00:00And I remember when I first realized that my father was famous, it was in the school library
00:05of my junior school. And I went into the library and somebody else pointed it out to me,
00:12said, look, that's your father. And I realized that he didn't own a shoe store, he was Simon
00:18and Schuster. Well, let's talk about growing up in that household. Fair to say the family
00:25was wealthy, they were certainly well off. An apartment in New York, a place in Stanford,
00:32Connecticut, you were privileged. Definitely. You write in the book that it was not your
00:38ordinary family. You have these older sisters, you have a brother, you have a famous father,
00:44you have a very accomplished mother. What was life like? On the surface of things, everything
00:49was happy and gay and music and singing and playing. And there were lots of famous people
00:55whose fame I didn't understand, unless you expected me to understand who Louis Untermyer,
01:01the anthologist of poetry was, or Albert Einstein. I'm so sorry, I didn't know who he was.
01:06So there were all of these amazing people, a lot of musicians. Benny Goodman was a regular
01:11at our house. He played bridge with my father. A lot of writers, but a lot of composers.
01:16Like the Gershwins were, before I was born, were friends of my family. My mother would say,
01:21oh, he wrote, and then she would sing a song that I would somehow recognize, and then I
01:26would run off to my room to see how my dolls had finished their marriage quarrel.
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