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start retrieving the wreckage of flight mh 17 in ukraine. we will tell you why u.n. peace keepers from the philippines are pulling out of liberia. and using art to spread peace, love and liberty in bokito-fasso. we start in nigeria where an explosion has ripped through a secondary school in the northeastern state and hearing dozens of people have been killed in the attack. students were gathering for a morning assembly when the blast happened. and this is under a state of emergency has seen similar attacks by boko haram fighters in the past. we are hoping to get our correspondent up a little later in the show to bring you more details on that story. in the meantime let s move on to iraq where the army says that it has reached the center of the northern oil producing town of beijing and trying to break a siege of isil fighters of the biggest oil refinery and they captured beijing in june across northern iraq and we have this exclusive report. reporter: just a day ago ....
robert caro has appeared on q&a and is also appeared through the national book festival in september. house of stone, you remembered that anthony shadid died in syria while covering syria for the washington post. his wife will be here representing him and that is not a lottery. katherine boo has been nominated in the nonfiction category, behind a beautiful forevers about a slum in mumbai india and finally anne applebaum has been nominated for iron curtain. that book is just out and she is scheduled to appear under q&a and show in december, so you will be able to see her as well and robert caro will be interviewing those others as we go and we will be watching the red carpet here as some of the authors have their pictures taken that right now we want to talk to the chairman of the national book foundation and this is david steinberger. david steinberger is the head of the perseus book group. if you would, tell us for those who don t know what is the national book award ....
we re on the red carpet. finalist in poetry, young adult literature, nonfiction, and fiction books, and of course being booktv, we focus on the nonfiction. we want to let you know who some of the nine fiction finalist are. domingo martinez, his book is boy kings of texas. his fourth volume on the lbj legacy, and robert caro appeared on q & a and at the national book festival in september. the late anthony shadid has been nominated. he died in syria while covering syria for the washington post. his wife will be here representing him, and that s nada bachary. katherine boo has been nominated, behind the beautiful forever, about mumbai, and anne applebaum has a book out and is scheduled on our q & a show in september. so we ll be interviewing those authors as we go. we ll be watching the red carpet here as some of the authors have their picture taken. right now we want to talk to the chairman of the national book foundation, and this is david steinberger. mr. steinberg ....
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 wasn t a western called the big bounce. my agent in hollywood at the time to read, called and said kidd, i m 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 can t believe anyone in this room so that either versio ....
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