Very similar or reset rehashing arguments or some sort of justification. It is not a summary process. Recently in the new york book review it was an iraq war veteran story. So many of those books have come out. How do you choose just one . It is perspective. Its a very subjective thing, very imperfect art. Its your looking for somebody who has some kind of unique twist, some kind of different argument something magical happening in the voice of the pros. How did you get this . I love criticism. The program in fiction writing. I love reviews, reading quick reading critics. I started working at publishers weekly, trade magazine that churns out. I went over to npr and worked on reviews. Do we ever see your byline . Yes. I write every now and then nonfiction. Working on a review about a photographer that is going in our issues. Yeah. How long have you been here . Three years. Thank you for your time. Thank you. One of those few sections of the paper that have our own dedicated coffee book.
Mac. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] and its Book Review Literary life panel will begin in just a minute. They are running a minute or two behind. This is live coverage on booktv on cspan2. This is the first panel of the day. Pamela paul, book times editor will be there. Walter mosley will be fair, ann patchett as well. After. Com a call in with Randall Kennedy for discrimination, race affirmativeaction and the law. He is a law professor at harvard. After that, david brock, david rothbard, his most recent book called national insecurity, American Leadership in an age of fear. We will do a callin program with them so you will have a chance. This panel is just starting. Good morning, everyone. Good morning and welcome to Miami Book Fair international. This is our 31st year, as you know, and it is truly a pleasure to see all of you here on a wonderful, sunny and bright south florida morning. Thank you so much for bein
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
[applause] our coverage of the International Summit of the book continues now by a panel called the publishing world yesterday and today. It about one hour 20 minutes. Good afternoon, ladies and supplement. Its a pleasure see so many of you, so many old friends here. I have a great privilege of being Senior Consultant for the librarian of congress, and i am also a writer and editor in chief and the world. And also a veteran of the publishing world. I have worked for many years as a Senior Editor and also at Simon Schuster as well. I have been around the block. A bit of a veteran in august. But we have learned so many things in this conference so far. Such a delight in such a pleasure to have heard the wonderful keynote speech. The report from the frontline with so many countries like russia and south africa, to learn that the First Encounter between europe and the new world, but between the conquistadors and into was over a book. With Thomas Jefferson and the wondrous discussion regist
Constitution was put in place to guarantee that the power would not concentrate in washington. Because our founders knew that when political power concentrates, so this economic power. That is when you get the corruption and greed capitalism and major corporations coming to the politicians to help them compete rather than competing in the marketplace. What has happened over the last several decades in america is that centralized concept has changed and the fact that more and more power and control and money has come here trade that is why you see the exponential growth of lobbyist here in all sectors is because this is where the money is. This is where the power is. This is where we can change things. But that is never the way it was supposed to be. So those principles that began with individuals and individual liberty and decentralized political and economic power has been changed with policies and we detail it back from fdr all the way back up with what we have done with all good int