, you have a sort of basic story and then was sent to most the book is just extraordinary confidence that hugo has he's right about everything the world is actually copperheads avoid getting better everyy day and you can put the french revolution it together with catholicism is all going to work together. and for 40 pages and then were going to pause and is going to tell you about the battle of waterloo and he will tell you aboute that. [laughter] suis just like really emerges in well i would say to go back to my own books known decadent society d