when it opens gatsby is dead already. i am not ruining anything. that is on page number one what kind of american novel that nothing can be changed? he is remembering everything. so that is a little i'd writing about the american dream with language is so beautiful it makes it irresistible. >> host: so what do you do with so we read on? >> i do not deconstructs. i hate that word. i appreciate and i celebrate how fitzgerald came to write to it. in then to talk about it as the crime novel. and then there were copies his last will to check was $13.13. it was world war ii that brought gas be back in the big way. with an armed services addition that distributed novels of soldiers and sailors overseas. and then into the armed forces overseas and gatsby is on its way. how many copies these days? >> in a normal year fitzgerald publisher sells five and 2000 copies. because of the movie they sold at least three times that. >> that sounded like a deconstruction to me but i will not quibble with you. how did you get to be the book critic at fresh air? >> i wil

>> that is my dog, gatsby.hat is my dog, gatsby. >> and by the way, folks here, listening and watching at home. let's pan down to prove to you that, yes, herb does really wear pants. remember that moment where you panned down, you were trying to work the camera. whoops, whoops! >> my eyes are stinging. >> i can't walk and chew gum at the same time, let alone run this thing. >> and you know what, herb, that has actually become pantsgate. >> it is the one thing people know me for anywhere, is that video. >> i know, you're quite famous. because there was so much more that we did yesterday, by the way. we spent like hours together and we condensed down there to about like 1 minute of video. but we went out to delmar, a beautiful oceanfront there and literally got out of the car. and a guy goes, holy [ bleep ], it's herb greenberg! you were like swamped by this guy. you're a real celebrity out there. >> it's the only place anyone ever recognizes me in san diego. >> herb -- i mean, brian, i'm so sorry you weren't the

i've read "the great gatsby" god only knows how many times.i'm going to read henry james book only for the second time. i just read for the first time a few years ago. all these books you haven't read and the are also books you want to go back to. >> host: we'll get to the. there are viewers screaming right now teeth richards. >> guest: keith richards. >> host: what is it about a count of monte crisco that brings you back? >> guest: eyed rita. i don't know who the translator is. it's about this it 1200 pages maybe more. it's an amazing story. it's a book, it's not a literary novel in the sense -- ian mcewan is a literary writer. you don't hold you high literary standards but as a piece of entertainment it is out of this world. somebody else was really good series entertainment and that's john grisham. isit's easy to turn up your nose at somebody who sold 250 million books. but the fact he is a very good writer, very smart. his most recent novel something mountain is about the coal business in kentucky or west virginia. he has really powerful f

but i think "the great gatsby" was all for roger about death. death might have obsessed him a bit.red him. >> question 7. does your father's death hold even greater resonance for you now given your own medical trev ails. >> there's an escapable parallel between us. both my father and i have cancer. my disease may have been stopped by childhood radiation treatment for an ear infection. i got those because they love me. in my case, recently discovered tumors of the spine have metastasized. >> roger e-mailed me that sharing the news of the cancer's return could anger chaz. >> we don't know -- we haven't really fully discussed this. it's so new that we really don't know and i'm uncomfortable talking about it. just sort of taking it a day at a time, like i do everything else. >> so what do the doctors say? >> six to 16 months, it is likely i will have passed when the film is ready. >> we'll see. the radiation could do its job so well that he's around a lot longer. so we'll have the radiation and we'll hope for the best. i mean, here he is in 2013 and in 2006, there were times when they

a sprinkler pipe burst this afternoon in shut down the gatsby's tavern museum. the building is over 200 years old, and it's going to be closed through sunday. but the gatsby's restaurant on the complex was not affected. >>> and welding at a construction site blamed for this massive fire in loudoun county this morning. as many as 100 firefighters had to battle these flames that erupted from a large data center that's under construction on smith swiss road in ashburn. investigators say the welding ignited some construction materials ask caused the fire to spread to the roof. damage is estimated at $100,000. >>> tonight one of the most visible buildings in the area is lit up and is shining. it is honoring law enforcement officers at a time when police around the country are facing high-profile criticism and high-profile danger. kristin wright is live at the national memorial in alexandria. what do they have planned, kristin? >> reporter: well chris, alexandria police and alexandria sheriffs deputies have activated their emergency lights red, white and blue here at

the gatsby's tavern restaurant portion of the complex was not affected. the winter warmer ladies' tea event will take place sunday as scheduled. >>> a woman in massachusetts goes to the hospital because she had some cramps. turns out she was pregnant and an hour later in this big old baby. not a premie. big baby. didn't know she was pregnant. a lot of reasons why she didn't think she was. >> that baby is topping ten pounds. >> a lot of the reasons make sense. we've got that story coming up. >>> but first, we've got to look at the weekend coming and -- today was actually kind of pleasant. wasn't too bad. >> a lot of folks were telling me it felt like a heatwave compared to where we have been. minus 10 to 40. >> and take the wind out of the equation. >> exactly. and sunshine and all ofall right. but the big story tonight is the refreeze and the fact that we're going to see some black ice. it's all about what you don't see a lot of times, right? and that's just it. a lot of melting of the snow today, so it's going to refreeze tonight, make sure you use cauti

times annually since we first met in the 1960s. >> it's fat as tree, the trees that made way for gatsby'shink this was roger's favorite passage from all of literature. it was really a passage about the american dream. >> you could be anything you want. >> you know, roger had went from this small town kid in urbana to this huge, national celebrity. his father was an electrician, his mother was a housewife. but i think the gre"great gatsb was also for roger about death. death might have obsessed him a bit. his father died fairly young. i knew he adored him. >> question seven. does your father's death hold even greater resonance for you now, given your own medical travails? >> there's an escapable parallel between us. both my father and i have cancer. my disease may have been started by childhood radiation treatments for an ear infection. i got those because they loved me. in my case, recently discovered tumors of the spine have ma tass sized. >> the doctors said it was these tumors that caused the hip fracture. sharing the news that the cancer returned could anger chaz. >> we don't know. we

this mysterious gatsby-type figure. >> he's go all of these famous friends. no one knows how he made his money. he's still in these parties and there's also this talk about this girl -- you had don trump even saying on the record, you like girls and he likes them young, kind of half jokingly. >> they all came out for jeffrey. marshal rose asked me to come and heat him in his office: the movers and shakers all wanted to say how clever he was. what a great flin tlo miss he was. and some of them said oh, he gives these amazing parties with these pretty girls. and prince andrew is there. >> prince andrew, so, just to be clear here rngs and, again, we -- you know, prince andrew denies these allegations. but just to establish the basic facts, they were both friends, right? >> absolutely. and does he talk to you for the piece? >> absolutely he talked to me for the piece. i remember one of his quotes very well. i said i think it was 20 books. and i mention the first person who precreeds every book. and by that point, it sort of stayed in my mind because jeffrey epste

this is what it looks like inside the gatsby museum.omething covered in water because of a busted sprinkler pipe. workers are following a disaster pipe to try to limit damage to the museum and the collection. >>> you can keep up-to-date with the latest severe weather by downloading the nbc 4 storm team app. search nbc washington weather in the app store. >>> all new this morning, pls police officer involved in a three-car accident in greenbelt. video from the scene. this happened around 1:30 in the morning on green belt hanover parkway. the cruiser was rear ended. one person was arrested for dui. no one in that crash was seriously hurt. >>> president obama wants to send your kids to college for free. he has proposed a program that would allow students to attend two years of community college for free. the white house says the program will cost the federal government about $60 billion over ten years. the president says this program will help train the workforce and improve u.s. competitiveness with other countries. >>> a similar program

how the great gatsby came to be. >>> next on booktv after words with political: mr. bret stephens author of american retreat. interviewed by reporter and book reviewer. in the book he argues that our enemies and competitors around the world are taking advantage of the void left by the u.s. as it switches focus from international to domestic concerns. this is about an hour. .. >> he went to war to make the world safe for democracy. and after this, a lot of americans included they did not want them engaged in global affairs than they did not want to police the world order that was established every time. so we turned inward from the 1920s and the republican administrations for the 1920s and 30s for much of the roosevelt era in total late 1930s. so would treat them in this way about largely replicating that. and the argument i'm making in doing so is not going to me that this is going to abate, but that it's going to become worse. we are inviting a global disorder, which is a subtitle of the book and i started writing this book a couple of years ago and i think that now

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with so we really want is how "the great gatsby" came to be and why it indoors. . . . . and that actually is a huge improvement over the idea of groupthink that is in the popular consciousness. groupthink means suppress the individual ideas and creativity of their members and that is a real problem. but to figure out what actually lives behind groupthink and what are the specifics that make it happen that's something we've made a lot of progress and the book tries to figure out the way his groupthink so to speak actually happens in firms families government and religious organizations and labor unions. and there's the idea that we've learned a lot about how groups can succeed some of it through simple things you can kind of institute in a minute and others were are complicated and require technology. >> host: i want to get into the places groups of go wrong and how we fix them. first what drove you to write this book? did you have a personal experiences? >> i was involved in the group called juries. but we found and you have to group the group of six people that would en

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maureen corrigan of fresh air so we read on as her book how "the great gatsby" came to be and played indoors. next encore booknotes. jill krementz was a guest on booknotes in 1997 to talk about her book "the writer's desk" a collection of authors and photos photos. c-span: jill krementz, photographer, you have a book out called "the writer's desk." what's it all about? >> guest: it's a collection of my photographs over it period of 30 years of writers and i photographed over 1500 rider so of course it's not all the writers. my favorite pictures of a lot of the writers at their desks but they are all writers that there had desks or near their desks or behind their desks. somewhere there's a desk in the picture. literally or figuratively. c-span: why did you pick this for the covert? >> guest: i suppose because it's one of my favorite photographs. i think it's pretty recognizable now so people would know it was my book and because i think that it is a picture about a writer. it's a picture about a writers place and i think you feel looking at that picture that of course this is where s

one of my favorites i've got right there, "the great gatsby."morningamerica.com on yahoo! >> thanks, ginger. >> you might recognize our next guest. al madrigal, senior latino correspondent on "the daily show." al's got a great new special called "half like me" where he gets in touch with his mexican roots and we welcome you to "good morning america." >> i'm sorry. big letdown after jennifer aniston. >> no way. >> you're saying -- honestly 30 people just left this studio. just so many people fled. >> i thought that was because you needed a more intimate setting. >> there were so many people standing outside looking in the windows. everyone is gone. >> let me tell you something if that is true and it's not then they would be missing out. >> they are totally missing out. >> you are a funny guy and the subject matter is very personal to you. tell us about it. >> originally i was going to do this special similar to my "daily show" character, which is this idiot going out latinos, who are they, why are they here, when will they leave. we answer those

it's about "the great gatsby." i think "the great gatsby" is their greatest american and non-american novelette once. i have read it over 50 times in this book was born out of my passion for gatsby and fitzgerald. he is one of her gods and american literature. >> host: american and un-american? >> guest: yes because gatsby tells us the american dream is worth reaching for and it also tells us the dream is a con and when the book opens of course had to be as dead already. i'm not writing anything. that's on page one. so what kind of an american novel is this where nothing can be changed next caraway is remembering everything in this novel. there's no possibility for change so that's a little odd but at the same time fitzgerald writes about the american dream in language that's so beautiful it makes it irresistible. >> host: ms. corrigan would you do with "so we read on"? how do you deconstruct the gatsby? >> guest: i hate that word. i don't deconstruct. i celebrate an talk about how fitzgerald came to write it and h

about the great gatsby. i think "the great gatsby" poise our greatest american and unamerican novel at once. i've read it over 50 times and this was born out of my passion frigates by and fitzgerald. one of our gods in american literature. >> host: american and unamerican. >> guest: yes, yes, because gatsby tells us that the american dream is worth reaching for, and it also tells us that the dream is a con and when the book opens, of course, gatsby's dead already. i'm not ruining anything. that's on page 1. so what kind of an american novel is this where nothing can be changed? nick careway is remembering everything in this novel. there's no possibility for change. so, that is a little odd. but at the same time, fitzgerald writes about the american dream in language that's so beautiful that makes it irresistible. >> host: what do you do with "so we read on"? how do you deconstruct the gatsby. >> guest: i hate that word. don't deconstruct. i appreciate celebrate and talk about how fitzgerald came to rite and

it's about the great gatsby. it's about the greatest american and un-american awful and i've rated over 50 times and this book was born out of my passion. >> american and un-american. >> he tells us that the american dream is worth reaching for and also tells us it is a con. when the book opens of course i'm not ruining anything that is on page number one. what kind of a novel is this a. he is a member everything in this novel. >> what do you do with shall we read on? >> i appreciate and talk about how fitzgerald came to write it and how it disappeared shortly after it came out in 1925 in the contemporary review they mostly talked about as a crime novel and fitzgerald died in 1940 there were a remainder of copies in the warehouse. his last royalty check was for $14.14 and it was was world war ii that brought him back in a big way. the program called of the armed services editions distributed at the novels and the nonfiction to the soldiers and sailors overseas. he was chosen with 155,000 copies that get distribut