but it is also a book that i think a lotta people still associate with mitch albom. it was a story, of course, about, a professor of yours who was dying of als. and sort of the lessons that he left you with. do you still to think morrie schwartz? >> sure. probably every day. if i didn't, i wouldn't be able to help it anyhow because some point every day, if i'm out in the public, someone will come up to me and say, you know, something about "tuesdays with morrie". sometimes it's just, "i like that book, "tuesdays with morrie". other times, it's very personal. you know, my, frequently i hear, "my father died from als, my mother died from al--" anyone who dies from als, i'm, i'm sort of a lightning rod for that story. he was an enormous influence on my life. everything that i write basically is a stem from a "tuesdays with morrie" tree. and, even the themes of "frankie presto" and how we affect one another, i don't think i would've thought of those things if i hadn't been exposed to how a professor who's no longer here, okay, he's been dead for almost, 20 years this mon

. >> this week on talk to al jazeera best selling author mitch albom. >> i use death to ricochet your attention back on to life. >> albom's latest novel is "the magic strings of frankie presto", a tale about the greatest guitarist to ever live and the lives he changes. the writer's first dream was to be a musician. >> i didn't write anything until i was already well into my twenties, cause everything i

. >> this week on talk to al jazeera best selling author mitch albom. >> i use death to ricochet your attention back on to life. >> albom's latest novel is "the magic strings of frankie presto", a tale about the greatest guitarist to ever live and the lives he changes. the writer's first dream was to be a musician. >> i didn't write anything until i was already well into my twenties, cause everything i

. >> this week on talk to al jazeera best selling author mitch albom. >> i use death to ricochet yourtention back on to life. >> albom's latest novel is "the magic strings of frankie presto", a tale about the greatest guitarist to ever live and the lives he changes. the writer's first dream was to be a musician. >> i didn't write anything until i was already well into my twenties, cause everything i wanted to do was based around music. >> his books have sold more than 35 million copies worldwide. albom's best known for the memoir he wrote about his dying professor. >> he was an enormous influence on my life. everything thawr

news at the website at aljazeera.com >> this week on talk to al jazeera best selling author mitch albom >> i use death to ricochet your attention back on to life. >> albom's latest novel is "the magic strings of frankie presto", a tale about the greatest guitarist to ever live and the lives he changes. the writer's first dream was to be a musician. >> i didn't write anything until i was already well into my twenties, cause everything i wanted to do was based around

back on to life. >> albom's latest novel is "the magic strings of frankie presto", a tale about the greatest guitarist to ever live and the lives he changes. the writer's first dream was to be a musician. >> i didn't write anything until i was already well into my en

. >> mitch albom, thank you so much. >> sure. thank you. >> that's great. >> all right? >> thank you so much. >> my pleasure. ♪ >>> new york mayoral candidate jimmy macmillan said it, but it didn't make him mayor. he closed his pitch, simply, the rent is too damn high. young families, middle class workers, head into the rental market and find prices driven up by lack of availability or luxury they can't afford. is the rent too high where you live? rent too high, why? it's the "inside story." ♪ >>> welcome to "inside story." i'm ray suarez. the bursting of the real estate bubble and the great recession sent shocks into the housing market that are still with us today. owners who lost their houses become renters by the thousands. owners trying to sell and recover their equity, found markets frozen, and started renting their properties because they couldn't unload them. incomes grew grudgingly in the years of the slow recovery of the job market, so people reaching ages where they might have imagined buying homes are still renting. buying a home felt risky. that's one set of