Of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications rose so you began how . Have that conversation. Rose is it luck or Something Else . Coming together on issues. Rose whats the object rose q everything into our significance of the moment. This is the week police were ambushed in the streets of dallas. Hillary clinton was cleared by the f. B. I. Of any criminal wrongdoing over here email server. And american Joey Chestnut aten8 record 70 hot dogs to retain his title in nathans annual fourth of july hot dog eating contest. Here are the sights and sounds of the past seven days. Breaking news, a fresh act of madness. There has been a vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement. The fifth Police Officer has now died. The world mourning holocaust survivor and no bell laureate elie wiesel. Terror puts the world on edge. The deadliest terror attack in over a year when a bomb goes off in a Shopping Mall in busy downtown baghdad. I
And some genius said you may know this story. What is this stuff that comes out of the ground in pennsylvania and they were fined into kerosene and kerosene replaced whale oil but by the 1890s when the lightbulb came along and cities were switching rapidly to electric light the oil industry with saying what are we going to do . They have this waste product that they couldnt use that they were dumping in the river at night to get rid of it because it was useless and they had to find a place to put it. Fortunately the automobile came along just in time and save the oil industry. So they use this waste product and refineries. There are lots of stories. They havent been told as usual. The last natural gas as an industry book was published in 1938. So im just having great fun beginning this work which im sure you will enjoy. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you. [applause] Richard Rhodes will be outside at the signing desk. The books are still for sale in the Welcome Center so come and
Were on the red carpet. Finalist in poetry, young adult literature, nonfiction, and fiction books, and of course being booktv, we focus on the nonfiction. We want to let you know who some of the nine fiction finalist are. Domingo martinez, his book is boy kings of texas. His fourth volume on the lbj legacy, and robert caro appeared on q a and at the National Book festival in september. The late Anthony Shadid has been nominated. He died in syria while covering syria for the Washington Post. His wife will be here representing him, and thats nada bachary. Katherine boo has been nominated, behind the beautiful forever, about mumbai, and Anne Applebaum has a book out and is scheduled on our q a show in september. So well be interviewing those authors as we go. Well be watching the red carpet here as some of the authors have their picture taken. Right now we want to talk to the chairman of the National Book foundation, and this is david steinberger. Mr. Steinbergers is also head of the beco
Cspan Justice Sandra day oconnor, why a book about the lazy b . Guest basically, because my brother and i grew up on the lazy b ranch, and it ended up being sold in the late 1980s, and it broke my heart. Something that i thought would always be part of me and part of our family and always there for my children and grandchildren and their children was gone, and there wasnt any other way to preserve it, i guess, except to sit down and see if we can write up some of those memories and make it real. Cspan whenwhen did you start writing it . Guest oh, about three years ago. For a long time, it was so painful that the ranch was gone that i couldnt let myself think about it. It would depress me if i did. I dont know if youre like that, but if theres a place that i really loved and cared about, if its gone, im afraid to go back because it might not look the same or be the same, and i want it the way i knew it and remembered it. And maybe this book was the only way i could achieve that. Cspan w
That i am one person, that i will live and die alone, that i will only ever inhabit this one consciousness. I was wrong about this too. To read this poem was to be in conversation with a level deeper than who we are, where we are and what our homely words and thoughts and deeds and lives dont mean. Still, enduring merit, until this summer did i even believe in it . Did i simply believe enduring merit could never be agreed upon, that all things are relative and, therefore, can not be said to have merit and their endurance cannot be predicted . If so, i no longer believe it or even remember believing it. These five radioactive books glowed green and dustless among the others. If they are not still read in 100 years, it will mean the cockroaches only survived whatever happened to vegas. There is always more mystery in a closed box than in an opened box. Nope. When it comes to a box full of poetry, that is not true. Over the summer those boxes turned into a room full of books full of poetr