all this coming up now on booktv. >> host: pamela paul what is your job? >> guest: i'm the editor of the new times book review. that means i edit delete a section that "the new york times" puts out every sunday and it's done so since 1896. >> host: how many people work on the new york times book? >> guest: it's about 16 people. we have editors who recall preview editors at the section. they are the poor souls who have to go through the hundreds of books and decide which ones are worthy of review and try to come up with people who they think would be good at reviewing them. ..

i'm letters of these numbers >> pamela paul, the podcast is that something you started as well? >> no, that was begun under santana house. you can listen to writers on the website. all of those. >> how many times a week do you do that? >> once a week. >> it is available outside? >> you're asking me all these good technical questions to which i do not know the answer. i think that it is. you can download from itunes. there is a way around it. >> all right. let's go to buy the book. what are some of the books on your nightstand? >> no, i can see with that question because i have this great new's bed. a japanese platform bed, and the best thing about it is that it has a border going all around it. i can pile books around the entire bed. i think it by answering the question. i'm surrounded by books to read right now surrounded by books that are in large part about reading about riding through your book because i am writing a book on the subject. writers who will writers who will avoid the subject in the writing a book and others who are drawn to it. i think i fall into the latter ca

>> pamela geller is paul revere. america saying the shaw rhea is coming, the shaw rhea is coming and we are telling her would you stop blass -- blass femme ming the british. she has takenee terrorists in the last couple months. that's more than the cia and the fbi can dream of. she is an effective anti- terror expert blowing the heads of jihadists. she is a hero. she is better than paul revere. all he did was yell. he didn't kill any british. >> do you think she is a hero or kind of crazy? >> can it be both? >> yeah, what is the matter of with that? >> i am fairly -- i made it fairly certain that i am not a huge fan. anyone who is attacking her for the actions needs a refresher course in reality. i would never compare pamela geller to martin luther king. but the people who are blaming her for the violence or were saying she is looking to get herself killed, i don't think they realize that they -- they found the people back in the 60s who said that martin luther king needed to not stir the pot because it might lead to