Now from london book tv interviewed robert beck, the current state of the publishing industry. The art of evaluating others writing, and the worldwide importance of the englishlanguage. This is about a halfhour. And youre watching book tv on cspan2. And we are in london talking with british authors and joining us now is author and historian whose most recent Nonfiction Book is jerusalem the biography. If i may start with a you have in the front of your book. This is it. Jerusalem is an old nymphomaniac to squeezes lover after lover to death before shrugging him off with a yawn. A black widow who devours are made while they are still penetrating her. What does that mean . Well, very wittily captures the fascination. Such a magnetic draw to overrun the world but especially to me. Jerusalem is a lens through which you can write a history of the middle east. History of the world almost. The exciting thing about it has just been conquered by but every single race civilization you care to me