People to you. The first is roger rosenblatt, whose work has been published in 14 languages. He has three best sellers, kayak morning, the boy detective and another that was in the new yorker. The story i am, came out april and cold moon, live, love and responsibility will be out in october. Rogers written seven off broadway play, the one person free speech in america that he performed at the american place theater and which was named one of times of the times best plays of 1991. Last spring at bay theater in sag harbor, he performed and his play lives in the basement, does nothing will go to the center for arts at stony brook and a theater in new york next year. He also wrote the screen play for his best selling novel which which is currently in production. Roger is a professor of english and writing. Creative writing at harvard where he high school his ph. D. And among honors, george 0 polk award, and a peabody on Time Magazine and pbs. In ireland he played on an International Basket
Washington post columnist, thriller writer who writes about the cia and such. This month, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Colson Whitehead as our guest. His most recent book is the under ground railroad. Mr. Whitehead, whats the appropriate response new book is appraised by oprah, president obama, you won the National Book award, what is the appropriate response . If only it took the pain aw away. [laughter] has taken off in a way thats unexpected and startling and wonderful. Just try to enjoy it despite my best efforts. Why does it put you in a better mood . Ive been writing for 20 something years doing fiction 20 some years, sometimes we write a book and people dig it and understand it sometimes write a book and no one cares and its sort of disappears so i have the pride the job i did with the book. Either you dig the groups of two prospectors or you dont and so you are either along for the ride description or not. Definitely when i was writing was my second attempt at a novel. My fir
Company as apublic service and brought to you today by your television provider. Hey everyone, im in number of the event staff here and id like to welcome you all this evening to politics and prose. A few quick notes, but tv is here with us and we are filming for our own Youtube Channel so with that in mind if you could take a moment of silence your cell phones, the opry two to, snap, however you like to use social media, just do it silently and along those same lines when we get to the q a portion we have one microphone set up over here and if you line up behind that for your questions andmake sure your short question is a short question and gets said into the microphone. We want to keep the dialogue running. Books areavailable at the register if youve not yet bought one. We have copies of the first conspiracy and we also have copies of bradschildrens book which are also really fun and interesting. You might want to pick up a couple of those as well which is of course why we are here
About the imaginary area it was exciting to be somehow in my boyhood terrain and is deeply familiar to me in one thing or another the books are easy to write, i did feel for was enough in the last word and forth book is enough but then i had a half book ten years later. People would murmur robert rabbit when i go by, does not happen too often anymore, im not exactly like him, our books are short in rough background but he stayed and i left is one way to put it. Every ten years readers were treated to look back on the decade filled with historical features of the decade and understanding through his eyes, where you catch me up to date on your reel of america 2005. What did rabbit make of iraq and bush and all that, i really dont know, a lot of robert observation is about the small changes in ease very interested in women and how they dressed and theres been quite a few changes and carried among female dress, he was struck by the rollerskating in the online skating and women began to jog
Say you can be inspired to go around saying things like your kids are just as brainy just as challenge when cues. Are ones not here well how about we choose truth over fracs all of us are not included ok well but definitely you cannot go to show little love and dont think you dont worship of what you do next you know well maybe that keeping it for the sequel which fingers crossed will face off in the New York Times bestseller list of fiction with a book written by men narnia trump telling a story of a young tony who in need of a drug to reaching out and tearing down walls. Well as all the headlines here on the International Red cross rules. Hello and welcome to cross talk were all things are considered on Peter Lavelle one of the greatest if not the greatest church in the history appreciator he will soon be converted into a mosque what is the importance of the hobbyist sophia and for whom and Europes Energy Security if not independence thanks in about. To discuss this and more im joine