A new book. Things that matter is not a confessional memoir or scandalous kissandtell. Its a collection of newspaper and magazine pieces from the pulitzer prizewinning columnist. Or maybe its more than that. Are you decoding my book . I am decoding it right now. Like its entirely about me. [ laughs ] but its all written in hieroglyphics. Well, its not quite as impenetrable as hieroglyphics. Lets start with part one of your book, and it is titled personal. And in there, the first column is really an incredibly moving piece about your brother. Marcel krauthammer died of cancer. He was 59. Charles writes this about his older brother. He taught me most everything i ever learned about every sport i ever played. He taught me how to throw a football, hit a backhand, grip a nine iron, field a grounder, dock a sailboat in the tailing wind. And how we played. It was paradise. Tell me about that. It was a paradisiacal childhood. My brother and i were inseparable. He was four years older, which is
charles recalls spending every day with his brother on the field, on the court, or in the water. i don t think i owned a shirt till i was 21. all the pictures, the family movies, my father is shirtless, my brother s shirtless, i am. we re outside in the sun. i read on the beach. that s where i got all my knowledge was reading. of course, there was reading and studying. schlum krauthammer, who spoke nine languages, even carried his son s stellar second grade report card around in his coat pocket. his motto for us was, i want you to know everything. i want you to learn everything. you don t have to do everything, but you got to know everything. he thought that was part of life. that life did not include a tv, says the cable news pundit. my father wouldn t allow it. once a week, sunday night, we d go to the neighbors to watch the ed sullivan show. that was the one concession, the television. inspired by uncles who were doctors, marcel krauthammer went to medical school. it
new york. charles recalls spending every day with his brother on the field, on the court, or in the water. i don t think i owned a shirt till i was 21. all the pictures, the family movies, my father is shirtless, my brother s shirtless, i am. we re outside in the sun. i read on the beach. that s where i got all my knowledge was reading. of course, there was reading and studying. schlum krauthammer, who spoke nine languages, even carried his son s stellar second grade report card around in his coat pocket. his motto for us was, i want you to know everything. i want you to learn everything. you don t have to do everything, but you got to know everything. he thought that was part of life. that life did not include a tv, says the cable news pundit. my father wouldn t allow it. once a week, sunday night, we d go to the neighbors to watch the ed sullivan show. that was the one concession, the television. inspired by uncles who were doctors, marcel krauthammer went to medical
family cottage in long beach, new york. charles recalls spending every day with his brother on the field, on the court, or in the water. i don t think i owned a shirt till i was 21. all the pictures, the family movies, my father is shirtless, my brother s shirtless, i am. we re outside in the sun. i read on the beach. that s where i got all my knowledge was reading. of course, there was reading and studying. schlum krauthammer, who spoke nine languages, even carried his son s stellar second grade report card around in his coat pocket. his motto for us was, i want you to know everything. i want you to learn everything. you don t have to do everything, but you got to know everything. he thought that was part of life. that life did not include a tv, says the cable news pundit. my father wouldn t allow it. once a week, sunday night, we d go to the neighbors to watch the ed sullivan show. that was the one concession, the television. inspired by uncles who were doctors, marce
new york. charles recalls spending every day with his brother on the field, on the court, or in the water. i don t think i owned a shirt till i was 21. all the pictures, the family movies, my father is shirtless, my brother s shirtless, i am. we re outside in the sun. i read on the beach. that s where i got all my knowledge was reading. of course, there was reading and studying. schlum krauthammer, who spoke nine languages, even carried his son s stellar second grade report card around in his coat pocket. his motto for us was, i want you to know everything. i want you to learn everything. you don t have to do everything, but you got to know everything. he thought that was part of life. that life did not include a tv, says the cable news pundit. my father wouldn t allow it. once a week, sunday night, we d go to the neighbors to watch the ed sullivan show. that was the one concession, the television. inspired by uncles who were doctors, marcel krauthammer went to medical