Today’s compliment comes from Eric Effron, the executive editor of The Week: “I truly enjoyed your book. I got sucked in as I took off for Florida last week, and the next thing I knew, I was landing with 15 pages to go. You made it all see so absurd, yet also believable–a neat trick!” …
I had a pleasant time yesterday talking with Marc Weisblott of Toronto’s eyeweekly.com about Playboy and where it stands amid modern media. Check it out here.
The other shoe dropped last week. Senator McCain appeared before a group of students at Wake Forest and vowed to appoint judges “strictly faithful to the Constitution’’ who would not engage in “the common and systemic abuse of our federal courts.” As The New York Times noted, “The issue is of enormous importance to conservatives, …
Historian and journalist Rick Perlstein has just published Nixonland, a history of the mid and late sixties, roughly from the Johnson landslide of 1964 to the Nixon landslide of 1972. The book is a tremendous read that doesfull justice to that turbulent period. It’s not a feel-good book; one keeps encountering calamitous decisions and catastrophic …
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I see that George Stephanopoulos is touting Hillary for VP. Imagine: after a bruising battle for the nomination, a smart, attractive, and let’s face it, rather ruthless candidate who lost the nomination that she felt was hers to someone she doesn’t respect all that much, is offered the Number 2 slot by the rival who …
I received a note this morning from Neal Rechtman, who is the author of a political thriller called The 28th Amendment which was published earlier this year by Bascom Hill. “I just finished reading The Coup last night. As I’m sure you know, the last few dozen pages you can’t put it down: it’s a …
After the results of yesterday’s Indiana and North Carolina primaries, everybody now knows what everybody has known since March–the game is over. Hillary made a charge in Pennsylvania and won a lot of respect, but let’s face it–whatever she won came at a high cost to her, and to Obama. Now she talks about slogging …
The fabulous ASME Awards took place last night. Saw a lot of old friends, many of whom hauled away hardware. Congratulations to Jim Meigs, Susan Morrison, Michael Hainey and Graydon Carter, and consolations to Kurt Andersen, Rick Stengel and Walter Kirn. Playboy editors Amy Grace Loyd and AJ Baime keep a small carbon footprint as …
Playboy Senior Editor Scott Alexander and Mediabistro CEO Laurel Touby. Scott seems intrigued with Laurel’s boa work. Scott seems ready for Laurel to show others her boa. Playboys after dark: Chris Napolitano, Tim Mohr, Scott Alexander, Josh Robertson and Rocky Rakovic. I spent an interesting and enjoyable Tuesday evening at the restaurant Twenty Four Fifth, …
I had fun lunch last week with James Rosen, who is a Playboy Contributing Editor, a Fox News correspondent, author of The Strong Man, a new and likely to be quite controversial biography of John Mitchell, and a lethally accurate impersonator of Bob Woodward. We ate at one of my favorite restaurants, Estiatorio Milos. I’m …