For our live coverage of the Miami Book Fair. And welcome to day to as live coverage of the 2014 Miami Book Fair civil. This weekend our 17th year in a row of live coverage by the way, 25 authors in 20 hours of live coverage. Today, panelists include New York Times book review editor pamela paul, Walter Mosley, matt bai, charles grow, among others, and to offer College Opportunities for you today. Randall kennedy of harvard is most recent book is called for discrimination and David Rothkopf irans Foreign Policy magazine will be talking about u. S. Foreign policy. Full schedule of todays live coverage from miami is available at our website, booktv. Org. All they wanted and get updates of behind the scenes photos at booktv. Org twitter handle. You can also join us at facebook. Com booktv. If youre in the area, come on down. Cspan bus is here, we are passing a great book bags and some other things. Would love to have you come and say hi at the chamber of commerce day here in miami. The su
Baker, Francine Prose and Walter Mosley. [applause] ms. Paul is the editor of the New York Times book review and the popular interview of by the book. Her new book on literature and the literary life by the New York Times book review brings together 65 of the most intriguing and fascinating exchanges over time. Shes joined this morning by the author of six novels as well as the coowner of a bookstore. [applause] her newest book is this is the story of a happy marriage a memoir and before the publication of her first novel she was in the trenches of 17 magazine. Nicholson baker is the author of ten novels including human smoke. His latest is in the chronicles where the puppet protagonist appears again. He is joined by francine is the author of the 20 works of fiction. Her latest book is lovers at the 10 million club 1932 in novel set in the 1920s. Also on the panel this morning is Walter Mosley who is the author of more than 40 books most notably there are fans in the audience of the my
Agency. My only rule at five in the morning, i had to start writing, get right into the story before i could put the water on for coffee. Most of the fiction i wrote at daybreak sold the magazine. For 2 cents a word. 310 to yuma in 1953, 4500 words western, sold 490. Two years later, a studio paid 4000 to make a movie starring glenn ford. And i liked it a lot, but walter called the picture three hours and 10 minutes past high noon. [laughter] in 1969, i wrote my first book that wasnt a western called the big bounce. My agent in hollywood at the time to read, called and said kidd, im going to make you rich. He saw the big bounce as a quick movie sale. Send it out to producers over the next few months and got 84 rejections. I did top that record. I got 105 rejections for another story that offered hitchcock bought, but then died on [laughter] but the book did so, and, and twice was adapted for the screen. Now, i cant believe anyone in this room so that either version of the picture or re
Doing the things they were before. Langston hughes and others, dont forget wendelin books and all of the individuals. I say this. You can jump on and if you want to and i am making a point here. We wrote this to our sister lee matt and i might have been, we were accused of being romantic because we were sisters and brothers and kings and queens and so forth and insisted this and insisted that. But someone recently pointed out that they spoke with Young High School sisters and they said that they are not hearing any love songs. And that is shocking and im not saying its true, i hope its not. The people who call you these names cant call you my sister and how i love you. They can call your mother because there is only one way in this world and you cant allow the way you came in. [laughter] the last panel of the day from the National Black writers conference is entitled shifting identities in africa. Starts now on booktv. Jeffrey allen is here and those in transit can join us other jeffre
Backbone, wind in the sails of social justice movement. I guess paul robeson said it best. [indiscernible] i believe and our social presence, as breaker of official silence is, as a voice for those whose voices are disregarded, and as a human birthright. Culture and resistance, 2012 through voices of artists, musicians, poets and writers. We look at the nexus of politics and art, airing highlights of our cultural coverage of the past year. Featuring alice walker, Walter Mosley, randy weston, steve earle, randall robinson, and others. And we pay tribute to the late adrienne rich, Whitney Houston, and mark the centennial the birth of Woody Guthrie. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , n democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Today, and a democracy now special, looking back at 2012. We look at art, culture, and resistance. We begin with rattle robinson, founder and past president of transafrica, a law professor at Pennsylvania State university, mos