said you can see the through line in my books which are both inspired in our writing somewhat by wendell berry who is a great kentucky agrarian writer. the questions of how do we relate to our food and nature through who produces our food and how they treat the land and the produce and so forth -- our awareness of that relationship i think is prevalent in all of my books. my fourth book was sort of a memoir of my marriage with megan mullally. there is some crossover where i think things that happen in our house get a little agricultural from time to time. that's maybe not appropriate for this channel. >> is your recent book and owed to the national parks? >> it is examining the way that we in society in the view of conservation through thinking of national parks come the big ones like yosemite, the grand canyon, versus the way we think about nature right where we are in our locality. it is espousing the grandeur of our parks and experiencing them but also saying what do we have in our backyards and how do we need to pay more attention to that part of nature? >> why did you choose glacier natio

i'm very keen on is not this book by wendell berry, but another book which i believe is called to be whole, is it has not come out yet and it is far his biggest book, i think about maybe seven, seven, six or 700 pages long. he usually writes fairly short books when nobody's from kentucky. he's 87 years old. he's sort of agrarian and philosopher. and in this book, he reckons with race, he deals with race in kentucky in the united states throughout his life. and it is a thought provoking as all his books are and beautifully written piece to the whole wendell berry, one of our great writers. well, mr. whole worth mentioned readers in mississippi every year, book tv covers the mississippi book festival in jackson and always thousands of people show up at the state capital for that. if you have a reason to be in oxford, mississippi, make sure to stop in at the square bookstore and say hi to richard haworth. we appreciate your time. thank you so much. i appreciate being with you today. and you're watching and listening to the about books, program and podcast. well, each tuesday, dozens of

i'm very keen on is not this book by wendell berry, but another book which i believe is called to be whole, is it has not come out yet and it is far his biggest book, i think about maybe seven, seven, six or 700 pages long. he usually writes fairly short books when nobody's from kentucky. he's 87 years old. he's sort of agrarian and philosopher. and in this book, he reckons with race, he deals with race in kentucky in the united states throughout his life. and it is a thought provoking as all his books are and beautifully written piece to the whole wendell berry, one of our great writers. well, mr. whole worth mentioned readers in mississippi every year, book tv covers the mississippi book festival in jackson and always thousands of people show up at the state capital for that. if you have a reason to be in oxford, mississippi, make sure to stop in at the square bookstore and say hi to richard haworth. we appreciate your time. thank you so much. i appreciate being with you today. and you're watching and listening to the about books, program and podcast. well, each tuesday, dozens of

you heard nick offerman talk about an author named wendell berry. this evening our guest the owner of square books in oxford, mississippi also talked about wendell berry. you can watch that on book tv on c-span2 at 7:30. coming up, two call-in programs. then we will conclude our day with david rubenstein. his recent book is about investing and he is cochair of the national book festival. we will talk with him and you will have the opportunity to call in and talk with him as well. before we get to the next panel, we want to show you a little bit of last nights opening celebration. it was a tribute to the late historian david mccullough. >> i have been voting my working life to the american story for over 50 years. i am ever grateful that i somehow had the good fortune to wander into this way of life contributing what i can to the betterment of our country. i have done this on paper, and classrooms, on television. and on the stage. in every way i can to convey that history is not about boring statistics and quotations and memorizing dates. it isn't ab