Author after author after author and you get to learn about the work of fascinating people. I love tv and im a cspan fan. What are some of the books that are coming out this fall question and. Im very excited about one called the word detective by john simpson which is a memoir by the former editor in chief of the Oxford English dictionary who has been there for about 40 years until his retirement in 2013. In that time he oversaw what really is a complete transformation of dictionaries or the complete transformation of lexicography in the english language. Anyone can remember the descriptions of what it was like to assemble a dictionary in the 19th century. It was pity much like that until the mid 70s as well. There were readers all over the world that would submit index cards with usages and submit them to the oxford dictionary where they would be put into hard files and eventually those usages, whenever the dictionary was revised which was about every 80 years would make it into the
Chapter, im talking to people who are very hopeful and to have seen tremendous improvement in their lands because thats what i wanted to see. I wanted to see what is possible because if we dont know whats possible, what can spark our imagination of whats possible yes, theres a lot of hope imac. Again i want to thank you all for coming and judith will be available downstairs to sign books, thank you. You are watching the tv, television for serious readers. You can watch any program you see here online at the tv. Org. What are some of the books that are coming out from basic this fall . Im very excited about one called the word detective by john simpson which is a memoir by the former editorinchief of the Oxford English dictionary who has been there for about 40 years and whose retirement in 2013 and overtop oversaw information of dictionaries or lexicography in the language. I think for anyone who can remember the descriptions of what it was like to assemble a dictionary in the 19th cen
Guest this is our first year for exhibiting and for me attending bookconker but were very excited to have a chance to interact directly with readers and have them come and see our authors signings its a lot of great stuff to see the interaction of readers. Were watching right now we see book bloggers are interacting with their fans, so its happening on a lot of levels. Host and because bookexpo is just for publishers and related industries. Guest right, right. Through our retailers. Were always dealing with the public but this is new, to really try to have direct interaction with readers. Host jamie raab. Guest this is my first time here, but i was amazed when i saw the lines of people. Its thrilling to think that people care enough about books to come to Something Like this pay money, get to see the authors. I think its fantastic. Host what is Grand Central publishing . Guest well right now we have a signing, we have an author named meredith wylde who wrote a series of erotic books ra
Robert caro has appeared on q a and is also appeared through the National Book festival in september. House of stone, you remembered that Anthony Shadid died in syria while covering syria for the Washington Post. His wife will be here representing him and that is not a lottery. Katherine boo has been nominated in the nonfiction category, behind a beautiful forevers about a slum in mumbai india and finally Anne Applebaum has been nominated for iron curtain. That book is just out and she is scheduled to appear under q a and show in december, so you will be able to see her as well and robert caro will be interviewing those others as we go and we will be watching the red carpet here as some of the authors have their pictures taken that right now we want to talk to the chairman of the National Book foundation and this is david steinberger. David steinberger is the head of the Perseus Book Group. If you would, tell us for those who dont know what is the National Book award . The National Boo
Living in 18th century boston how hard it is. The biggest thing youre going to suffer is the cold in winter. She sent him cod, but what she really cherished were books. She read all her life. She was a voracious reader, and youd think reading 12 children i have a hard time reading the newspaper. She read the newspaper every day, she read newton, he read almost everything Benjamin Franklin wrote. Think about that, what an education it would have been in the 18th century to read franklin. Host in a different time would she could she have let me be rephrase this. Did she have the intellect of franklin . Guest gosh, franklin once said genius without education is like silver in the mines. You cant know. The 18th century girls were not taught to write, it was really unusual for a girl to know how to write. She only learned how to write because her brother taught her, and thats the reason we know so much about her life. But she didnt write with the kind of facility that he wrote with or the m