Highlight of some of the top religious and secular stories of the previous year. I did that last year with two of my colleagues and friends. I have invited them back. I will come again reverend Dale Witherspoon of eastern hill United Methodist church. Great to have you. And reverend jim hopkins of lakeShore Baptist Church. Good morning. Great to be here. Some people know your churches and where you are, but what i discovered that i did not ask you is your family background. And some of your family. I know that you have spouses and you have children, so tell us, beginning with you, dale. Im married to reverend debbie weatherspoon. She is working harder doctorate of ministry. I think in the area of engaging faith in the public square. I have two sons, teenagers, wesley who is a senior, graduating senior at El Cerrito High School and his younger brother justice is a freshman el cerrito. Also have a brother and sister that live in the sacramento area. My cousin lives in oakland. Im a nativ
Hosting. Good night. And now on cspan2 book tb, more television for serious readers. Hi everybody i am Vivian Schiller and i the aspen institute. Really glad you could be with us today. The near times bestseller list can often be a mirror of the national psyche. As such, this year it seems to reflect the nation going through an awakening on matters of race. Books written by people of color and about matters of race and racism have filled those lists. Both fiction and nonfiction. That is the good news. Sadly the Publishing Industry does not always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest publishing paid me expose a major pay disparity in the industry between black and nonblack authors. Theres a few people of color who served as publishing staff or literary agents. And even fewer who operate at decisionmaking levels. And for those who are published, sometimes the marketing exposure can be suboptimal. And this year of National Reckoning on racism, we are going to take a look at th
The selection and presentation of library of congress for fiction is one of my favorite responsibilities the product is this Great Institution an opportunity to honor the novelist for short story writers to interview books from the most recent novels and short story collections past prizewinners include luminaries Toni Morrison it is my distinct honor and pleasure to award the prize this year to one of our nations most gifted writers someone Time Magazine the longest largest recipient and only one of four writers in history to receive the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice i am talking about none other than none other than colson whitehea whiteheads most recent novel, the nickel boys won this years pulitzer as did his 2016 novel the underground railroad. Colson has an extraordinary ability to write about historical events and transform them into meaningful events of today the rewriter of literary fiction whose works are best sellers a testament to his talent to communicate to everyone wh
Your books are praised by oprah, president obama and you win the poets with the National Book award, what is the appropriate response . Before we take the pain away, this book is taken off and away unexpected and startling and wonderful and i thank my lucky stars and they sleep a little better and that her mood generally and try to enjoy despite my best efforts. What is up doing a better mood. I been writing for 20 something years doing fiction for 20 something years temperature write a book and people to get and no one typically cares and it disappears so i had the pride and think it i did a good job from the book and the bonus of other people reading it as well. Host your first book was about elevator repairs, people, how do you sell a book like that. Guest exactly. With that book i wrote a description and i said to my agent you dig in the concept of elevators inspectors or you dont. Youre either along for the ride in the description or not indefinitely when i was writing it was my s
In depth. This is our Monthly Program with one author talking about his or her book w and we are pleased ts month to be joined by westmore who is the author of three books plus Childrens Book and the novel. His first book came out in 2010 called the other westmore and cthen his book the work came ot in 2015 and its most recent book is about baltimore during the arrest and death of freddie gray that just came out five days. It is called that but in your book, the work, you write that the militaryta saved your life. What don you mean by that . Guest i think the military played an incredible role in my life where some of the most important times in my life have not been when i was wearing a suit or a a tshirt and jeans bt when i was wearing a uniform from this country. I was first introduced in the military system about 13 years old and i was sent to military school and hand one mandatory year in military school. It was some issues and challenges and my mom was threatening to send me to m