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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
Latest Nonfiction Books and authors. Cspan2 created by americas Cable Television company as a Public Service and brought to you by your television provider. And cspan booktv is here with us tonight. With that in mind take a moment to silence your cell phones, feel free to use social media, and when we get to the q and a portion, one microphone set up over here if you will line up for your questions. Make sure your shores question is a short question and get that into the mic. We want to keep the dialogue running. If you have not yet bought one and decided you would like to we have copies of brad meltzers children books, fun and interesting books that make great gifts. You might pick up a couple of them as well. Listen to brad meltzer welcoming him back to the store for his nearest newest book the first conspiracy the secret plot to kill George Washington. Writing history with the same command and vivid action that made him one of americas finest thriller writers. He tells a startling a
[inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, we are here to welcome the 11th time number one New York Times bestseller across many genres including fiction, nonfiction, childrens, how to use, graphic novels. Erie. So you know all of you have cameras out, cspan is here and you know what that means. All of us book nerds are being watched by all our Favorite Book nerds. We arefinally altogether in oneplace. We have as many viewers as svn right now. That joke does not work in sports places. I love coming to virginia, obviously the washington dc area was our home and a beautiful place for us where we had our children here. We had our lives here. I started writing here and its especially important today. Today is the day my dad died and we marked the day and i know it seems like something sad but i love my father and i especially love being in this barnes and noble because my father used to go into barnes and noble and say yes, im here for brad meltzer book, hes my favorite author and the
With Janet Webster jones who is the owner of source booksellers in detroit about the shutdown has affected our business. Janet webster jones, it is an update five minutes into the covid pandemic. We have quite a lot to say this type. I get so much again for having us on cspan. You all are so dear to our hearts and i look at you at home a lot, so you have helped us really improve our business by the things that you do. We have really had to have an experience with back and forth, open close come up and done that is happening i think with everybody across the country because we take a little step four and we have to a little bit. I think that is the mode of the day as they would say. When we shut down the pivoted right away to online sales but it took a little while for that to happen. So we quickly moved ourselves to online sales and begin to sell the online website. In addition to that we also have added, people have added the phone calls, emails, the instagram and facebook request as