rocksan, thank -- roxan, thank , just thank you. you're amazing. >> guest: thank you. i've you're a rock star. just want to follow you. it's perfect. >> guest: for free. >> host: here's what is going to happen. we'll take a couple of questions from the audience, and i many real questions, don't, like, tell us a long story or we don't need your name. a lot of people want to know things here so we'll take just a couple in the audience and then rane will be signing books. so raid your hand. >> guest: here we go. >> hi. how are you. >> guest: i'm good. huh. >> good, thank you. i didn't get too far the book but what was the moment like when you told your parents and your family what happened? >> guest: i didn't. no, they know. [laughter] >> guest: that we be uncomfortable. a little magazine called "time magazine" published an article about my last nonfiction book, bad fem mist, and that opened up the familial conversation. i'm very passive aggressive. i'm not proud of it. if i could do it over with i would do itself differently. it's difficult to find the word, like so many

eastern, essayest and professor rocksan gay doeses her above and her body in the memoir "hunger" you sue a woman in her fat pants and saying i did that. and i want to write that book so why don't i tell the story of my body today. and without apology. just explanations. this is my fat body, and this is what it is like to be in this world in this body. >> for more on this weekend's schedule go to booktv.org. >> sunday, on were bea i-i'm not asking anybody to compromise they're value or beliefs but to open their eyes to other people so you can figure out your place in this infinite world. >> the co-host and manager editor of wny on the media, discussing her book "the trouble with reality: a resume resume nation on moral panic in our time and how criteria for reality has changed of the years. >> i set up at the beginning of the book our biological wiring, and i wanted to show how we had evolved a culture that was designed to validate us, not contradict us. gave us the illusion that our realities were water tight when really they were riddled with weak spots and places that would crunch