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
Also, counterterrorism analyst washington Thomas Anderson talks about the evolving threats facing the u. S. Since the september 11 terrorist attacks. Washington journal is next. Host it is the washington journal for september 11. Todays show will focus on the 19th anniversary of the 9 11 attacks. You can see planned events at the pentagon which you are watching at ground zero in new york. On cspan, cspan2 and cspan3. You can check the website for specific channel and time information. Follow along on the radio app. We will take your calls on this remembrance day. Here is how you can call us. The eastern00 for and central time zones. 202 7488001 for the mountain and pacific times. If you want to text us, do so at 202 7488003. Post on our cspan feed. On this day, several papers across the United States devoted. Heir editorial page here is the tribute out of johnstown, pennsylvania. On the 19th anniversary, our nation is distracted by politics. We are obligated to pause on this september
Washington post columnist, thriller writer who writes about the cia and such. This month, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Colson Whitehead as our guest. His most recent book is the under ground railroad. Mr. Whitehead, whats the appropriate response new book is appraised by oprah, president obama, you won the National Book award, what is the appropriate response . If only it took the pain aw away. [laughter] has taken off in a way thats unexpected and startling and wonderful. Just try to enjoy it despite my best efforts. Why does it put you in a better mood . Ive been writing for 20 something years doing fiction 20 some years, sometimes we write a book and people dig it and understand it sometimes write a book and no one cares and its sort of disappears so i have the pride the job i did with the book. Either you dig the groups of two prospectors or you dont and so you are either along for the ride description or not. Definitely when i was writing was my second attempt at a novel. My fir
Announcer its a late show live with Stephen Colbert tonight land of opportunity. Plus, stephen welcomes keanu reeves and alex winter and former congressman trey gowdy. Featuring, live, jon batiste and stay homin. And now live from the ed sullivan Theater Office building in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen welcome, welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to a late show im your host, Stephen Colbert. We just walked in this room. We just literally finalized the script. I cant wait to find out what we just wrote. This is going to be really exciting, i havent even had time to prep my eyeballs because theyve had quite a beating tonight. We are live for the second night of the Republican National if you missed last night, congratulations. Despite promises of positive message, it was a dark, angry propaganda with terrible production values. They should have called it triumph of the will this be over soon . One big problem is trump and the g. O. P. Were in covid denial for months. The democrat
That it is doing something, so i applaud every one of you for doing that i know how hard it can be. Im very lucky to have this house and this family, but its tough so i applaud you guys. Thank you for staying home lets flatten that curve we have a great show tonight Kerry Washington is on the show shes a good friend of our show and she has a new show called Little Fires Everywhere that her and Reese Witherspoon are starring in on hulu. And get those two together, im there. Ill watch that show anytime her charity is medshare. Org. And we thank kerry for coming on well be talking to her later in the show. Also, Andrew Rannells from the show black monday will be on the show, on showtime. Andrew, he was supposed to be our show friday before we left the studio his charity is meal train. Ive never heard of this this is a new charity to me, but its fascinating how theyre feeding people that are on the front line. It and i think kind of an unknown charity so thats a great thing to to broadcast