Jason Bateman

Now, well, that sounds like nonfiction.

No, no, it's fiction.

Is it?

It just uses that moment in time.

Okay, and then does that make you a big Yankee fan?

I am a big Yankee fan, and I heard what you said earlier.

So David, all of this to say- So then my father, my father's family, his father wrote for the Forward, which was the only Yiddish daily newspaper in America, the longest running one.

And he wrote kind of in a Dickensian way, he wrote cliffhangers for the paper.

He wrote stories about Little Nell or whatever, somebody being tied to the train tracks, that kind of a thing.

And my father, his entire life, my father had to work kind of a nine-to-five job, but he always said he was a novelist.

He always said he was a novelist.

And at the age of 73...

Two years before he died, he published his first novel.

So he was a hot young novelist at the age of 73.

So I'm coming out of that kind of history of respect for the word, respect for the efficacy of the word, respect for education.

Just it was all, it was all, that was part of my growing up.

That was part of my foundation.

Amazing.

I was at Yale.

I was getting my PhD, or so I thought.