send us an e-mail at atbooktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> i have been trying for, i guess the last twenty something years to stop writing books. [laughter] i keep, you know, i totally get it that i work for the ancestors . i sometimes will feel very free i finish something. i remember finishing the color purple thirty years ago, and just weeping in joy, you know, okay i'm done! this book i'm going read "the cushion in the road" i want to read a little bit how it came about. how did i come to think of the life that i lead, which is very -- when i'm not, you know, on the road somewhere, it's so quiet t so contemptlative. it's so happy with me and my sweet heart who is a musician. one of the irony of life that i love quiet. i fell in love with the person who plays trumpet. [laughter] life, i'm sure it's the same with you. life is, you know, always telling us who do you think is in charge? [laughter] did you by some dream imagine that you you were in charge? well, i'll just show you. so this is a very short i

send us an e-mail at atbooktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >>> next we take you on a tour of the carson city library where librarian shows us their nevada historically -- history collection. >> my name is susan. we're in the nevada collection of the carson city library in carson city, nevada. the nevada collection consistencies of books on all topics having to do with nevada. these here in the locked cases are one copy of everything that we have. and here on the table where some of the books i've pulled from our collection having to do with nevada history, carson city history, and some and of the state. this one here is one that i'm sure was donated to the library at some point. it talks about the tunnel. and it is breedings of congressional hearings when he asked the federal government to help fund this tunnel that would run from the load in virginia city down to the carson river valley. he indicates that there were four main reasons why the tunnel would be important and elaborate about it. and then the rest