Welcome to book tvindepth program, this is our special year of fiction on indepth. You see authors such as david baldacci, jody people, Walter Mosley, last month we had david ignatius, Washington Post columnist and thriller writer who writes about the cia and such. This month we are pleased to have Pulitzer Prize winning author Colson Whitehead as our guest with the most recent book is the underground railroad. Mister whitehead, whats the appropriate response when your book are are praised by oprah, president obama, you win the pulitzer and National Book award, whats the appropriate response . It took the pain away. This book is taking off in a way that is startling and wonderful so mostly i just thank my lucky stars and i sleep a little better, im in a better mood generally. And i tried to enjoy it. Its my best effort. Why does that put you in a better mood . Ive been writing for 20 something years, doing fiction for 20 years and you know, sometimes you write a book and people digging
John singleton mosby was born in 1833 new richmond, virginia. He grew to be of medium height and flight of weight. His spare complexion and delicate features revealed nothing unusual about him. He was frail as a child and spend his time reading and studying books, but rode his horse daily to school. His small stature led to him being picked on by the other kids. Mosby never backs down from a fight. At the age of 17, he entered the university of virginia. All studying greek and mathematics, he encountered an incident that would affect him for the rest of his life. In his third year, he encountered a fellow student by the name of george turpin, who had a habit of bullying others and set his sights on young mosby. When mosby heard turpin was looking to eat him up raw mosby pick of a pistol in his defense. When turpin came after mosby, turbine charged, mosby shot him and in and nearly killed him. He asked the prosecutor for his law books, which he leant tom mosby, who spent his time in jai
Where are we today . We are at the iowa state fair. What is the goal of the booth at the state fair . To know how active Iowa Democrats are. This year is an unbelievable year. It will stop by the booth and cs us. All of our candidates are represented. Have you had any of the president ial candidates come through . , not yet, but all of them will stop by next week. Abc will lead us to a big debate. I wrote to the white house coverage of the president ial candidates continues live from the iowa state fair on cspan, cspan radio, and cspan. Org as the candidates walk the fairgrounds and speak at the Des Moines Register candidate s soapbox. Starting monday, it is scott walker followed by Carly Fiorina and lindsey graham. On tuesday, marco rubio and john kasich. On wednesday, republican rick perry was begun at 11 00. On friday afternoon at 2 30, it is senator ted cruz. On saturday, republican governors Chris Christie at noon and bobby jindal at 1 00. Join the twitter conversation a hashtag.
Stunningly posted horrific video of the attack which we will not show. He sent a 23 page document to abc news saying the Charleston Church massacre had stoked his rage and bullying he faced because he was a gay black man. Parker and ward were natives of the roanoke area and worked together about a year. They were young and in rips with coworkers, only deepening a tragedy that has shaken their newsroom. You can hear people behind us in the newsroom crying. Its just really hard to its hard to comprehend. During the shootings, wards camera fell on its side but still captured this haunting image of the shooter gun in hand. The woman being interviewed by alison, Vicky Gardner was shot during the incident but is out of surgery and in stable condition. Abc news has talked to robert avon, his former roommate from 2006 to 12 00. He texted with flanagan minutes after the shooting. Rob says flanagan, known to say odd things admitted to shooting two people and says flanagan was on the phone with h
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