For our live coverage of the Miami Book Fair. And welcome to day to as live coverage of the 2014 Miami Book Fair civil. This weekend our 17th year in a row of live coverage by the way, 25 authors in 20 hours of live coverage. Today, panelists include New York Times book review editor pamela paul, Walter Mosley, matt bai, charles grow, among others, and to offer College Opportunities for you today. Randall kennedy of harvard is most recent book is called for discrimination and David Rothkopf irans Foreign Policy magazine will be talking about u. S. Foreign policy. Full schedule of todays live coverage from miami is available at our website, booktv. Org. All they wanted and get updates of behind the scenes photos at booktv. Org twitter handle. You can also join us at facebook. Com booktv. If youre in the area, come on down. Cspan bus is here, we are passing a great book bags and some other things. Would love to have you come and say hi at the chamber of commerce day here in miami. The sun is shining. Its about 83 degrees. A little breezy but otherwise its a great day for the street fair that happens here at the Miami Book Fair. Opec chapman hall which is at Miamidade College which is where the book fair is held, theres the room that we will be broadcasting live from all day long. The first panel is just about to start. You can see a full room in there. Pamela paul will be leading the discussion to new times book review editor, Walter Mosley is participating. This is live coverage. The panel will begin in just a minute. Booktv on cspan2, 40 hours of nonfiction books every weekend. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. Mac. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] and its Book Review Literary life panel will begin in just a minute. They are running a minute or two behind. This is live coverage on booktv on cspan2. This is the first panel of the day. Pamela paul, book times editor will be there. Walter mosley will be fair, ann patchett as well. After. Com a call in with Randall Kennedy for discrimination, race affirmativeaction and the law. He is a law professor at harvard. After that, david brock, david rothbard, his most recent book called National Insecurity, American Leadership in an age of fear. We will do a callin program with them so you will have a chance. This panel is just starting. Good morning, everyone. Good morning and welcome to Miami Book Fair international. This is our 31st year, as you know, and it is truly a pleasure to see all of you here on a wonderful, sunny and bright south florida morning. Thank you so much for being here. A special welcome to our friends of Miami Book Fair international for your support it to really goes a very long wait in enabling us your future year. Those of you visiting us how about the men we hope to see you many, many more years. This book fair could not take place without the generous bob airship of many, Many Organizations such as the night down bashan, o. H. L. , American Airlines and so many more that every single year come together to provide support. The book fair is also supported by hundreds of volunteers Miami Dade College and throughout our community this middleschool, high school, College Students and others from our Community Come together and volunteer their time unselfishly every year. With that, i would like to thank everyone. As you know, booktv is covering this event. I would like to get a especial love him to use. To introduce our panel today, we have judge marsha scott from the u. S. District. Please help a welcome edge of. [applause] good morning, everyone ended ornate everyone who is watching you take elegy. This mornings panel is going to be fascinating and i know you all are going to have a great time. Im not used to having this many people show up to sing it without a court order, so im certain this is going to be fabulous. Our Panel Discussion this morning is by the book. Our moderator a pamela paul. Our authors are ann patchett, Nicholson Baker, transcended and Walter Mosley. [applause] ms. Paul is the editor of the New York Times book review and that the popular interview column, by the book. Her new book, trying to buy the New York Times book review brings together a guide to the most intriguing and fascinating exchanges over time. She is joined this morning by ann patchett, the author of six novels as well as the coone of the bookstore. Yay for bookstores. [applause] her newest book is this is the story of a happy marriage memoir and for the publication of her first novel, she was at 17 magazine. Nicholson baker is the author of 10 novels, including human smoke. His latest is then the chronicles were polar protagonists all chowder appears again. He is joined by Francine Prose who is the author of 20 works of fiction. Her latest book is lovers at the Chameleon Club paris 1932 a novel, set in paris in the 1920s. Also on the panel this morning is Walter Mosley, who is the author of more than 40 books, most notably and im certain there are fans in the audience at the easy rollins mystery series. Slater is rolled gold and even wrongs mystery here the story takes place during the patty hearst air a radical black nationalism. Is an gentle, our panel. [applause] so, in 2012 when i started by the book, i had a few motivations. While i would like to believe as editor of the book review the only reason people up or buy books is based on their book reviews, especially those at the New York Times. Occasionally there are other reasons people pick up a book and one of the ones most commonly cited is wordofmouth. The book everyone is talking about in the office, the butcher veteran recommends, the book that is stirring controversy. So i thought, how do i get at that word at the mouth in the book review. I came up with this idea that i kind of think of as a dorky year and shes a red carpet question, what are you wearing, where i would ask the people that we read, what are you breeding and why and what are the books that matter to you quite and i thought of this while at the Apollo Theater in harlem. David taveras was given a talk and he always when he goes on his speaking tours recommends a book and i thought that is so incredibly kind and generous. Its not always a fine book, but then i thought what are the funniest books youve ever read . Though he was actually the first person i announced to do a by the book, which is now booked through 2015. It has become so popular with authors and also with other on writers like ink sometimes like to show the need to like to read. And i feel like one of the times were in it was truly working, other than the fact people wanted to be in the column was on three separate occasions, bookstore owners told me that they had common to customers have come into the store with a ann patchett page torn out and titles highlighted fan i want these. One person just that i want everything to ann patchett recommends. So i have four great authors here, all of whom have done by the book. I feel there is a spectrum of authors, those on the one hand can talk endlessly if you ask them to come to a reading, there will, talk about the book while they are in the bathrooms all. They will talk about their book whenever given an opportunity. On the other end, there are people like Thomas Pynchon who will never talk about their vote. In the vast middle are people who will talk about their books, but also get sick of talking about their books. So this is an occasion for these writers to talk not about their books, but other peoples books. I thought i would open it up. We should by the book is something people have time to think over and come up with an example of what book was the most important as a child and here it is on the spot and nobody has cheat sheets in front of them. As someone with a terrible memory, i just want to issue that excuse for everyone here in case they dont remember the exact answer to their question. Here is an easy one i will start with, which is what did you read on your way to the Miami Book Fair . We can go down the line. [inaudible] because i own a bookstore, i only read books that wont be out until march. But i am reading the new vichy guru book called the very giant that will be out in march. So unlikely. Its medieval. Its got ogres and dragons in it. I would have never wanted to read this book and i cant put it down. I got up to 5 00 this morning so i could read for a couple hours. This is how you know ann is a bookseller. Within two minutes she was waving the galley at me. I want to make sure he gets a good review. I was reading well, its nice to have a machine, so i had this path that is now disbanded by the app maker and i was reading george sainsburys criticism. It was the 19th century ahmed this book reader. He has Read Everything everyone has written and he has this wonderful kind of flowing style that helps me think. So when i want to say things fluently, which i was worried about saying today, i sat by the recent sainsbury. Well, for reasons that are probably too dark and personal and weird to go to, i have been on a huge thomas burr kicked so i was reading what cutters on the way down. I was reading in a strange way because when i woke up early in the morning i was reading on a kindle that i had a little tiny bar, so i was afraid of is going to run out. So instead of doing the obvious thing, to read until i ran out, i would read a few pages and into a sudoku puzzle an adult magazine magazine and read a few more pages. So going back and forth. I thought thomas braveheart would love it if you loved anything. Yeah, its hard for me to remember. The war hound in the worlds pain by michael moore, which he wrote in 1981. I started reading when i was 16 on American History for an trip to england. I realized when i started reading him that i loved his language. You know, this is one of his books. Hes like 100, but this is one of them that i had read. I love it because of his hes a Science Fiction mystery writer, but what he does, he asked these questions, which ive always found really interesting. And this one, there is a soldier who didnt want to be a soldier, but became an evil soldier who somehow came under the purview of. Has decided that he doesnt like being anymore. He wants to go back back to heaven and he needs this guy took a while to find a way for him to get back into having. I just kind of like that. These are the problems i feel like i live with all the time. [laughter] in a very pedestrian way. But i like to think of it in a larger way. These answers are the booksellers nightmare or the book publicist nightmare that they are either book that came out long ago were not yet out. I am curious because walter consulted a gadget or was that an actual book . An actual book. You admitted to reading on a kindle. I am curious how people read. Do you use a device . To use oldfashioned books . What are your book have this . Paper always. I owned a bookstore, right. You get a vested interest in this. Well, i have this thing. I get up in the morning and go and drive somewhere and i have a stack of books in the backseat and i read aloud from them. And somehow reading aloud in an empty car to myself from the book on paper helps me. In the middle of the night come as a whole different name. Because in the middle of an aikido when awake your wife or spouse up, so i usually read in the hours between three, four and five. I read on an iphone because its a lovely Little Machine and when it flops over a dozen hits you in the head. I get the sales of that that used to be the big thing have probably plummeted. Im sorry for the ittybitty book light. That was a wonderful thing. I only read on a device on an airplane because i used to travel with 100 pounds of books because god for that i got stuck in an airport somewhere, so now i dont have to do that. But actually as i sat in the column, my favorite place to read this in the passenger seat of a car going really fast up in new york state. Ladies and gentlemen, someone who does not get car sick with doing that. It is interesting because the question is another question inside of it. You know, it is like loving cell phones, but being against killing people in congo. Either you like cell phones or you dont like killing people in congo. You cant like both. If you run your cell phone, you are someone with men. What are you talking about . The main chemical and cell phones his mind in congo and the reason their polity does that work is because people are making profit off them and they dont want a democratic nation stopping them from getting the cheapest possible poll taken to put in their cell phones. I much prefer reading books and paper and i do mostly. But i am so excited about electronic books has children who cant afford books can download thousands of dickens, twain, hugo, all of those things onto their little devices and pretend to not have to pay for them and not order millions of trees. So it goes both ways. They can go to the library, too. [laughter] just saying. When you live in the hood, theres many other issues that come up that dont come up in other places. The thing about murdering trees. I live in maine and there are so many trees. You know, when you stop cutting down the trees and making paperweight done, they are closing big paper manufacturing places. When you cut down the trees when you stop cutting down the trees and a keen paper, what happens is little condominium develops trial. Those are the real enemies. Those are the real engines of sprawl. Youve got to keep buying things on paper in a order to save the forest. All the political issues and ebook versus print book or you didnt even think of. Walter, this is a bit of a cheap because they are denying your answer to this, but who else reads in the bathtub . Who else because i know you do. Who else reads in the back of . Anybody else here . One of time. [inaudible] a drowned kitten all is almost a lifethreatening situation. There was a question that someone stopped and asked in my own workload just two weeks ago. It was such a basic question and get it stopped all of that. It was in the middle of a heated conversation. And she said, why do you read . Why do people read . And i think it is an interesting question, so i want to pose it to all of you. In any order. I read because my parents read. Very simple. I like to read because i am usually a question of some rain. I like to find out something. Sometimes in my 20s i was reading because i thought without there. Who are my competitors . I was postadolescent competitive thing. Now it is that i want to find out something. I want to find out the truth about some name. It is much more fun to have a pursuit, so you are led to books that you never would have looked at otherwise except that you need to find out some tiny piece or in my case a buildup to world war ii or whatever it was. So having a quest helps order this impossibly intimidatingly enormous amount of books that help sort names. I read because i love to read. As i get older, it is really the most important thing in my life. It is the thing i plan my bare ground, the thing i always want to be doing. It is the thing that i love the most. I dont want to go anywhere anymore. I dont want to travel. I dont want to go out to dinner. I dont want to see friends. I just really want to read. There was an Authors Party here last night. I didnt go. Francine. Even when i was little kid coming seems so unfair to me that you only get one life. Reading in a way takes away the sting of that. You can all these others you get to inhabit. One of the things that came on in the conversation in my book club is that answer can change depending where you are in your own life, that a certain point maybe after a tragedy you only want to read to escape or you want to read to be transported. Other times you want to read about people going through a similar thing. I wonder if you have found that your needs, your reading needs or desires have shifted over the course of your life. I am not sure im going to answer that question, but something you just said you my brotherinlaw died. My sisters husband died in january and he was one of my best friends. It was just a horrible loss. And i started reading the saddest books i could find. Waves. So helpful. So helpful to just sink in with other people sadnesses and loss. Rather, i am dying, and the suicide index, john wicker sun, which is such a fantastic work. I cant recommend it enough. It was like going to see your friends in saying we are just going to stick together. Raise your hand if you misery read. Does anyone else out there . Misery read. You read about people that are more trouble than you are. I am going to go back to the question. Is the reason you read change depend on where you are in your life . I really like reading i like to dip into things and there is this writer used to write for the new yorker named mays brand name. She was a longwinded baby. I love this woman. She would write a blog, blog paragraph. Usually one paragraph and she would just go into a restaurant and a scribe who walked into the restaurant. She wouldnt actually talk to them. She would just as speculations about them for she would be riding the subway and see someone reading a magazine. And she has such a beautiful, beautiful describer. It is really thrilling to see somebody. So i think that my motive and reading the longwindlongwind ed lady is just to imagine myself back in new york city in the 60s, riding a subway and lucky not new york and feeling the new yorker when it was a bigtime thing, that feeling new york when i was a different place. So the motive i guess his escape,