Peerless fashion publicist Geoffrey Saunders not only gave me the beautiful pink Massimo Bizzocchi tie that I wore at my Playboy party in July (see earlier posts), but he voluntarily and without prodding posted a review of The Coup on the Barnes & Noble website, bn.com. Calling it `DC Backstabbing at its Best’, Geoffrey calls …
I’m delighted to report that the special host for the Robin’s reading in Philadelphia will be Duane Swierczynski. Duane not only happens to be the editor-in-chief of the Philadelphia City Paper, and is not only a fellow graduate of La Salle (I’m so much older than Duane that when I graduated from the school, it …
The folks at Robin’s Bookstore in Philadelphia have invited me to have a reading at their store at 108 S. 13th Street on November 3rd at 3 PM. On their website is just the most complimentary description of The Coup. “In the same way Christopher Buckley‘s Thank You For Smoking put the blatant immorality of …
Marshal Zeringue, a writer and an advocate for writers, recently linked the interview that I did with Rick Atkinson a couple of weeks to a go to a blog he edits called, in a no-frills sort of way, Author Interviews. Marshall also edits several other blogs, including Campaign for the American Reader, Writers Read, and …
For the curious among you, here’s my review from The Washington Monthly of Stephen F. Hayes‘ incurious and unpenetrating biography of our vice president, Cheney: The Untold Story of America’s Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President. Bottom line: wait a couple years for a real biography to come out.
Jim Agnew, monitor of the literary world, made The Coup `Pick of the Day’ on October 9th. Thanks, Jim. That’s always going to be our special day.
My mother-in-law, Marie Jackson of Commerce City, Colorado, is one of the world’s friendliest women. Recently, she was in her local library, and, overcome by an irresistible urge to boost her son-in-law, she told the librarian that I had recently published The Coup. Right away, the librarian looked up the book in some super-exclusive data …
Here is an interview I did with Rick Atkinson, which first appeared on playboy.com: Rick Atkinson is one of my favorite writers. Twice a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with The Washington Post, Atkinson is also the author of several books on military subjects, including The Long Gray Line, a narrative account of the West Point class …
Posting on the website grassrootsandgranite.com, (a New Hampshire website devoted “to all things political”) the perceptive commentator Rebecca Lavoie (of course I would think her perceptive, but you’ll see the objective accuracy of my opinion in coming days when you read her My Turn column in Newsweek, which has nothing to do with me) compliments …
Rob Marchant has labeled me “a well-versed observer of the dark arts practiced in the corridors of power’’ who possesses “an interest in the scheming, ambitious, grandiose side of American life.’’ Rob, flattery will get you everywhere. In a complimentary profile on front page story in Sunday’s Journal News—the big Gannett paper in Westchester County, …