walking around the most famous house in cuba, ernest hemmingway's, is a journey to the past. for the last ten years bob villa has been helping save this old house outside of havana. >> all the windows needed to be replaced. >> reporter: where hemmingway lived from 1940 to 1960, even wrote some of his most famous works like "for whom the bell tolls." >> his papers and personal his correspondence, everything in this house. >> reporter: he left cuba in 1960 fully intending to return, and resume living here with his wife, mary, but he died before he could come back. six years ago it was cracks and failing plaster and stuff. very bad condition. villa is known from his television show where he dispenses advice on how to home. the team of americans and cubans has been refurbishing the house and building a repository for some of the treasures, including volumes of personal letters found in a basement. >> this is the oldest square in havana. >> this is personal. he's cuban american, born in miami to cuban parents. his father and mother left after castro took power and never came back.

: hemmingway left his home in 1960 to return and live here with his wife mary, he died before he couldk. 6 years ago, it was cracked and failing plaster and stuffer. it was bad condition. >> reporter: villa is known to millions where he dispensed advice to viewers how to repair and upgrade their own homes. they need refurbishing the home and buildings the treasure including volumes of personal letters found in the basement. >> this is the oldest square in havana. >> reporter: villa the job is personal, he is cuban american, his father and mother left after castro took power and never came back. his goal now to refurbish the look and save priceless treasures, to make it feel like the home where hemmingway lived and created great american literature on cuban soil. >> father and i are planning a father, daughter trip to cuba. >> it will be impress issue to to -- impressive to see. >> we'll be right right back. yes, mr. mcenroe... see that cord? just plug it into the connector on the right. so you can clearly see what's in and what's out? oh absolutely. i like that. tech support that lets

and it's been a good thing. >> reporter: villa's goal to make it feel like the home where hemmingway lived and created great american literature on cuban soil. >>> he lived there for white a while, renting it at first. >> it's a modest town. small town rather than in the these days. you are buying finish these days. i got a new dishwasher and they recommend finish. really? you should try it. unlike cascade gel, finish has active cleaning enzymes. >>> time now for the mix. we start with an nba player who's getting a lot of kudos this morning for an amazing catch. >> really. >> not typical in the nba. check it out. not the kind of catch you're thinking of. this is chandler, a forward for the nuggets. if you're wondering whate in his off season, apparently fishing is on the list. he got a 350 pound grouper. this is part of an appearance on a youtube channel centered on fishing. how about that? >> that is pretty impressive. i guess he had the off season off and hadn't been playing last year. he had time to get something huge. >> i guess he got really good at fishing. look at that fish. l

this is the home that once beloaned to ernest hemmingway. this home has just undergone a major renovation. >> reporter: walking around the most famous house in coup barks it's a journey into the -- into the past. >> all of the windows needed to be replaced. >> reporter: where hemmingway lived, he wrote some of the most famous works like for whom the bell tolls. >> his personal books and papers, his photo albums, correspondents, and everything was in this house. >> reporter: he left cuba in 1960, fully intending to return and resume living here with his wife, mary, but he died before ago it was just cracks and failing plaster and stuff, and it was in very bad condition. >> hi, i'm bob veela. >> reporter: he's known for his tv show where he tells homeowners how to fix up their own house. the team has been finding valuables including personal letters discovering moldering in the basement. is the oldest square in havana. >> reporter: this is a personal project for him. he was born in cuba. his mother and father left when fidel castro took over,

like most americans i loved anything hemmingway wrote but i have not read much of that lately. i thought on mark twain's books. i read a lot of biographies. senator fienstein gave me a book and i think it is called the death of caesar. it is about the senators who killed julia caesar. it is remarkably detailed. if you are a united states senator you read it with a certain amount of interest. caesar appointed -- the roman senate was about 500 senators and caesar appointed them all and about 30 of them persuaded him to come on the senate floor and stabbed him to death. >> do you share books are your colleagues? >> you yeah, we do. the senator from wyoming i mentioned him and he writes himself a book report on the books and tells me about books he likes. senator durbin reads a lot and he is in the gym sometimes when i am so we will talk about book. >> let's go back to maryville, tennessee. >> well, my parents -- "the new york times" interviewed my mother and wrote i grew up in a lower middle class family in the middle of the mountains and when i called him, my mother said you had

. >> hemmingway, in cuba, is dispatched and told, to get out of cuba. he says, they're using a word about you in washington. the word was traitor. he said i am not political. this is where i where i. this is where i love to be. but that focus, that use of the word, and then he became concerned about his finances and vision, and inability to write and that he would never write again. >> addiction to be able to hold the same circuits. whenever we encounter a stimulus we are conditioned to behave in the same way over and over again. >> true for alcohol. here's carolyn, the great writer who talk about the effect of capture. focused, on the cue, not the alcohol. but the attention. i loved the sounds of drink, the slide of the cork as it eased out. the distance booze, and the clatter of ice-cubes. it wasn't the drink, it was all cues. in fact, capture is the result -- in addiction the cues take over. they have no significance in the absence of association. if you have never been a smoker, the sell pain, and the curl of smoke and the image of the cowboy will h

she was afraid that others would label her as going mad hemmingway, he was in cuba, he told him to get out of cuba. and he says, they're using a word about you. in washington, and the word was traitor.itor. he said i am not political. this is where i where i. this is where i love to be. but, that focus, that use of the word, and then it became, he became concerned about his finances and vision and he would never where i again. >> addiction, the power lies in the grip, to be able to hold the same circuiters. whenever we encounter a salient stimulus, it has us behave in the same way. true for alcohol. her attention to the cue. i loved the sound of drink, the slide of the cork as it eased out of the wine bottle. the distant booze pouring into a glass. the clatter of ice-cubes. it wasn't the drink, it was -- it was all the cues. in fact, capture is the result, its cue, the cues take over. cues have no significance in the absence of association with past experience. if you have never been a smoker, the sell pain and the curl of smoke. the image of the camel or cowboy will have no resonance.

martha had a connection that hemmingway hoped would be valuable which was that, eleanor roosevelt was a close friend of her mother, and the roosevelts who this habit of asking all sorts of interesting people to live with them at the white house had, a couple years invited martha to come and live with them while she worked on her writing. but, she found out that eleanor wanted her help answering these correspondences. >> so, she didn't last there very long. but she retained, this very close relationship with eleanor roosevelt and wrote her letters from spain while they were there and after they returned. and, they actually went, and showed the film for the first time to the roosevelts in the white house, in the 1937. it's the most exclusive audience for a film premiere that one can think of. they hope that, this would stir at least the president and if not the american people out of the stance of neutrality. but they didn't succeed. >> we as a country add embargo against selling arms to the republicans over there. but, people that were in power at the time, and, was that ever close to

it is crucial also to go beyond that realm and say, "look, american literature is far more than hemmingway and mark twain." american literature is made of a number of different chambers, a number of different paths, and we can approach it from different perspectives. literature in the end is a mirror of how society has been seeing itself across time, and when you enter skip's anthology or when you enter the latino anthology, you're able to navigate through time and see the complexity of... of many moments that are coming together. >> hinojosa: all right, so let's start with... because there's a lot of history here and we want to cover a lot of things, but so what... what is an important moment in time for the both of you that where latino and african american literature kind of intersect? and before we get to the present, so an important moment in history? >> well, i can think of two: 1885 up to the turn of the century, many cuban intellectuals such as josé martí, the father of the revolution and thebronze titan,e leading general of the cuban revolution. the biggest statue in cuba today is

. >> i think in the primaries it helped him but it's not just liberal media, molly hemmingway. david brooks of the "new york times" inflated self-esteems, aggression, charles krauthammer, beyond narcissism, hunger for approval and praise. when people on the right are saying this, how much does it hurt trump? >> the histrionics of it all. we've just come out of the democratic convention. he's had some major slip-ups. there's an understandable hillary bounce there. at the same time, i'm not sure that the electorate has shown itself to be committed to one candidate or another. anything could change this race and the way the media is presenting this is that it's completely over and no chance for recovery of donald trump, that's what i'm saying about going too far. they need to keep their emotions in check. they shouldn't be surprised that this is happening even. >> let me jump in. washington post, liberal columnist eugene robinson writing that he's convinced that trump is flat out crazy. other people are echoing this or questioning it. with the exception of krauthammer, when did jo

finds out being the world's first flapper doesn't equate to people like kohl porter, and ernest hemmingway and a plethora of artists in france. she begins painting. early pastels are her initial paintings. this is done as fitzgerald is finishing "the great gatsby". he believes having a joint press run with the publication of his new novel and zelda's first paintings being sold on exhibition in new york city. the problem is it only sells 2,000 copies and zelda's painting are rejected as being the work of the amateur play girl painter. the tension in the marriage is a result of zelda quitting painting professionally but continuing to dedicate many hours to artwork at home. for example, in the museum, and this is from the collection at yale universitiy, we have the paper dolls she created for her daughter to play with. however, she was no longer the flapper but now the actress. when they get to hollywood scott tells zelda more or less you need to be more like woman like lois moran who was a 17-year-old girl when they met and already had a career in which she dedicated her artistic mind to mak