books, phil levine who came here for from detroit and we have great fiction begin with steinbeck and saroyan that's been written here. what nonfiction has been more difficult because you have to dig in to these brokenness of this place. and it doesn't make you a real popular person to tell the stories here. i live here and yet you are writing these stories that not everyone embraces because you are telling the history, working all of the place and the wisest person among the wisest people i've ever interviewed was a person named greta tony. i found her in courtroom while i was in california, she was 100 years old. >> and she had, from texas, all the contrail left. she didn't, all-in-one migration, they stopped along the way. >> she referred to her children, she had seven or eight stopover kids or a kid in each place. and they landed in corcoran and they picked the cotton. and as i was interviewing her, interviewing her in that little house, on the outskirts of that city, town, she was taking me all the way back to the slave days of her grandmother. but from that one interview, we were spendi

also being published this week, usa today's greg saroyan shares how a group of us paratroopers survived 15 months of attacks from taliban fighters in the mountains of afghanistan in the chosen few. and former computer hacker turned cyber security consultant evan mitnick details how companies are following your cyber footprints and what you can do to protect your online activity in the art of invisibility. tvs titles in bookstores this week and watch for many of the authors in the near future on book tv on c-span2. >> is a rapid pace of change and i think what people are saying and i hope it won't be an overly destructive way, we want government to slow this down a little. we want a little more sense of control.slow down the pace of change.we live in an era of very rapid change, rapid technological change, rapid integration of global economy, high levels of integration. all of these are very positive in a lot of ways, positive in ways of generating growth, we obviously have a lot of effort but people feel dislocated and i think what they're saying is we want a level of government control