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You mentioned Jane Austen, one of the things that is remarkable about lifting her voice out of the story with making movies is it turns the movie.

And some of those Jane Austen movies are really quite good.

But it turns the movie into this kind of girly thing about hats, bonnets and manners and those cute dresses.

But Jane Austen was kind of a bitch.

Hey, everyone, it's Andrew Claven with this week's interview with Christopher J. Scalia, who has written a book called 13 novels, Conservatives Will Love, but probably haven't read.

He's a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, writes about literature, culture, and higher education,

which is, to me, just a huge deal. Chris, thank you so much for coming on. It's good to see you.

It's great to see you. Thanks a lot for having me on. Appreciate it. You know, I talking to,

when I started out talking to conservatives, trying to talk to them about the culture, I got some of the most blank looks i have ever gotten i used to i used to describe it like trying to explain to my wife

that things on sales still cost money you know and she she would look at me and think like i really

like you but i have no idea what you're talking about and so i when i go on to sell one of my novels on a conservative

talk show, this has happened to me again and again, especially with guys, guy hosts, they say,

why should I read, I should do it in Gorka's voice, Sebastian Gorka would always say,

why should I read novels? They're not true. Yeah. Answer the question. Why should you're

absolutely right. That attitude is prevalent among conservatives and I suspect especially among

conservative men. We tend to think, people of our ilk tend to think that you can only get the

truth from nonfiction, history, self-help, things like that.

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