Harlan Coben

So I was closer to both of them than they were to each other.

but especially my younger brother, I think I was probably closer to, because my older brother had to go through a lot of stuff.

I mean, as you know, when you're that age, he was a May birthday, so he was already on the younger side or middle side.

And when all of a sudden, you know, you're with a bunch of 10-year-olds and you're 10, but now you're with 11s or 12-year-olds, all of a sudden you go from being one of the biggest or one of the better athletes to one of the lousier ones.

It was, you know, academically you had no issue, but the other stuff I think was...

was tougher for him.

Being that smart, I think, was tough on both of my brothers in different ways.

Oh, I think I'd have to probably pick Jeff Mitnick.

I played basketball, and that was sort of what I was known for.

If you ask kids I grew up with... This is because of your height, because you are tall, aren't you?

I'm tall.

I'm six foot four still to this day.

And I played high school and college university basketball.

So this kid was my co-captain all the years from like first grade, I think, when we first met until we graduated high school.

We played, we were on the same basketball teams together.

And I still, if I saw him two or three weeks ago, I think we, you know, we still follow the New York Knicks now.

Well, it's funny because everything comes back, doesn't it?

So 1975, I was 13 years old.

Bruce Springsteen came out with the Born to Run album, which was the seminal album of my life still to this day.

My brother had got it.