The 33rd annual Chicago Tribune lit fest. A special thank you to our sponsors, todays program will be broadcast live on cspan2, book tv. If theres time at the end of the q a session with the other we ask you to use the microphone provided so viewers at home can. Before we begin please silence your phones and turn off all flashes on the cameras. And please welcome our interviewer, associate editor at the Chicago Tribune, colin mcmahon. [applause] and afternoon, thank you for coming, thank you for coming to the lit fest and im thrilled to be here with tom rex is written several books, well talk about his latest, tomato times previous book, the generals which was the most recent one, a fiasco which is a New York Times number one bestseller, this one is also on the bestseller list charting last week for the first time. Congratulations. Now about a previous book, fiasco, given the state of affairs today, international and national affairs, do you wish you had held back on ties the book fias
to tell her daughters to be that. ideas matter. they matter critically but in the end the fact that even if i don t want to be michelle obama or don t want to be betty shabazz isthmus i have equal pay for equal work and reasonable capacity to control my fertility, because one of the reasons women they couldn t control their fertility because there was no ability technically technically if i don t have health coverage. i would love barack to spitfire but what i am more interested in as i can look and see policy is policies fundamentally different. .. if god loves us, then you cannot continue to treat me as though i am not. [applause] [applause] as we close the evening, i want to thank everybody for being here, for writing the book, the man, the scholar, malcolm x life of reinvention, melissa perry, thank you all for taking time tonight. thank you to all of you. [applause] thank you to all of you for coming tonight. [applause] thank you, c-span, for covering it. it will