. >> host: one other eshoo, i wanted to ask you if you have any thoughts about the unionization of the politics and prose bookstore here in washington. >> guest: well, i'm so close to everyone at politics and prose if, the owners as well as the staff, that i don't think i can really comment on it other than to really say i'm sure that those owners and staff and everyone working there, they all want to do the right thing and that they will. and i think there'll be an accommodation that'll be made all the way around to everyone's satisfaction and benefit. >> host: well, we can never have mitch kaplan on booktv without talking about what he's reading and some of the books that have caught his attention. mr. kaplan, you sent us your list ahead of time, and one of the books was one that was published, i think, in the 1920s, zora neale hurston, you don't know us negroes. >> guest: actually, this is new work by her. zora neale hurston actually worked in those days, but this is new work that's been uncovered. and i believe it's analogized for the very first time. it's very exciting, a new zora