we will speak to mark potok of the southern poverty law center. then to narcoland. >> now in mexico, there many, many under the control of things -- ganga that kidnap people and extort people and now mexico is a very dangerous safe place. >> >> as president obama hosts mexican president pena nieto at the white house, we speak to a mexican journalist living in exile who just exposed how federal police in mexico were involved in the disappearance of 43 students in iguala, guerrero. we will speak to anabel hernandez. first, we go to boston where jury selection has begin in the trial of accused boston marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the new u.s. congress convenes today with republicans in control of both houses for the first time in eight years. republicans now have 246 seats in the house, their largest majority in nearly 70 years. the new congress is also more diverse than ever before, with a record 104 women, including utah represen

talks that was mark potok.lytle, if you could just wrap up and talking about your concerns right now and in this climate today is look at what happened in ferguson and staten island, the racial climate in the united states? >> as we think about the long history of racial division in this country, going back to the most racially divisive thing that might have happen on this planet the forced invitation of african slaves to this country i think knowing that we have never talked about that as a country, knowing we're never had a national moment of truth and reconciliation knowing that we typically have responses to this desk events in this country whether it was the bombing of four little girls in a church or a bomb being placed under the bad of an naacp president and his wife on christmas eve in 1951 or even what we were talking about from the southern poverty law center just now, we know at the heart of these problems is the lack of a conversation on race. it also has not happened in colorado springs. in honestl

working but, you know, i don't know if i--in the last few weeks, i've gone back to photograph chaim potok, cynthia ozick, joyce carol oates, erica jong. so i don't know whether i can recount them since i've photographed them--or--updike would only count for, you know one time. all i know is that i'm going to have to get a new house with all my file cabinets of photographs. what have i noticed about writers? i would say that none of them have enough bookshelves. i've never been in a writer's office where there weren't just piles and piles of books everywhere. certainly robert penn warren is a prime example of that. c-span: here's a photo--we'll have it on in a moment--that--i don't think this one is in the book. >> guest: yes. that's an example, too, of a picture that wasn't in the book because i--the picture i have in the book is very cluttered and messy and he's wearing his flip-flop sandals. but this is very messy, but you have to see the whole picture to realize just how messy it is because you have to have the stuff all on the floor as well as all the stuff above his head. and in a sm