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>> if you are enjoying the festival of books, go on to our website and become a friend of the festival immediately after you leave today. thank you for being here. i am absolutely thrilled to have these three authors here with us. as a child of the 60's, about 40 years ago i remember mark te rudd political action at columbi columbia. i remember reading joyce maynard's, and 18 year old looks back on life on the front pagel of the new york times in 1972. and by the dead men, mark the todd deadman with wendy has been my friend from more than 20 years. so i w so, i would like to just bri...

allow himself to be beaten by his master and that was the term of between the war in kenya there was nothing to beat your house servant. they wouldn't stand for it on one occasion he actually took the king of his boss to and hit him with it and he was arrested and then released because the magistrate said that was in the protection. so although he did live with the british under the british rule he was a young man. >> host: he seems to be fiercely independent. certainly not someone to put up with nonsense from anyone either on his wife or his son. on the other hand he does rai...

whatever. you find yourself 18 years old then. i grew up in a small new hampshire town and always wanted to get out of the town. i wanted to hit the big city. i was always writing. at 18i think i understood that there was only one subject about which i was fully equipped to right, and that was my own life. so i began writing young as my ticket out of new hampshire. what proved to be my one and only a year of college. i sent a letter to the editor in chief of the new york times saying how would like to write for you. interestingly he wrote back and said okay. he also understood that t...

i am absolutely thrilled to have these three authors here with us. as a child of the 60's about 40 years ago i remember the political action of mark rudd at columbia, and i remember reading joyce maynard and 18 year old looks back on life on the front page of the new york times in 1972. and martha tod dudman has been my friend for more than 20 years. so i would like to a just briefly introduced the panelist, and then we will get started. joyce maynard, immediately to my left grew up into new hampshire and now lives in marin county. her book that came out of that new york times magazi...

good morning. miserable mix. winter storm warnings posted from new mexico to the carolinas as a strong system packing a dangerous combination of snow, ice and freezing rain heads east just in time for the weekend. change of venue? after getting an earful from angry residents and local politicians, the justice department is said to be considering moving the trial of september 11th terror suspects out of new york city, but where? and remembering j.d. salinger, one of america's most influential writers, the author of the classic "the catcher in the rye," dead at the age of 91. his e...