i think someone like ernest hemingway just reached his limit and could not take the pain anymore. host: was his age typical of what we are seeing in male suicides today? atst: i was looking mostly 45-65 and he totally falls into that range, the area where depending on where you are in your life, your kids may be grown-up or your career might have stagnated. this nowyou do reach what? stage in your life. can get through that the rest of your life is much happier. host: without giving away the full story of your reporting, you said you are 52, you write about yourself and your struggles in this piece, how are things going today? guest: i am doing good. i have a five-year-old and anytime i find myself in that kind of dark hole, i spend a few minutes with him and he inspires me to keep pushing on. host: the title of the piece is all-american despair, it is in rolling stone, our guest is the author of the piece stephen roderick joining us from l.a. we welcome your calls and comments. we go to gary from indiana. caller: good morning. i am glad to hear you are doing better. you're talkin

ernest hemingway say you have deal. ons you have to get rid of in your head. couldn't move on until i'd written things down so i had these refuteddations of what i thought war the bad argument offered the new athiests and i wrote them down and kept a file and i wondered if i could organize this into something big sore start putting things around and my brother said you ought to turn that into the book and i did the rewriting. got it in book form and it there is. what i teach at brigham young university at hood, the u.s. history, more than founding, american civics, film history, i've taught asian history in the. in a smaller department you get a a rate of topics to -- variety of topics to teach. so this is something that was a side thing but important enough to me and my own spiritual development and the conclusion is came to. so i thought they could be helpful for other people, too. >> host: what's an apologetic. >> guest: it sounds like you're apologizing for something about derive from latin or ancient languages, but apologetics means i'm so sorry, i'm so s

a year later "the sun also rises," ernest hemingway's book, was published. it was a golden era for american literature, and it was also the age of the harlem renaissance. most writers, musicians, artists who we know today from the harlem renaissance were not from new york. but harlem became the center of this renaissance. and the center of the center was the home of the daughter of madam cj walker. i wonder if you remember madam cj walker. she was the only woman millionaire, not to inherit her wealth in an earlier era? not so much earlier, and she had a daughter. and the daughter's brownstone on 136th street in harlem was the center of the center. when she died in 1931, the writer langston hughes said the arlem renaissance is over. i have a painting up there by my favorite artist of the harlem renaissance. you can take a closer look when you leave. and of course it was the age of jazz, cab calloway, uv blake, louis armstrong, duke ellington and so many, and so many others. it was a very rich period. and there was a sexual revolution in the 1920's. i think so

hemingway to grill him about one of his books "is it true that one of the characters is an old man?" "yes." [ laughter ] "and he is, in fact, on the sea? "that is correct." [ laughter ] republicans, meanwhile, tried to impugn mueller's credibility, like when congressman louie gohmert bizarrely asked mueller if he was friends with former fbi director james comey, who of course was fired by trump after trump asked him for loyalty and told him to shut down his investigation into former national security adviser michael flynn. >> you and james comey have been good friends, were good friends, for many years correct? >> we were business associates we both started off at the justice department about - >> you were good friends you can work together and not be friends but you and comey were friends. >> we were friends >> seth: gohmert might just be jealous that unlike him, people have friends [ laughter ] "and this friend of yours, he's someone you can have lunch with, maybe catch a ball game? [ laughter and applause and when you're going through a rough patch in your personal life, he's ther

he is not ernest hemingway. you don't get to make it up based on facts. i don't have to have the fax. >> the problem is, chris, this is the kind of thing, this last thing "the washington post" story, i mean, if it were joe biden analyzing that story said the whole thing is a bunch of malarkey, right? a guy made up, conflate lead different stories. it's different than saying you were in vermont when you were in new hampshire or having a slip of the tongue. sometimes i walk into a room and i can't remember what i walked into the room for. those are things that everybody does. but jonathan capehart is right is it feeds into that narrative that biden maybe is too old for yet another campaign. and the real problem i think, chris, if this gets up to the decibel level or keeps happening where he is seen as a fabulous as someone who makes things up, think about who the democrats are running against. they are running against the guy who has been proven to make things up, to be a pathological liar. they don't want that issue diluted in a general election. >> what's

he's hanging out with ernest hemingway the most famous ex pat there. and this period 1959 and it's winding down now, in case you're wondering. sort of the final period. it's what i call the honeymoon of the revolution and it's the time that everyone loved fidel. everyone loved che. they were heroes. in the united states as well. and so in april fidel and the gang were invited up to speak in washington to the american society of editors and that -- they all fly up. and then they're very popular here, but when they go to new york they're mobbed. 20,000 people meet them at penn station and fidel is carried on the shoulders to the hotel. he climbs the empire state building, goes to the bronze zoo. again, all of the press coverage is very laudatory. reincarnation of one of the founding fathers. it's as if americans were recognizing their own better selves, you know? sort of the sense of a small group who managed to overthrow an evil empire. like, you know, also popular amongst the african-americans saw in cuba overnight they got rid of the segregation laws.

meanwhile fidel was having a blast and is hanging out with ernest hemingway, there and this period, 1959 is winding down now, in case you are wondering it is kind of the final period, it is what they call the honeymoon of the laudatory, calling him the reincarnation of one of the founding fathers. it is as if, they were recognizing their own better selves, you know this sort of a small group who managed to overthrow an evil empire. and juan almeida is also extremely popular and amongst african-americans who at the cusp of the civil rights movement saw in cuba, overnight they got rid of several segregation laws, and suddenly it turns out it's not as easy as that. you know, there are a lot of other things but officially, segregation is gone. the struggle in the united states is only just beginning. here we have fidel and che, more chummy, and che is starting to wear the start as he becomes more radical, and the revolution takes a drift further to the left and the fights begin after this marvelous trip to new york, things go quickly awry for the united states quickly because the washington