gail collins author of "when everything changed" joe scarborough author of "the last best hope" pete dexter author of "spooner" book expo is a trade industry that includes educational panels and information on soon-to-be published books. for more information visit book expo america.com. >> i am the co-owner of politics and prose bookstore and washington d.c. and i got into the business because i love to read more than anything. you can see i do not get too much exercise instead they'll lay on myself but and read and so i want to tell you this is such an incredible year for reading and four books. i am happy to have a chance to talk about this on the c-span because it does not bring enough action to you and i think fiction can also be more true than books about policy were history. my two themes and this year our immigration and south asia. i will not talk about three paper books that are so popular on their own they really do not need me to support them but i will tell you what they are, one is motherland which has received all kinds of awards by joseph o'neill, he is part dutch and part ir

[applause] >> next we have pete dexter, he is of course national book award winner and he has written "spooner," about one man's exhaust inexhaustible patience with his stepson that he just doesn't understand. pete. [applause] >> the first note i got here is thanks to the booksellers. my publisher gave that to me. [laughter] i didn't know this was for booksellers on till she said that. [laughter] you know i don't want to thank you that much. we have six novels now and you sold 11 copies. but thanks. [laughter] i've been thinking, you know, somebody was reading to me the day after "spooner" comes out, who was that guy that wrote -- this guy can't write a line but the dingy code. [laughter] dan brown, he's coming out after i am and he's thinking if you have some extra covers. [laughter] i don't think -- put them in bibles. you know, not bible's somebody's going to take home and read the kind everybody puts and hotel rooms or swears on. i mean, you could stick "spooner" in there and nobody would know. [laughter] i would be so happy. [laughter] but what we have got here today is one of th

guyot collins with little brown and pete dexter from grand central publishing.lease join me in thanking their publishers for making this event possible this morning. [applause] >> and so with literally no further ado please enjoy the delicious breakfast and teacher body but more importantly feed your mind dirk leas welcome joe scarborough to the platform upon the. >> thank so much for having me here. i'm very, very excited. i was told you are a very, very conservative group. [laughter] >> so i'm trying to remember my favorite dick cheney an antidot. just to tell you a little about myself. i ran for office for the first time in 1994, and i am from northwest florida. which is also known in our parts as the redneck riviera. la, lower alabama. americas albania. i mean, the names go on and on and on. but a republican had not been elected their since 1872, and i think they own the last one that they sent up to washington. so when i ran, i couldn't run as a republican. i could not go out and run the party line. that was a damn good thing since the republican party on t