Back in February, I wrote here about the great documentary, Turn Every Page, about the half-century working relationship between Robert Caro (who's won two Pulitzer Prizes for The Power Broker and Master of the Senate in his thus far four-volume series on Lyndon Johnson) and legendary editor Robert Gottlieb, who has edited such authors as Salman Rushdie, John Cheever, Ray Bradbury, John Le Carré, Toni Morrison, Bruno Bettelheim and Bob Dylan. This is an extremely enjoyable 52-minute Q&A with them and Gottlieb's daughter Lizzie who directed the documentary. It was done at the New York Public Library, and is a lot of fun and interesting. And as a bonus, I feel I should explain the title, which has next to nothing to do with the video, other than having the name "Caro" in it. But "O Mio bambino caro" (Oh, my beloved father) is probably the most famous aria from Puccini's opera Gianni Schicchi -- and one of the better-known arias in all of opera. Even many people who don't like opera might know it, having been used in many movies and even TV commercials. So, here is Renée Fleming singing it as a reminder with the Berlin Philharmonic --
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