Michael White runs a daily amusing caption contest at his site mypalmike.com, and thus it came as almost no surprise when he was one of the winners of the amusing New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest (one of a series) that my friend Daniel Radosh runs on his site, radosh.net. As it happens, Michael’s prize was …
Calling The Coup “a political comedy thriller” (“That has to be a whole new category of novels!”), environmental historian Francis Moul gives the book an enthusiastic thumbs-up in the Lincoln, NE, Journal Star. “ A good read!”, says he. Thanks, Francis!
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 …