sondberg, brilliant. roughel, funny, poignant, saffage. cleeming with intelligence and literary flair, this elegantly composed fictionalized meditation offers a fresh glance at a musical geniuses collision and-- collisions and collisions with power. >> thank you for reading that. >> rose: well, they said it, so i didn't make it up. the idea is that we can hardly imagine what it's like and the sack if i-- sacrifices that this great musician had to make. >> yes. i think that's certainly true rdz and it's too easy to say i might have done different in defense of my art. >> exactly. that's one of the themes of the book. it's very easy when we look at the different regime in a different time to say oh, he should have done this. or he should have done that. or i would have done differently. i would have been a hero. we all imagine that we would behave better if our country is invaded. your country and my country haven't been invaded for a long time. not since we came after you-- sorry about the white house and all that. bt you know, the rebuildi