Best Of: Wrapping up the Jan. 6 hearings / Editing Robert Caro

Fresh Air

NPR

Tv & Film, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.3 • 36.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We talk about the January 6th Committee's work with Luke Broadwater, who covers Congress for the New York Times. He was in the Capitol the day of the assault, and has reported on the Committee's work from the beginning.

John Powers reviews Noah Baumbach's film adaptation of Don DeLillo's White Noise.

The list of authors Robert Gottlieb has edited include Joseph Heller, Toni Morrison, John Le Carré, Katharine Graham, Bill Clinton, Nora Ephron and Michael Crichton. The documentary Turn Every Page, by his daughter Lizzie Gottlieb, examines his decades-long editing relationship with Power Broker author Robert Caro.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	From WHOY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend.
0:05.3	I'm Dave Davies and for Terry Gross.
0:08.1	Today we'll talk about the January 6th Committee's work with Luke Broadwater who covers
0:12.4	Congress for the New York Times.
0:14.8	He was in the Capitol on the day of the assault and has reported on the Committee's work
0:18.7	from the beginning.
0:20.5	Also we'll hear from Robert Gottlieb, one of the most important book editors of our
0:24.3	time.
0:25.3	He's worked with such authors as Tony Morrison, John Lakeray, John Chiever, Bill Clinton,
0:30.8	Nora Efron, and Lauren Bacall.
0:33.1	A new documentary is about his 50-year sometimes contentious relationship with author and journalist
0:38.4	Robert Carro.
0:40.3	And John Powers will review Noah Bombak's new film White Noise, an adaptation of the
0:45.2	Don Delilo novel of the same name.
0:48.8	That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.
0:54.8	This is Fresh Air Weekend.
0:56.2	I'm Dave Davies and for Terry Gross.
0:58.8	Friday marked the second anniversary of the January 6th assault on the U.S. Capitol, when
1:03.8	supporters of Donald Trump stormed the building and fought with police.
1:08.4	If you watch the hearings of the Congressional Committee that investigated the attack, you
1:12.4	saw its members and witnesses present a compelling chronicle of Trump and his allies' efforts
1:17.5	to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.