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i'm named after my father, but everybody calls me dwayne. aisle get into why they called me that in prison. i was incarcerated far carjacking. i did eight and a half years in prison. and your question was, what motivated me to write my book. what makes your book different from any other books out there about prison and inmates. >> the interesting thing i was i had been arrested when i was 16. never committed a crime. i had a gun, it was my first time ever having a done. you know how you hear the stories in the first time somebody did x for the first time and you don't believe it. i d...

funny. after a couple of books, i got, i started to bore of the writing the about the author paragraph that appears on the back flap of the book, you know, that's the paragraph that authors pretend they didn't write. [laughter] you know, conservative leading voice of his generation. [laughter] oh, i didn't want write that. so i just started making them up. [laughter] and this was a book, i think it was called "little green men," and i wrote: he has been an adviser to every american president since william howard taft. [laughter] and i was on about day ten of a book tour, and you get ...

washington monthly." i've had a great fondness for this guy for many years. thank you for -- >> [inaudible] >> -- honoring me by being here. [applause] this is, indeed, my 15th reading at -- don't worry, i'm not going to read much. [laughter] barbara meade after one introduction, she started introducing me as sort of the eloise of politics & prose because i sort of grew up here. [laughter] my first reading was in 1982. but anyway, thank you for that very generous introduction. the, um, you know, introducing -- author introductions can be kind of funny. after a couple of books, i got,...