we are talking about in case people don't know my father saul bellow the novelist who is deceased for 10 years and there's a new biography that has come out, one of the 2-volume work and also a collection of my father's nonfiction pieces which is wonderful. and now i have not been asked to review either of those books. actually it's an interesting idea. but i have read them and privately i have talked to people who have asked me what i think and what i feel and what i think of it all and i guess i would say -- let me put it this way. last week there was a reading at the 92nd street y.. a group of writers including my father's biographer and his widow, janice. .. an immigrant family, a afamily, a classic immigrant experience in many ways. i learned a lot about my family. >> if you could commission somebody to write your family history, i am sure you would do it. i have to say, one minute of listening to my father's voice speaking, reading or speaking extemporaneous extemporaneous ly is worth a thousand pages of biography. the fact is,