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And now author with his new memoir entitled Great Falls, Montana Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos and a Tale of Coming Home Again

You have written a book And you have a fantastic story to tell And you're a very talented And also a very strange fellow Let's just be honest

And I want people to get this book But it's the kookiest Just for the cover, guys It's the kookiest book cover I've ever seen It's your head floating majestically Disembodied above the It looks like the falls In Great Falls, Montana

Because it'll be in print as long as Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.

That also happened in the original Catch-22. It was just a printing error.

Or just like, have you ever read the book The Giving Tree?

Which I'm trying to rewrite it as The Giving Condo. All there was was the shade of the condo. You can lay in the shade, you can't come in because you sold it to Russia.

The Giving Tree, the premise is the tree gives everything until finally all there is is a stump for the little boy to sit on who is now an old man.

And yeah, I have nothing left to give except stories.

Have you ever read the book The Giving Tree? Yeah. Where, which I'm trying to rewrite it as The Giving Condo.

Right now I would read Paris 1919.

Yeah, it's a great book. I love that.

Right now I would read Paris 1919. Yeah, it's a great book. I love that.

His latest book, All the Demons Are Here, is out tomorrow.

And you're picking up on these characters in your other books, you've got a new book, All the Demons Are Here.

All the Demons Are Here is one of them and they're really, I enjoy them so much because he has got the characters bumping into people from in the, let's say, late 40s, early 50s.

All the Demons Are Here.

With his new book, all the demons be here.

His latest book, All the Demons Are Here, is out tomorrow.

And you're picking up on these characters... you have all these great pop culture references and political references to the 1950s and 60s and the other books.

All the Demons Are Here is one of them and they're really, I enjoy them so much because he has got the characters bumping into people from in the, let's say, late 40s, early 50s.

And then this one's 77 and like the main character, one of the main characters is Evel Knievel.

With his new book, all the demons be here. All the Demons Are Here. Yes, All the Demons Are Here.

And then the minute your set's over, you go back to your dressing room and you open up a giant book on Truman and sit on a metal stool, a little metal chair, and read it in your perfectly creased, you know, chinos and blue blazer.

And then the minute your set's over, you go back to your dressing room and you open up a giant book on Truman and sit on a metal stool, a little metal chair, and read it in your perfectly creased, you know, chinos and blue blazer.

I went on a Dostoevsky jag, and I just--I read--I finished Brothers Karamazov a couple of weeks ago, and I loved it. There are parts that are a bit of a slog, because it's Dostoevsky, and he had a lot of time on his hands and a lot of ink, but I really liked it, and I liked Crime and Punishment a lot.

I went on a Dostoevsky jag, and I just--I read--I finished Brothers Karamazov a couple of weeks ago, and I loved it. There are parts that are a bit of a slog, because it's Dostoevsky, and I really liked it, and I liked Crime and Punishment a lot.

And when I finished this book and I've also read your husband's book, I'm always nervous about the correct phrasing.

It was a delight to talk to him about so many things. We cover a lot of ground, including his new book, A Promised Land, which is available now.

But I wanted to start by saying it occurred to me that we do have things in common. We are similar ages, both on the campus and in Cambridge at Harvard around the same time. Things have gone so well for you. And I've taken such a different path.

I read your book and I read it like someone looking at a roadmap, trying to wonder, this guy did everything right. Everything right.

I'm very much in debt right now financially. I have a podcast that I'm running out of a hotel. You are the leader of the free world and icon.

But it really did make me realize that I always go back and I channel my grandfather and I think I'm not even really supposed to be here.

They was like, yeah, they want you to be a part of this movie, The Color Purple.

And they was like, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Quincy Jones, they're producing it.

And then the original movie, the father is a pedophile. He touches the girl.

So I was like, the pedophile you want me to be?

And they was like, yeah, we think you can. The minute we saw you. We think you can, we believe in you to pull this off.

And they was like, yeah, we think you can. Yeah, the minute we saw you. The minute we saw you. We think you can, we believe in you to pull this off.

And he did have me come over to his house to read it and it was really interesting because I think he wanted me to read it in the lair, you know, and it was right in the heart, he loves living where he lives in the heart of Hollywood.

And I must say I said to him, I said I don't know if there's anybody alive who can appreciate this as much as me because it was, it was like my life, you know, it was like completely, I understand everything about it.

His new book, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, based on his movie of the same name is available now.

Well, I'm making a movie. I got to tell a story at some point. But as I was writing the script, it's just as if I've spent my entire life filling my head with all this knowledge that I started picking up around when I was a kid at the expense of everything else.

And I was like, oh wow, this is almost like the script I was born to write. Right at the point where I'm in my 50s, where I'm starting saying, did I waste my life putting all this stuff in my head?

And I was like, I love this because you are really going into the weeds here and going much deeper on the relationship between Rick's - I mean, sorry, Leonardo DiCaprio's character and Brad Pitt's character. You're really going into the weeds on who they are.

And you're filling in lots of detail that I didn't know - wouldn't have known from the movie. Yeah. Because you don't have time. In the movie, I've got a story to tell. I've got to keep moving.

I've noticed something that I was watching the movie that came out a number of years ago, The Witch and it's, is it Eggers who made that film?

I've noticed something that I was watching the movie that came out a number of years ago, The Witch. And it's, is it Eggers who made that film?

And I noticed that there was one thing that to me, I love a movie that creates such an eerie environment. Things that aren't otherwise scary are frightening to me. So there's one shot early in The Witch which just shows a bunch of, it's a tree line. It's just a tree line and the wind's moving through it. It's a New England tree line and the wind's moving through it and the leaves are rustling and it stays on that shot and there's the music. And I remembered feeling like the hair on the back of my neck standing up.

On the Holocaust, I love Daniel Mendelson's book, Six of Six Million. So recording of it is a story of the story of finding it when the Pulitzer, it's a great book on civil rights.

On the Holocaust, I love Daniel Mendelson's book, Six of Six Million.

I just finished this great book on, Max Hastings' book's on Korea, and I did not realize how significant a drop-off post-World War II was in the defense.

I just finished this great book on, Max Hastings' book's on Korea, and I did not realize how significant a drop-off post-World War II was in the defense.

The book was called Elvis What Happened, and it was his two bodyguards saying, man, is he in rough shape, Elvis,

The book was called Elvis What Happened, and it was his two bodyguards saying, man, is he in rough shape, Elvis,

It's available wherever fantastic books are sold.

Since this is Audible, Conan is looking at my new book that's coming out October 25, Conan, 2022. It's called, I Exaggerate My Brushes With Fame. It's a collection.

It's called, I Exaggerate. My brush is with fame.

It's gonna make a great gift because it comes out around the holidays, but check with your doctor.

It's called anecdotes. You keep saying antidotes.

Available everywhere? Yes. You could preorder it now, as a matter of fact.

It was as if he was channeling Dylan Thomas.

You know, the word Dick in the original draft of A Child's Christmas in Wales, I think Dick is used nine times.

Dylan Thomas sold the rights to A Child's Christmas in Wales to an inordinate amount of people. As he was rampaging around New York, he was just saying, I have this wonderful little story. I should like to sell you the rights. And they were like, oh great.

Harper's Bazaar bought, everyone bought the rights to. He sold it like 800 times.

Do you know Sally Rooney? Have you ever read it? I've known Sally Rooney. Have you ever read Intermetso?

It's from this book written, do you know Sally Rooney? Have you ever read Intermetso? She was last year and- I didn't read that, no. Really, really good.

if they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Dostoevsky and Michelangelo, they can learn to say Ozamaka.

She had been through it before. I have an older sibling, my older sister, she, her name is Oni, she wanted to be called Tony, you know.

who you are is OK, is enough, and everybody better get used to it.

I pray every night and ending your job like that, who's also I'm worried about, also she never calls me if she needs money. She called today and I gave her what I had.

I can't do much but I can do this, you know, and would just like, you know, contribute in that way and I'm forever grateful.

She now has a new memoir titled The Road Is Good, How a Mother's Strength Became a Daughter's Purpose.

And it's called The Road Is Good.

I'm first of all blown away that you wrote this beautiful book and shared because it's a gift to people.

The book is The Road Is Good and it's fantastic and it's out in just a few days and do yourself a favor and grab it because it's a terrific story.

Reading it made me feel really good.

What I was going to say, I feel like, hey, you know what? I loved you in Hamnet. You were great.

I loved you in Hamnet.