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to the national book festival. [applause] >> thank you and welcome, and certainly on a day like this, i know that the executive editor of the "washington post" has a million and one things he could be doing, so im touched he took time to come out here and introduce me. somebody just asked me a few minutes ago if i grew up fighting in a gym boxing. ive been trying to tell ladies from the second grade on that i consider myself much more of a lover than a fighter. [laughter] but there was...

consider myself much more of a lover than a fighter. [laughter] but there was one experience i had in the boxing ring in my hometown in columbus, ohio. i was in the 6th grade, and somebody talked me into stepping into the boxing ring. i might make the team if i were fast enough in the ring. the other person hit me very hard and i went down and the pain went in one ear down my back, down the back of my legs, over to the other side of my body, and im still feeling that pain today, so no,...