We are good to go. Welcome everybody. We are back with chatter on books and happily we already disclosed location, one more page books in arlington we take books, wine and chocolate more seriously than we take ourselves. Thank you so much for letting us be here. Thank you so much for coming. Its going to be out in the open. My name is jeanne mcmanus, later were going to be speaking with wil haygood who im honored to meet. The book will talk about a lot of things that talk about tigerland which is Remarkable Book about some really incredible young man at a very difficult time. A couple of the things on tap, random thoughts, i know youre the you. I kind of obsessed with look at bestseller list you hate. I take the bullet for the team but im always interested in something that pops up unexpectedly, and i talked a couple of weeks ago about these books that were decades old popping up, to kill a mockingbird, was a prime example, and we know why and we know why the handmaids tale was there. But this week of the Washington Post bestseller paperback pops blue highways. This was a book that was written, was published i think in early eggs can written in 1978. This was a guy i think an english professor and yet lost his job and the separated from his wife, and he got in a Ford Econoline van in 1975 van, and wrote what he called the blue highways. This was before gps and before google maps. And he got the rand mcnally map of the country, and all of the back roads were colored blue and those with the roads he chose to take. And so he went to 38 of the 50 states and just kind of learning about america, learning a lot about himself. Remarkable book on the New York Times bestseller list i think for 40 or 45 weeks for Something Like that. Hes written of the books but i think is best known for that. I cannot figure out for the life of me why it popped up. You worked at the Washington Post if you got some conspiracy theory. Is there some antigps movement thats rising up from the people, the streets . Some for Econoline Van fans. It would be hard to do because its hard to find real maps. You could go into any gas station, i dont think we called and gas stations anymore, you could buy maps. Its hard to find it anymore. If anybody has a theory, he is still alive in writing books. He is the author of i think its english, irish and osage background. His father was hes boon keith moon. I dont know what happened after him. And the other thing i want to tell people about, and this is something thats not for everybody but my sister mary sue is here tonight is wonderful book. It is called on the street, iconic photography, a fashion photographer for the New York Times for decades. Rode a bicycle to the streets the new york with his landmark sort of blue coat on. Everybody recognized him, and he photographed the famous and not so famous at all street people, street fashion in particular. He was brilliant at spotting things. As you go through this book from each decade has an essay or two written by somebody who work for the New York Times, a a starlight professional writer, just talking about what it was captioning in that decade. If you were alive in any of those decades, and i was quite alive for all of them, and quite capable of buying incredibly bad fashion and see your life sort of flash before you as you read this book and cd is horrible shoulder pads that you know you yourself are guilty. Dynasty. Moonlighting. You just sit down and pick it up and flip through it and have really good time. On my really failed careers was find a photographer. Back in the day when he was doing that and becoming well known, he was kind of controversial because hes not he didnt pretend to be. He was not a great photographer in the sense of setting the scene and lighting but he was just out there all the time. He would see something two or three times, he was a dreadful cycle and women essay that must be something. Then we can discount aversive, was the chronicling ration or was he promoting . People of course Corporate America started trying to get to them. Just have to be a couple of beautiful models walking down fifth avenue. But he had a pretty good eye. He had a pretty good detector. Integrating, great book come just to flip through. Whenever talking about Agatha Christie . None of us read but we all admire. To kill a mockingbird the near times to three times a week the will be enormous bad in the print version of near times for the play take a mockingbird so that has to be helping the well talk about Agatha Christie now she was and do it now those movie coming out in november called knives out and its been called Agatha Christie like christopher plummer, all sorts of famous people in a come eight, nine, ten different famous people. Its getting and 90 on rotten tomatoes. I dont know i do that but thats a very high score but the wrapping up all this Agatha Christie the good know if you like i should read one of her books at least. To the baby at the table. Have you ever read in Agatha Christie . I have not. Ron charles of the Washington Post book critical that on the show at his site was if you dont like his newsletter, subscribe to his newsletter. You havent lived until he seemed to the spectacular video dressed as a cockroach and its really good and interesting. Keep its essential a warning in his last newsletter, were going to see a for a books about whistleblowers coming out. That which is the glory, and entourage and he said 20, 30 years ago maybe two or three wellknown journalist write the books that have because of self publishing and everything else, there were publicly wondered. He said keep your powder dry, lets let them come out and then decide. We wont talk about whistleblower books but especially since we had the washington crowd to come over the born and raised in d. C. Where are you from . Arlington. Same thing. Although those of us who live on as a set of the roof of an talking, this is far away. Very far away. The cspan crew, were very thrilled here, left at 8 00 this morning to make sure they got here. Got to make sure you leave time for traffic. Thithis is a whistleblower quiz, pop quiz. Ill just you a few of these. My answer for everything is mark felt. That one is too easy. Although this great give a little description. New York City Police officer later portrayed by al pacino in the audience can yell out serpico. Who was famous for what . He was a cop who told on the cops. And blue the whistle on corrupt cop. He ended up, he left the force after being shot in the face of ligament out of the country. If you ever seen the movie serpico that is one of the most harrowing scenes youll ever see in film getting shot in the face. That will stop you. Like serpico played in the movie named for her. That should be a clue played by meryl streep. Silkwood. Good job. I forgot this. She died misters in 1974. Thats right. Driven off the road. My personal favorite because ive a personal connection with this one, and washington its all about how can i check myself in this story former white house staff member was a key figure in the Monica Lewinsky saget. Linda tripp. Excellent. Did you know that would . I knew linda tripp but i was coming up with libby. Extra points though. What does linda tripp have a store and what kind of store is it . I want to say arizona. I dont know if thats correct or not. Anybody in the crowd no . Its called the christmas light, middleburg virginia and its 3065 days a year a year a christmas trenches married to an austrian who walks around in lederhosen all the time. You go out on the big anniversary of her affairs with Monica Lewinsky, that are always tv crews out there and 81 their deeply resents it. Name of injured his granddaughter was . Jacqueline . No. Was that the granddaughters name . [inaudible] i told will earlier this show is sort of a book but wandered all over the place. To time to your he would give you an audience when you are covering the redskins. It was my turn i went in and he was berating someone on the phone and he slams the phone to and isotonic of how are you, mr. Concords because you dont care how i am. Just ask your questions. Kind of trio. What did you ask him about . That crappy team. Eric nothing ever changes. Last one. This might be my favorite. I didnt tell why the linda tripp i go to work at the pentagon and in 2000, first part of 2100 this crazy Public Affairs department or i call some and up say before i start, if you could send me something, organizational chart, something that shows me what i might have. Its a binder three and half inches thick because the military does not do anything less than three and a half inches thick. On top of it was one of those diagram charts and had my office and the outer office and little desk trenton and someone and had written some of the great since income handwritten linda tripp thastatue. Which i thought was great. Last one can speak in mr. Trump army soldier, courtmartial in fort meade, maryland, for document provider to wikileaks. Kind of a trick question. [inaudible] bradley. There we go picnic summer talk about talk about whistleblowers it will be about books. The woodwork book about mark. Very good. [inaudible] woodward will not be on the show, just telling you that. Thats all im saying. I could do whole show on bob woodward. Several stories about bob woodward turkey one time in the book gave me the middle initial of victoria a clark which for interesting because i middle initial is not only a, i dont have a middle name. I kind of thought hes making that mistake for another time. Lilia come over to you. Welcome or thank you for welcoming us to your store. Welcome to you. Thank you so much for coming all the way over here. Never again. [laughing] we will see you once every we have wine though. Quite good. You was a book by her extraordinary. A harry potter fan, shes attic, right . All correct. We talked levit on the store the last time we had you on the show. It did take me three hours to get home but i did stop for food. Youve had some challenges here at this wonderful, wonderful place at 2200 northwest in origin where everyone should. Easy metr metro access. Youve had some challenge and security has responded. Tell us about that. Usually july and august are slow months for us. That was not the case this year. We found out in july our real estate taxes went up 30 of we had to pay the back taxes at the beginning of the year. Which is a big chunk for us as anyone, a big jump for anyone i think but as a bookstore you know our margins are a little on the small into. You cant just charge more for books because your taxes went up because they stay right there. It was a big surprise for all of us and our owner was a trooper and she said i guess well just have two sort of tell people whats happening so that they know. She sent out an email to all of our newsletter subscribers and we were very open with our customers and regular people in the chimeric that know us and sort of said like this is whats going on, this is whats happening and why. The response was so immediate and so supported that it really, i wont say it made up for the 30 increase but it really did help and sort of warm our hearts to see how much people were being vocal about wanting us to stay here and continue to be part of arlington, and how quickly they all wrote letters to the Arlington County board which we consent heres what you can do if you want to help. You can come in and spend money, but also a joy to write to the board. They were from what i inundated with letters which was come is really incredible to see you post an app for us and getting them to maybe do something about it a little bit. The Board Members were very responsive as well, once they saw were going to make it a thing. But it was, that was a tough couple of weeks and we said what can we do about it asked the board set its not our call. We cant change what your tax rate is. Thats a different sort of group, and so was like what are we going to do what we brainstormed and came up with an idea to do an auction or people could bid on things and we solicited offers and people in the community and a lot of people just offered things. I got an email from someone who i have not met and i do pretty often so i think most of her regulars compacted mechanize this to and he said hey, i have these two bottles of wine, or that i would love to donate to your auction if that something too interested in. It was really amazing to see people, everyone wanted to get something. I thought i was being annoying by emailing authors and sang hey, you take time out of your really busy life writing books and all the stuff to help us out, anything you can get . Of course, theres this, what you want . Do you want more . A really beautiful show of support and we ended up with 90 different items or services that we had in the auction, and people were bidding on them with great enthusiasm. A lot of the restaurants that we have in our area, if you all havent then, theres a place across the street thats amazing. Theres a cafe down the street come also these wonderful local places and there are so supported as well. So the auction was a huge success. We ended it, having achieved a goal that we sort of had as a dream, not thinking we would come even remotely close, and people really showed up and turned out and it was just a really special think. Was it like the end of its a wonderful life . Just like that come almost rightly so, exactly. It was really incredible and were so grateful to everybody, the authors, community members, somebody came in come he said he lived in richmond now i think i gegive managers before and just came and said hey, i will tell because of the county make a donation . People have been so kind and generous in their support and thats why were hoping we can stick around. Do want to put some money in my mug on the way out to ask. You an and i were talking bee the show. Its a real challenge running a bricks and mortar place. Its easy for people to sit home and tap on the computer and order a book of five books. So give them a pitch why they should walk into a place like this or another local books or summer. Any local independent bookstore what you get a unique experience and i think thats going to be different in each one which is sort of people on its own. I love to walk into it at bookstores when visiting other places or if i make it into city ever. You do that . We can offer number one, things like this, an event where you can hear and often speak about the book and signed it, or an amazing podcast. We do have wine tasting. If nothing else you can just show up for the wine tasting and not buy a book. Im not keeping track. We won coming up on friday if anyone wants to come back. I would get a hotel room this time. Theres an econolodge right there. Its great. I think what we offer is, we become sort of come you can tell from our slogan we are very quirky is one way you could put it. A lot of personality and when you come in i hope that comes across and to some that might be offputting but were definitely who we are in that we all have unique we read different genres and happy to talk to about them. Unless its major history than i have nothing to offer you. I think that something we really sort of the braised is our staff and just being ourselves and try to create a twitter account. [talking over each other] please follow rumba. You will not regret it. If we all stay here until 9 00 you see it in action. The other day it just started going. For no reason i could discern, which was a little disconcerting because its scheduled hypothetical to start at 9 p. M. Sometimes you need nice midday clean, i dont know. Becoming self aware. You should follow the rumba. We started patriarch, another one we did a response. A lot of extra content is like as having shenanigans and also rumba. I would start with a twitter and if youre into the rumba you can become a patriot member and get to know him. One more rumba. Its very funny. Thank you. We try, we try. Tell us about one book we should be reading that we probably are not. Ill mention that so hard, so much pressure, but i will say the one im reading now which is infinite baseball. Obviously, nationals fan so its a good time for baseball. At least for the next 24 hours. Right. Im trying to read it quickly because im afraid some things would happen i do when i be interested in baseball. Its a great collection of essays and above they are short. I was reading on the metro on the way to again and he talks about the things about the game you so you dont necessarily think about all the time. Im a big opponent of i dont think we need to make the gains the faster theres a couple as his about that, about scorekeeping and looking at it from a philosophical point of view at ho that we as people are trying to essentially tell a story when keeping score and a baseball game. Youre not just run down this is the statistic in your assigning blame or credit is somewhat. I just love the way he makes you think about the game. I highly recommend that and i think its not one thats nestled on everyones radar for baseball books, absolutely not. You can get on your way out. Iq against very, very much. Were going to take a break, swap you out for wil haygood and will get on with chatter on books. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you. [inaudible conversations] were back of unity. Its chatter on books, very happily added disclose location, one more page books in arlington, virginia, which is as far away as that sounds. Our featured author today is tonight is wil haygood and the rule on chatter on books if we really like to come which i think we do is i hope the book of a lot so cspan can get this a lot. You have written about white house butlers, boxers, entertainers, Supreme Court justices, and this book tigerland which is about highly improbable festival and Baseball Teams from 19681969 and are so many ways we can get you these conversations would have to start with this. In addition to being an awardwinning journalist yourself, this book has the nominee for many, many awards. Probably the greatest accolade ive ever heard Oprah Winfrey called you honey. She called you honey. Can you tell us how that happened and why and what was it like . It must have been when we were making the movie, the butler. We were filming it down in new orleans. Based on article you had written. Yes, about this white house butler what worked in the white h