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Unless the parents ask, they dont know. back to you. >> sandra: well be watching that, one. william, thank you. john. >> john: wait til you hear this story. amazing discovery out of a goodwill store. an arizona woman was browsing the book aisle, stumbled across a novel from way back in 1940. "the heart is a lonely hunter." inside a handwritten note tumbled out to the floor. a heart warming message, from a father to his son. rose farmer is now searching for the owner and joins us now. rose, great...

What i do and writing this book, there are already people who read this book when they were a teenager. they are writing novels and creating ardent spired by it. that is how we grow and create change. >> were you surprised a challenge to the book or not? but you write it and design the cover? >> i mean, my first book was called boy meets boy. i knew that there would be resistance. it would be easy to hide away, call the book something else, and half people find it secretly. i love the power of a...

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by Ashutosh Jogalekar In many ways, the story of my life is the story of books that I have read and loved. Books haven’t just shaped and dictated what I know and think about the world but they have been an emotional anchor, as rock solid as a real ship’s anchor in stormy seas. As the son of two professors with a voracious appetite for reading, it was entirely unsurprising that I acquired a love of reading and knowledge very early on. The Indian city of Pune that I grew up in was sometimes r...

Biz. there are 15 accusers of trump in a sexual assault. there are ten women who accused him of inappropriate sexual contact. when this story landed in the "new york times," it was in the book section. is that something that should surprise us or outrage us, or what did you think about that? >> i think we should all be terribly outraged that it landed in the book section as if its just a review of another story of a sitting president of the united states accused of rape. >> are you surprised tha...

Bring juanita broaddrick and other women who had accused president bill clinton of, you know, inappropriate sexual conduct. juanita broaddrick. i was an editor at "the washington post" when we published the first national newspaper story about her allegations about the president. and, you know, again, this was taken seriously. president clinton was impeached by congress. and, you know, here we have a situation where, you know, the executive editor of "the new york times" has said tonight he made...

That we are sort of nullified from all of it. its almost as though its an atrocity almost every single day, and i think shes right. i think people tend to forget about it. people give him a lot of leeway. i found it to be very disconcerting that a lot of major newspapers did not even cover this in the same way that they did allegations of biden touching a woman on her shoulder or hillary clintons emails. for example, "the new york times" covered this story in their book section rather than on th...

Cover this in the same way that they did allegations of biden touching a woman on her shoulder or hillary clintons emails. frexz, "the new york times" covered this story in their book section rather than on the very front page. >> also to, you know, this isnt, well, he was inappropriate with me or he made a pass at me. this is something thats completely different. this is a whole different -- >> exactly. well, lets make this clear. this is rape. what she alleges happened to her -- >> she doesnt ...

A celebrity by the time that they encountered each other in that department store, so actually she was his type. >> and two, the other interesting thing thats happened about this, "the new york times," your competitor has basically come out and said, you know, we didnt handle this story the right away. we put this information on the book section on friday when there is an allegation of rape against the president of the united states, maybe this needs to be treated as a news story, and it was rea...