At what point did David here know he was a playwright?

He'll tell us when he talks about his new memoir, The Blue Touch Paper.

Finally, with plenty, I felt the technique matched the subject matter and the subject matter

as it were, were coming across without the audience being aware of the technique and the

technique was not clumsy and wasn't getting in the way.

What Sarah Valhals take on that revolutionary French aristocrat, the marquee de la feuille,

she'll be here to talk about her new book Lafayette in the somewhat united states.

Like his father, he wanted glory on the on the battlefield and in order to achieve that,

you need a battle. So that was another reason he came to America.

Alexander Altar will give us an update from the literary world and Greg Cole's has best

seller news. This is Inside the New York Times Booker View. I'm Pamela Paul.

David here joins us now. He is a playwright obviously and much more and the author of a new memoir,

The Blue Touch Paper. Hi David. Hello. So explain this title. Yes, I'm sorry about that.

It's some, you see in England when you set off a far work, the expression is like the

Blue Touch Paper in Rata, but unfortunately you don't have a Blue Touch Paper in America, but

the blue fuse seemed to me such a terrible title. Yeah, that's not good.

That my publisher's very kindly allowed me to keep the title and for it to see my hope

mysterious and alluring to the American public. I was going to say that's going to make your

mediator very easy because you'll always know what the first question is going to be.

Well, it's essentially about my launching. In other words, it's the first 30 years of my life

and it's about me being launched as a playwright, becoming a playwright. It's what the Germans

called a Buildings for a Man. It's about how you become a writer. Right. And it interweaves my

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