In languages as diverse as chinese serbocroat and people identify with it. In the beginning women more than men. Now men as well as women and they dont think its a particularly raunchy book although 40 years ago it had that reputation. In 40 years it has never been out of print all over the world. New additions keep appearing and i think the reason is not because of the sex but because its extremely relatable. People see themselves in it and im very proud to have written it. Host what sparked your writing this book . Guest i cant tell you. I wrote it and rewrote it throughout my 20s. I wrote it from a mans point of view and from a womans point of view. I finally found the voice for it which was a new york wisecracking voice which is made partly. It was the new york kid on the couch. Wisecracking, full of yiddish and full of humor. I think that description still holds. Henry miller predicted it would make Literary History and change the way books were written and actually he is right. W
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Anything can be anywhere, cadillac jack. Another aspect of mark twain that i got into more recently is miniature books. All of the books in this cabinet have some tiein with mark twain. Theyre either, they were either a story about him or one of the stories that he wrote that was translated or, im sorry, not translated, but miniaturized. So this is a story to he wrote about the civil war called luck. And these are, these have bookplates in them from previous ownerrings. Some of this is owners. Some of these are famous people from the miniature book world. And the artwork is all miniaturized. And then its just illustrated and bound. Then this is an interesting one here, the little teenyweeny book. I dont know if i can get it out of there. Do you want to see that . Because im not sure, i think its by barbara rehal, and shes noted for doing the really smallest miniature books. And she does all this artwork by hand. And its actually got printing in it. You have to read it with a, like a 20
And it took her up until approximately the time that she landed can you not jimmy . Can somebody regulate this micro for us, please . How about this, can you hear me now . Excellent. Her second book, to the book will focus on today, the cooked seed which has just come out and it starts when she lands at ohare in 1984, is that right . Before i stressing question, just in case you think that success has changed anchee min, i would like to point out that she is traveling with a backpack. [laughter] she is just lugging everything just around them and asked a woman that down in the green room earlier today, i said is that everything you have . She suggested she said we learned growing up in china to back quickly. And to pack everything that we have. Have. Because were told that the americans were in the non, theyre going to take over china, nk china. We must learn to defend ourselves. Anytime. So some things never change, however american as you may be. Anchee, i want you to start by just t
The next decade. Mcconnell is postponing and very damaging. Its not a victory for us. Heather john roberts has more. We expect to hear President Trump in the rose garden. He is the oval office with the president. We expect the president to take a couple of questions as well. Whats going on with health care right now, what we are hearing from sources at the white house is next week while the congress is on its fourth of july break, the senate will send the Congressional Budget Office a couple versions of the Health Care Repeal and replace bill. The president this morning throwing everything open to a new idea. If republican senators are unable to pass what theyre working on now, they should immediately repeal and replace at a later date. This is a nod to rand paul who said this on fox news yesterday. What about dividing the bill in two . Do the repeal which no democrat will vote for, repeal the taxes, repeal the regulations, reform medicaid. Take the spending and put it in a bill that t