Welcome to booktvs fiction edition. Youve written 50 fiction books. Lets start with devil in a blue dress, the book that launched a series who is easy rawlins . Guest a kind of every man for the black community in the middle of the twentieth century. His whole view of himself has changed. He came back to southern texas and realized he could no longer live there because of what he has learned and he and thousands of others, from texas and louisiana moved to los angeles. What we do is follow him as a kind of unofficial detective. What he does is reveals what life was like in parts of los angeles that havent been talked about. Host how did you come up with the name . Guest i was writing a story and there was a voice speaking firstperson talking about a party he was given and how he was trying to raise money to pay his rent and a woman he was in love with who was in love with another guy and mouse comes in and looks at the person who is talking and says hey, e the, how are you doing . That
Who has the foresight to endow this important prize way back in 1935. Edith was the editor times anyways. She understood it was erasing the thing about racism and other forms of prejudice. She also understood, literature mr. As a posted an excerpt of the site. In the 84 years prize was established, our country has made Great Strides towards what is regard to respecting and embracing our diversity. Recently, we have taken disheartening steps backwards. Reported hate crimes of sharply risen in the past several years including of course the mass murders and the mothering manual church in Charleston South Carolina and the tree of live synagogue in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. This is the National Trend but it also gives its close to home. According to the southern poverty law center, there are more organized groups in the state of ohio than in kentucky and West Virginia combined. A great source of shame if ever there was one. But also. Follow action. They must rewrite our Current National nar
Ted coming up in just a few minutes. Erosion is also a problem along the northern jersey shore. The erosion is digging quite a path there along the beach. The fishing pier is damaged because of jose. Strong surf has been pounding. The far ends of the peer with were collapsed. They were rebuilt after hurricane sandy. This is a live look over center city. Islands in the caribbean are bracing for Hurricane Maria. People are scrambling for gas as they wait for maria, more than 60,000 customers are still without power following hurricane irma. Glenn hurricane schwartz is tracking Hurricane Maria and the effects of jose and what hell have on our area. A lot to talk about. Yeah. We certainly do. Lets start with the immediate threat. This is due to jose. You can see some of the outer bands. They are moving northeast to southwest. You can see they are coming right down from long island and not making a lot of progress to the west towards the philadelphia area. The center of the storm is pretty
Eastern, joseph wingo will become the next chief of the national guard. Global Health Experts discuss the outcomes of the recent International Aids Conference which looked at funding and Research Options and this afternoon live coverage of president obama as he speaks to a Young African Leaders Initiative town hall meeting. Tonight on cspan, Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson talks about terrorism, border security, and transportation security administration. He spoke to an audience at the Christian Science monitor. You can see that tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan. 2, we will start at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on afterwards history followed by Sebastian Gorka who wrote defeating jihad m of the winnable war. Karen greenberg looks at rogue justice. Michael flynn discusses the field of flight. All that starting on cspan2. Q a civil wart on historian Meredith James robertson discusses James Robertson discusses his book, after the civil war. State allegiance was very deep. As far back in gene
Im jim rosenfield. Philadelphia police say the attack happened monday morning. But the victims son didnt find his body until this afternoon. Next 10s Brandon Hudson is live at the home in southwest philadelphia. Brandon, do police think this was a random attack . Reporter jacqueline and jim, Police Believe the victim was targeted. The suspects got in through the back of this house. They say they broke in through the back window which is next to that door. Then killed the 77yearold homeowner. Since our last report, we spoke to friends who described the victim as a great guy. In the hours following the gruesome find made by the victims son, Philadelphia Police collected evidence from this murder. The place a 77yearold man called home on theodore street most of his life now a crime scene. At this time investigators havent said if they found a weapon. A shame, im telling you. Reporter arthur became friends with the victim years ago from their time at the American Legion post. Arthur got a