call your girlfriend host, without further ado please join me in welcoming our featured author, roxanne gaye. [applause] know what were supposed to do so we are taking a selfie. thanks so much for joining us today. i'm so excited to talk too. this book is amazing. speaking of three-pointers, there's a basketball game tonight. i was so struck by so many things when i read the book. i had to stop many times because it was very emotional and very raw. it was just a reminder of how generous you are as a person, somebody who is not afraid to say the thing that we are all thinking or we should be thinking and helps us be a little more brave. can you kind of talk to us about what was hard about writing this for you. >> everything. >> l, you want me to elaborate. >> it was a difficult book to write. i sold this book just before bad feminist came out and i was thinking about what i wanted my next nonfiction project to be, and i thought, the book i want to write least is a book about fatness, and then i realized it's the book i should probably write the most of my dad always tells me, do something no

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that's followed by roxanne gaye on her book hunger, a memoir of my body. >> you are watching the tv on c-span2. top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. book tv, television for serious readers. >> author and new yorker staff writer david graham recalls the murders of members of the osage indian nation in the 1920s with his new book killers of the flower men. he spoke at kansas city publicrh library about the fbi investigation into thefl murders. >> good evening everyone. i am the director of leader services, welcome to the public library. thank you for your patience, your flexibility, and thank you rainy day books for setting land speed records to get david here. these circumstances are out of everyone's control. his plane was delayed, you may insert your own airline joke here, but tonight he is here to talk about his book, killers of the flower moon, story of unspeakable crimes of greed, fear, anger and racial cleansing.hi it is part crime filler, it's part political history and this is a book that will generate conversation long after david catches his next plane. it's easy to

that the former house speaker newt gingrich on his book, understanding trump understanding by roxanne gaye on her book, hunger, a memoir of -- >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top authors every weekend. >> author and new yorker staff writer david grann recalls the murders of members of the osage indian nation in the 1920s with his new book, "killers of the flower moon: the osage murders and the birth of the fbi". he spoke at kansas city public library about the fbi investigation into the murders. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening everyone! i am kaite mediatore stover, director of reader services welcome to the kansas city public library. thank you for your patience and flexibility and thank you rainy day books for setting land speed records to get david grann care. these are circumstances out of everyone's control. his airplane was delayed, you may answer your own airline joke here. [laughter] >> but tonight david grann will talk about his book, "killers of the flower moon: the osage murders and the birth of the fbi". a story of an unspeakable historical crime of greed, f