Welcome to book tv in depth this is especially or fiction on indepth and last month was David Ignatius who writes about the cia. This month we have Colson Whitehead is our guest his most recent book is the underground railroad. What is the appropriate response mr. Whitehead when your books are praised by the president obama and ohio oprah and the National Book award . It takes the pain away. [laughter] this book has taken off in a way that is unexpected and wonderfu wonderful. So i think my lucky stars i sleep a little better, a better mood generally, and try to enjoy it despite my best efforts. Why does it put you in a better mood . I have been writing 20 something years doing fiction 20 years. And no one particularly cares. So i have the pride of thinking i did a good job with the book and the bonus of other people to see that as well. Host your first book was about elevator repair people. How do you sell a book like that quick. Exactly. So when i send it to my agent with the concept
breaking news tonight, missouri. a 9-year-old girl vanishes walking home from a play date at a little friend s house. the search comes to an end when cops are led to the body of elizabeth aulden in the woods near her own home. the murder sprkts a 15-year-old girl. tonight disturbing new photos emerge taken inside the mind of the alleged child killer. we have the shocking photos. breaking news in the case of 9-year-old elizabeth all theon who cops say was brutally stabbed and strangled to death by 15-year-old alyssa bustamante. disturbing photos have just been obtained from an affiliate allegedly showing a scary side of the 15-year-old charged with premeditated first-degree murder. this wasn t a game of hide and go seek gone wrong. that this was actually something ridiculously more serious than that. she s charged, mind you, with first-degree murder and an armed criminal action. and in the indictment they allege that she strangled, stabbed, and cut the little girl s throat